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
612 papers, page 12 of 13
- CVPR 2025TokenMotion: Decoupled Motion Control via Token Disentanglement for Human-centric Video Generation
- CVPR 2025Toward Generalized Image Quality Assessment: Relaxing the Perfect Reference Quality Assumption
- CVPR 2025Towards All-in-One Medical Image Re-Identification
- CVPR 2025Towards Enhanced Image Inpainting: Mitigating Unwanted Object Insertion and Preserving Color Consistency
- CVPR 2025Towards Improved Text-Aligned Codebook Learning: Multi-Hierarchical Codebook-Text Alignment with Long Text
- CVPR 2025Towards In-the-wild 3D Plane Reconstruction from a Single Image
- CVPR 2025Towards Natural Language-Based Document Image Retrieval: New Dataset and Benchmark
- CVPR 2025Towards Satellite Image Road Graph Extraction: A Global-Scale Dataset and A Novel Method
- CVPR 2025Towards Scalable Human-aligned Benchmark for Text-guided Image Editing
- CVPR 2025Towards Transformer-Based Aligned Generation with Self-Coherence Guidance
- CVPR 2025Towards Unbiased and Robust Spatio-Temporal Scene Graph Generation and Anticipation
- CVPR 2025Towards Understanding and Quantifying Uncertainty for Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2025Towards Universal AI-Generated Image Detection by Variational Information Bottleneck Network
- CVPR 2025Training-free Dense-Aligned Diffusion Guidance for Modular Conditional Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2025TransPixeler: Advancing Text-to-Video Generation with Transparency
- CVPR 2025TreeMeshGPT: Artistic Mesh Generation with Autoregressive Tree Sequencing
- CVPR 2025TSD-SR: One-Step Diffusion with Target Score Distillation for Real-World Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2025TSP-Mamba: The Travelling Salesman Problem Meets Mamba for Image Super-resolution and Beyond
- CVPR 2025Turbo3D: Ultra-fast Text-to-3D Generation
- CVPR 2025TurboFill: Adapting Few-step Text-to-image Model for Fast Image Inpainting
- CVPR 2025Type-R: Automatically Retouching Typos for Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2025UHD-processer: Unified UHD Image Restoration with Progressive Frequency Learning and Degradation-aware Prompts
- CVPR 2025Unbiased Video Scene Graph Generation via Visual and Semantic Dual Debiasing
- CVPR 2025Uncertainty-guided Perturbation for Image Super-Resolution Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025UNIC-Adapter: Unified Image-instruction Adapter with Multi-modal Transformer for Image Generation
- CVPR 2025UniPose: A Unified Multimodal Framework for Human Pose Comprehension, Generation and Editing
- CVPR 2025UniReal: Universal Image Generation and Editing via Learning Real-world Dynamics
- CVPR 2025UniRestore: Unified Perceptual and Task-Oriented Image Restoration Model Using Diffusion Prior
- CVPR 2025UniScene: Unified Occupancy-centric Driving Scene Generation
- CVPR 2025Universal Scene Graph Generation
- CVPR 2025Unleashing In-context Learning of Autoregressive Models for Few-shot Image Manipulation
- CVPR 2025UNOPose: Unseen Object Pose Estimation with an Unposed RGB-D Reference Image
- CVPR 2025Unseen Visual Anomaly Generation
- CVPR 2025Unveil Inversion and Invariance in Flow Transformer for Versatile Image Editing
- CVPR 2025URWKV: Unified RWKV Model with Multi-state Perspective for Low-light Image Restoration
- CVPR 2025Using Powerful Prior Knowledge of Diffusion Model in Deep Unfolding Networks for Image Compressive Sensing
- CVPR 2025USP-Gaussian: Unifying Spike-based Image Reconstruction, Pose Correction and Gaussian Splatting
- CVPR 2025Variance-Based Membership Inference Attacks Against Large-Scale Image Captioning Models
- CVPR 2025VDocRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation over Visually-Rich Documents
- CVPR 2025VerbDiff: Text-Only Diffusion Models with Enhanced Interaction Awareness
- CVPR 2025ViiNeuS: Volumetric Initialization for Implicit Neural Surface Reconstruction of Urban Scenes with Limited Image Overlap
- CVPR 2025VIRES: Video Instance Repainting via Sketch and Text Guided Generation
- CVPR 2025Visual Lexicon: Rich Image Features in Language Space
- CVPR 2025Visual Representation Learning through Causal Intervention for Controllable Image Editing
- CVPR 2025Visual-Instructed Degradation Diffusion for All-in-One Image Restoration
- CVPR 2025VLOGGER: Multimodal Diffusion for Embodied Avatar Synthesis
- CVPR 2025VODiff: Controlling Object Visibility Order in Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2025VolFormer: Explore More Comprehensive Cube Interaction for Hyperspectral Image Restoration and Beyond
- CVPR 2025Watermarking One for All: A Robust Watermarking Scheme Against Partial Image Theft
- CVPR 2025What's in the Image? A Deep-Dive into the Vision of Vision Language Models
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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.