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
5,184 papers, page 14 of 104
- CVPR 2026Universal Guideline-Driven Image Clustering via a Hybrid LLM Agent
- CVPR 2026UniVerse Empower Unified Generation with Reasoning and Knowledge
- CVPR 2026Unpaired Image Deraining Using Reward-Guided Self-Reinforcement Strategy
- CVPR 2026Unsafe2Safe Controllable Image Anonymization for Downstream Utility
- CVPR 2026VA-p Variational Policy Alignment for Pixel-Aware Autoregressive Generation
- CVPR 2026Vanast Virtual Try-On with Human Image Animation via Synthetic Triplet
- CVPR 2026VecGlypher Unified Vector Glyph Generation with Language Models
- CVPR 2026VectorArk Learning Practical Image Vectorization with Rounded Polygon Representation
- CVPR 2026VGG-T3 Offline Feed-Forward 3D Reconstruction at Scale
- CVPR 2026VIAFormer Voxel-Image Alignment Transformer for High-Fidelity Voxel Refinement
- CVPR 2026VibeToken Scaling 1D Image Tokenizers and Autoregressive Models for Dynamic
- CVPR 2026ViLearn Accelerating Training Convergence of Image-to-3D Generation via Visibility Learning
- CVPR 2026VINS-120K Ultra High-Resolution Image Editing with A Large-Scale Dataset
- CVPR 2026VisiLock Authorizing Instruction-based Image editing with Dual Score Distillation
- CVPR 2026VisionDirector Vision-Language Guided Closed-Loop Refinement for Generative Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2026VisionLeaf Entropy-Guided Leaf-First Reasoning for Efficient and Accurate Think-with-Image
- CVPR 2026VLIC Vision-Language Models As Perceptual Judges for Human-Aligned Image Compression
- CVPR 2026VOSR A Vision-Only Generative Model for Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2026VoxTell Free-Text Promptable Universal 3D Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2026VQRAE Representation Quantization Autoencoders for Multimodal Understanding Generation and Reconstruction
- CVPR 2026VVS Accelerating Speculative Decoding for Visual Autoregressive Generation via Partial
- CVPR 2026WaDi Weight Direction-aware Distillation for One-step Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2026Wan-Weaver Interleaved Multi-modal Generation via Decoupled Training
- CVPR 2026WEAVE Unleashing and Benchmarking the In-context Interleaved Comprehension and Generation
- CVPR 2026What Matters in Practical Learned Image Compression
- CVPR 2026When Anonymity Breaks Identifying Models Behind Text-to-Image Leaderboards
- CVPR 2026When LoRA Betrays Backdooring Text-to-Image Models by Masquerading as Benign
- CVPR 2026When Pretty Isnt Useful Investigating Why Modern Text-to-Image Models Fail
- CVPR 2026When Safety Collides Resolving Multi-Category Harmful Conflicts in Text-to-Image Diffusion
- CVPR 2026Where Culture Fades Revealing the Cultural Gap in Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2026Will Multimodal Models Be Dazzled by Multi-Image Visual Puzzles
- CVPR 2026WiseEdit Benchmarking Cognition- and Creativity-Informed Image Editing
- CVPR 2026WonderZoom Multi-Scale 3D World Generation
- CVPR 2026WorldGen From Text to Traversable and Interactive 3D Worlds
- CVPR 2026YoCity Personalized and Boundless 3D Realistic City Scene Generation via
- CVPR 2026Yume1.5 A Text-Controlled Interactive World Generation Model
- CVPR 2026Zero-Shot Image Denoising via Hybrid Prior-Guided Pseudo Sample Generation
- CVPR 2026ZeroIDIR Zero-Reference Illumination Degradation Image Restoration with Perturbed Consistency Diffusion
- CVPR 2026ZipMap Linear-Time Stateful 3D Reconstruction via Test-Time Training
- ICLR 2026$\textit{MADFormer}$: Mixed Autoregressive and Diffusion Transformers for Continuous Image Generation
- ICLR 2026$PhyWorldBench$: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Physical Realism in Text-to-Video Models
- ICLR 20263D Scene Prompting for Scene-Consistent Camera-Controllable Video Generation
- ICLR 2026A Bayesian Nonparametric Framework for Private, Fair, and Balanced Tabular Data Synthesis
- ICLR 2026A High Quality Dataset and Reliable Evaluation for Interleaved Image-Text Generation
- ICLR 2026A Noise is Worth Diffusion Guidance
- ICLR 2026A Scalable Distributed Framework for Multimodal GigaVoxel Image Registration
- ICLR 2026Accelerating Eigenvalue Dataset Generation via Chebyshev Subspace Filter
- ICLR 2026ACCORD: Alleviating Concept Coupling through Dependence Regularization for Text-to-Image Diffusion Personalization
- ICLR 2026AdaCache: Adaptive Caching and Context Augmentation for Efficient LLM Serving
- ICLR 2026Adapting Self-Supervised Representations as a Latent Space for Efficient Generation
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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.