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

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551. ICML 2023DS-1000: A Natural and Reliable Benchmark for Data Science Code Generation
552. ICML 2023Evidential Interactive Learning for Medical Image Captioning
553. ICML 2023Exploring Chemical Space with Score-based Out-of-distribution Generation
554. ICML 2023Extrapolative Controlled Sequence Generation via Iterative Refinement
555. ICML 2023Fourmer: An Efficient Global Modeling Paradigm for Image Restoration
556. ICML 2023Geometric Latent Diffusion Models for 3D Molecule Generation
557. ICML 2023Hierarchical Neural Coding for Controllable CAD Model Generation
558. ICML 2023Hyperbolic Image-text Representations
559. ICML 2023I$^2$SB: Image-to-Image Schrödinger Bridge
560. ICML 2023Identifying Interpretable Subspaces in Image Representations
561. ICML 2023Image generation with shortest path diffusion
562. ICML 2023Image Restoration with Mean-Reverting Stochastic Differential Equations
563. ICML 2023Image Shortcut Squeezing: Countering Perturbative Availability Poisons with Compression
564. ICML 2023Improving Statistical Fidelity for Neural Image Compression with Implicit Local Likelihood Models
565. ICML 2023IRNeXt: Rethinking Convolutional Network Design for Image Restoration
566. ICML 2023Loss-Guided Diffusion Models for Plug-and-Play Controllable Generation
567. ICML 2023MolDiff: Addressing the Atom-Bond Inconsistency Problem in 3D Molecule Diffusion Generation
568. ICML 2023MonoNeRF: Learning Generalizable NeRFs from Monocular Videos without Camera Poses
569. ICML 2023mPLUG-2: A Modularized Multi-modal Foundation Model Across Text, Image and Video
570. ICML 2023MultiDiffusion: Fusing Diffusion Paths for Controlled Image Generation
571. ICML 2023Muse: Text-To-Image Generation via Masked Generative Transformers
572. ICML 2023NerfDiff: Single-image View Synthesis with NeRF-guided Distillation from 3D-aware Diffusion
573. ICML 2023Nonlinear Advantage: Trained Networks Might Not Be As Complex as You Think
574. ICML 2023Nugget: Neural Agglomerative Embeddings of Text
575. ICML 2023On the Effectiveness of Offline RL for Dialogue Response Generation
576. ICML 2023Open-Vocabulary Universal Image Segmentation with MaskCLIP
577. ICML 2023OpenFE: Automated Feature Generation with Expert-level Performance
578. ICML 2023Outline, Then Details: Syntactically Guided Coarse-To-Fine Code Generation
579. ICML 2023PLay: Parametrically Conditioned Layout Generation using Latent Diffusion
580. ICML 2023Private Statistical Estimation of Many Quantiles
581. ICML 2023Protecting Language Generation Models via Invisible Watermarking
582. ICML 2023Raising the Cost of Malicious AI-Powered Image Editing
583. ICML 2023Random Shuffle Transformer for Image Restoration
584. ICML 2023Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Compositional Generation with Energy-Based Diffusion Models and MCMC
585. ICML 2023Repository-Level Prompt Generation for Large Language Models of Code
586. ICML 2023RLEG: Vision-Language Representation Learning with Diffusion-based Embedding Generation
587. ICML 2023Robust One-Class Classification with Signed Distance Function using 1-Lipschitz Neural Networks
588. ICML 2023Scalable Adaptive Computation for Iterative Generation
589. ICML 2023SDDM: Score-Decomposed Diffusion Models on Manifolds for Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation
590. ICML 2023SE(3) diffusion model with application to protein backbone generation
591. ICML 2023Semi-Offline Reinforcement Learning for Optimized Text Generation
592. ICML 2023simple diffusion: End-to-end diffusion for high resolution images
593. ICML 2023SinDDM: A Single Image Denoising Diffusion Model
594. ICML 2023Slot-VAE: Object-Centric Scene Generation with Slot Attention
595. ICML 2023Stein Variational Goal Generation for adaptive Exploration in Multi-Goal Reinforcement Learning
596. ICML 2023StyleGAN-T: Unlocking the Power of GANs for Fast Large-Scale Text-to-Image Synthesis
597. ICML 2023Surface Snapping Optimization Layer for Single Image Object Shape Reconstruction
598. ICML 2023Text Generation with Diffusion Language Models: A Pre-training Approach with Continuous Paragraph Denoise
599. ICML 2023Text-To-4D Dynamic Scene Generation
600. ICML 2023Topologically Faithful Image Segmentation via Induced Matching of Persistence Barcodes

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.