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 102 of 104
- NeurIPS 2023Customizable Image Synthesis with Multiple Subjects
- NeurIPS 2023CycleNet: Rethinking Cycle Consistency in Text-Guided Diffusion for Image Manipulation
- NeurIPS 2023Debiasing Scores and Prompts of 2D Diffusion for View-consistent Text-to-3D Generation
- NeurIPS 2023Decorate3D: Text-Driven High-Quality Texture Generation for Mesh Decoration in the Wild
- NeurIPS 2023DELIFFAS: Deformable Light Fields for Fast Avatar Synthesis
- NeurIPS 2023DiffInfinite: Large Mask-Image Synthesis via Parallel Random Patch Diffusion in Histopathology
- NeurIPS 2023DiffSketcher: Text Guided Vector Sketch Synthesis through Latent Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023DiffTraj: Generating GPS Trajectory with Diffusion Probabilistic Model
- NeurIPS 2023Diffusion Models and Semi-Supervised Learners Benefit Mutually with Few Labels
- NeurIPS 2023Diffusion Self-Guidance for Controllable Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2023Diffusion-Based Adversarial Sample Generation for Improved Stealthiness and Controllability
- NeurIPS 2023Divide, Evaluate, and Refine: Evaluating and Improving Text-to-Image Alignment with Iterative VQA Feedback
- NeurIPS 2023Dream the Impossible: Outlier Imagination with Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023DreamHuman: Animatable 3D Avatars from Text
- NeurIPS 2023DreamSparse: Escaping from Plato’s Cave with 2D Diffusion Model Given Sparse Views
- NeurIPS 2023Efficient Neural Music Generation
- NeurIPS 2023Emergent Correspondence from Image Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2023Energy-Based Cross Attention for Bayesian Context Update in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023Enhancing Minority Classes by Mixing: An Adaptative Optimal Transport Approach for Long-tailed Classification
- NeurIPS 2023FACE: Evaluating Natural Language Generation with Fourier Analysis of Cross-Entropy
- NeurIPS 2023FaceComposer: A Unified Model for Versatile Facial Content Creation
- NeurIPS 2023FETV: A Benchmark for Fine-Grained Evaluation of Open-Domain Text-to-Video Generation
- NeurIPS 2023FGPrompt: Fine-grained Goal Prompting for Image-goal Navigation
- NeurIPS 2023FineMoGen: Fine-Grained Spatio-Temporal Motion Generation and Editing
- NeurIPS 2023FORB: A Flat Object Retrieval Benchmark for Universal Image Embedding
- NeurIPS 2023FouriDown: Factoring Down-Sampling into Shuffling and Superposing
- NeurIPS 2023Functional-Group-Based Diffusion for Pocket-Specific Molecule Generation and Elaboration
- NeurIPS 2023GenEval: An object-focused framework for evaluating text-to-image alignment
- NeurIPS 2023GeoCLIP: Clip-Inspired Alignment between Locations and Images for Effective Worldwide Geo-localization
- NeurIPS 2023GLOBER: Coherent Non-autoregressive Video Generation via GLOBal Guided Video DecodER
- NeurIPS 2023GlyphControl: Glyph Conditional Control for Visual Text Generation
- NeurIPS 2023Greatness in Simplicity: Unified Self-Cycle Consistency for Parser-Free Virtual Try-On
- NeurIPS 2023HAP: Structure-Aware Masked Image Modeling for Human-Centric Perception
- NeurIPS 2023Hardware Resilience Properties of Text-Guided Image Classifiers
- NeurIPS 2023Hierarchical Open-vocabulary Universal Image Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2023Holistic Evaluation of Text-to-Image Models
- NeurIPS 2023Idempotent Learned Image Compression with Right-Inverse
- NeurIPS 2023ImageBrush: Learning Visual In-Context Instructions for Exemplar-Based Image Manipulation
- NeurIPS 2023ImageNet-Hard: The Hardest Images Remaining from a Study of the Power of Zoom and Spatial Biases in Image Classification
- NeurIPS 2023ImageReward: Learning and Evaluating Human Preferences for Text-to-Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2023Imagine That! Abstract-to-Intricate Text-to-Image Synthesis with Scene Graph Hallucination Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2023IMPRESS: Evaluating the Resilience of Imperceptible Perturbations Against Unauthorized Data Usage in Diffusion-Based Generative AI
- NeurIPS 2023Improving Diffusion-Based Image Synthesis with Context Prediction
- NeurIPS 2023Inserting Anybody in Diffusion Models via Celeb Basis
- NeurIPS 2023Is This Loss Informative? Faster Text-to-Image Customization by Tracking Objective Dynamics
- NeurIPS 2023JourneyDB: A Benchmark for Generative Image Understanding
- NeurIPS 2023Language Quantized AutoEncoders: Towards Unsupervised Text-Image Alignment
- NeurIPS 2023LayoutGPT: Compositional Visual Planning and Generation with Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023Learning Modulated Transformation in GANs
- NeurIPS 2023Learning Universal Policies via Text-Guided Video Generation
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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.