Image Generation papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Image Generation went from 780 papers in 2023 to 1,721 in 2026, roughly 2.2x in three years.
• CVPR publishes the most Image Generation work: 2,262 papers from 2023 to 2026, 44% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Deep learning · generative models and autoencoders: papers tagged with both rose from 35 in 2023 to 150 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Computer Vision, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Video Understanding, is up 2.6x versus 2.2x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026$\texttt{bispectrum}$: Selective $G$-Bispectra Made Practical
• ICML 2026Klein Hyperbolic Metric Learning
• ICLR 2026A Bayesian Nonparametric Framework for Private, Fair, and Balanced Tabular Data Synthesis
• CVPR 2026Adaptive Learned Image Compression with Graph Neural Networks
• NeurIPS 2025Alchemist: Turning Public Text-to-Image Data into Generative Gold
• ICML 2025BiMark: Unbiased Multilayer Watermarking for Large Language Models
• ICLR 2025Accelerating Auto-regressive Text-to-Image Generation with Training-free Speculative Jacobi Decoding
• CVPR 2025A Polarization-Aided Transformer for Image Deblurring via Motion Vector Decomposition
• NeurIPS 2024Einsum Benchmark: Enabling the Development of Next-Generation Tensor Execution Engines
• ICML 2024Adaptive Feature Selection for No-Reference Image Quality Assessment by Mitigating Semantic Noise Sensitivity
• ICLR 2024AutomaTikZ: Text-Guided Synthesis of Scientific Vector Graphics with TikZ
• CVPR 2024DemoCaricature: Democratising Caricature Generation with a Rough Sketch
• NeurIPS 20234D Panoptic Scene Graph Generation
• ICML 2023Architecture-Agnostic Masked Image Modeling -- From ViT back to CNN
• ICLR 2023Accurate Image Restoration with Attention Retractable Transformer
• CVPR 20233D GAN Inversion With Facial Symmetry Prior
• NeurIPS 2026A Theory of Time-Sensitive Language Generation: Sparse Hallucination Beats Mode Collapse
• ICML 2026Noisy-Channel Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding
• ICLR 2026All Patches Matter, More Patches Better: Enhance AI-Generated Image Detection via Panoptic Patch Learning
• CVPR 2026AIMDepth Asymmetric Image-Event Mamba for Monocular Depth Estimation

