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
2,262 papers, page 16 of 46
- CVPR 2025Black Hole-Driven Identity Absorbing in Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025BlobGEN-Vid: Compositional Text-to-Video Generation with Blob Video Representations
- CVPR 2025BlockDance: Reuse Structurally Similar Spatio-Temporal Features to Accelerate Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2025Boltzmann Attention Sampling for Image Analysis with Small Objects
- CVPR 2025Boost Your Human Image Generation Model via Direct Preference Optimization
- CVPR 2025BooW-VTON: Boosting In-the-Wild Virtual Try-On via Mask-Free Pseudo Data Training
- CVPR 2025BrepGiff: Lightweight Generation of Complex B-rep with 3D GAT Diffusion
- CVPR 2025Bridging the Gap between Gaussian Diffusion Models and Universal Quantization for Image Compression
- CVPR 2025ByTheWay: Boost Your Text-to-Video Generation Model to Higher Quality in a Training-free Way
- CVPR 2025CacheQuant: Comprehensively Accelerated Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025CAD-Llama: Leveraging Large Language Models for Computer-Aided Design Parametric 3D Model Generation
- CVPR 2025CADDreamer: CAD Object Generation from Single-view Images
- CVPR 2025CamFreeDiff: Camera-free Image to Panorama Generation with Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025Can Text-to-Video Generation help Video-Language Alignment?
- CVPR 2025CAP-Net: A Unified Network for 6D Pose and Size Estimation of Categorical Articulated Parts from a Single RGB-D Image
- CVPR 2025CaricatureBooth: Data-Free Interactive Caricature Generation in a Photo Booth
- CVPR 2025CARL: A Framework for Equivariant Image Registration
- CVPR 2025CATANet: Efficient Content-Aware Token Aggregation for Lightweight Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2025Causal Composition Diffusion Model for Closed-loop Traffic Generation
- CVPR 2025CCIN: Compositional Conflict Identification and Neutralization for Composed Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2025Channel Consistency Prior and Self-Reconstruction Strategy Based Unsupervised Image Deraining
- CVPR 2025Charm: The Missing Piece in ViT Fine-Tuning for Image Aesthetic Assessment
- CVPR 2025Chat2SVG: Vector Graphics Generation with Large Language Models and Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025ChatGarment: Garment Estimation, Generation and Editing via Large Language Models
- CVPR 2025ChatGen: Automatic Text-to-Image Generation From FreeStyle Chatting
- CVPR 2025CheXWorld: Exploring Image World Modeling for Radiograph Representation Learning
- CVPR 2025Classifier-Free Guidance Inside the Attraction Basin May Cause Memorization
- CVPR 2025CoA: Towards Real Image Dehazing via Compression-and-Adaptation
- CVPR 2025CoLLM: A Large Language Model for Composed Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2025Color Alignment in Diffusion
- CVPR 2025CoMM: A Coherent Interleaved Image-Text Dataset for Multimodal Understanding and Generation
- CVPR 2025Community Forensics: Using Thousands of Generators to Train Fake Image Detectors
- CVPR 2025Compass Control: Multi Object Orientation Control for Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2025CompGS: Unleashing 2D Compositionality for Compositional Text-to-3D via Dynamically Optimizing 3D Gaussians
- CVPR 2025Complementary Advantages: Exploiting Cross-Field Frequency Correlation for NIR-Assisted Image Denoising
- CVPR 2025Completion as Enhancement: A Degradation-Aware Selective Image Guided Network for Depth Completion
- CVPR 2025Complexity Experts are Task-Discriminative Learners for Any Image Restoration
- CVPR 2025Composing Parts for Expressive Object Generation
- CVPR 2025Concept Lancet: Image Editing with Compositional Representation Transplant
- CVPR 2025ConceptGuard: Continual Personalized Text-to-Image Generation with Forgetting and Confusion Mitigation
- CVPR 2025Conditional Balance: Improving Multi-Conditioning Trade-Offs in Image Generation
- CVPR 2025Conformal Prediction and MLLM aided Uncertainty Quantification in Scene Graph Generation
- CVPR 2025Consistency Posterior Sampling for Diverse Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2025Consistent and Controllable Image Animation with Motion Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025ConText-CIR: Learning from Concepts in Text for Composed Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2025Continuous Locomotive Crowd Behavior Generation
- CVPR 2025Controllable Human Image Generation with Personalized Multi-Garments
- CVPR 2025Convex Combination Star Shape Prior for Data-driven Image Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025CoSER: Towards Consistent Dense Multiview Text-to-Image Generator for 3D Creation
- CVPR 2025CPath-Omni: A Unified Multimodal Foundation Model for Patch and Whole Slide Image Analysis in Computational Pathology
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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.