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
46 papers, page 1 of 1
- NeurIPS 2026Active Learning for Conditional Generative Compressed Sensing
- NeurIPS 2026Active Learning of Conditional Generative Models via the Transport Neural Tangent Kernel
- NeurIPS 2026Arbitrarily Conditioned Hierarchical Flows for Spatiotemporal Events
- NeurIPS 2026Beckmann Transport Models: From Autonomous Flows to One-Step Maps
- NeurIPS 2026Branching Flows: Discrete, Continuous, and Manifold Flow Matching with Splits and Deletions
- NeurIPS 2026ChiP-STAR: Spatial-Topological Attention for Pre-trained Generative Chip Routing
- NeurIPS 2026Coarse-to-Real: Generative Rendering for Populated Dynamic Scenes
- NeurIPS 2026Collapse Hunter: Tackling the Dimensional Degeneration in Generative Ranking
- NeurIPS 2026Contact Geometry for Generative Models: An Unbalanced Optimal Transport Formulation
- NeurIPS 2026CupOFMoCA: Coupled Objective-Guided Discrete Flows for Molecular Conjugate Assembly
- NeurIPS 2026Deep Learning-based Algebraic Reynolds Stress Closures for RANS simulations of Turbulent Flows
- NeurIPS 2026Discrete Diffusion Playground: A 2D Benchmark for Discrete Generative Models
- NeurIPS 2026Discriminative Score Function: Turning Pretrained Models into Functional Generative Priors
- NeurIPS 2026Enhanced convergence guarantees of score-based generative models in $\mathcal{W}_2$-distance beyond log-concavity
- NeurIPS 2026Entropy Distribution as a Fingerprint for Hallucinations in Generative Models
- NeurIPS 2026Escaping the Curse of Dimensionality in One‑Step Flow-Based Generative Models
- NeurIPS 2026Exact Recovery of Lipschitz Orthogonal Coordinate Transformations via Constrained Normalizing Flows
- NeurIPS 2026FoMo: Forking Moment in Generative Trajectory as a Perceptual Distance
- NeurIPS 2026From Baselines to Transport Geodesics: Axiomatic Attribution via Optimal Generative Flows
- NeurIPS 2026From Jumps to Signatures: a Generative Method for Temporal Point Processes
- NeurIPS 2026Generative Conformal Prediction with Optimized Coverage Allocation
- NeurIPS 2026Generative Cross-Entropy: A Strictly Proper Loss for Data-Efficient Classification
- NeurIPS 2026Generative Modeling under Non-Monotone MAR Missingness via Approximate Wasserstein Gradient Flows
- NeurIPS 2026GlycoGen: Crystallizing Flows for De Novo Glycan Structure Prediction
- NeurIPS 2026HyperTransport: Amortized Conditioning of T2I Generative Models
- NeurIPS 2026JaSpec-LID: Local Intrinsic Dimension Estimation via Jacobian Spectra of ODE-based Generative Models
- NeurIPS 2026Joint Treatment Effect Estimation from Incomplete Healthcare Data: Temporal Causal Normalizing Flows with LLM-driven Evolutionary MNAR Imputation
- NeurIPS 2026Learning to Align Generative Appearance Priors for Fine-grained Image Retrieval
- NeurIPS 2026LLM-Auction: Generative Auction towards LLM-Native Advertising
- NeurIPS 2026MIND: Monge Inception Distance for Generative Models Evaluation
- NeurIPS 2026Neptuna: A Comprehensive Machine Learning Framework for Benchmarking Complex Multiphase Flows
- NeurIPS 2026Normalizing Flows are Capable Trajectory Planners
- NeurIPS 2026Normalizing Trajectory Models
- NeurIPS 2026One-Shot Generative Flows: Existence and Obstructions
- NeurIPS 2026Path-independent Flow Matching for Multi-parameter Generative Dynamics
- NeurIPS 2026PosteriorBench: From Point Estimates to Posterior Matching in Evaluating Generative Inverse Solvers
- NeurIPS 2026PRISM:Disentangling Preference Distributions for Generative Ranking
- NeurIPS 2026ProDG: Prototypes for Data-Free Generative Post-Hoc Explainability
- NeurIPS 2026RA-ClipScore: Making Generative Model Evaluation More Interpretable
- NeurIPS 2026RGF: Recursive Generative Framework for the Edge-Cut Separable Problems
- NeurIPS 2026Spherical Flows for Sampling Categorical Data
- NeurIPS 2026State Augmented Flows
- NeurIPS 2026Tunable Latent Generative Priors for Compressed Sensing and Inverse Problems
- NeurIPS 2026Wasserstein residuals: Learning Gradient Flows from Population Dynamics
- NeurIPS 2026When Riemann flows with Wasserstein: Generative Modeling of Probability Distributions on Manifolds
- NeurIPS 2026Why Cross-Skeleton Retargeting Is Non-Identifiable: Structural Limits of Generative Motion 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.