Curated chaos: a reading list for editing NeRFs and splats

What it does

This is an awesome list—a curated bibliography tracking the rapidly growing literature on editing neural radiance fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Maintained by researchers from Tsinghua’s AIR lab and the University of Montreal, it catalogs seminal works, surveys, and recent conference papers from venues like CVPR, ICLR, and AAAI. Think of it as a field guide for keeping tabs on how the graphics community is learning to deform, stylize, inpaint, and otherwise manipulate implicit and explicit 3D scene representations.

The interesting bit

The list’s value is in its narrow focus: it filters the broader NeRF/3DGS noise specifically for editing techniques, covering everything from drag-driven deformation to text-guided scene manipulation. It also quietly documents the field’s shift from pure NeRF editing to the 3D Gaussian Splatting era, with its 2026 section already dwarfing the historical foundations.

Key highlights

• Curated by academics at Tsinghua’s AIR lab and the University of Montreal, lending it some institutional credibility.
• Organized by publication year and venue, with direct arXiv and project-page links.
• Explicitly covers both “seminal papers” (the original NeRF and 3DGS works) and a dedicated survey section for broader context.
• Updated through June 2026, which suggests active maintenance in a field that moves weekly.
• Includes a disclaimer that paper acceptance statuses may be stale—an honest admission for a fast-moving list.

Caveats

• It is strictly a reading list: no code, no benchmarks, and no qualitative comparisons between methods.
• The README warns that acceptance statuses might not be up-to-date, so some listed venues could be preliminary or incorrect.

Verdict

Worth bookmarking if you are a researcher or practitioner trying to navigate the flood of 3D scene editing papers; skip it if you are looking for reusable code or a tutorial on how to actually edit a splat yourself.