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

780 papers, page 14 of 16

651. NeurIPS 2023DELIFFAS: Deformable Light Fields for Fast Avatar Synthesis
652. NeurIPS 2023DiffInfinite: Large Mask-Image Synthesis via Parallel Random Patch Diffusion in Histopathology
653. NeurIPS 2023DiffSketcher: Text Guided Vector Sketch Synthesis through Latent Diffusion Models
654. NeurIPS 2023DiffTraj: Generating GPS Trajectory with Diffusion Probabilistic Model
655. NeurIPS 2023Diffusion Models and Semi-Supervised Learners Benefit Mutually with Few Labels
656. NeurIPS 2023Diffusion Self-Guidance for Controllable Image Generation
657. NeurIPS 2023Diffusion-Based Adversarial Sample Generation for Improved Stealthiness and Controllability
658. NeurIPS 2023Divide, Evaluate, and Refine: Evaluating and Improving Text-to-Image Alignment with Iterative VQA Feedback
659. NeurIPS 2023Dream the Impossible: Outlier Imagination with Diffusion Models
660. NeurIPS 2023DreamHuman: Animatable 3D Avatars from Text
661. NeurIPS 2023DreamSparse: Escaping from Plato’s Cave with 2D Diffusion Model Given Sparse Views
662. NeurIPS 2023Efficient Neural Music Generation
663. NeurIPS 2023Emergent Correspondence from Image Diffusion
664. NeurIPS 2023Energy-Based Cross Attention for Bayesian Context Update in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
665. NeurIPS 2023Enhancing Minority Classes by Mixing: An Adaptative Optimal Transport Approach for Long-tailed Classification
666. NeurIPS 2023FACE: Evaluating Natural Language Generation with Fourier Analysis of Cross-Entropy
667. NeurIPS 2023FaceComposer: A Unified Model for Versatile Facial Content Creation
668. NeurIPS 2023FETV: A Benchmark for Fine-Grained Evaluation of Open-Domain Text-to-Video Generation
669. NeurIPS 2023FGPrompt: Fine-grained Goal Prompting for Image-goal Navigation
670. NeurIPS 2023FineMoGen: Fine-Grained Spatio-Temporal Motion Generation and Editing
671. NeurIPS 2023FORB: A Flat Object Retrieval Benchmark for Universal Image Embedding
672. NeurIPS 2023FouriDown: Factoring Down-Sampling into Shuffling and Superposing
673. NeurIPS 2023Functional-Group-Based Diffusion for Pocket-Specific Molecule Generation and Elaboration
674. NeurIPS 2023GenEval: An object-focused framework for evaluating text-to-image alignment
675. NeurIPS 2023GeoCLIP: Clip-Inspired Alignment between Locations and Images for Effective Worldwide Geo-localization
676. NeurIPS 2023GLOBER: Coherent Non-autoregressive Video Generation via GLOBal Guided Video DecodER
677. NeurIPS 2023GlyphControl: Glyph Conditional Control for Visual Text Generation
678. NeurIPS 2023Greatness in Simplicity: Unified Self-Cycle Consistency for Parser-Free Virtual Try-On
679. NeurIPS 2023HAP: Structure-Aware Masked Image Modeling for Human-Centric Perception
680. NeurIPS 2023Hardware Resilience Properties of Text-Guided Image Classifiers
681. NeurIPS 2023Hierarchical Open-vocabulary Universal Image Segmentation
682. NeurIPS 2023Holistic Evaluation of Text-to-Image Models
683. NeurIPS 2023Idempotent Learned Image Compression with Right-Inverse
684. NeurIPS 2023ImageBrush: Learning Visual In-Context Instructions for Exemplar-Based Image Manipulation
685. NeurIPS 2023ImageNet-Hard: The Hardest Images Remaining from a Study of the Power of Zoom and Spatial Biases in Image Classification
686. NeurIPS 2023ImageReward: Learning and Evaluating Human Preferences for Text-to-Image Generation
687. NeurIPS 2023Imagine That! Abstract-to-Intricate Text-to-Image Synthesis with Scene Graph Hallucination Diffusion
688. NeurIPS 2023IMPRESS: Evaluating the Resilience of Imperceptible Perturbations Against Unauthorized Data Usage in Diffusion-Based Generative AI
689. NeurIPS 2023Improving Diffusion-Based Image Synthesis with Context Prediction
690. NeurIPS 2023Inserting Anybody in Diffusion Models via Celeb Basis
691. NeurIPS 2023Is This Loss Informative? Faster Text-to-Image Customization by Tracking Objective Dynamics
692. NeurIPS 2023JourneyDB: A Benchmark for Generative Image Understanding
693. NeurIPS 2023Language Quantized AutoEncoders: Towards Unsupervised Text-Image Alignment
694. NeurIPS 2023LayoutGPT: Compositional Visual Planning and Generation with Large Language Models
695. NeurIPS 2023Learning Modulated Transformation in GANs
696. NeurIPS 2023Learning Universal Policies via Text-Guided Video Generation
697. NeurIPS 2023Leveraging Early-Stage Robustness in Diffusion Models for Efficient and High-Quality Image Synthesis
698. NeurIPS 2023Lift Yourself Up: Retrieval-augmented Text Generation with Self-Memory
699. NeurIPS 2023LLMScore: Unveiling the Power of Large Language Models in Text-to-Image Synthesis Evaluation
700. NeurIPS 2023LuminAIRe: Illumination-Aware Conditional Image Repainting for Lighting-Realistic 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.