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
27 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICML 2024A Bias-Variance-Covariance Decomposition of Kernel Scores for Generative Models
- ICML 2024A Computational Framework for Solving Wasserstein Lagrangian Flows
- ICML 2024A Generative Approach for Treatment Effect Estimation under Collider Bias: From an Out-of-Distribution Perspective
- ICML 2024Actions Speak Louder than Words: Trillion-Parameter Sequential Transducers for Generative Recommendations
- ICML 2024Conditional Normalizing Flows for Active Learning of Coarse-Grained Molecular Representations
- ICML 2024COPAL: Continual Pruning in Large Language Generative Models
- ICML 2024DéjàVu: KV-cache Streaming for Fast, Fault-tolerant Generative LLM Serving
- ICML 2024From Self-Attention to Markov Models: Unveiling the Dynamics of Generative Transformers
- ICML 2024Generative Active Learning for Long-tailed Instance Segmentation
- ICML 2024Generative Conditional Distributions by Neural (Entropic) Optimal Transport
- ICML 2024Generative Flows on Discrete State-Spaces: Enabling Multimodal Flows with Applications to Protein Co-Design
- ICML 2024Generative Marginalization Models
- ICML 2024Genie: Generative Interactive Environments
- ICML 2024GiLOT: Interpreting Generative Language Models via Optimal Transport
- ICML 2024HexGen: Generative Inference of Large Language Model over Heterogeneous Environment
- ICML 2024How to Trace Latent Generative Model Generated Images without Artificial Watermark?
- ICML 2024Human vs. Generative AI in Content Creation Competition: Symbiosis or Conflict?
- ICML 2024Keep the Momentum: Conservation Laws beyond Euclidean Gradient Flows
- ICML 2024Masked Face Recognition with Generative-to-Discriminative Representations
- ICML 2024Nearest Neighbour Score Estimators for Diffusion Generative Models
- ICML 2024ODIM: Outlier Detection via Likelihood of Under-Fitted Generative Models
- ICML 2024On the Universality of Volume-Preserving and Coupling-Based Normalizing Flows
- ICML 2024Reflected Flow Matching
- ICML 2024Self-Correcting Self-Consuming Loops for Generative Model Training
- ICML 2024Single-Model Attribution of Generative Models Through Final-Layer Inversion
- ICML 2024Stochastic Interpolants with Data-Dependent Couplings
- ICML 2024Timer: Generative Pre-trained Transformers Are Large Time Series 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.