Is Retinexformer superseded?

Retinexformer (Mixture-of-experts routing): superseded — cited as a baseline and beaten by newer methods. 0 paper(s) critique it, 1 beat it on benchmarks — #392 of 1370 most-superseded. Sub-problem: cluster led by U-Mamba. Newer alternatives in the same sub-problem include SAGE (Shape-Adapting Gated Experts).

Mixture-of-experts routing

Retinexformer

Retinexformer: One-stage Retinex-based Transformer for Low-light Image Enhancement

Superseded baseline#392 of 1,370 most-superseded · first seen Mar 12, 2023

Superseded — cited as a baseline and beaten by newer methods

0 papers critique it · 1 beat it on benchmarks

Beaten on benchmarks

Head-to-head results where a newer method reports beating Retinexformer. Values are copied from the source paper's tables — verify against the cited paper.

ISALux beats Retinexformer
28.01 vs 22.90
PSNR · [LOL Blur dataset]
ISALux: Illumination and Segmentation Aware Transformer Employing Mixture of Experts for Low Light Image Enhancement

What to use instead

Recent methods in the same sub-problem, not yet superseded in the knowledge base — arXiv benchmark leaders, not vetted production recommendations.

SAGE (Shape-Adapting Gated Experts)Shape-Adapting Gated Experts: Dynamic Expert Routing for Colonoscopic Lesion Segmentation
Nov 23, 2025