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
1,721 papers, page 10 of 35
- CVPR 2026PinPoint Evaluation of Composed Image Retrieval with Explicit Negatives Multi-Image
- CVPR 2026PixelDiT Pixel Diffusion Transformers for Image Generation
- CVPR 2026PixelRush Ultra-Fast Training-Free High-Resolution Image Generation via One-step Diffusion
- CVPR 2026POCA Pareto-Optimal Curriculum Alignment for Visual Text Generation
- CVPR 2026PointNSP Autoregressive 3D Point Cloud Generation with Next-Scale Level-of-Detail Prediction
- CVPR 2026Points-to-3D Structure-Aware 3D Generation with Point Cloud Priors
- CVPR 2026PolySLGen Online Multimodal Speaking-Listening Reaction Generation in Polyadic Interaction
- CVPR 2026PoseMaster A Unified 3D Native Framework for Stylized Pose Generation
- CVPR 2026PositionIC Unified Position and Identity Consistency for Image Customization
- CVPR 2026PosterIQ A Design Perspective Benchmark for Poster Understanding and Generation
- CVPR 2026PosterReward Unlocking Accurate Evaluation for High-Quality Graphic Design Generation
- CVPR 2026PPM-CLIP Probabilistic Prompt Modeling for Generalizable AI-Generated Image Detection
- CVPR 2026PR-IQA Partial-Reference Image Quality Assessment for Diffusion-Based Novel View Synthesis
- CVPR 2026Premier Personalized Preference Modulation with Learnable User Embedding in Text-to-Image
- CVPR 2026PRISM Prototype-based Reasoning with Inter-modal Semantic Mining for Interpretable Image
- CVPR 2026PrITTI Primitive-based Generation of Controllable and Editable 3D Semantic Urban
- CVPR 2026Probabilistic Prompt Adaptation for Unified Image Aesthetics and Quality Assessment
- CVPR 2026Progress by Pieces Test-Time Scaling for Autoregressive Image Generation
- CVPR 2026Progressive Neural Architecture Generation
- CVPR 2026PROMO Promptable Outfitting for Efficient High-Fidelity Virtual Try-On
- CVPR 2026PROMPTMINER Black-Box Prompt Stealing against Text-to-Image Generative Models via Reinforcement
- CVPR 2026Property-Informed Diffusion-Based Text-to-Microstructure Generation
- CVPR 2026Prototype-based Causal Intervention for Multi-Label Image Classification
- CVPR 2026Prototype-Guided Concept Erasure in Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026Proxy-Tuning Tailoring Multimodal Autoregressive Models for Subject-Driven Image Generation
- CVPR 2026PSR Scaling Multi-Subject Personalized Image Generation with Pairwise Subject-Consistency Rewards
- CVPR 2026PureCC Pure Learning for Text-to-Image Concept Customization
- CVPR 2026PyraTok Language-Aligned Pyramidal Tokenizer for Video Understanding and Generation
- CVPR 2026Qwen-Image-Layered Towards Inherent Editability via Layer Decomposition
- CVPR 2026R2TUA Reconstruction-residual Based Targeted and Untargeted Attack Against Text-Image Person
- CVPR 2026RAISE Requirement-Adaptive Evolutionary Refinement for Training-Free Text-to-Image Alignment
- CVPR 2026RAVEN Erasing Invisible Watermarks via Novel View Synthesis
- CVPR 2026RDF-MIG A Robust Diffusion Framework for Masked Image Generation to
- CVPR 2026RDFace A Benchmark Dataset for Rare Disease Facial Image Analysis
- CVPR 2026Re-Align Structured Reasoning-guided Alignment for In-Context Image Generation and Editing
- CVPR 2026RealBirdID Benchmarking Bird Species Identification in the Era of MLLMs
- CVPR 2026ReAlign Generalizable Image Forgery Detection via Reasoning-Aligned Representation
- CVPR 2026Realiz3D 3D Generation Made Photorealistic via Domain-Aware Learning
- CVPR 2026ReasonX MLLM-Guided Intrinsic Image Decomposition
- CVPR 2026ReAttnCLIP Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Remote Sensing Image Segmentation via Re-defined Attention
- CVPR 2026ReCALL Recalibrating Capability Degradation for MLLM-based Composed Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2026ReCoFuse Ultra-Robust Image Fusion via Restorative Multi-Modal Diffusion Reciprocal Coupling
- CVPR 2026Rectifying Latent Space for Generative Single-Image Reflection Removal
- CVPR 2026RecTok Reconstruction Distillation along Rectified Flow
- CVPR 2026Refining Few-Step Text-to-Multiview Diffusion via Reinforcement Learning
- CVPR 2026Reflection Separation from a Single Image via Joint Latent Diffusion
- CVPR 2026ReflexSplit Single Image Reflection Separation via Layer Fusion-Separation
- CVPR 2026Refracting Reality Generating Images with Realistic Transparent Objects
- CVPR 2026RegionFuse Region-Adaptive Pixel Distribution Learning for Infrared and Visible Image
- CVPR 2026Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution for Imbalanced Textures A Texture-Aware Diffusion
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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.