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
1,216 papers, page 15 of 25
- ICLR 2024Provable Robust Watermarking for AI-Generated Text
- ICLR 2024R&B: Region and Boundary Aware Zero-shot Grounded Text-to-image Generation
- ICLR 2024Real-Fake: Effective Training Data Synthesis Through Distribution Matching
- ICLR 2024Real3D-Portrait: One-shot Realistic 3D Talking Portrait Synthesis
- ICLR 2024Recursive Generalization Transformer for Image Super-Resolution
- ICLR 2024Relay Diffusion: Unifying diffusion process across resolutions for image synthesis
- ICLR 2024Ring-A-Bell! How Reliable are Concept Removal Methods For Diffusion Models?
- ICLR 2024Role of Locality and Weight Sharing in Image-Based Tasks: A Sample Complexity Separation between CNNs, LCNs, and FCNs
- ICLR 2024Safe and Robust Watermark Injection with a Single OoD Image
- ICLR 2024SalUn: Empowering Machine Unlearning via Gradient-based Weight Saliency in Both Image Classification and Generation
- ICLR 2024ScaleCrafter: Tuning-free Higher-Resolution Visual Generation with Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2024SDXL: Improving Latent Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Image Synthesis
- ICLR 2024SE(3)-Stochastic Flow Matching for Protein Backbone Generation
- ICLR 2024Seer: Language Instructed Video Prediction with Latent Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2024SEINE: Short-to-Long Video Diffusion Model for Generative Transition and Prediction
- ICLR 2024Sentence-level Prompts Benefit Composed Image Retrieval
- ICLR 2024Sin3DM: Learning a Diffusion Model from a Single 3D Textured Shape
- ICLR 2024SLiMe: Segment Like Me
- ICLR 2024Solving Diffusion ODEs with Optimal Boundary Conditions for Better Image Super-Resolution
- ICLR 2024Source-Free and Image-Only Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Category Level Object Pose Estimation
- ICLR 2024Space Group Constrained Crystal Generation
- ICLR 2024Spatio-Temporal Few-Shot Learning via Diffusive Neural Network Generation
- ICLR 2024SyncDreamer: Generating Multiview-consistent Images from a Single-view Image
- ICLR 2024T-MARS: Improving Visual Representations by Circumventing Text Feature Learning
- ICLR 2024Tag2Text: Guiding Vision-Language Model via Image Tagging
- ICLR 2024TapMo: Shape-aware Motion Generation of Skeleton-free Characters
- ICLR 2024TextField3D: Towards Enhancing Open-Vocabulary 3D Generation with Noisy Text Fields
- ICLR 2024The Consensus Game: Language Model Generation via Equilibrium Search
- ICLR 2024The Hidden Language of Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2024The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Linear Prediction as a Perceptual Metric
- ICLR 2024TokenFlow: Consistent Diffusion Features for Consistent Video Editing
- ICLR 2024TOSS: High-quality Text-guided Novel View Synthesis from a Single Image
- ICLR 2024Towards image compression with perfect realism at ultra-low bitrates
- ICLR 2024Uncertainty-aware Graph-based Hyperspectral Image Classification
- ICLR 2024Universal Backdoor Attacks
- ICLR 2024Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation via Neural Schrödinger Bridge
- ICLR 2024Unveiling and Manipulating Prompt Influence in Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024VersVideo: Leveraging Enhanced Temporal Diffusion Models for Versatile Video Generation
- ICLR 2024Vision-by-Language for Training-Free Compositional Image Retrieval
- ICLR 2024WildFusion: Learning 3D-Aware Latent Diffusion Models in View Space
- ICLR 2024Würstchen: An Efficient Architecture for Large-Scale Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2024Xformer: Hybrid X-Shaped Transformer for Image Denoising
- ICML 2024A Dense Reward View on Aligning Text-to-Image Diffusion with Preference
- ICML 2024A Tale of Tails: Model Collapse as a Change of Scaling Laws
- ICML 2024Accelerating Parallel Sampling of Diffusion Models
- ICML 2024Accelerating PDE Data Generation via Differential Operator Action in Solution Space
- ICML 2024ACM-MILP: Adaptive Constraint Modification via Grouping and Selection for Hardness-Preserving MILP Instance Generation
- ICML 2024Adaptive Feature Selection for No-Reference Image Quality Assessment by Mitigating Semantic Noise Sensitivity
- ICML 2024Adaptive Stabilization Based on Machine Learning for Column Generation
- ICML 2024Aligned Objective for Soft-Pseudo-Label Generation in Supervised Learning
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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.