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

1,467 papers, page 15 of 30

701. ICLR 2025Dynamic Negative Guidance of Diffusion Models
702. ICLR 2025DynamicCity: Large-Scale 4D Occupancy Generation from Dynamic Scenes
703. ICLR 2025E(3)-equivariant models cannot learn chirality: Field-based molecular generation
704. ICLR 2025EC-Diffuser: Multi-Object Manipulation via Entity-Centric Behavior Generation
705. ICLR 2025EC-DIT: Scaling Diffusion Transformers with Adaptive Expert-Choice Routing
706. ICLR 2025Edge-aware Image Smoothing with Relative Wavelet Domain Representation
707. ICLR 2025EdgeRunner: Auto-regressive Auto-encoder for Artistic Mesh Generation
708. ICLR 2025EG4D: Explicit Generation of 4D Object without Score Distillation
709. ICLR 2025Energy-Based Diffusion Language Models for Text Generation
710. ICLR 2025Enhancing Compositional Text-to-Image Generation with Reliable Random Seeds
711. ICLR 2025Ensembling Diffusion Models via Adaptive Feature Aggregation
712. ICLR 2025Erasing Concept Combination from Text-to-Image Diffusion Model
713. ICLR 2025Evaluating Semantic Variation in Text-to-Image Synthesis: A Causal Perspective
714. ICLR 2025Exploiting Distribution Constraints for Scalable and Efficient Image Retrieval
715. ICLR 2025FakeShield: Explainable Image Forgery Detection and Localization via Multi-modal Large Language Models
716. ICLR 2025Fantastic Copyrighted Beasts and How (Not) to Generate Them
717. ICLR 2025Fast Direct: Query-Efficient Online Black-box Guidance for Diffusion-model Target Generation
718. ICLR 2025FlexCAD: Unified and Versatile Controllable CAD Generation with Fine-tuned Large Language Models
719. ICLR 2025Fluid: Scaling Autoregressive Text-to-image Generative Models with Continuous Tokens
720. ICLR 2025Follow My Instruction and Spill the Beans: Scalable Data Extraction from Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems
721. ICLR 2025Forking Paths in Neural Text Generation
722. ICLR 2025FreCaS: Efficient Higher-Resolution Image Generation via Frequency-aware Cascaded Sampling
723. ICLR 2025Fréchet Wavelet Distance: A Domain-Agnostic Metric for Image Generation
724. ICLR 2025Free Hunch: Denoiser Covariance Estimation for Diffusion Models Without Extra Costs
725. ICLR 2025FreeVS: Generative View Synthesis on Free Driving Trajectory
726. ICLR 2025From Pixels to Tokens: Byte-Pair Encoding on Quantized Visual Modalities
727. ICLR 2025GALA: Geometry-Aware Local Adaptive Grids for Detailed 3D Generation
728. ICLR 2025GaussianAnything: Interactive Point Cloud Flow Matching for 3D Generation
729. ICLR 2025GenARM: Reward Guided Generation with Autoregressive Reward Model for Test-Time Alignment
730. ICLR 2025Generalizable Human Gaussians from Single-View Image
731. ICLR 2025Generalized Consistency Trajectory Models for Image Manipulation
732. ICLR 2025Generation and Comprehension Hand-in-Hand: Vision-guided Expression Diffusion for Boosting Referring Expression Generation and Comprehension
733. ICLR 2025Geometry Image Diffusion: Fast and Data-Efficient Text-to-3D with Image-Based Surface Representation
734. ICLR 2025GeSubNet: Gene Interaction Inference for Disease Subtype Network Generation
735. ICLR 2025Glad: A Streaming Scene Generator for Autonomous Driving
736. ICLR 2025GOLD: Graph Out-of-Distribution Detection via Implicit Adversarial Latent Generation
737. ICLR 2025Gradient-Free Generation for Hard-Constrained Systems
738. ICLR 2025Growth Inhibitors for Suppressing Inappropriate Image Concepts in Diffusion Models
739. ICLR 2025Guaranteed Generation from Large Language Models
740. ICLR 2025Guided Score identity Distillation for Data-Free One-Step Text-to-Image Generation
741. ICLR 2025Gumbel Counterfactual Generation From Language Models
742. ICLR 2025Hallo2: Long-Duration and High-Resolution Audio-Driven Portrait Image Animation
743. ICLR 2025Halton Scheduler for Masked Generative Image Transformer
744. ICLR 2025HART: Efficient Visual Generation with Hybrid Autoregressive Transformer
745. ICLR 2025HD-Painter: High-Resolution and Prompt-Faithful Text-Guided Image Inpainting with Diffusion Models
746. ICLR 2025HGM³: Hierarchical Generative Masked Motion Modeling with Hard Token Mining
747. ICLR 2025High-Precision Dichotomous Image Segmentation via Probing Diffusion Capacity
748. ICLR 2025High-Quality Joint Image and Video Tokenization with Causal VAE
749. ICLR 2025High-quality Text-to-3D Character Generation with SparseCubes and Sparse Transformers.
750. ICLR 2025How Much is a Noisy Image Worth? Data Scaling Laws for Ambient Diffusion.

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.