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

944 papers, page 15 of 19

701. ICLR 2024Federated Text-driven Prompt Generation for Vision-Language Models
702. ICLR 2024Few-shot Hybrid Domain Adaptation of Image Generator
703. ICLR 2024Finetuning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Fairness
704. ICLR 2024FreeReg: Image-to-Point Cloud Registration Leveraging Pretrained Diffusion Models and Monocular Depth Estimators
705. ICLR 2024Frequency-Aware Transformer for Learned Image Compression
706. ICLR 2024From Posterior Sampling to Meaningful Diversity in Image Restoration
707. ICLR 2024GAIA: Zero-shot Talking Avatar Generation
708. ICLR 2024GeoDiffusion: Text-Prompted Geometric Control for Object Detection Data Generation
709. ICLR 2024Get What You Want, Not What You Don't: Image Content Suppression for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
710. ICLR 2024GIM: Learning Generalizable Image Matcher From Internet Videos
711. ICLR 2024GPAvatar: Generalizable and Precise Head Avatar from Image(s)
712. ICLR 2024Graph Generation with $K^2$-trees
713. ICLR 2024Guiding Instruction-based Image Editing via Multimodal Large Language Models
714. ICLR 2024HIFA: High-fidelity Text-to-3D Generation with Advanced Diffusion Guidance
715. ICLR 2024Hybrid Distillation: Connecting Masked Autoencoders with Contrastive Learners
716. ICLR 2024HyperHuman: Hyper-Realistic Human Generation with Latent Structural Diffusion
717. ICLR 2024Idempotence and Perceptual Image Compression
718. ICLR 2024Image Background Serves as Good Proxy for Out-of-distribution Data
719. ICLR 2024Image Clustering Conditioned on Text Criteria
720. ICLR 2024Image Clustering via the Principle of Rate Reduction in the Age of Pretrained Models
721. ICLR 2024Image Inpainting via Iteratively Decoupled Probabilistic Modeling
722. ICLR 2024Image Inpainting via Tractable Steering of Diffusion Models
723. ICLR 2024Image Translation as Diffusion Visual Programmers
724. ICLR 2024Image2Sentence based Asymmetrical Zero-shot Composed Image Retrieval
725. ICLR 2024ImagenHub: Standardizing the evaluation of conditional image generation models
726. ICLR 2024Improved Probabilistic Image-Text Representations
727. ICLR 2024IMPUS: Image Morphing with Perceptually-Uniform Sampling Using Diffusion Models
728. ICLR 2024InstaFlow: One Step is Enough for High-Quality Diffusion-Based Text-to-Image Generation
729. ICLR 2024Instant3D: Fast Text-to-3D with Sparse-view Generation and Large Reconstruction Model
730. ICLR 2024InstructCV: Instruction-Tuned Text-to-Image Diffusion Models as Vision Generalists
731. ICLR 2024Interpretable Diffusion via Information Decomposition
732. ICLR 2024Interpreting CLIP's Image Representation via Text-Based Decomposition
733. ICLR 2024IRAD: Implicit Representation-driven Image Resampling against Adversarial Attacks
734. ICLR 2024Is Self-Repair a Silver Bullet for Code Generation?
735. ICLR 2024Jointly Training Large Autoregressive Multimodal Models
736. ICLR 2024JointNet: Extending Text-to-Image Diffusion for Dense Distribution Modeling
737. ICLR 2024Kosmos-G: Generating Images in Context with Multimodal Large Language Models
738. ICLR 2024L2MAC: Large Language Model Automatic Computer for Extensive Code Generation
739. ICLR 2024Language Model Beats Diffusion - Tokenizer is key to visual generation
740. ICLR 2024Language-Informed Visual Concept Learning
741. ICLR 2024Large-Vocabulary 3D Diffusion Model with Transformer
742. ICLR 2024LayoutNUWA: Revealing the Hidden Layout Expertise of Large Language Models
743. ICLR 2024Learning Hierarchical Image Segmentation For Recognition and By Recognition
744. ICLR 2024Less is More: Fewer Interpretable Region via Submodular Subset Selection
745. ICLR 2024Let 2D Diffusion Model Know 3D-Consistency for Robust Text-to-3D Generation
746. ICLR 2024Lipschitz Singularities in Diffusion Models
747. ICLR 2024LLM Blueprint: Enabling Text-to-Image Generation with Complex and Detailed Prompts
748. ICLR 2024LLM-CXR: Instruction-Finetuned LLM for CXR Image Understanding and Generation
749. ICLR 2024LLM-grounded Video Diffusion Models
750. ICLR 2024Localizing and Editing Knowledge In Text-to-Image Generative Models

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.