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
944 papers, page 12 of 19
- ICLR 2025PathGen-1.6M: 1.6 Million Pathology Image-text Pairs Generation through Multi-agent Collaboration
- ICLR 2025Periodic Materials Generation using Text-Guided Joint Diffusion Model
- ICLR 2025Phidias: A Generative Model for Creating 3D Content from Text, Image, and 3D Conditions with Reference-Augmented Diffusion
- ICLR 2025PivotMesh: Generic 3D Mesh Generation via Pivot Vertices Guidance
- ICLR 2025PixWizard: Versatile Image-to-Image Visual Assistant with Open-Language Instructions
- ICLR 2025PnP-Flow: Plug-and-Play Image Restoration with Flow Matching
- ICLR 2025Positive-Unlabeled Diffusion Models for Preventing Sensitive Data Generation
- ICLR 2025Precise Parameter Localization for Textual Generation in Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Probabilistic Language-Image Pre-Training
- ICLR 2025Progressive Compositionality in Text-to-Image Generative Models
- ICLR 2025ProtPainter: Draw or Drag Protein via Topology-guided Diffusion
- ICLR 2025PT-T2I/V: An Efficient Proxy-Tokenized Diffusion Transformer for Text-to-Image/Video-Task
- ICLR 2025Ranking-aware adapter for text-driven image ordering with CLIP
- ICLR 2025Rare-to-Frequent: Unlocking Compositional Generation Power of Diffusion Models on Rare Concepts with LLM Guidance
- ICLR 2025Real2Code: Reconstruct Articulated Objects via Code Generation
- ICLR 2025RecDreamer: Consistent Text-to-3D Generation via Uniform Score Distillation
- ICLR 2025Refine-by-Align: Reference-Guided Artifacts Refinement through Semantic Alignment
- ICLR 2025Reflexive Guidance: Improving OoDD in Vision-Language Models via Self-Guided Image-Adaptive Concept Generation
- ICLR 2025Representation Alignment for Generation: Training Diffusion Transformers Is Easier Than You Think
- ICLR 2025Resolution Attack: Exploiting Image Compression to Deceive Deep Neural Networks
- ICLR 2025Rethinking Artistic Copyright Infringements In the Era Of Text-to-Image Generative Models
- ICLR 2025Revisit Large-Scale Image-Caption Data in Pre-training Multimodal Foundation Models
- ICLR 2025RGB-Event ISP: The Dataset and Benchmark
- ICLR 2025Robust Watermarking Using Generative Priors Against Image Editing: From Benchmarking to Advances
- ICLR 2025SAFREE: Training-Free and Adaptive Guard for Safe Text-to-Image And Video Generation
- ICLR 2025Salvage: Shapley-distribution Approximation Learning Via Attribution Guided Exploration for Explainable Image Classification
- ICLR 2025SANA: Efficient High-Resolution Text-to-Image Synthesis with Linear Diffusion Transformers
- ICLR 2025Scaling up Masked Diffusion Models on Text
- ICLR 2025ScImage: How good are multimodal large language models at scientific text-to-image generation?
- ICLR 2025SCOPE: A Self-supervised Framework for Improving Faithfulness in Conditional Text Generation
- ICLR 2025See It from My Perspective: How Language Affects Cultural Bias in Image Understanding
- ICLR 2025SG-I2V: Self-Guided Trajectory Control in Image-to-Video Generation
- ICLR 2025Should VLMs be Pre-trained with Image Data?
- ICLR 2025Show-o: One Single Transformer to Unify Multimodal Understanding and Generation
- ICLR 2025SINGAPO: Single Image Controlled Generation of Articulated Parts in Objects
- ICLR 2025Sitcom-Crafter: A Plot-Driven Human Motion Generation System in 3D Scenes
- ICLR 2025Slot-Guided Adaptation of Pre-trained Diffusion Models for Object-Centric Learning and Compositional Generation
- ICLR 2025Solving Video Inverse Problems Using Image Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025StochSync: Stochastic Diffusion Synchronization for Image Generation in Arbitrary Spaces
- ICLR 2025Storybooth: Training-Free Multi-Subject Consistency for Improved Visual Storytelling
- ICLR 2025SymDiff: Equivariant Diffusion via Stochastic Symmetrisation
- ICLR 2025SynCamMaster: Synchronizing Multi-Camera Video Generation from Diverse Viewpoints
- ICLR 2025SynFlowNet: Design of Diverse and Novel Molecules with Synthesis Constraints
- ICLR 2025Temporal Heterogeneous Graph Generation with Privacy, Utility, and Efficiency
- ICLR 2025Text-to-Image Rectified Flow as Plug-and-Play Priors
- ICLR 2025Text4Seg: Reimagining Image Segmentation as Text Generation
- ICLR 2025The Hyperfitting Phenomenon: Sharpening and Stabilizing LLMs for Open-Ended Text Generation
- ICLR 2025The Superposition of Diffusion Models Using the Itô Density Estimator
- ICLR 2025TIGeR: Unifying Text-to-Image Generation and Retrieval with Large Multimodal Models
- ICLR 2025TIPS: Text-Image Pretraining with Spatial awareness
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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.