Generative Flows papers, 2023–2026
Normalizing flows
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 429 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Generative Flows went from 73 papers in 2023 to 139 in 2026, roughly 1.9x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Generative Flows work: 130 papers from 2023 to 2026, 30% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Applications · chemistry physics and earth sciences: papers tagged with both rose from 1 in 2023 to 5 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Probabilistic and Bayesian, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Gaussian Processes, is up 2.2x versus 1.9x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 18 | 17 | 26 | 12 | 73 |
| 2024 | 29 | 18 | 27 | 24 | 98 |
| 2025 | 37 | 35 | 25 | 22 | 119 |
| 2026 | 46 | 37 | 32 | 24 | 139 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026Exact Recovery of Lipschitz Orthogonal Coordinate Transformations via Constrained Normalizing Flows
- ICML 2026Learning-to-Optimize via Deep Unfolded Flows
- ICLR 2026Frozen Priors, Fluid Forecasts: Prequential Uncertainty for Low-Data Deployment with Pretrained Generative Models
- CVPR 2026AnchorFlow Training-Free 3D Editing via Latent Anchor-Aligned Flows
- NeurIPS 2025Amortized Sampling with Transferable Normalizing Flows
- ICML 2025Annealing Flow Generative Models Towards Sampling High-Dimensional and Multi-Modal Distributions
- ICLR 2025Beyond Squared Error: Exploring Loss Design for Enhanced Training of Generative Flow Networks
- CVPR 2025DiverseFlow: Sample-Efficient Diverse Mode Coverage in Flows
- NeurIPS 2024Learning Distributions on Manifolds with Free-Form Flows
- ICML 2024A Computational Framework for Solving Wasserstein Lagrangian Flows
- ICLR 2024Fast and unified path gradient estimators for normalizing flows
- CVPR 2024Distributionally Generative Augmentation for Fair Facial Attribute Classification
- NeurIPS 2023Canonical normalizing flows for manifold learning
- ICML 2023MonoFlow: Rethinking Divergence GANs via the Perspective of Wasserstein Gradient Flows
- ICLR 2023AE-FLOW: Autoencoders with Normalizing Flows for Medical Images Anomaly Detection
- CVPR 2023Delving Into Discrete Normalizing Flows on SO(3) Manifold for Probabilistic Rotation Modeling
- NeurIPS 2026From Baselines to Transport Geodesics: Axiomatic Attribution via Optimal Generative Flows
- ICML 2026Hyperbolic RQ-VAE enhanced Generative Recommendation with Differential-Length Codebook Strategy
- ICLR 2026JAPAN: Joint Adaptive Prediction Areas with Normalising Flow
- CVPR 2026BUSSARD Normalizing Flows for Bijective Universal Scene-Specific Anomalous Relationship Detection
All Generative Flows papers
429 papers, page 1 of 9
- CVPR 2026Affostruction 3D Affordance Grounding with Generative Reconstruction
- CVPR 2026AnchorFlow Training-Free 3D Editing via Latent Anchor-Aligned Flows
- CVPR 2026Attention May I Have Your Decision Localizing Generative Choices in
- CVPR 2026Back to Basics Let Denoising Generative Models Denoise
- CVPR 2026BUSSARD Normalizing Flows for Bijective Universal Scene-Specific Anomalous Relationship Detection
- CVPR 2026CraftMesh High-Fidelity Generative Mesh Manipulation via Poisson Seamless Fusion
- CVPR 2026Exploring Spatial Intelligence from a Generative Perspective
- CVPR 2026From Inpainting to Layer Decomposition Repurposing Generative Inpainting Models for
- CVPR 2026Generative Adversarial Perturbations with Cross-paradigm Transferability on Localized Crowd Counting
- CVPR 2026GenMatter Perceiving Physical Objects with Generative Matter Models
- CVPR 2026GenTract Generative Global Tractography
- CVPR 2026HierAmp Coarse-to-Fine Autoregressive Amplification for Generative Dataset Distillation
- CVPR 2026Improved Mean Flows On the Challenges of Fastforward Generative Models
