Image Editing

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Image editing studies how to change an image according to text, references, masks, sketches, clicks, or structured controls while retaining its identity and context. Common approaches adapt diffusion and flow-matching models through inversion, attention or latent guidance, spatial masks, and reward-based training; newer systems also use autoregressive models and agents that plan edits, call tools, and check results. Benchmarks test instruction following, local preservation, identity, geometry, text rendering, and multi-turn consistency across settings such as portraits, products, medical images, and scenes. A central challenge is balancing strong, precise changes with fidelity to everything outside the requested edit, especially for complex instructions and long editing sessions.

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315 papers54 papers in the last four weeks, up 93% on the four weeks before. 0.3% of all new papers.

  1. Edit Spillover as a Probe: Do Image Editing Models Implicitly Understand World Relations?

    Mar 18, 2026Guandong Li, Zhaobin ChuImage EditingImage Editing Evaluation

    iFLYTEK

  2. MSRAMIE: Multimodal Structured Reasoning Agent for Multi-instruction Image Editing

    Mar 17, 2026Zhaoyuan Qiu, Ken Chen, Xiangwei Wang +3Image EditingMultimodal Agents

    University Of Melbourne, Grattan Street, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia

  3. Omni IIE Bench: Benchmarking the Practical Capabilities of Image Editing Models

    Mar 16, 2026Yujia Yang, Yuanxiang Wang, Zhenyu Guan +11Image EditingImage Editing Evaluation

    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Tencent

  4. U-Face: An Efficient and Generalizable Framework for Unsupervised Facial Attribute Editing via Subspace Learning

    Mar 14, 2026Bo Liu, Xuan Cui, Run Zeng +5Image EditingDisentangled Representation Learning

    Chongqing Key Laboratory of Intelligent Sensing and Blockchain Technology, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing, China · School of Software, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China

  5. GRADE: Benchmarking Discipline-Informed Reasoning in Image Editing

    Mar 12, 2026Mingxin Liu, Ziqian Fan, Zhaokai Wang +13Image Editing EvaluationText-Guided Image Editing

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · South China University of Technology · Fudan University +2

  6. VTEdit-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multi-Reference Image Editing Models in Virtual Try-On

    Mar 12, 2026Xiaoye Liang, Zhiyuan Qu, Mingye Zou +4Virtual Try-OnImage Editing Evaluation

    School of Electronic Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China · Zhongguancun Academy, Beijing, China · Faculty of Computing, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China +2

  7. PROMO: Promptable Outfitting for Efficient High-Fidelity Virtual Try-On

    Mar 12, 2026Haohua Chen, Tianze Zhou, Wei Zhu +8Virtual Try-OnImage Editing

    Xiaohongshu Inc. · Beihang University · Tsinghua University

  8. WeEdit: A Dataset, Benchmark and Glyph-Guided Framework for Text-centric Image Editing

    Mar 12, 2026Hui Zhang, Juntao Liu, Zongkai Liu +4Image EditingText-Guided Image Editing

    Institute of Trustworthy Embodied AI, Fudan University · Shanghai Key Laboratory of Multimodal Embodied AI · Weixin AI, Tencent

  9. A2^2-Edit: Precise Reference-Guided Image Editing of Arbitrary Objects and Ambiguous Masks

    Mar 11, 2026Huayu Zheng, Guangzhao Li, Baixuan Zhao +4Image EditingImage Inpainting

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shanghai Innovation Institute

  10. VeloEdit: Training-Free Consistent and Continuous Instruction-Based Image Editing via Velocity Field Decomposition

    Mar 11, 2026Zongqing Li, Zhihui Liu, Yujie Xie +3Training-Free Image EditingImage Editing

    Xiamen University · Truesight

  11. InternVL-U: Democratizing Unified Multimodal Models for Understanding, Reasoning, Generation and Editing

    Mar 10, 2026Changyao Tian, Danni Yang, Guanzhou Chen +26Unified Multimodal ModelsMultimodal Generation

    Shanghai AI Laboratory · CUHK MMLab · Fudan University +6

  12. ImageEdit-R1: Boosting Multi-Agent Image Editing via Reinforcement Learning

    Mar 9, 2026Yiran Zhao, Yaoqi Ye, Xiang Liu +2Image EditingRL for Image Editing

    National University of Singapore · Adobe Research

  13. Agentic Planning with Reasoning for Image Styling via Offline RL

    Mar 7, 2026Subhojyoti Mukherjee, Stefano Petrangeli, Branislav Kveton +3Image EditingRL for Image Editing

    Adobe Research, San Jose, CA, USA.

