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

1,721 papers, page 11 of 35

501. CVPR 2026ResDiT Evoking the Intrinsic Resolution Scalability in Diffusion Transformers
502. CVPR 2026Residual Decoder Adapter ID-Preserving Tokenizer Adaption for Autoregressive Text Rendering
503. CVPR 2026Residual Diffusion Bridge Model for Image Restoration
504. CVPR 2026ResiHMR Residual-Limb Aware Single-Image 3D Human Mesh Recovery for Individuals
505. CVPR 2026Resolving Endpoint Underfitting in Diffusion Bridges via Noise Alignment
506. CVPR 2026Resolving the Identity Crisis in Text-to-Image Generation
507. CVPR 2026Restore Assess Repeat A Unified Framework for Iterative Image Restoration
508. CVPR 2026Restore Text First Enhance Image Later Two-Stage Scene Text Image
509. CVPR 2026RetFormer Multimodal Retrieval for Enhancing Image Recognition
510. CVPR 2026Rethinking BCE Loss for Multi-Label Image Recognition with Fine-Tuning
511. CVPR 2026Rethinking Glyph Spatial Information in Font Generation
512. CVPR 2026Rethinking Knowledge Transfer in Image Quality Assessment A Perceptual Preference
513. CVPR 2026Rethinking Prompt Design for Inference-time Scaling in Text-to-Visual Generation
514. CVPR 2026Rethinking UMM Visual Generation Masked Modeling for Efficient Image-Only Pre-training
515. CVPR 2026Retrieve-to-Restore Efficient All-in-One Image Restoration with a Retrieval-Based Degradation Bank
516. CVPR 2026Revisiting 2D Foundation Models for Scalable 3D Medical Image Classification
517. CVPR 2026Revisiting Geometric Obfuscation with Dual Convergent Lines for Privacy-Preserving Image
518. CVPR 2026RewardFlow Generate Images by Optimizing What You Reward
519. CVPR 2026RL-ScanIQA Reinforcement-Learned Scanpaths for Blind 360deg Image Quality Assessment
520. CVPR 2026RobotSeg A Model and Dataset for Segmenting Robots in Image
521. CVPR 2026Robust Remote Sensing Image-Text Retrieval with Noisy Correspondence
522. CVPR 2026Role-SynthCLIP A Role-Play Driven Diverse Synthetic Data Approach
523. CVPR 2026RunawayEvil Jailbreaking the Image-to-Video Generative Models
524. CVPR 2026SafeLogo Turning Your Logos into Jailbreak Shields via Micro-Regional Adversarial
525. CVPR 2026SafeRoPE Risk-specific Head-wise Embedding Rotation for Safe Generation in Rectified
526. CVPR 2026SAT-RRG LLM-Guided Self-Adaptive Training for Radiology Report Generation with Token-Level
527. CVPR 2026Say Cheese Detail-Preserving Portrait Collection Generation via Natural Language Edits
528. CVPR 2026Scalable Trajectory Generation for Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation
529. CVPR 2026Scaling Multi-Identity Consistency for Image Customization via Multi-to-Multi Matching Paradigm
530. CVPR 2026Scaling Up AI-Generated Image Detection with Generator-Aware Prototypes
531. CVPR 2026Scaling Zero-Shot Reference-to-Video Generation
532. CVPR 2026ScenDi 3D-to-2D Scene Diffusion Cascades for Urban Generation
533. CVPR 2026SceneMaker Open-set 3D Scene Generation with Decoupled De-occlusion and Pose
534. CVPR 2026SCIEval Evaluating and Benchmarking the Faithfulness of Scientific Image Generation
535. CVPR 2026Scone Bridging Composition and Distinction in Subject-Driven Image Generation via
536. CVPR 2026SD-FSMIS Adapting Stable Diffusion for Few-Shot Medical Image Segmentation
537. CVPR 2026SDUIE Semi-Supervised Diffusion for Underwater Image Enhancement with Quant-Text Dual
538. CVPR 2026SearchAD Large-Scale Rare Image Retrieval Dataset for Autonomous Driving
539. CVPR 2026Seeing What Matters Visual Preference Policy Optimization for Visual Generation
540. CVPR 2026SeeThrough3D Occlusion Aware 3D Control in Text-to-Image Generation
541. CVPR 2026SegGBC Justifiable Coarse-to-Fine Granular-Ball Computing for Enhancing Clustering Image Segmentation
542. CVPR 2026Selectively Extracting and Injecting Visual Attributes into Text-to-Image Models
543. CVPR 2026Self-Consistency for LLM-Based Motion Trajectory Generation and Verification
544. CVPR 2026Self-Corrected Image Generation with Explainable Latent Rewards
545. CVPR 2026Self-Evaluation Unlocks Any-Step Text-to-Image Generation
546. CVPR 2026Self-guided Semantic Inspection for Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval
547. CVPR 2026Self-Paced and Self-Corrective Masked Prediction for Movie Trailer Generation
548. CVPR 2026Semantic Scale Space A Framework for Controllable Image Abstraction
549. CVPR 2026SG-LoRA Semantic-guided LoRA Parameters Generation
550. CVPR 2026SGI Structured 2D Gaussians for Efficient and Compact Large Image

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.