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
1,371 papers, page 12 of 28
- NeurIPS 2025DNAEdit: Direct Noise Alignment for Text-Guided Rectified Flow Editing
- NeurIPS 2025Domain-RAG: Retrieval-Guided Compositional Image Generation for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Object Detection
- NeurIPS 2025Don’t Let It Fade: Preserving Edits in Diffusion Language Models via Token Timestep Allocation
- NeurIPS 2025DP²O-SR: Direct Perceptual Preference Optimization for Real-World Image Super-Resolution
- NeurIPS 2025DreamLight: Towards Harmonious and Consistent Image Relighting
- NeurIPS 2025Dual Data Alignment Makes AI-Generated Image Detector Easier Generalizable
- NeurIPS 2025DualCnst: Enhancing Zero-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection via Text-Image Consistency in Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025EchoShot: Multi-Shot Portrait Video Generation
- NeurIPS 2025EditInfinity: Image Editing with Binary-Quantized Generative Models
- NeurIPS 2025EF-3DGS: Event-Aided Free-Trajectory 3D Gaussian Splatting
- NeurIPS 2025Efficient Part-level 3D Object Generation via Dual Volume Packing
- NeurIPS 2025Efficient RAW Image Deblurring with Adaptive Frequency Modulation
- NeurIPS 2025Efficient Rectified Flow for Image Fusion
- NeurIPS 2025Enabling Instructional Image Editing with In-Context Generation in Large Scale Diffusion Transformer
- NeurIPS 2025End-to-End Vision Tokenizer Tuning
- NeurIPS 2025Enhancing Consistency of Flow-Based Image Editing through Kalman Control
- NeurIPS 2025Enhancing Text-to-Image Diffusion Transformer via Split-Text Conditioning
- NeurIPS 2025Entropy Rectifying Guidance for Diffusion and Flow Models
- NeurIPS 2025EnzyControl: Adding Functional and Substrate-Specific Control for Enzyme Backbone Generation
- NeurIPS 2025EraseFlow: Learning Concept Erasure Policies via GFlowNet-Driven Alignment
- NeurIPS 2025EVODiff: Entropy-aware Variance Optimized Diffusion Inference
- NeurIPS 2025Exploring Diffusion Transformer Designs via Grafting
- NeurIPS 2025FairImagen: Post-Processing for Bias Mitigation in Text-to-Image Models
- NeurIPS 2025Fast constrained sampling in pre-trained diffusion models
- NeurIPS 2025Fast Data Attribution for Text-to-Image Models
- NeurIPS 2025Feedback Guidance of Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2025FerretNet: Efficient Synthetic Image Detection via Local Pixel Dependencies
- NeurIPS 2025FineGRAIN: Evaluating Failure Modes of Text-to-Image Models with Vision Language Model Judges
- NeurIPS 2025FIPER: Factorized Features for Robust Image Super-Resolution and Compression
- NeurIPS 2025FlareX: A Physics-Informed Dataset for Lens Flare Removal via 2D Synthesis and 3D Rendering
- NeurIPS 2025FlashMo: Geometric Interpolants and Frequency-Aware Sparsity for Scalable Efficient Motion Generation
- NeurIPS 2025Flexible MOF Generation with Torsion-Aware Flow Matching
- NeurIPS 2025FlexVAR: Flexible Visual Autoregressive Modeling without Residual Prediction
- NeurIPS 2025Flow-GRPO: Training Flow Matching Models via Online RL
- NeurIPS 2025FlowMo: Variance-Based Flow Guidance for Coherent Motion in Video Generation
- NeurIPS 2025Foresight: Adaptive Layer Reuse for Accelerated and High-Quality Text-to-Video Generation
- NeurIPS 2025ForgerySleuth: Empowering Multimodal Large Language Models for Image Manipulation Detection
- NeurIPS 2025Foundation Cures Personalization: Improving Personalized Models’ Prompt Consistency via Hidden Foundation Knowledge
- NeurIPS 2025Fourier Token Merging: Understanding and Capitalizing Frequency Domain for Efficient Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2025Frame In-N-Out: Unbounded Controllable Image-to-Video Generation
- NeurIPS 2025Free-Lunch Color-Texture Disentanglement for Stylized Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2025FreeControl: Efficient, Training-Free Structural Control via One-Step Attention Extraction
- NeurIPS 2025FRN: Fractal-Based Recursive Spectral Reconstruction Network
- NeurIPS 2025From Programs to Poses: Factored Real-World Scene Generation via Learned Program Libraries
- NeurIPS 2025FSI-Edit: Frequency and Stochasticity Injection for Flexible Diffusion-Based Image Editing
- NeurIPS 2025FuncGenFoil: Airfoil Generation and Editing Model in Function Space
- NeurIPS 2025Fused View-Time Attention and Feedforward Reconstruction for 4D Scene Generation
- NeurIPS 2025GauSAM: Contour‑Guided 2D Gaussian Fields for Multi‑Scale Medical Image Segmentation with Segment Anything
- NeurIPS 2025Generating and Checking DNN Verification Proofs
- NeurIPS 2025Generating Physically Sound Designs from Text and a Set of Physical Constraints
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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.