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
29 papers, page 1 of 1
- NeurIPS 2024A Generative Model of Symmetry Transformations
- NeurIPS 2024ACES: Generating a Diversity of Challenging Programming Puzzles with Autotelic Generative Models
- NeurIPS 2024AirSketch: Generative Motion to Sketch
- NeurIPS 2024ArkVale: Efficient Generative LLM Inference with Recallable Key-Value Eviction
- NeurIPS 2024Be like a Goldfish, Don't Memorize! Mitigating Memorization in Generative LLMs
- NeurIPS 2024CRAG - Comprehensive RAG Benchmark
- NeurIPS 2024Dynamic Conditional Optimal Transport through Simulation-Free Flows
- NeurIPS 2024Estimating the Hallucination Rate of Generative AI
- NeurIPS 2024Exogenous Matching: Learning Good Proposals for Tractable Counterfactual Estimation
- NeurIPS 2024FasterDiT: Towards Faster Diffusion Transformers Training without Architecture Modification
- NeurIPS 2024Fine-grained Control of Generative Data Augmentation in IoT Sensing
- NeurIPS 2024Functional Gradient Flows for Constrained Sampling
- NeurIPS 2024Generalized Eigenvalue Problems with Generative Priors
- NeurIPS 2024Generative Forests
- NeurIPS 2024Generative Fractional Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Hamiltonian Score Matching and Generative Flows
- NeurIPS 2024Improving the Training of Rectified Flows
- NeurIPS 2024Inflationary Flows: Calibrated Bayesian Inference with Diffusion-Based Models
- NeurIPS 2024Learning diffusion at lightspeed
- NeurIPS 2024Learning Diffusion Priors from Observations by Expectation Maximization
- NeurIPS 2024Learning Distributions on Manifolds with Free-Form Flows
- NeurIPS 2024Markovian Flow Matching: Accelerating MCMC with Continuous Normalizing Flows
- NeurIPS 2024Maximum Entropy Reinforcement Learning via Energy-Based Normalizing Flow
- NeurIPS 2024Mutual Information Estimation via Normalizing Flows
- NeurIPS 2024Navigating Chemical Space with Latent Flows
- NeurIPS 2024On the Identifiability of Hybrid Deep Generative Models: Meta-Learning as a Solution
- NeurIPS 2024Optimal Flow Matching: Learning Straight Trajectories in Just One Step
- NeurIPS 2024Preferential Normalizing Flows
- NeurIPS 2024Transferable Boltzmann Generators
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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.