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

1,721 papers, page 14 of 35

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