Image Generation papers, 2023–2026
Text-to-image and synthesis
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 5,184 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 170 | 118 | 74 | 418 | 780 |
| 2024 | 318 | 199 | 156 | 543 | 1,216 |
| 2025 | 430 | 278 | 147 | 612 | 1,467 |
| 2026 | 453 | 349 | 230 | 689 | 1,721 |
Representative papers
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- 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
944 papers, page 10 of 19
- ICLR 2025Exploiting Distribution Constraints for Scalable and Efficient Image Retrieval
- ICLR 2025FakeShield: Explainable Image Forgery Detection and Localization via Multi-modal Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025Fantastic Copyrighted Beasts and How (Not) to Generate Them
- ICLR 2025Fast Direct: Query-Efficient Online Black-box Guidance for Diffusion-model Target Generation
- ICLR 2025FlexCAD: Unified and Versatile Controllable CAD Generation with Fine-tuned Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025Fluid: Scaling Autoregressive Text-to-image Generative Models with Continuous Tokens
- ICLR 2025Follow My Instruction and Spill the Beans: Scalable Data Extraction from Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems
- ICLR 2025Forking Paths in Neural Text Generation
- ICLR 2025FreCaS: Efficient Higher-Resolution Image Generation via Frequency-aware Cascaded Sampling
- ICLR 2025Fréchet Wavelet Distance: A Domain-Agnostic Metric for Image Generation
- ICLR 2025Free Hunch: Denoiser Covariance Estimation for Diffusion Models Without Extra Costs
- ICLR 2025FreeVS: Generative View Synthesis on Free Driving Trajectory
- ICLR 2025From Pixels to Tokens: Byte-Pair Encoding on Quantized Visual Modalities
- ICLR 2025GALA: Geometry-Aware Local Adaptive Grids for Detailed 3D Generation
- ICLR 2025GaussianAnything: Interactive Point Cloud Flow Matching for 3D Generation
- ICLR 2025GenARM: Reward Guided Generation with Autoregressive Reward Model for Test-Time Alignment
- ICLR 2025Generalizable Human Gaussians from Single-View Image
- ICLR 2025Generalized Consistency Trajectory Models for Image Manipulation
- ICLR 2025Generation and Comprehension Hand-in-Hand: Vision-guided Expression Diffusion for Boosting Referring Expression Generation and Comprehension
- ICLR 2025Geometry Image Diffusion: Fast and Data-Efficient Text-to-3D with Image-Based Surface Representation
- ICLR 2025GeSubNet: Gene Interaction Inference for Disease Subtype Network Generation
- ICLR 2025Glad: A Streaming Scene Generator for Autonomous Driving
- ICLR 2025GOLD: Graph Out-of-Distribution Detection via Implicit Adversarial Latent Generation
- ICLR 2025Gradient-Free Generation for Hard-Constrained Systems
- ICLR 2025Growth Inhibitors for Suppressing Inappropriate Image Concepts in Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Guaranteed Generation from Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025Guided Score identity Distillation for Data-Free One-Step Text-to-Image Generation
- ICLR 2025Gumbel Counterfactual Generation From Language Models
- ICLR 2025Hallo2: Long-Duration and High-Resolution Audio-Driven Portrait Image Animation
- ICLR 2025Halton Scheduler for Masked Generative Image Transformer
- ICLR 2025HART: Efficient Visual Generation with Hybrid Autoregressive Transformer
- ICLR 2025HD-Painter: High-Resolution and Prompt-Faithful Text-Guided Image Inpainting with Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025HGM³: Hierarchical Generative Masked Motion Modeling with Hard Token Mining
- ICLR 2025High-Precision Dichotomous Image Segmentation via Probing Diffusion Capacity
- ICLR 2025High-Quality Joint Image and Video Tokenization with Causal VAE
- ICLR 2025High-quality Text-to-3D Character Generation with SparseCubes and Sparse Transformers.
- ICLR 2025How Much is a Noisy Image Worth? Data Scaling Laws for Ambient Diffusion.
- ICLR 2025Hummingbird: High Fidelity Image Generation via Multimodal Context Alignment
- ICLR 2025Hydra-SGG: Hybrid Relation Assignment for One-stage Scene Graph Generation
- ICLR 2025HyperPLR: Hypergraph Generation through Projection, Learning, and Reconstruction
- ICLR 2025Image and Video Tokenization with Binary Spherical Quantization
- ICLR 2025Image Watermarks are Removable using Controllable Regeneration from Clean Noise
- ICLR 2025Image-level Memorization Detection via Inversion-based Inference Perturbation
- ICLR 2025ImageFolder: Autoregressive Image Generation with Folded Tokens
- ICLR 2025Improving Long-Text Alignment for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Improving Neural Optimal Transport via Displacement Interpolation
- ICLR 2025Improving Uncertainty Estimation through Semantically Diverse Language Generation
- ICLR 2025InCoDe: Interpretable Compressed Descriptions For Image Generation
- ICLR 2025Incorporating Visual Correspondence into Diffusion Model for Virtual Try-On
- ICLR 2025Infinite-Resolution Integral Noise Warping for Diffusion Models
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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.