Personalized image retouching aims to adapt retouching style of individual users from reference examples, but existing methods often require user-specific fine-tuning or fail to generalize effectively. To address these challenges, we introduce InstantRetouch, a general framework for personalized image retouching that instantly adapts to user retouching styles without any test-time fine-tuning. It employs an asymmetric auto-encoder to encode the retouching style from paired examples into a content disentangled latent representation that enables faithful transfer of the retouching style to new images. To adaptively apply the encoded retouching style to new images, we further propose retrieval-augmented retouching (RAR), which retrieves and aggregates style latents from reference pairs most similar in content to the query image. With these components, InstantRetouch enables superior and generic content-aware retouching personalization across diverse scenarios, including single-reference, multi-reference, and mixed-style setups, while also generalizing out of the box to photorealistic style transfer.
@article{arxiv.2602.17044,
title = {InstantRetouch: Personalized Image Retouching without Test-time Fine-tuning Using an Asymmetric Auto-Encoder},
author = {Temesgen Muruts Weldengus and Binnan Liu and Fei Kou and Youwei Lyu and Jinwei Chen and Qingnan Fan and Changqing Zou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.17044},
year = {2026}
}