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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501. ICML 2024Revisiting Context Aggregation for Image Matting
502. ICML 2024RoboCodeX: Multimodal Code Generation for Robotic Behavior Synthesis
503. ICML 2024Robust Universal Adversarial Perturbations
504. ICML 2024Scalable High-Resolution Pixel-Space Image Synthesis with Hourglass Diffusion Transformers
505. ICML 2024Scalable Pre-training of Large Autoregressive Image Models
506. ICML 2024Scale-Free Image Keypoints Using Differentiable Persistent Homology
507. ICML 2024Scaling Rectified Flow Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis
508. ICML 2024Scene Graph Generation Strategy with Co-occurrence Knowledge and Learnable Term Frequency
509. ICML 2024Score identity Distillation: Exponentially Fast Distillation of Pretrained Diffusion Models for One-Step Generation
510. ICML 2024See More Details: Efficient Image Super-Resolution by Experts Mining
511. ICML 2024Self-Infilling Code Generation
512. ICML 2024Semantic-Aware Human Object Interaction Image Generation
513. ICML 2024Sharpness-Aware Data Generation for Zero-shot Quantization
514. ICML 2024Sparse Cocktail: Every Sparse Pattern Every Sparse Ratio All At Once
515. ICML 2024Stochastic Conditional Diffusion Models for Robust Semantic Image Synthesis
516. ICML 2024Stochastic positional embeddings improve masked image modeling
517. ICML 2024StrokeNUWA—Tokenizing Strokes for Vector Graphic Synthesis
518. ICML 2024Successor Features for Efficient Multi-Subject Controlled Text Generation
519. ICML 2024Superposition Prompting: Improving and Accelerating Retrieval-Augmented Generation
520. ICML 2024Swallowing the Bitter Pill: Simplified Scalable Conformer Generation
521. ICML 2024Switchable Decision: Dynamic Neural Generation Networks
522. ICML 2024Test-Time Degradation Adaptation for Open-Set Image Restoration
523. ICML 2024The Perception-Robustness Tradeoff in Deterministic Image Restoration
524. ICML 2024The Surprising Effectiveness of Skip-Tuning in Diffusion Sampling
525. ICML 2024Time Weaver: A Conditional Time Series Generation Model
526. ICML 2024To Each (Textual Sequence) Its Own: Improving Memorized-Data Unlearning in Large Language Models
527. ICML 2024Unified Generation, Reconstruction, and Representation: Generalized Diffusion with Adaptive Latent Encoding-Decoding
528. ICML 2024Unifying Image Processing as Visual Prompting Question Answering
529. ICML 2024Unsupervised Episode Generation for Graph Meta-learning
530. ICML 2024UPAM: Unified Prompt Attack in Text-to-Image Generation Models Against Both Textual Filters and Visual Checkers
531. ICML 2024UPOCR: Towards Unified Pixel-Level OCR Interface
532. ICML 2024WAVES: Benchmarking the Robustness of Image Watermarks
533. ICML 2024X-Oscar: A Progressive Framework for High-quality Text-guided 3D Animatable Avatar Generation
534. ICML 2023A Simple Zero-shot Prompt Weighting Technique to Improve Prompt Ensembling in Text-Image Models
535. ICML 2023Architecture-Agnostic Masked Image Modeling -- From ViT back to CNN
536. ICML 2023Attributing Image Generative Models using Latent Fingerprints
537. ICML 2023AudioLDM: Text-to-Audio Generation with Latent Diffusion Models
538. ICML 2023Autoregressive Diffusion Model for Graph Generation
539. ICML 2023BLIP-2: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training with Frozen Image Encoders and Large Language Models
540. ICML 2023CHiLS: Zero-Shot Image Classification with Hierarchical Label Sets
541. ICML 2023Coarse-to-Fine: a Hierarchical Diffusion Model for Molecule Generation in 3D
542. ICML 2023CodeIPPrompt: Intellectual Property Infringement Assessment of Code Language Models
543. ICML 2023Coder Reviewer Reranking for Code Generation
544. ICML 2023Composer: Creative and Controllable Image Synthesis with Composable Conditions
545. ICML 2023Controlled Text Generation with Natural Language Instructions
546. ICML 2023Data Representations' Study of Latent Image Manifolds
547. ICML 2023Deep Latent State Space Models for Time-Series Generation
548. ICML 2023Deep Perturbation Learning: Enhancing the Network Performance via Image Perturbations
549. ICML 2023Dirichlet Diffusion Score Model for Biological Sequence Generation
550. ICML 2023Diverse and Faithful Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation via Sequential Posterior Inference

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.