Image Editing papers, 2023–2026
Instruction-based editing
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 692 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Image Editing went from 112 papers in 2023 to 238 in 2026, roughly 2.1x in three years.
- CVPR publishes the most Image Editing work: 364 papers from 2023 to 2026, 53% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Applications · computer vision: papers tagged with both rose from 1 in 2023 to 15 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Multimodal Generation, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Storytelling Generation, is up 15x versus 2.1x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 25 | 15 | 8 | 64 | 112 |
| 2024 | 33 | 24 | 13 | 90 | 160 |
| 2025 | 45 | 29 | 11 | 97 | 182 |
| 2026 | 52 | 40 | 33 | 113 | 238 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026Accelerated Image Editing via Consistency-Aware Source Token Pruning
- ICML 2026Klein Hyperbolic Metric Learning
- ICLR 2026DiffVax: Optimization-Free Image Immunization Against Diffusion-Based Editing
- CVPR 2026AnchorFlow Training-Free 3D Editing via Latent Anchor-Aligned Flows
- NeurIPS 2025A$^3$E: Towards Compositional Model Editing
- ICML 2025DEALing with Image Reconstruction: Deep Attentive Least Squares
- ICLR 2025HQ-Edit: A High-Quality Dataset for Instruction-based Image Editing
- CVPR 2025AnyEdit: Mastering Unified High-Quality Image Editing for Any Idea
- NeurIPS 2024Reproducibility study of “LICO: Explainable Models with Language-Image Consistency"
- ICML 2024Counterfactual Image Editing
- ICLR 2024Guiding Instruction-based Image Editing via Multimodal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2024DiffEditor: Boosting Accuracy and Flexibility on Diffusion-based Image Editing
- NeurIPS 2023ImageBrush: Learning Visual In-Context Instructions for Exemplar-Based Image Manipulation
- ICML 2023Random Shuffle Transformer for Image Restoration
- ICLR 2023Editing models with task arithmetic
- CVPR 20233D GAN Inversion With Facial Symmetry Prior
- NeurIPS 2026AnyBokeh: Physics-Guided Any-to-Any Bokeh Editing with Optical Fingerprint Transfer
- ICML 2026DLEBench: Evaluating Small-scale Object Editing Ability for Instruction-based Image Editing Model
- ICLR 2026Energy-Regularized Sequential Model Editing on Hyperspheres
- CVPR 2026ChordEdit One-Step Low-Energy Transport for Image Editing
All Image Editing papers
33 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICML 2026AdaEraser: Training-Free Object Removal via Adaptive Attention Suppression
- ICML 2026AdLift: Lifting Adversarial Perturbations to Safeguard 3D Gaussian Splatting Assets Against Instruction-Driven Editing
- ICML 2026Alterbute: Editing Intrinsic Attributes of Objects in Images
- ICML 2026B-Spar: Bayesian Sparse-Reward Modeling for RL-based Image Editing
- ICML 2026CacheEdit: Efficient Multi-round Image Editing via Adaptive Token-wise Reuse.
- ICML 2026ChartE$^{3}$: A Comprehensive Benchmark for End-to-End Chart Editing
- ICML 2026CoCoEdit: Content-Consistent Image Editing via Region Regularized Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2026DirectEdit: Step-Level Accurate Inversion for Flow-Based Image Editing
- ICML 2026DLEBench: Evaluating Small-scale Object Editing Ability for Instruction-based Image Editing Model
- ICML 2026Entropy-Aware Dynamic KV Cache Sparsification for Autoregressive Image Generation and Editing
- ICML 2026From Backward Spreading to Forward Replay: Revisiting Target Construction in LLM Parameter Editing
- ICML 2026From Statics to Dynamics: Physics-Aware Image Editing with Latent Transition Priors
- ICML 2026Geometrically Constrained Stenosis Editing in Coronary Angiography via Entropic Optimal Transport
- ICML 2026Image Restoration via Diffusion Models with Dynamic Resolution
- ICML 2026Klein Hyperbolic Metric Learning
- ICML 2026MICE-Bench: A Challenging and Comprehensive Benchmark for Multi-Reference Image Creation and Editing
- ICML 2026MiVE: Multiscale Vision-language features for reference-guided video Editing
- ICML 2026Order within Chaos: Capturing Intrinsic Energy Anomalies for AI-Manipulated Image Forgery Localization
- ICML 2026Reasoning to Edit: Hypothetical Instruction-Based Image Editing with Visual Reasoning
- ICML 2026RevealLayer: Disentangling Hidden and Visible Layers via Occlusion-Aware Image Decomposition
- ICML 2026Semantic Editing with Coupled Stochastic Differential Equations
- ICML 2026Semantic Granularity Navigation in Image Editing
- ICML 2026Shifting the Breaking Point of Flow Matching for Multi-Instance Editing
- ICML 2026SlerpFlow: Spherical Trajectory Correction for Rectified Flow Inversion
- ICML 2026Sparse Relaxed-Lasso Steering: Automatic Sparse Autoencoder Feature Selection for Precise Image Editing
- ICML 2026StableI2I: Spotting Unintended Changes in Image-to-Image Transition
- ICML 2026StyleDistillation: A New Insight of Image Style Enables Personalized Aesthetic Manipulation
- ICML 2026T-Edit: Triple-Branch Diffusion Anchoring for Consistent Editing
- ICML 2026Test-Time Anchoring for Discrete Diffusion Posterior Sampling
- ICML 2026Towards Diffeomorphism-Equivariant Neural Networks via Canonicalization
- ICML 2026TransLight: Image-Guided Customized Lighting Control with Generative Decoupling
- ICML 2026Unpaired Visual Editing with Self-Consistent Flow Matching
- ICML 2026When the Prompt Becomes Visual: Vision-Centric Jailbreak Attacks for Large Image Editing Models
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FAQ
- How many Image Editing papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 692 in total: 112 in 2023, 160 in 2024, 182 in 2025, 238 in 2026.
- How many Image Editing papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 52 Image Editing papers, versus 45 the year before.
- How many Image Editing papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 40 Image Editing papers, versus 29 the year before.
- How many Image Editing papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 33 Image Editing papers, versus 11 the year before.
- How many Image Editing papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 113 Image Editing papers, versus 97 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Image Editing papers?
- CVPR, with 364 papers from 2023 to 2026.