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
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
2,262 papers, page 12 of 46
- CVPR 2026ShadowDraw From Any Object to Shadow-Drawing Compositional Art
- CVPR 2026ShapeAR Generating Editable Shape Layers via Autoregressive Diffusion
- CVPR 2026ShapeR Robust Conditional 3D Shape Generation from Casual Captures
- CVPR 2026ShiftLUT Spatial Shift Enhanced Look-Up Tables for Efficient Image Restoration
- CVPR 2026SIGMA Selective-Interleaved Generation with Multi-Attribute Tokens
- CVPR 2026Simple-ViLMedSAM Simple Text Prompts Meet Vision-Language Models for Medical Image
- CVPR 2026SIMPLEPOSTER A SIMPLE BASELINE FOR PRODUCT POSTER GENERATION
- CVPR 2026SIR Structured Image Representations for Explainable Robot Learning
- CVPR 2026SJD-PAC Accelerating Speculative Jacobi Decoding via Proactive Drafting and Adaptive
- CVPR 2026Sketch2CT Multimodal Diffusion for Structure-Aware 3D Medical Volume Generation
- CVPR 2026SketchFaceGS Real-Time Sketch-Driven Face Editing and Generation with Gaussian Splatting
- CVPR 2026SliderEdit Continuous Image Editing with Fine-Grained Instruction Control
- CVPR 2026SLVMEval Synthetic Meta Evaluation Benchmark for Text-to-Long Video Generation
- CVPR 2026SMRABooth Subject and Motion Representation Alignment for Customized Video Generation
- CVPR 2026SounDiT Geo-Contextual Soundscape-to-Landscape Generation
- CVPR 2026Sparse-LaViDa Sparse Multimodal Discrete Diffusion Language Models
- CVPR 2026Spherical Leech Quantization for Visual Tokenization and Generation
- CVPR 2026StableMaterials Enhancing Diversity in Material Generation via Semi-Supervised Learning
- CVPR 2026STAGE Storyboard-Anchored Generation for Cinematic Multi-shot Narrative
- CVPR 2026Stand-In A Lightweight and Plug-and-Play Identity Control for Video Generation
- CVPR 2026Stereo World Model Camera-Guided Stereo Video Generation
- CVPR 2026StereoWorld Geometry-Aware Monocular-to-Stereo Video Generation
- CVPR 2026StreamDiT Real-Time Streaming Text-to-Video Generation
- CVPR 2026StyleDoctor Towards Specialist Reward Model for Style-centric Generation Tasks
- CVPR 2026StyleGallery Training-free and Semantic-aware Personalized Style Transfer from Arbitrary Image
- CVPR 2026StyleTextGen Style-Conditioned Multilingual Scene Text Generation
- CVPR 2026Suppressing Non-Semantic Noise in Masked Image Modeling Representations
- CVPR 2026SURF Signature-Retained Fast Video Generation
- CVPR 2026SwiftTailor Efficient 3D Garment Generation with Geometry Image Representation
- CVPR 2026SwitchCraft Training-Free Multi-Event Video Generation with Attention Controls
- CVPR 2026SyncDreamer Controllable and Expressive Avatar Generation Beyond the Talking Head
- CVPR 2026SynCLIP Synonym-Coherent Language-Image Pretraining for Robust Open-Vocabulary Dense Perception
- CVPR 2026Synthetic Curriculum Reinforces Compositional Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2026SynthRGB-T Language-Vision Guided Image Translation for Diversity Synthesis
- CVPR 2026Taming Video Models for 3D and 4D Generation via Zero-Shot
- CVPR 2026Task-Oriented Data Synthesis and Control-Rectify Sampling for Remote Sensing Semantic
- CVPR 2026Tea-Adapter Teacher Adapter for Efficient Conditional Generation
- CVPR 2026Tell Model Where to Look Mitigating Hallucinations in MLLMs by
- CVPR 2026TempoMaster Efficient Long Video Generation via Next-Frame-Rate Prediction
- CVPR 2026Temporal Equilibrium MeanFlow Bridging the Scale Gap for One-Step Generation
- CVPR 2026Test-Time Alignment of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Null-Text Embedding Optimisation
- CVPR 2026Text-Driven 3D Hand Motion Generation from Sign Language Data
- CVPR 2026Text-Image Conditioned 3D Generation
- CVPR 2026Text-Phase Synergy Network with Dual Priors for Unsupervised Cross-Domain Image
- CVPR 2026Text-Printed Image Bridging the Image-Text Modality Gap for Text-centric Training
- CVPR 2026TextPecker Rewarding Structural Anomaly Quantification for Enhancing Visual Text Rendering
- CVPR 2026TEXTRIX Latent Attribute Grid for Native Texture Generation and Beyond
- CVPR 2026TGT Text-Grounded Trajectories for Locally Controlled Video Generation
- CVPR 2026The Consistency Critic Correcting Inconsistencies in Generated Images via Reference-Guided
- CVPR 2026The Devil is in Attention Sharing Improving Complex Non-rigid Image
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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.