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
5,184 papers, page 101 of 104
- ICML 2023Slot-VAE: Object-Centric Scene Generation with Slot Attention
- ICML 2023Stein Variational Goal Generation for adaptive Exploration in Multi-Goal Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2023StyleGAN-T: Unlocking the Power of GANs for Fast Large-Scale Text-to-Image Synthesis
- ICML 2023Surface Snapping Optimization Layer for Single Image Object Shape Reconstruction
- ICML 2023Text Generation with Diffusion Language Models: A Pre-training Approach with Continuous Paragraph Denoise
- ICML 2023Text-To-4D Dynamic Scene Generation
- ICML 2023Topologically Faithful Image Segmentation via Induced Matching of Persistence Barcodes
- ICML 2023Towards Coherent Image Inpainting Using Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models
- ICML 2023Towards Explaining Distribution Shifts
- ICML 2023TR0N: Translator Networks for 0-Shot Plug-and-Play Conditional Generation
- ICML 2023Tractable Control for Autoregressive Language Generation
- ICML 2023Unveiling The Mask of Position-Information Pattern Through the Mist of Image Features
- ICML 2023Vector Quantized Wasserstein Auto-Encoder
- ICML 2023Von Mises Mixture Distributions for Molecular Conformation Generation
- NeurIPS 2023[Re] End-to-end Algorithm Synthesis with Recurrent Networks: Logical Extrapolation Without Overthinking
- NeurIPS 20234D Panoptic Scene Graph Generation
- NeurIPS 2023A case for reframing automated medical image classification as segmentation
- NeurIPS 2023A Closer Look at the Robustness of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP)
- NeurIPS 2023A Regularized Conditional GAN for Posterior Sampling in Image Recovery Problems
- NeurIPS 2023A Step Towards Worldwide Biodiversity Assessment: The BIOSCAN-1M Insect Dataset
- NeurIPS 2023A Unified Conditional Framework for Diffusion-based Image Restoration
- NeurIPS 2023AbDiffuser: full-atom generation of in-vitro functioning antibodies
- NeurIPS 2023Act As You Wish: Fine-Grained Control of Motion Diffusion Model with Hierarchical Semantic Graphs
- NeurIPS 2023Alleviating the Semantic Gap for Generalized fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction
- NeurIPS 2023Amazon-M2: A Multilingual Multi-locale Shopping Session Dataset for Recommendation and Text Generation
- NeurIPS 2023Analyzing the Sample Complexity of Self-Supervised Image Reconstruction Methods
- NeurIPS 2023AND: Adversarial Neural Degradation for Learning Blind Image Super-Resolution
- NeurIPS 2023AR-Diffusion: Auto-Regressive Diffusion Model for Text Generation
- NeurIPS 2023Are These the Same Apple? Comparing Images Based on Object Intrinsics
- NeurIPS 2023ARTIC3D: Learning Robust Articulated 3D Shapes from Noisy Web Image Collections
- NeurIPS 2023Assessor360: Multi-sequence Network for Blind Omnidirectional Image Quality Assessment
- NeurIPS 2023Benchmarking and Analyzing 3D-aware Image Synthesis with a Modularized Codebase
- NeurIPS 2023Benchmarking Robustness to Adversarial Image Obfuscations
- NeurIPS 2023Beyond MLE: Convex Learning for Text Generation
- NeurIPS 2023Beyond Pretrained Features: Noisy Image Modeling Provides Adversarial Defense
- NeurIPS 2023Black-box Backdoor Defense via Zero-shot Image Purification
- NeurIPS 2023BLIP-Diffusion: Pre-trained Subject Representation for Controllable Text-to-Image Generation and Editing
- NeurIPS 2023Can Pre-Trained Text-to-Image Models Generate Visual Goals for Reinforcement Learning?
- NeurIPS 2023CELLE-2: Translating Proteins to Pictures and Back with a Bidirectional Text-to-Image Transformer
- NeurIPS 2023ChatGPT-Powered Hierarchical Comparisons for Image Classification
- NeurIPS 2023Cocktail: Mixing Multi-Modality Control for Text-Conditional Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2023COCO-Counterfactuals: Automatically Constructed Counterfactual Examples for Image-Text Pairs
- NeurIPS 2023Cola: A Benchmark for Compositional Text-to-image Retrieval
- NeurIPS 2023Conditional Score Guidance for Text-Driven Image-to-Image Translation
- NeurIPS 2023ConRad: Image Constrained Radiance Fields for 3D Generation from a Single Image
- NeurIPS 2023Constructing Non-isotropic Gaussian Diffusion Model Using Isotropic Gaussian Diffusion Model for Image Editing
- NeurIPS 2023Controlling Text-to-Image Diffusion by Orthogonal Finetuning
- NeurIPS 2023Convergent Bregman Plug-and-Play Image Restoration for Poisson Inverse Problems
- NeurIPS 2023CorresNeRF: Image Correspondence Priors for Neural Radiance Fields
- NeurIPS 2023Counterfactual Generation with Identifiability Guarantees
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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.