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

1,467 papers, page 13 of 30

601. CVPR 2025WISE: A Framework for Gigapixel Whole-Slide-Image Lossless Compression
602. CVPR 2025WISNet: Pseudo Label Generation on Unbalanced and Patch Annotated Waste Images
603. CVPR 2025Wonderland: Navigating 3D Scenes from a Single Image
604. CVPR 2025WonderWorld: Interactive 3D Scene Generation from a Single Image
605. CVPR 2025X-Dyna: Expressive Dynamic Human Image Animation
606. CVPR 2025Yo'Chameleon: Personalized Vision and Language Generation
607. CVPR 2025Your ViT is Secretly an Image Segmentation Model
608. CVPR 2025Z-Magic: Zero-shot Multiple Attributes Guided Image Creator
609. CVPR 2025Zero-1-to-A: Zero-Shot One Image to Animatable Head Avatars Using Video Diffusion
610. CVPR 2025Zero-Shot Blind-spot Image Denoising via Implicit Neural Sampling
611. CVPR 2025Zero-Shot Styled Text Image Generation, but Make It Autoregressive
612. CVPR 2025ZoomLDM: Latent Diffusion Model for Multi-scale Image Generation
613. ICLR 2025$\text{I}^2\text{AM}$: Interpreting Image-to-Image Latent Diffusion Models via Bi-Attribution Maps
614. ICLR 20253DIS: Depth-Driven Decoupled Image Synthesis for Universal Multi-Instance Generation
615. ICLR 20253DTrajMaster: Mastering 3D Trajectory for Multi-Entity Motion in Video Generation
616. ICLR 20254K4DGen: Panoramic 4D Generation at 4K Resolution
617. ICLR 2025A General Framework for Producing Interpretable Semantic Text Embeddings
618. ICLR 2025A Non-Contrastive Learning Framework for Sequential Recommendation with Preference-Preserving Profile Generation
619. ICLR 2025A Periodic Bayesian Flow for Material Generation
620. ICLR 2025A Simple Approach to Unifying Diffusion-based Conditional Generation
621. ICLR 2025A Spark of Vision-Language Intelligence: 2-Dimensional Autoregressive Transformer for Efficient Finegrained Image Generation
622. ICLR 2025A Transfer Attack to Image Watermarks
623. ICLR 2025A-Bench: Are LMMs Masters at Evaluating AI-generated Images?
624. ICLR 2025A3D: Does Diffusion Dream about 3D Alignment?
625. ICLR 2025Accelerating 3D Molecule Generation via Jointly Geometric Optimal Transport
626. ICLR 2025Accelerating Auto-regressive Text-to-Image Generation with Training-free Speculative Jacobi Decoding
627. ICLR 2025Accelerating Diffusion Transformers with Token-wise Feature Caching
628. ICLR 2025ACE: All-round Creator and Editor Following Instructions via Diffusion Transformer
629. ICLR 2025AdaIR: Adaptive All-in-One Image Restoration via Frequency Mining and Modulation
630. ICLR 2025Adaptive Length Image Tokenization via Recurrent Allocation
631. ICLR 2025Advancing Graph Generation through Beta Diffusion
632. ICLR 2025AdvPaint: Protecting Images from Inpainting Manipulation via Adversarial Attention Disruption
633. ICLR 2025AFlow: Automating Agentic Workflow Generation
634. ICLR 2025Aligning Human Motion Generation with Human Perceptions
635. ICLR 2025An Image is Worth More Than 16x16 Patches: Exploring Transformers on Individual Pixels
636. ICLR 2025Animate-X: Universal Character Image Animation with Enhanced Motion Representation
637. ICLR 2025Anyprefer: An Agentic Framework for Preference Data Synthesis
638. ICLR 2025Atlas Gaussians Diffusion for 3D Generation
639. ICLR 2025Atomas: Hierarchical Adaptive Alignment on Molecule-Text for Unified Molecule Understanding and Generation
640. ICLR 2025Attribute-based Visual Reprogramming for Vision-Language Models
641. ICLR 2025AugKD: Ingenious Augmentations Empower Knowledge Distillation for Image Super-Resolution
642. ICLR 2025Automated Filtering of Human Feedback Data for Aligning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
643. ICLR 2025Autoregressive Video Generation without Vector Quantization
644. ICLR 2025Backdooring Vision-Language Models with Out-Of-Distribution Data
645. ICLR 2025Backtracking Improves Generation Safety
646. ICLR 2025Bayesian Image Regression with Soft-thresholded Conditional Autoregressive Prior
647. ICLR 2025Bayesian WeakS-to-Strong from Text Classification to Generation
648. ICLR 2025Be More Diverse than the Most Diverse: Optimal Mixtures of Generative Models via Mixture-UCB Bandit Algorithms
649. ICLR 2025BigCodeBench: Benchmarking Code Generation with Diverse Function Calls and Complex Instructions
650. ICLR 2025BiGR: Harnessing Binary Latent Codes for Image Generation and Improved Visual Representation Capabilities

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.