- CVPR 2026IncreFA Breaking the Static Wall of Generative Model Attribution
- CVPR 2026Lafite A Generative Latent Field for 3D Native Texturing
- CVPR 2026Making Training-Free Diffusion Segmentors Scale with the Generative Power
- CVPR 2026Nonlinear Color Transfer via Learnable Bezier Flows
- CVPR 2026PGA Prior-free Generative Attack for Practical No-box Scenario
- CVPR 2026SAGA Source Attribution of Generative AI Videos
- CVPR 2026ShowUI-p Flow-based Generative Models as GUI Dexterous Hands
- CVPR 2026STARFlow-V End-to-End Video Generative Modeling with Autoregressive Normalizing Flows
- CVPR 2026TGTrack Temporal Generative Learning for Unified Single Object Tracking
- CVPR 2026Transition Models Rethinking the Generative Learning Objective
- CVPR 2026UniTEX Universal High Fidelity Generative Texturing for 3D Shapes
- ICLR 2026``Noisier'’ Noise Contrastive Estimation is (Almost) Maximum Likelihood
- ICLR 2026Accelerated Parallel Tempering via Neural Transports
- ICLR 2026AlignFlow: Improving Flow-based Generative Models with Semi-Discrete Optimal Transport
- ICLR 2026Antithetic Noise in Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2026Any-Order Flexible Length Masked Diffusion
- ICLR 2026Bridging Generalization Gap of Heterogeneous Federated Clients Using Generative Models
- ICLR 2026Carré du champ flow matching: better quality-generalisation tradeoff in generative models
- ICLR 2026Efficient Regression-based Training of Normalizing Flows for Boltzmann Generators
- ICLR 2026FALCON: Few-step Accurate Likelihoods for Continuous Flows
- ICLR 2026FastFlow: Accelerating The Generative Flow Matching Models with Bandit Inference
- ICLR 2026FlowBind: Efficient Any-to-Any Generation with Bidirectional Flows
- ICLR 2026From Ticks to Flows: Dynamics of Neural Reinforcement Learning in Continuous Environments
- ICLR 2026Frozen Priors, Fluid Forecasts: Prequential Uncertainty for Low-Data Deployment with Pretrained Generative Models
- ICLR 2026GDR-learners: Orthogonal Learning of Generative Models for Potential Outcomes
- ICLR 2026Gen-DFL: Decision-Focused Generative Learning for Robust Decision Making
- ICLR 2026GenCtrl -- A Formal Controllability Toolkit for Generative Models
- ICLR 2026Generative Blocks World: Moving Things Around in Pictures
- ICLR 2026Generative Universal Verifier as Multimodal Meta-Reasoner
- ICLR 2026HoloPart: Generative 3D Part Amodal Segmentation
- ICLR 2026JAPAN: Joint Adaptive Prediction Areas with Normalising Flow
- ICLR 2026Latent Stochastic Interpolants
- ICLR 2026Measurement Score-Based Diffusion Model
- ICLR 2026Mitigating Noise Shift in Denoising Generative Models with Noise Awareness Guidance
- ICLR 2026Much Ado About Noising: Dispelling the Myths of Generative Robotic Control
- ICLR 2026Neural Hamilton--Jacobi Characteristic Flows for Optimal Transport
- ICLR 2026Refine Drugs, Don’t Complete Them: Uniform-Source Discrete Flows for Fragment-Based Drug Discovery
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FAQ
- How many Generative Flows papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 429 in total: 73 in 2023, 98 in 2024, 119 in 2025, 139 in 2026.
- How many Generative Flows papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 46 Generative Flows papers, versus 37 the year before.
- How many Generative Flows papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 37 Generative Flows papers, versus 35 the year before.
- How many Generative Flows papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 32 Generative Flows papers, versus 25 the year before.
- How many Generative Flows papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 24 Generative Flows papers, versus 22 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Generative Flows papers?
- NeurIPS, with 130 papers from 2023 to 2026.