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
780 papers, page 15 of 16
- NeurIPS 2023M$^{2}$SODAI: Multi-Modal Maritime Object Detection Dataset With RGB and Hyperspectral Image Sensors
- NeurIPS 2023MagicBrush: A Manually Annotated Dataset for Instruction-Guided Image Editing
- NeurIPS 2023Michelangelo: Conditional 3D Shape Generation based on Shape-Image-Text Aligned Latent Representation
- NeurIPS 2023Monitor-Guided Decoding of Code LMs with Static Analysis of Repository Context
- NeurIPS 2023MotionGPT: Human Motion as a Foreign Language
- NeurIPS 2023Multi-resolution Spectral Coherence for Graph Generation with Score-based Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2023MultiFusion: Fusing Pre-Trained Models for Multi-Lingual, Multi-Modal Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2023Multimodal C4: An Open, Billion-scale Corpus of Images Interleaved with Text
- NeurIPS 2023MVDiffusion: Enabling Holistic Multi-view Image Generation with Correspondence-Aware Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2023NAVI: Category-Agnostic Image Collections with High-Quality 3D Shape and Pose Annotations
- NeurIPS 2023Nearest Neighbour with Bandit Feedback
- NeurIPS 2023Networks are Slacking Off: Understanding Generalization Problem in Image Deraining
- NeurIPS 2023Neural Image Compression: Generalization, Robustness, and Spectral Biases
- NeurIPS 2023NICE: NoIse-modulated Consistency rEgularization for Data-Efficient GANs
- NeurIPS 2023NIS3D: A Completely Annotated Benchmark for Dense 3D Nuclei Image Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2023Norm-guided latent space exploration for text-to-image generation
- NeurIPS 2023OBELICS: An Open Web-Scale Filtered Dataset of Interleaved Image-Text Documents
- NeurIPS 2023One-2-3-45: Any Single Image to 3D Mesh in 45 Seconds without Per-Shape Optimization
- NeurIPS 2023Optimal Transport-Guided Conditional Score-Based Diffusion Model
- NeurIPS 2023Optimizing Prompts for Text-to-Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2023PanoGen: Text-Conditioned Panoramic Environment Generation for Vision-and-Language Navigation
- NeurIPS 2023PanoGRF: Generalizable Spherical Radiance Fields for Wide-baseline Panoramas
- NeurIPS 2023PGDiff: Guiding Diffusion Models for Versatile Face Restoration via Partial Guidance
- NeurIPS 2023PHOTOSWAP: Personalized Subject Swapping in Images
- NeurIPS 2023Pick-a-Pic: An Open Dataset of User Preferences for Text-to-Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2023PLANNER: Generating Diversified Paragraph via Latent Language Diffusion Model
- NeurIPS 2023Point Cloud Completion with Pretrained Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023ProlificDreamer: High-Fidelity and Diverse Text-to-3D Generation with Variational Score Distillation
- NeurIPS 2023PromptIR: Prompting for All-in-One Image Restoration
- NeurIPS 2023PromptRestorer: A Prompting Image Restoration Method with Degradation Perception
- NeurIPS 2023PUCA: Patch-Unshuffle and Channel Attention for Enhanced Self-Supervised Image Denoising
- NeurIPS 2023Q-DM: An Efficient Low-bit Quantized Diffusion Model
- NeurIPS 2023Quilt-1M: One Million Image-Text Pairs for Histopathology
- NeurIPS 2023RAPHAEL: Text-to-Image Generation via Large Mixture of Diffusion Paths
- NeurIPS 2023Real-World Image Variation by Aligning Diffusion Inversion Chain
- NeurIPS 2023Recaptured Raw Screen Image and Video Demoiréing via Channel and Spatial Modulations
- NeurIPS 2023Reconstructing the Mind's Eye: fMRI-to-Image with Contrastive Learning and Diffusion Priors
- NeurIPS 2023Reproducibility Study of ”CartoonX: Cartoon Explanations of Image Classifiers”
- NeurIPS 2023Reproducibility Study of “Quantifying Societal Bias Amplification in Image Captioning”
- NeurIPS 2023ResShift: Efficient Diffusion Model for Image Super-resolution by Residual Shifting
- NeurIPS 2023Revisiting the Evaluation of Image Synthesis with GANs
- NeurIPS 2023Rubik's Cube: High-Order Channel Interactions with a Hierarchical Receptive Field
- NeurIPS 2023Scalable 3D Captioning with Pretrained Models
- NeurIPS 2023SceneScape: Text-Driven Consistent Scene Generation
- NeurIPS 2023SEGA: Instructing Text-to-Image Models using Semantic Guidance
- NeurIPS 2023Semantic Image Synthesis with Unconditional Generator
- NeurIPS 2023SnapFusion: Text-to-Image Diffusion Model on Mobile Devices within Two Seconds
- NeurIPS 2023Spatio-Angular Convolutions for Super-resolution in Diffusion MRI
- NeurIPS 2023SpokenWOZ: A Large-Scale Speech-Text Benchmark for Spoken Task-Oriented Dialogue Agents
- NeurIPS 2023Stable Bias: Evaluating Societal Representations in Diffusion Models
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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.