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 6 of 9
- NeurIPS 2025SCoT: Unifying Consistency Models and Rectified Flows via Straight-Consistent Trajectories
- NeurIPS 2025Seeds of Structure: Patch PCA Reveals Universal Compositional Cues in Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2025Sequence Modeling with Spectral Mean Flows
- NeurIPS 2025Sparse Meets Dense: Unified Generative Recommendations with Cascaded Sparse-Dense Representations
- NeurIPS 2025STARFlow: Scaling Latent Normalizing Flows for High-resolution Image Synthesis
- NeurIPS 2025TARFVAE: Efficient One-Step Generative Time Series Forecasting via TARFLOW based VAE
- NeurIPS 2025Uncertainty Quantification for Deep Regression using Contextualised Normalizing Flows
- NeurIPS 2025When Models Don’t Collapse: On the Consistency of Iterative MLE
- CVPR 2024All Rivers Run to the Sea: Private Learning with Asymmetric Flows
- CVPR 2024Boosting Flow-based Generative Super-Resolution Models via Learned Prior
- CVPR 2024CityDreamer: Compositional Generative Model of Unbounded 3D Cities
- CVPR 2024DiffuScene: Denoising Diffusion Models for Generative Indoor Scene Synthesis
- CVPR 2024Distributionally Generative Augmentation for Fair Facial Attribute Classification
- CVPR 2024DiverGen: Improving Instance Segmentation by Learning Wider Data Distribution with More Diverse Generative Data
- CVPR 2024En3D: An Enhanced Generative Model for Sculpting 3D Humans from 2D Synthetic Data
- CVPR 2024G3DR: Generative 3D Reconstruction in ImageNet
- CVPR 2024Generative 3D Part Assembly via Part-Whole-Hierarchy Message Passing
- CVPR 2024Generative Multimodal Models are In-Context Learners
- CVPR 2024Generative Powers of Ten
- CVPR 2024Generative Quanta Color Imaging
- CVPR 2024Generative Unlearning for Any Identity
- CVPR 2024Learning Large-Factor EM Image Super-Resolution with Generative Priors
- CVPR 2024MaskPLAN: Masked Generative Layout Planning from Partial Input
- CVPR 2024MMM: Generative Masked Motion Model
- CVPR 2024Mosaic-SDF for 3D Generative Models
- CVPR 2024NeRFDeformer: NeRF Transformation from a Single View via 3D Scene Flows
- CVPR 2024NeRFiller: Completing Scenes via Generative 3D Inpainting
- CVPR 2024Normalizing Flows on the Product Space of SO(3) Manifolds for Probabilistic Human Pose Modeling
- CVPR 2024Outdoor Scene Extrapolation with Hierarchical Generative Cellular Automata
- CVPR 2024PEGASUS: Personalized Generative 3D Avatars with Composable Attributes
- CVPR 2024Rethinking the Up-Sampling Operations in CNN-based Generative Network for Generalizable Deepfake Detection
- CVPR 2024Would Deep Generative Models Amplify Bias in Future Models?
- ICLR 2024$\infty$-Diff: Infinite Resolution Diffusion with Subsampled Mollified States
- ICLR 2024Bespoke Solvers for Generative Flow Models
- ICLR 2024Consistency Trajectory Models: Learning Probability Flow ODE Trajectory of Diffusion
- ICLR 2024Emu: Generative Pretraining in Multimodality
- ICLR 2024Fast and unified path gradient estimators for normalizing flows
- ICLR 2024GenCorres: Consistent Shape Matching via Coupled Implicit-Explicit Shape Generative Models
- ICLR 2024Generative Sliced MMD Flows with Riesz Kernels
- ICLR 2024Idempotent Generative Network
- ICLR 2024Kernelised Normalising Flows
- ICLR 2024Lifting Architectural Constraints of Injective Flows
- ICLR 2024Light Schrödinger Bridge
- ICLR 2024LUT-GEMM: Quantized Matrix Multiplication based on LUTs for Efficient Inference in Large-Scale Generative Language Models
- ICLR 2024Modelling complex vector drawings with stroke-clouds
- ICLR 2024On the Stability of Iterative Retraining of Generative Models on their own Data
- ICLR 2024Posterior Sampling Based on Gradient Flows of the MMD with Negative Distance Kernel
- ICLR 2024SAN: Inducing Metrizability of GAN with Discriminative Normalized Linear Layer
- ICLR 2024sRGB Real Noise Modeling via Noise-Aware Sampling with Normalizing Flows
- ICLR 2024The Generative AI Paradox: “What It Can Create, It May Not Understand”
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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.