| HMANet: Hybrid Multi-Axis Aggregation Network for Image Super-Resolution | ✓ Link | 33.38 | 0.9089 | | HMA† | 2024-05-08 |
| DRCT: Saving Image Super-resolution away from Information Bottleneck | ✓ Link | 33.37 | 0.9090 | | DRCT-L | 2024-03-31 |
| Activating More Pixels in Image Super-Resolution Transformer | ✓ Link | 33.30 | 0.9083 | | HAT-L | 2022-05-09 |
| SwinFIR: Revisiting the SwinIR with Fast Fourier Convolution and Improved Training for Image Super-Resolution | ✓ Link | 33.26 | | | HAT FIR† (extra data) | 2022-08-24 |
| Channel-Partitioned Windowed Attention And Frequency Learning for Single Image Super-Resolution | | 33.24 | 0.9071 | | CPAT+ | 2024-07-23 |
| Image Processing GNN: Breaking Rigidity in Super-Resolution | ✓ Link | 33.23 | 0.9064 | | IPG+ | 2024-01-01 |
| Hierarchical Information Flow for Generalized Efficient Image Restoration | | 33.22 | 0.9103 | | Hi-IR-L | 2024-11-27 |
| CFAT: Unleashing Triangular Windows for Image Super-resolution | ✓ Link | 33.19 | 0.9068 | | CFAT | 2024-01-01 |
| Channel-Partitioned Windowed Attention And Frequency Learning for Single Image Super-Resolution | | 33.19 | 0.9069 | | CPAT | 2024-07-23 |
| SAT: Selective Aggregation Transformer for Image Super-Resolution | ✓ Link | 33.19 | | | SAT | 2026-04-09 |
| WARP: Wide Attention with Rich Projections for Image Super-Resolution | | 33.18 | | | WARP | 2026-09-08 |
| MaIR: A Locality- and Continuity-Preserving Mamba for Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 33.14 | 0.9058 | | MaIR+ | 2024-12-28 |
| Recursive Generalization Transformer for Image Super-Resolution | ✓ Link | 33.12 | | | RGT | 2023-03-11 |
| Transcending the Limit of Local Window: Advanced Super-Resolution Transformer with Adaptive Token Dictionary | ✓ Link | 33.10 | | | ATD | 2024-01-16 |
| On Efficient Transformer-Based Image Pre-training for Low-Level Vision | ✓ Link | 33.06 | 0.9055 | | EDT-B† | 2021-12-19 |
| Accurate Image Restoration with Attention Retractable Transformer | | 33.04 | 0.9051 | | ART | 2022-10-04 |
| MaIR: A Locality- and Continuity-Preserving Mamba for Image Restoration | ✓ Link | 32.93 | 0.9045 | | MaIR | 2024-12-28 |
| Pixel to Gaussian: Ultra-Fast Continuous Super-Resolution with 2D Gaussian Modeling | | 32.93 | | | ContinuousSR | 2025-03-09 |
| SwinIR: Image Restoration Using Swin Transformer | ✓ Link | 32.92 | 0.9044 | | SwinIR | 2021-08-23 |
| Latent Modulated Function for Computational Optimal Continuous Image Representation | ✓ Link | 32.87 | | | LM-CiaoSR (SwinIR encoder) | 2024-04-25 |
| ESRGAN: Enhanced Super-Resolution Generative Adversarial Networks | ✓ Link | 32.73 | | | RRDB | 2018-09-01 |
| ADD: Attribution-Driven Data Augmentation Framework for Boosting Image Super-Resolution | | 32.71 | | | SwinIR + ADD+ | 2025-06-11 |
| TSP-Mamba: The Travelling Salesman Problem Meets Mamba for Image Super-resolution and Beyond | | 32.71 | | | TSP-Mamba | 2025-06-11 |
| UCAN: Unified Convolutional Attention Network for Expansive Receptive Fields in Lightweight Super-Resolution | | 32.68 | | | UCAN-L | 2026-03-12 |
| Pre-Trained Image Processing Transformer | ✓ Link | 32.64 | | | IPT | 2020-12-01 |
| Enhanced Deep Residual Networks for Single Image Super-Resolution | ✓ Link | 32.46 | 0.8968 | | EDSR | 2017-07-10 |
| ML-CrAIST: Multi-scale Low-high Frequency Information-based Cross black Attention with Image Super-resolving Transformer | ✓ Link | 32.36 | 0.8984 | | ML-CrAIST | 2024-08-19 |
| ML-CrAIST: Multi-scale Low-high Frequency Information-based Cross black Attention with Image Super-resolving Transformer | ✓ Link | 32.15 | 0.8962 | | ML-CrAIST-Li | 2024-08-19 |
| SeD: Semantic-Aware Discriminator for Image Super-Resolution | ✓ Link | 31.73 | 0.88 | | RRDB+U+SeD | 2024-02-29 |
| Training Generative Image Super-Resolution Models by Wavelet-Domain Losses Enables Better Control of Artifacts | ✓ Link | 31.508 | 0.869 | | WGSR (2-lvl) | 2024-02-29 |
| Image Super-Resolution Using Deep Convolutional Networks | ✓ Link | 30.49 | 0.8628 | | SRCNN | 2014-12-31 |
| Single Image Super-Resolution From Transformed Self-Exemplars | ✓ Link | 30.33 | | | SelfExSR | 2015-01-01 |
| Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution Using a Generative Adversarial Network | ✓ Link | 29.4 | 0.8472 | 3.58 | SRGAN | 2016-09-15 |