# Mamba for image restoration

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## Key facts

- Mamba for image restoration: 65 papers on arXiv since 2024 (data through 14 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 papers 18 Sep–14 Oct.

## Most cited here

- [MambaIR: A Simple Baseline for Image Restoration with State-Space Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.15648/) (2024), cited by 20 papers here
- [MambaIRv2: Attentive State Space Restoration](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.15269/) (2024), cited by 7 papers here
- [FreqMamba: Viewing Mamba from a Frequency Perspective for Image Deraining](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.09476/) (2024), cited by 6 papers here
- [Learning Enriched Features via Selective State Spaces Model for Efficient Image Deblurring](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.20106/) (2024), cited by 5 papers here
- [Wave-Mamba: Wavelet State Space Model for Ultra-High-Definition Low-Light Image Enhancement](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.01276/) (2024), cited by 5 papers here
- [MaIR: A Locality- and Continuity-Preserving Mamba for Image Restoration](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.20066/) (2024), cited by 5 papers here
- [U-shaped Vision Mamba for Single Image Dehazing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.04139/) (2024), cited by 3 papers here
- [CU-Mamba: Selective State Space Models with Channel Learning for Image Restoration](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.11778/) (2024), cited by 3 papers here
- [Retinexmamba: Retinex-based Mamba for Low-light Image Enhancement](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.03349/) (2024), cited by 3 papers here
- [FourierMamba: Fourier Learning Integration with State Space Models for Image Deraining](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.19450/) (2024), cited by 2 papers here

## New (18 Sep–14 Oct)

- [WS-NeRF: A Mamba-Driven World-State-Aware Adaptive Deblurring Neural Radiance Field](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.21391/) (2026-09-18)