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
1,216 papers, page 11 of 25
- CVPR 2024Tune-An-Ellipse: CLIP Has Potential to Find What You Want
- CVPR 2024Tyche: Stochastic In-Context Learning for Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024UDiFF: Generating Conditional Unsigned Distance Fields with Optimal Wavelet Diffusion
- CVPR 2024UFOGen: You Forward Once Large Scale Text-to-Image Generation via Diffusion GANs
- CVPR 2024UltrAvatar: A Realistic Animatable 3D Avatar Diffusion Model with Authenticity Guided Textures
- CVPR 2024Uncertainty-Aware Source-Free Adaptive Image Super-Resolution with Wavelet Augmentation Transformer
- CVPR 2024UniGS: Unified Representation for Image Generation and Segmentation
- CVPR 2024UnionFormer: Unified-Learning Transformer with Multi-View Representation for Image Manipulation Detection and Localization
- CVPR 2024Unlocking Pre-trained Image Backbones for Semantic Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2024Unmixing Before Fusion: A Generalized Paradigm for Multi-Source-based Hyperspectral Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2024Unmixing Diffusion for Self-Supervised Hyperspectral Image Denoising
- CVPR 2024Unsupervised 3D Structure Inference from Category-Specific Image Collections
- CVPR 2024Unsupervised Blind Image Deblurring Based on Self-Enhancement
- CVPR 2024Unsupervised Universal Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024UV-IDM: Identity-Conditioned Latent Diffusion Model for Face UV-Texture Generation
- CVPR 2024VA3: Virtually Assured Amplification Attack on Probabilistic Copyright Protection for Text-to-Image Generative Models
- CVPR 2024VecFusion: Vector Font Generation with Diffusion
- CVPR 2024Vector Graphics Generation via Mutually Impulsed Dual-domain Diffusion
- CVPR 2024Versatile Medical Image Segmentation Learned from Multi-Source Datasets via Model Self-Disambiguation
- CVPR 2024VideoBooth: Diffusion-based Video Generation with Image Prompts
- CVPR 2024ViewDiff: 3D-Consistent Image Generation with Text-to-Image Models
- CVPR 2024ViLa-MIL: Dual-scale Vision-Language Multiple Instance Learning for Whole Slide Image Classification
- CVPR 2024Visual Delta Generator with Large Multi-modal Models for Semi-supervised Composed Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2024Visual Fact Checker: Enabling High-Fidelity Detailed Caption Generation
- CVPR 2024Visual Layout Composer: Image-Vector Dual Diffusion Model for Design Layout Generation
- CVPR 2024ViT-Lens: Towards Omni-modal Representations
- CVPR 2024VoCo: A Simple-yet-Effective Volume Contrastive Learning Framework for 3D Medical Image Analysis
- CVPR 2024VS: Reconstructing Clothed 3D Human from Single Image via Vertex Shift
- CVPR 2024WaveFace: Authentic Face Restoration with Efficient Frequency Recovery
- CVPR 2024Wavelet-based Fourier Information Interaction with Frequency Diffusion Adjustment for Underwater Image Restoration
- CVPR 2024WaveMo: Learning Wavefront Modulations to See Through Scattering
- CVPR 2024Weakly Supervised Monocular 3D Detection with a Single-View Image
- CVPR 2024When StyleGAN Meets Stable Diffusion: a W+ Adapter for Personalized Image Generation
- CVPR 2024WildlifeMapper: Aerial Image Analysis for Multi-Species Detection and Identification
- CVPR 2024Wonder3D: Single Image to 3D using Cross-Domain Diffusion
- CVPR 2024WonderJourney: Going from Anywhere to Everywhere
- CVPR 2024WOUAF: Weight Modulation for User Attribution and Fingerprinting in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024X-Adapter: Adding Universal Compatibility of Plugins for Upgraded Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024XFeat: Accelerated Features for Lightweight Image Matching
- CVPR 2024You'll Never Walk Alone: A Sketch and Text Duet for Fine-Grained Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2024Your Image is My Video: Reshaping the Receptive Field via Image-To-Video Differentiable AutoAugmentation and Fusion
- CVPR 2024Your Student is Better Than Expected: Adaptive Teacher-Student Collaboration for Text-Conditional Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Zero-Painter: Training-Free Layout Control for Text-to-Image Synthesis
- ICLR 2024A Branching Decoder for Set Generation
- ICLR 2024A Linear Algebraic Framework for Counterfactual Generation
- ICLR 2024A Plug-and-Play Image Registration Network
- ICLR 2024A Simple and Scalable Representation for Graph Generation
- ICLR 2024A Simple Interpretable Transformer for Fine-Grained Image Classification and Analysis
- ICLR 2024Accelerating Data Generation for Neural Operators via Krylov Subspace Recycling
- ICLR 2024Adaptive Self-training Framework for Fine-grained Scene Graph 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.