  14. PICS: Pairwise Image Compositing with Spatial Interactions

    Mar 6, 2026Hang Zhou, Xinxin Zuo, Sen Wang +1Image EditingCompositional Image Generation

    University of Alberta · Concordia University

  15. A Simple Baseline for Unifying Understanding, Generation, and Editing via Vanilla Next-token Prediction

    Mar 5, 2026Jie Zhu, Hanghang Ma, Jia Wang +6Unified Multimodal ModelsMultimodal Understanding

    Key Lab of High Confidence Software Technologies (Peking University), Ministry of Education, China · School of Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China · Meituan +1

  16. Machine Pareidolia: Protecting Facial Image with Emotional Editing

    Mar 4, 2026Binh M. Le, Simon S. WooPrivacy-Preserving MLImage Editing

    Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea

  17. InEdit-Bench: Benchmarking Intermediate Logical Pathways for Intelligent Image Editing Models

    Mar 4, 2026Zhiqiang Sheng, Xumeng Han, Zhiwei Zhang +6Image Editing EvaluationImage Editing

    State Key Laboratory of Optical Field Manipulation Science and Technology, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610209, China · National Laboratory on Adaptive Optics, Chengdu, 610209, China · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 101408, China

  18. PRIVATEEDIT: A Privacy-Preserving Pipeline for Face-Centric Generative Image Editing

    Mar 3, 2026Dipesh Tamboli, Vineet Punyamoorty, Atharv Pawar +1Image Editing

    Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 47907, Indiana, USA · Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109, Michigan, USA · Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering and the Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 47907, Indiana, USA

  19. MultiShadow: Multi-Object Shadow Generation for Image Compositing via Diffusion Model

    Mar 3, 2026Waqas Ahmed, Dean Diepeveen, Ferdous SohelImage EditingDiffusion-Based Image Generation

    School of Information Technology, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia.

  20. InterCoG: Towards Spatially Precise Image Editing with Interleaved Chain-of-Grounding Reasoning

    Mar 2, 2026Yecong Wan, Fan Li, Chunwei Wang +3Image EditingText-Guided Image Editing

    Faculty of Computing, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, China. · Zhengzhou Advanced Research Institute of Harbin Institute of Technology, Zhengzhou, 450000, China. · Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, Shenzhen, 518100, China. +1

  21. BeautyGRPO: Aesthetic Alignment for Face Retouching via Dynamic Path Guidance and Fine-Grained Preference Modeling

    Mar 1, 2026Jiachen Yang, Xianhui Lin, Yi Dong +4Image EditingRL for Image Editing

    School of Cyber Science and Technology, Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, China · vivo BlueImage Lab, vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd., China · Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Information Security Technology, China

  22. Hide&Seek: Remove Image Watermarks with Negligible Cost via Pixel-wise Reconstruction

    Mar 1, 2026Huajie Chen, Tianqing Zhu, Hailin Yang +7Watermark RemovalAI-Generated Image Watermarking

    City University of Macau · CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security · Guangzhou University

  23. An Interpretable Local Editing Model for Counterfactual Medical Image Generation

    Feb 28, 2026Hyungi Min, Taeseung You, Hangyeul Lee +2Image EditingMedical Image Synthesis

  24. Venus: Benchmarking and Empowering Multimodal Large Language Models for Aesthetic Guidance and Cropping

    Feb 27, 2026Tianxiang Du, Hulingxiao He, Yuxin PengLarge Vision-Language ModelsImage Editing

    Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University

  25. Towards Source-Aware Object Swapping with Initial Noise Perturbation

    Feb 27, 2026Jiahui Zhan, Xianbing Sun, Xiangnan Zhu +4Image EditingDiffusion-Based Image Editing

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  26. DLEBench: Evaluating Small-scale Object Editing Ability for Instruction-based Image Editing Model

    Feb 27, 2026Shibo Hong, Boxian Ai, Jun Kuang +5Image Editing EvaluationImage Editing

    College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University · Meituan Group

  27. PhotoAgent: Exploratory Visual Aesthetic Planning with Large Vision Models

    Feb 26, 2026Mingde Yao, Zhiyuan You, King-Man Tam +2Text-Guided Image EditingImage Editing

    MMLab, CUHK · CPII under InnoHK · Institute of Science Tokyo +2

  28. LoR-LUT: Learning Compact 3D Lookup Tables via Low-Rank Residuals

    Feb 26, 2026Ziqi Zhao, Abhijit Mishra, Shounak RoychowdhuryImage EnhancementImage Editing

    The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

  29. From Statics to Dynamics: Physics-Aware Image Editing with Latent Transition Priors

    Feb 25, 2026Liangbing Zhao, Le Zhuo, Sayak Paul +2Image EditingText-Guided Image Editing

    KAUST · CUHK MMLab · Krea AI +1

  30. Training-Free Multi-Concept Image Editing

    Feb 24, 2026Niki Foteinopoulou, Ignas Budvytis, Stephan LiwickiTraining-Free Image EditingImage Editing

    Cambridge Research Laboratory, Toshiba Europe, Cambridge, UK · Independent Researcher, UK