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
Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up
- 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
35 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICLR 2025Beyond Squared Error: Exploring Loss Design for Enhanced Training of Generative Flow Networks
- ICLR 2025Boosting Latent Diffusion with Perceptual Objectives
- ICLR 2025Can Generative AI Solve Your In-Context Learning Problem? A Martingale Perspective
- ICLR 2025COFlowNet: Conservative Constraints on Flows Enable High-Quality Candidate Generation
- ICLR 2025CoInD: Enabling Logical Compositions in Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Consistency Models Made Easy
- ICLR 2025CONTRA: Conformal Prediction Region via Normalizing Flow Transformation
- ICLR 2025CryoGEN: Generative Energy-based Models for Cryogenic Electron Tomography Reconstruction
- ICLR 2025cryoSPHERE: Single-Particle HEterogeneous REconstruction from cryo EM
- ICLR 2025Data Unlearning in Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Deep MMD Gradient Flow without adversarial training
- ICLR 2025Designing Mechanical Meta-Materials by Learning Equivariant Flows
- ICLR 2025Do WGANs succeed because they minimize the Wasserstein Distance? Lessons from Discrete Generators
- ICLR 2025FaceShot: Bring Any Character into Life
- ICLR 2025Faster Inference of Flow-Based Generative Models via Improved Data-Noise Coupling
- ICLR 2025Flow matching achieves almost minimax optimal convergence
- ICLR 2025Generative Flows on Synthetic Pathway for Drug Design
- ICLR 2025GMValuator: Similarity-based Data Valuation for Generative Models
- ICLR 2025Heavy-Tailed Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Injective flows for star-like manifolds
- ICLR 2025Latent Bayesian Optimization via Autoregressive Normalizing Flows
- ICLR 2025Multilevel Generative Samplers for Investigating Critical Phenomena
- ICLR 2025MuPT: A Generative Symbolic Music Pretrained Transformer
- ICLR 2025Neural Sampling from Boltzmann Densities: Fisher-Rao Curves in the Wasserstein Geometry
- ICLR 2025No Free Lunch: Fundamental Limits of Learning Non-Hallucinating Generative Models
- ICLR 2025Not-So-Optimal Transport Flows for 3D Point Cloud Generation
- ICLR 2025NRGBoost: Energy-Based Generative Boosted Trees
- ICLR 2025ParetoFlow: Guided Flows in Multi-Objective Optimization
- ICLR 2025PQMass: Probabilistic Assessment of the Quality of Generative Models using Probability Mass Estimation
- ICLR 2025Rare event modeling with self-regularized normalizing flows: what can we learn from a single failure?
- ICLR 2025Restructuring Vector Quantization with the Rotation Trick
- ICLR 2025Think while You Generate: Discrete Diffusion with Planned Denoising
- ICLR 2025Topological Schrödinger Bridge Matching
- ICLR 2025Towards Hierarchical Rectified Flow
- ICLR 2025Truncated Consistency Models
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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.