mlsanityData to 7 Oct 2026

Mamba for image restoration

65 papers0 this weekHigh confidence in this grouping: the papers form one clear topicHigh confidence in this grouping: the papers form one clear topic · About

Keywords: image, restoration, image restoration, mamba, enhancement

Key facts. Mamba for image restoration: 65 papers on arXiv since 2024 (data through 7 Oct 2026). 20 of its 65 mapped papers (31%) cite “MambaIR: A Simple Baseline for Image Restoration with State-Space Model” (2024, arXiv 2402.15648). 7 of its 65 mapped papers (11%) cite “MambaIRv2: Attentive State Space Restoration” (2024, arXiv 2411.15269). 1 new paper 18 Sep–7 Oct.

What’s new

18 Sep – 7 Oct 2026

1 new since 18 Sep

  1. WS-NeRF: A Mamba-Driven World-State-Aware Adaptive Deblurring Neural Radiance Field

Foundations

Most cited by papers here

  1. MambaIR: A Simple Baseline for Image Restoration with State-Space Model2024cited by 20 here
  2. MambaIRv2: Attentive State Space Restoration2024cited by 7 here
  3. FreqMamba: Viewing Mamba from a Frequency Perspective for Image Deraining2024cited by 6 here
  4. Learning Enriched Features via Selective State Spaces Model for Efficient Image Deblurring2024cited by 5 here
  5. Wave-Mamba: Wavelet State Space Model for Ultra-High-Definition Low-Light Image Enhancement2024cited by 5 here

Lineage

The papers this direction builds on, oldest first.

Each paper on the line cites the one before.

  1. 2021Efficiently Modeling Long Sequences with Structured State Spacescited by 25 here
  2. 2022Diagonal State Spaces are as Effective as Structured State Spacescited by 3 here
  3. 2023Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spacescited by 42 here
  4. 2024U-Mamba: Enhancing Long-range Dependency for Biomedical Image Segmentationcited by 10 here
  5. 2024Vision Mamba: Efficient Visual Representation Learning with Bidirectional State Space Modelcited by 20 here
  6. 2024VM-UNet: Vision Mamba UNet for Medical Image Segmentationcited by 2 here
  7. 2024VL-Mamba: Exploring State Space Models for Multimodal Learningcited by 2 here
  8. 2024FreqMamba: Viewing Mamba from a Frequency Perspective for Image Derainingcited by 6 here
16 more it builds on, not in this chain
  1. 2022Simplified State Space Layers for Sequence Modelingcited by 15 here
  2. 2023Selective Structured State-Spaces for Long-Form Video Understandingcited by 2 here
  3. 2024U-shaped Vision Mamba for Single Image Dehazingcited by 3 here
  4. 2024MambaIR: A Simple Baseline for Image Restoration with State-Space Modelcited by 20 here
  5. 2024MiM-ISTD: Mamba-in-Mamba for Efficient Infrared Small Target Detectioncited by 2 here
  6. 2024VideoMamba: State Space Model for Efficient Video Understandingcited by 3 here
  7. 2024LocalMamba: Visual State Space Model with Windowed Selective Scancited by 10 here
  8. 2024ZigMa: A DiT-style Zigzag Mamba Diffusion Modelcited by 4 here
  9. 2024PlainMamba: Improving Non-Hierarchical Mamba in Visual Recognitioncited by 3 here
  10. 2024Learning Enriched Features via Selective State Spaces Model for Efficient Image Deblurringcited by 5 here
  11. 2024CU-Mamba: Selective State Space Models with Channel Learning for Image Restorationcited by 3 here
  12. 2024Retinexmamba: Retinex-based Mamba for Low-light Image Enhancementcited by 3 here
  13. 2024Transformers are SSMs: Generalized Models and Efficient Algorithms Through Structured State Space Dualitycited by 8 here
  14. 2024Wave-Mamba: Wavelet State Space Model for Ultra-High-Definition Low-Light Image Enhancementcited by 5 here
  15. 2024MambaIRv2: Attentive State Space Restorationcited by 7 here
  16. 2024MaIR: A Locality- and Continuity-Preserving Mamba for Image Restorationcited by 5 here

The 24 most cited of 76.

Browse

30 of 65, ranked 6–35

  1. 6MaIR: A Locality- and Continuity-Preserving Mamba for Image Restoration20245
  2. 7U-shaped Vision Mamba for Single Image Dehazing20243
  3. 8CU-Mamba: Selective State Space Models with Channel Learning for Image Restoration20243
  4. 9Retinexmamba: Retinex-based Mamba for Low-light Image Enhancement20243
  5. 10EAMamba: Efficient All-Around Vision State Space Model for Image Restoration20252
  6. 11FourierMamba: Fourier Learning Integration with State Space Models for Image Deraining20242
  7. 12Mamba-UIE: Enhancing Underwater Images with Physical Model Constraint20242
  8. 13MambaCSR: Dual-Interleaved Scanning for Compressed Image Super-Resolution With SSMs20242
  9. 14ECMamba: Consolidating Selective State Space Model with Retinex Guidance for Efficient Multiple Exposure Correction20242
  10. 15Directing Mamba to Complex Textures: An Efficient Texture-Aware State Space Model for Image Restoration20251
All 30
  1. 16MatIR: A Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Image Restoration Model20251
  2. 17Q-MambaIR: Accurate Quantized Mamba for Efficient Image Restoration20251
  3. 18M2Restore: Mixture-of-Experts-based Mamba-CNN Fusion Framework for All-in-One Image Restoration20251
  4. 19MBMamba: When Memory Buffer Meets Mamba for Structure-Aware Image Deblurring20251
  5. 20MambaUIE&SR: Unraveling the Ocean's Secrets with Only 2.8 GFLOPs20241
  6. 21LMHaze: Intensity-aware Image Dehazing with a Large-scale Multi-intensity Real Haze Dataset20241
  7. 22Wavelet-based Mamba with Fourier Adjustment for Low-light Image Enhancement20241
  8. 23ShadowMamba: State-Space Model with Boundary-Region Selective Scan for Shadow Removal20241
  9. 24RAWMamba: Unified sRGB-to-RAW De-rendering With State Space Model20241
  10. 25Multi-dimensional Visual Prompt Enhanced Image Restoration via Mamba-Transformer Aggregation20241
  11. 26Depth-Synergized Mamba Meets Memory Experts for All-Day Image Reflection Separation20260
  12. 27DACESR: Degradation-Aware Conditional Embedding for Real-World Image Super-Resolution20260
  13. 28Progressive Split Mamba: Effective State Space Modelling for Image Restoration20260
  14. 29M2IR: Proactive All-in-One Image Restoration via Mamba-style Modulation and Mixture-of-Experts20260
  15. 30Hero-Mamba: Mamba-based Dual Domain Learning for Underwater Image Enhancement20260
  16. 31BVI-Mamba: Video Enhancement Using a Visual State-Space Model for Low-Light and Underwater Environments20260
  17. 32DeepMine-Mamba: Mitigating Information Dilution in Mamba-Based State Space Models for Document Image Binarization20260
  18. 33Variational Deep Unfolding with Mamba-Based Nonlocal Modeling for Underwater Image Enhancement20260
  19. 34DR-Mamba: Automatic Inference-Time Domain Adaptation for Document Image Binarization via Sample-Conditioned Detail-Background Suppression20260
  20. 35Learning Adaptive Dynamical Features via Multi-τ Liquid-Mamba for All-in-one Image Restoration20260