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

1,371 papers, page 14 of 28

651. NeurIPS 2025LEDiT: Your Length-Extrapolatable Diffusion Transformer without Positional Encoding
652. NeurIPS 2025LeMiCa: Lexicographic Minimax Path Caching for Efficient Diffusion-Based Video Generation
653. NeurIPS 2025LightFair: Towards an Efficient Alternative for Fair T2I Diffusion via Debiasing Pre-trained Text Encoders
654. NeurIPS 2025Limited Preference Data? Learning Better Reward Model with Latent Space Synthesis
655. NeurIPS 2025LinEAS: End-to-end Learning of Activation Steering with a Distributional Loss
656. NeurIPS 2025LLM Meets Diffusion: A Hybrid Framework for Crystal Material Generation
657. NeurIPS 2025LMFusion: Adapting Pretrained Language Models for Multimodal Generation
658. NeurIPS 2025Locality in Image Diffusion Models Emerges from Data Statistics
659. NeurIPS 2025LocDiff: Identifying Locations on Earth by Diffusing in the Hilbert Space
660. NeurIPS 2025LoRAShop: Training-Free Multi-Concept Image Generation and Editing with Rectified Flow Transformers
661. NeurIPS 2025Low-Rank Head Avatar Personalization with Registers
662. NeurIPS 2025Machine Unlearning in 3D Generation: A Perspective-Coherent Acceleration Framework
663. NeurIPS 2025MaintainCoder: Maintainable Code Generation Under Dynamic Requirements
664. NeurIPS 2025Mask Image Watermarking
665. NeurIPS 2025MEIcoder: Decoding Visual Stimuli from Neural Activity by Leveraging Most Exciting Inputs
666. NeurIPS 2025Memory-Efficient Visual Autoregressive Modeling with Scale-Aware KV Cache Compression
667. NeurIPS 2025MesaTask: Towards Task-Driven Tabletop Scene Generation via 3D Spatial Reasoning
668. NeurIPS 2025Mesh-RFT: Enhancing Mesh Generation via Fine-grained Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
669. NeurIPS 2025MeshCoder: LLM-Powered Structured Mesh Code Generation from Point Clouds
670. NeurIPS 2025MetaDefense: Defending Fine-tuning based Jailbreak Attack Before and During Generation
671. NeurIPS 2025MGE-LDM: Joint Latent Diffusion for Simultaneous Music Generation and Source Extraction
672. NeurIPS 2025Mind-the-Glitch: Visual Correspondence for Detecting Inconsistencies in Subject-Driven Generation
673. NeurIPS 2025Mitigating Occlusions in Virtual Try-On via A Simple-Yet-Effective Mask-Free Framework
674. NeurIPS 2025Mitigating Sexual Content Generation via Embedding Distortion in Text-conditioned Diffusion Models
675. NeurIPS 2025Mixture of Inputs: Text Generation Beyond Discrete Token Sampling
676. NeurIPS 2025MJ-Bench: Is Your Multimodal Reward Model Really a Good Judge for Text-to-Image Generation?
677. NeurIPS 2025MLEP: Multi-granularity Local Entropy Patterns for Generalized AI-generated Image Detection
678. NeurIPS 2025MMIG-Bench: Towards Comprehensive and Explainable Evaluation of Multi-Modal Image Generation Models
679. NeurIPS 2025MMMG: A Massive, Multidisciplinary, Multi-Tier Generation Benchmark for Text-to-Image Reasoning
680. NeurIPS 2025MobileODE: An Extra Lightweight Network
681. NeurIPS 2025MODEM: A Morton-Order Degradation Estimation Mechanism for Adverse Weather Image Recovery
682. NeurIPS 2025Moment- and Power-Spectrum-Based Gaussianity Regularization for Text-to-Image Models
683. NeurIPS 2025MoonCast: High-Quality Zero-Shot Podcast Generation
684. NeurIPS 2025More Than Generation: Unifying Generation and Depth Estimation via Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
685. NeurIPS 2025More Than Just Functional: LLM-as-a-Critique for Efficient Code Generation
686. NeurIPS 2025MotionBind: Multi-Modal Human Motion Alignment for Retrieval, Recognition, and Generation
687. NeurIPS 2025MotionRAG: Motion Retrieval-Augmented Image-to-Video Generation
688. NeurIPS 2025MSTAR: Box-free Multi-query Scene Text Retrieval with Attention Recycling
689. NeurIPS 2025MultiHuman-Testbench: Benchmarking Image Generation for Multiple Humans
690. NeurIPS 2025MV-CoLight: Efficient Object Compositing with Consistent Lighting and Shadow Generation
691. NeurIPS 2025Native-Resolution Image Synthesis
692. NeurIPS 2025‌Navigating the MIL Trade-Off: Flexible Pooling for Whole Slide Image Classification
693. NeurIPS 2025NEED: Cross-Subject and Cross-Task Generalization for Video and Image Reconstruction from EEG Signals
694. NeurIPS 2025Neither Valid nor Reliable? Investigating the Use of LLMs as Judges
695. NeurIPS 2025NEP: Autoregressive Image Editing via Next Editing Token Prediction
696. NeurIPS 2025Neptune-X: Active X-to-Maritime Generation for Universal Maritime Object Detection
697. NeurIPS 2025Neural-Driven Image Editing
698. NeurIPS 2025NFIG: Multi-Scale Autoregressive Image Generation via Frequency Ordering
699. NeurIPS 2025Noise Consistency Training: A Native Approach for One-step Generator in Learning Additional Controls
700. NeurIPS 2025Non-Adaptive Adversarial Face Generation

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.