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
Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up
- 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
238 papers, page 1 of 5
- CVPR 20263D-LATTE Latent Space 3D Editing from Textual Instructions
- CVPR 2026AnchorFlow Training-Free 3D Editing via Latent Anchor-Aligned Flows
- CVPR 2026Beyond Tie Points Satellite Image Block Adjustment based on Dense
- CVPR 2026BiFM Bidirectional Flow Matching for Few-Step Image Editing and Generation
- CVPR 2026BlackMirror Black-Box Backdoor Detection for Text-to-Image Models via Instruction-Response Deviation
- CVPR 2026Block-based Learned Image Compression without Blocking Artifacts
- CVPR 2026CaptionQA Is Your Caption as Useful as the Image Itself
- CVPR 2026CARE-Edit Condition-Aware Routing of Experts for Contextual Image Editing
- CVPR 2026Catalyst4D High-Fidelity 3D-to-4D Scene Editing via Dynamic Propagation
- CVPR 2026ChordEdit One-Step Low-Energy Transport for Image Editing
- CVPR 2026CogniEdit Dense Gradient Flow Optimization for Fine-Grained Image Editing
- CVPR 2026CoLoGen Progressive Learning of Concept-Localization Duality for Unified Image Generation
- CVPR 2026CompBench Benchmarking Complex Instruction-guided Image Editing
- CVPR 2026CoT-Edit Let CoT Guide Instruction Video Editing
- CVPR 2026Coupled Diffusion Sampling for Training-Free Multi-View Image Editing
- CVPR 2026CREval An Automated Interpretable Evaluation for Creative Image Manipulation under
- CVPR 2026Delta Rectified Flow Sampling for Text-to-Image Editing
- CVPR 2026DemoFunGrasp Universal Dexterous Functional Grasping via Demonstration-Editing Reinforcement Learning
- CVPR 2026Detect Any AI-Counterfeited Text Image
- CVPR 2026Disentangling to Re-couple Resolving the Similarity-Controllability Paradox in Subject-Driven Text-to-Image
- CVPR 2026Does YOLO Really Need to See Every Training Image in
- CVPR 2026DreamOmni2 Multimodal Instruction-based Generation and Editing
- CVPR 2026DreamSR Towards Ultra-High-Resolution Image Super-Resolution via a Receptive-Field Enhanced Diffusion
- CVPR 2026DSCA Dynamic Subspace Concept Alignment for Lifelong VLM Editing
- CVPR 2026Dynamic Exposure Burst Image Restoration
- CVPR 2026Easy3E Feed-Forward 3D Asset Editing via Rectified Voxel Flow
- CVPR 2026EasyV2V A High-quality Instruction-based Video Editing Framework
- CVPR 2026Edit-As-Act Goal-Regressive Planning for Open-Vocabulary 3D Indoor Scene Editing
- CVPR 2026Edit2Perceive Image Editing Diffusion Models Are Strong Dense Perceivers
- CVPR 2026EditMGT Unleashing Potentials of Masked Generative Transformers in Image Editing
- CVPR 2026Editprint General Digital Image Forensics via Editing Fingerprint with Self-Augmentation
- CVPR 2026EmoStyle Emotion-Driven Image Stylization
- CVPR 2026Enhancing Unregistered Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution via Unmixing-based Abundance Fusion Learning
- CVPR 2026Fine-grained Image Aesthetic Assessment Learning Discriminative Scores from Relative Ranks
- CVPR 2026FlashIn Fast and Accurate Image Inversion for Real-time Image Editing
- CVPR 2026FlowDC Flow-Based Decoupling-Decay for Complex Image Editing
- CVPR 2026Focus Dont Prune Identifying Instruction-Relevant Regions for Information-Rich Image Understanding
- CVPR 2026Forensic-Friendly Image Manipulation via Controllable Latent Diffusion
- CVPR 2026FreqEdit Preserving High-Frequency Features for Robust Multi-Turn Image Editing
- CVPR 2026From Scale to Speed Adaptive Test-Time Scaling for Image Editing
- CVPR 2026Generative Video Motion Editing with 3D Point Tracks
- CVPR 2026GFRRN Explore the Gaps in Single Image Reflection Removal
- CVPR 2026Group Editing Edit Multiple Images in One Go
- CVPR 2026HierEdit Region-Aware Hierarchical Diffusion for Efficient High-Resolution Editing
- CVPR 2026Hist2Style Histogram-Guided Stylization with Bilateral Grids
- CVPR 2026HulluEdit Single-Pass Evidence-Consistent Subspace Editing for Mitigating Hallucinations in Large
- CVPR 2026I2I-Bench A Comprehensive Benchmark Suite for Image-to-Image Editing Models
- CVPR 2026Image-based Outlier Synthesis With Training Data
- CVPR 2026Image-Guided Geometric Stylization of 3D Meshes
- CVPR 2026iMontage Unified Versatile Highly Dynamic Many-to-many Image Generation
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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.