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 15 of 35

701. ICLR 2026Adaptive Logit Adjustment for Debiasing Multimodal Language Models
702. ICLR 2026Addressing Pitfalls in the Evaluation of Uncertainty Estimation Methods for Natural Language Generation
703. ICLR 2026Advancing End-to-End Pixel-Space Generative Modeling via Self-Supervised Pre-Training
704. ICLR 2026Algorithm Generation via Creative Ideation
705. ICLR 2026Aligned Novel View Image and Geometry Synthesis via Cross-modal Attention Instillation
706. ICLR 2026Alignment through Meta-Weighted Online Sampling: Bridging the Gap between Data Generation and Preference Optimization
707. ICLR 2026All Patches Matter, More Patches Better: Enhance AI-Generated Image Detection via Panoptic Patch Learning
708. ICLR 2026Anchor Frame Bridging for Coherent First-Last Frame Video Generation
709. ICLR 2026Animating the Uncaptured: Humanoid Mesh Animation with Video Diffusion Models
710. ICLR 2026Anime-Ready: Controllable 3D Anime Character Generation with Body-Aligned Component-Wise Garment Modeling
711. ICLR 2026Any-step Generation via N-th Order Recursive Consistent Velocity Field Estimation
712. ICLR 2026APT: Towards Universal Scene Graph Generation via Plug-in Adaptive Prompt Tuning
713. ICLR 2026Arbitrary-Shaped Image Generation via Spherical Neural Field Diffusion
714. ICLR 2026AssetFormer: Modular 3D Assets Generation with Autoregressive Transformer
715. ICLR 2026Asynchronous Denoising Diffusion Models for Aligning Text-to-Image Generation
716. ICLR 2026ATGen: Adversarial Reinforcement Learning for Test Case Generation
717. ICLR 2026Attack-Resistant Watermarking for AIGC Image Forensics via Diffusion-based Semantic Deflection
718. ICLR 2026Aurelius: Relation Aware Text-to-Audio Generation At Scale
719. ICLR 2026AutoFigure: Generating and Refining Publication-Ready Scientific Illustrations
720. ICLR 2026Automatic Image-Level Morphological Trait Annotation for Organismal Images
721. ICLR 2026Autoregressive Image Generation with Randomized Parallel Decoding
722. ICLR 2026Autoregressive-based Progressive Coding for Ultra-Low Bitrate Image Compression
723. ICLR 2026Avoid Catastrophic Forgetting with Rank-1 Fisher from Diffusion Models
724. ICLR 2026BAR: Refactor the Basis of Autoregressive Visual Generation
725. ICLR 2026Beyond Frequency: Scoring-Driven Debiasing for Object Detection via Blueprint-Prompted Image Synthesis
726. ICLR 2026Beyond Text-to-Image: Liberating Generation with a Unified Discrete Diffusion Model
727. ICLR 2026BézierFlow: Learning Bézier Stochastic Interpolant Schedulers for Few-Step Generation
728. ICLR 2026BideDPO: Conditional Image Generation with Simultaneous Text and Condition Alignment
729. ICLR 2026BindWeave: Subject-Consistent Video Generation via Cross-Modal Integration
730. ICLR 2026BLADE: Block-Sparse Attention Meets Step Distillation for Efficient Video Generation
731. ICLR 2026Bridging Degradation Discrimination and Generation for Universal Image Restoration
732. ICLR 2026Bures-Wasserstein Flow Matching for Graph Generation
733. ICLR 2026CAGE: A Framework for Culturally Adaptive Red-Teaming Benchmark Generation
734. ICLR 2026CARL: Camera-Agnostic Representation Learning for Spectral Image Analysis
735. ICLR 2026ChainMPQ: Interleaved Text-Image Reasoning Chains for Mitigating Relation Hallucinations
736. ICLR 2026CIAR: Interval-based Collaborative Decoding for Image Generation Acceleration
737. ICLR 2026CineTrans: Learning to Generate Videos with Cinematic Transitions via Masked Diffusion Models
738. ICLR 2026CO3: CONTRASTING CONCEPTS COMPOSE BETTER
739. ICLR 2026CoDi: Subject-Consistent and Pose-Diverse Text-to-Image Generation
740. ICLR 2026CoEmoGen: Towards Semantically-Coherent and Scalable Emotional Image Content Generation
741. ICLR 2026Condition Errors Refinement in Autoregressive Image Generation with Diffusion Loss
742. ICLR 2026Condition Matters in Full-head 3D GANs
743. ICLR 2026CONSIGN: Conformal Segmentation Informed by Spatial Groupings via Decomposition
744. ICLR 2026Consistent Text-to-Image Generation via Scene De-Contextualization
745. ICLR 2026Constantly Improving Image Models Need Constantly Improving Benchmarks
746. ICLR 2026Constrained Decoding of Diffusion LLMs with Context-Free Grammars
747. ICLR 2026ContextGen: Contextual Layout Anchoring for Identity-Consistent Multi-Instance Generation
748. ICLR 2026Continual Unlearning for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models: A Regularization Perspective
749. ICLR 2026Continuously Augmented Discrete Diffusion model for Categorical Generative Modeling
750. ICLR 2026Controllable diffusion-based generation for multi-channel biological data

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.