All Image Generation papers

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451. CVPR 2026PinPoint Evaluation of Composed Image Retrieval with Explicit Negatives Multi-Image
452. CVPR 2026PixelDiT Pixel Diffusion Transformers for Image Generation
453. CVPR 2026PixelRush Ultra-Fast Training-Free High-Resolution Image Generation via One-step Diffusion
454. CVPR 2026POCA Pareto-Optimal Curriculum Alignment for Visual Text Generation
455. CVPR 2026PointNSP Autoregressive 3D Point Cloud Generation with Next-Scale Level-of-Detail Prediction
456. CVPR 2026Points-to-3D Structure-Aware 3D Generation with Point Cloud Priors
457. CVPR 2026PolySLGen Online Multimodal Speaking-Listening Reaction Generation in Polyadic Interaction
458. CVPR 2026PoseMaster A Unified 3D Native Framework for Stylized Pose Generation
459. CVPR 2026PositionIC Unified Position and Identity Consistency for Image Customization
460. CVPR 2026PosterIQ A Design Perspective Benchmark for Poster Understanding and Generation
461. CVPR 2026PosterReward Unlocking Accurate Evaluation for High-Quality Graphic Design Generation
462. CVPR 2026PPM-CLIP Probabilistic Prompt Modeling for Generalizable AI-Generated Image Detection
463. CVPR 2026PR-IQA Partial-Reference Image Quality Assessment for Diffusion-Based Novel View Synthesis
464. CVPR 2026Premier Personalized Preference Modulation with Learnable User Embedding in Text-to-Image
465. CVPR 2026PRISM Prototype-based Reasoning with Inter-modal Semantic Mining for Interpretable Image
466. CVPR 2026PrITTI Primitive-based Generation of Controllable and Editable 3D Semantic Urban
467. CVPR 2026Probabilistic Prompt Adaptation for Unified Image Aesthetics and Quality Assessment
468. CVPR 2026Progress by Pieces Test-Time Scaling for Autoregressive Image Generation
469. CVPR 2026Progressive Neural Architecture Generation
470. CVPR 2026PROMO Promptable Outfitting for Efficient High-Fidelity Virtual Try-On
471. CVPR 2026PROMPTMINER Black-Box Prompt Stealing against Text-to-Image Generative Models via Reinforcement
472. CVPR 2026Property-Informed Diffusion-Based Text-to-Microstructure Generation
473. CVPR 2026Prototype-based Causal Intervention for Multi-Label Image Classification
474. CVPR 2026Prototype-Guided Concept Erasure in Diffusion Models
475. CVPR 2026Proxy-Tuning Tailoring Multimodal Autoregressive Models for Subject-Driven Image Generation
476. CVPR 2026PSR Scaling Multi-Subject Personalized Image Generation with Pairwise Subject-Consistency Rewards
477. CVPR 2026PureCC Pure Learning for Text-to-Image Concept Customization
478. CVPR 2026PyraTok Language-Aligned Pyramidal Tokenizer for Video Understanding and Generation
479. CVPR 2026Qwen-Image-Layered Towards Inherent Editability via Layer Decomposition
480. CVPR 2026R2TUA Reconstruction-residual Based Targeted and Untargeted Attack Against Text-Image Person
481. CVPR 2026RAISE Requirement-Adaptive Evolutionary Refinement for Training-Free Text-to-Image Alignment
482. CVPR 2026RAVEN Erasing Invisible Watermarks via Novel View Synthesis
483. CVPR 2026RDF-MIG A Robust Diffusion Framework for Masked Image Generation to
484. CVPR 2026RDFace A Benchmark Dataset for Rare Disease Facial Image Analysis
485. CVPR 2026Re-Align Structured Reasoning-guided Alignment for In-Context Image Generation and Editing
486. CVPR 2026RealBirdID Benchmarking Bird Species Identification in the Era of MLLMs
487. CVPR 2026ReAlign Generalizable Image Forgery Detection via Reasoning-Aligned Representation
488. CVPR 2026Realiz3D 3D Generation Made Photorealistic via Domain-Aware Learning
489. CVPR 2026ReasonX MLLM-Guided Intrinsic Image Decomposition
490. CVPR 2026ReAttnCLIP Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Remote Sensing Image Segmentation via Re-defined Attention
491. CVPR 2026ReCALL Recalibrating Capability Degradation for MLLM-based Composed Image Retrieval
492. CVPR 2026ReCoFuse Ultra-Robust Image Fusion via Restorative Multi-Modal Diffusion Reciprocal Coupling
493. CVPR 2026Rectifying Latent Space for Generative Single-Image Reflection Removal
494. CVPR 2026RecTok Reconstruction Distillation along Rectified Flow
495. CVPR 2026Refining Few-Step Text-to-Multiview Diffusion via Reinforcement Learning
496. CVPR 2026Reflection Separation from a Single Image via Joint Latent Diffusion
497. CVPR 2026ReflexSplit Single Image Reflection Separation via Layer Fusion-Separation
498. CVPR 2026Refracting Reality Generating Images with Realistic Transparent Objects
499. CVPR 2026RegionFuse Region-Adaptive Pixel Distribution Learning for Infrared and Visible Image
500. CVPR 2026Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution for Imbalanced Textures A Texture-Aware Diffusion

FAQ

How many Image Generation papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

5,184 in total: 780 in 2023, 1,216 in 2024, 1,467 in 2025, 1,721 in 2026.

How many Image Generation papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 453 Image Generation papers, versus 430 the year before.

How many Image Generation papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 349 Image Generation papers, versus 278 the year before.

How many Image Generation papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 230 Image Generation papers, versus 147 the year before.

How many Image Generation papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 689 Image Generation papers, versus 612 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Image Generation papers?

CVPR, with 2,262 papers from 2023 to 2026.