# Image editing and quality assessment

Area: [Multimodal LLMs / vision-language models](https://mlsanity.com/mllm/index.md). HTML: https://mlsanity.com/mllm/image-editing-and-quality-assessment/

## Key facts

- Image editing and quality assessment: 202 papers on arXiv since 2021 (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- 15 of its 202 mapped papers (7%) cite “Depicting Beyond Scores: Advancing Image Quality Assessment through Multi-modal Language Models” (2023, arXiv 2312.08962).
- 12 of its 202 mapped papers (6%) cite “Teaching Large Language Models to Regress Accurate Image Quality Scores using Score Distribution” (2025, arXiv 2501.11561).
- 6 new papers 17 Sep–14 Oct.

## Most cited here

- [Depicting Beyond Scores: Advancing Image Quality Assessment through Multi-modal Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.08962/) (2023), cited by 15 papers here
- [Teaching Large Language Models to Regress Accurate Image Quality Scores using Score Distribution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.11561/) (2025), cited by 12 papers here
- [AesExpert: Towards Multi-modality Foundation Model for Image Aesthetics Perception](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.09624/) (2024), cited by 9 papers here
- [AesBench: An Expert Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models on Image Aesthetics Perception](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.08276/) (2024), cited by 8 papers here
- [A Comprehensive Study of Multimodal Large Language Models for Image Quality Assessment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.10854/) (2024), cited by 8 papers here
- [Adaptive Image Quality Assessment via Teaching Large Multimodal Model to Compare](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.19298/) (2024), cited by 7 papers here
- [Controlling Vision-Language Models for Multi-Task Image Restoration](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.01018/) (2023), cited by 6 papers here
- [VLKEB: A Large Vision-Language Model Knowledge Editing Benchmark](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.07350/) (2024), cited by 6 papers here
- [VILA: Learning Image Aesthetics from User Comments with Vision-Language Pretraining](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.14302/) (2023), cited by 5 papers here
- [2AFC Prompting of Large Multimodal Models for Image Quality Assessment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.01162/) (2024), cited by 5 papers here

## New (17 Sep–14 Oct)

- [FrameLite: Decision-Oriented Aesthetic Cropping with a Compact Vision-Language Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.17639/) (2026-10-13)
- [Self-correction Optimization for Interleaved Multimodal Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.10400/) (2026-10-07)
- [Do MLLM Judges Judge the Edit? Auditing Bias in Image Editing Evaluation with Verified Quality Preservation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.01670/) (2026-10-01)
- [Evaluating the Evaluators: Diagnosing Large Multimodal Models for AI-Generated Image Assessment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.37576/) (2026-09-29)
- [FlowTool: Controlling Tool Parameter in Image Retouching via Flow Matching](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.35673/) (2026-09-28)
- [ControlTrace: Recovering Control Fields for Hidden-Content Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.34807/) (2026-09-28)