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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601. CVPR 2026The Image as Its Own Reward Reinforcement Learning with Adversarial
602. CVPR 2026The Missing Point in Vision Transformers for Universal Image Segmentation
603. CVPR 2026The Universal Normal Embedding
604. CVPR 2026TIM Temporal Decoupling with Iterative Mutual-Refinement Model for Longitudinal Radiology
605. CVPR 2026TINA Text-Free Inversion Attack for Unlearned Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
606. CVPR 2026TokenLight Precise Lighting Control in Images using Attribute Tokens
607. CVPR 2026TopoMesh High-Fidelity Mesh Autoencoding via Topological Unification
608. CVPR 2026TopoSlide Topologically-Informed Histopathology Whole Slide Image Representation Learning
609. CVPR 2026Toward Early Quality Assessment of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
610. CVPR 2026Toward Real-world Infrared Image Super-Resolution A Unified Autoregressive Framework and
611. CVPR 2026Towards Decompositional Human Motion Generation with Energy-Based Diffusion Models
612. CVPR 2026Towards Generalizable AI-Generated Image Detection via Image-Adaptive Prompt Learning
613. CVPR 2026Towards Generalized Multimodal Homography Estimation
614. CVPR 2026Towards High-Quality Image Segmentation Improving Topology Accuracy by Penalizing Neighbor
615. CVPR 2026Towards Highly-Constrained Human Motion Generation with Retrieval-Guided Diffusion Noise Optimization
616. CVPR 2026Towards Human-Imperceptible Backdoor Attacks on Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
617. CVPR 2026Towards Human-Like Robot Handwriting via Contour-Aware Generation
618. CVPR 2026Towards Policy-Adaptive Image Guardrail Benchmark and Method
619. CVPR 2026Towards Realistic and Consistent Orbital Video Generation via 3D Foundation
620. CVPR 2026Towards Robust Sequential Decomposition for Complex Image Editing
621. CVPR 2026Towards Storytelling Animations Joint Synthesis of Human and Camera Motions
622. CVPR 2026Towards Universal Computational Aberration Correction in Photographic Cameras A Comprehensive
623. CVPR 2026Tracking-Guided 4D Generation Foundation-Tracker Motion Priors for 3D Model Animation
624. CVPR 2026TrafficAlign Aligning Large Language Models for Traffic Scenario Generation
625. CVPR 2026Training-free Detection of Generated Videos via Spatial-Temporal Likelihoods
626. CVPR 2026Training-free Perceptually Consistent Low-Resolution Previews with High-Resolution Image for Efficient
627. CVPR 2026Training-Only Heterogeneous Image-Patch-Text Graph Supervision for Advancing Few-Shot Learning Adapters
628. CVPR 2026Transition Matching Distillation for Fast Video Generation
629. CVPR 2026Turning Pre-Trained Vision Transformers into End-to-End Histopathology Whole Slide Image
630. CVPR 2026TV2TV A Unified Framework for Interleaved Language and Video Generation
631. CVPR 2026UARE A Unified Vision-Language Model for Image Quality Assessment Restoration
632. CVPR 2026UCMNet Uncertainty-Aware Context Memory Network for Under-Display Camera Image Restoration
633. CVPR 2026Ultra-Low Bitrate Perceptual Image Compression with Shallow Encoder
634. CVPR 2026UltraFlux Data-Model Co-Design for High-quality Native 4K Text-to-Image Generation across
635. CVPR 2026Ultrasound-CLIP Semantic-Aware Contrastive Pre-training for Ultrasound Image-Text Understanding
636. CVPR 2026UNI-OOD Unified Object- and Image-level Out-of-Distribution Detection via Cross-Context Attentive
637. CVPR 2026UniCompress Token Compression for Unified Vision-Language Understanding and Generation
638. CVPR 2026UniDef Universal Defense Against Unauthorized Image Manipulation
639. CVPR 2026Unified Customized Generation by Disentangled Reward Modeling
640. CVPR 2026Unified Latent Space for Understanding and Generation via Semantic Auto-encoder
641. CVPR 2026Unified Multimodal Models as Auto-Encoders
642. CVPR 2026Unified Number-Free Text-to-Motion Generation Via Flow Matching
643. CVPR 2026Unified Vector Floorplan Generation via Markup Representation
644. CVPR 2026UniFusion A Unified Image Fusion Framework with Robust Representation and
645. CVPR 2026UniGen-1.5 Enhancing Image Generation and Editing through Reward Unification in
646. CVPR 2026UniGenDet A Unified Generative-Discriminative Framework for Co-Evolutionary Image Generation and
647. CVPR 2026UniLDiff Unlocking the Power of Diffusion Priors for All-in-One Image
648. CVPR 2026UniM A Unified Any-to-Any Interleaved Multimodal Benchmark
649. CVPR 2026UniPart Part-Level 3D Generation with Unified 3D Geom-Seg Latents
650. CVPR 2026UniRain Unified Image Deraining with RAG-based Dataset Distillation and Multi-objective

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.