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 16 of 35

751. ICLR 2026Controllable Video Generation with Provable Disentanglement
752. ICLR 2026CreatiDesign: A Unified Multi-Conditional Diffusion Transformer for Creative Graphic Design
753. ICLR 2026CroCoDiLight: Repurposing Cross-View Completion Encoders for Relighting
754. ICLR 2026Cross-ControlNet: Training-Free Fusion of Multiple Conditions for Text-to-Image Generation
755. ICLR 2026CrossPL: Systematic Evaluation of Large Language Models for Cross Programming Language Interoperating Code Generation
756. ICLR 2026Culture in Action: Evaluating Text-to-Image Models through Social Activities
757. ICLR 2026D-AR: Diffusion via Autoregressive Models
758. ICLR 2026DanceTogether: Generating Interactive Multi-Person Video without Identity Drifting
759. ICLR 2026Data Provenance for Image Auto-Regressive Generation
760. ICLR 2026DCFold: Efficient Protein Structure Generation with Single Forward Pass
761. ICLR 2026Deconstructing Guidance: A Semantic Hierarchy for Precise Diffusion Model Editing
762. ICLR 2026DeLeaker: Dynamic Inference-Time Reweighting For Semantic Leakage Mitigation in Text-to-Image Models
763. ICLR 2026Detective SAM: Adaptive AI-Image Forgery Localization
764. ICLR 2026DiffInk: Glyph- and Style-Aware Latent Diffusion Transformer for Text to Online Handwriting Generation
765. ICLR 2026Diffusion Negative Preference Optimization Made Simple
766. ICLR 2026DiMeR: Disentangled Mesh Reconstruction Model with Normal-only Geometry Training
767. ICLR 2026Directional Textual Inversion for Personalized Text-to-Image Generation
768. ICLR 2026Discrete Bayesian Sample Inference for Graph Generation
769. ICLR 2026Disentangled Hierarchical VAE for 3D Human-Human Interaction Generation
770. ICLR 2026DistillKac: Few-Step Image Generation via Damped Wave Equations
771. ICLR 2026Distributional Consistency Loss: Beyond Pointwise Data Terms in Inverse Problems
772. ICLR 2026Divergence-Free Neural Networks with Application to Image Denoising
773. ICLR 2026Diverse Text Decoding via Iterative Reweighting
774. ICLR 2026Diverse Text-to-Image Generation via Contrastive Noise Optimization
775. ICLR 2026Do We Need All the Synthetic Data? Targeted Image Augmentation via Diffusion Models
776. ICLR 2026Dragging with Geometry: From Pixels to Geometry-Guided Image Editing
777. ICLR 2026Draw-In-Mind: Rebalancing Designer-Painter Roles in Unified Multimodal Models Benefits Image Editing
778. ICLR 2026DreamCS: Geometry-Aware Text-to-3D Generation with Unpaired 3D Reward Supervision
779. ICLR 2026Dual-Kernel Adapter: Expanding Spatial Horizons for Data-Constrained Medical Image Analysis
780. ICLR 2026Durian: Dual Reference Image-Guided Portrait Animation with Attribute Transfer
781. ICLR 2026Dynamic Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance via Online Feedback
782. ICLR 2026Easier Painting Than Thinking: Can Text-to-Image Models Set the Stage, but Not Direct the Play?
783. ICLR 2026EchoGen: Generating Visual Echoes in Any Scene via Feed-Forward Subject-Driven Auto-Regressive Model
784. ICLR 2026EditVerse: Unifying Image and Video Editing and Generation with In-Context Learning
785. ICLR 2026ELLMob: Event-Driven Human Mobility Generation with Self-Aligned LLM Framework
786. ICLR 2026Energy-Efficient Random Variate Generation via Compressed Lookup Tables
787. ICLR 2026Enhancing Image-Conditional Coverage in Segmentation: Adaptive Thresholding via Differentiable Miscoverage Loss
788. ICLR 2026Enhancing Multi-Image Understanding through Delimiter Token Scaling
789. ICLR 2026Entropy Regularizing Activation: Boosting Continuous Control, Large Language Models, and Image Classification with Activation as Entropy Constraints
790. ICLR 2026Event-T2M: Event-level Conditioning for Complex Text-to-Motion Synthesis
791. ICLR 2026Everything in Its Place: Benchmarking Spatial Intelligence of Text-to-Image Models
792. ICLR 2026Evolutionary Caching to Accelerate Your Off-the-Shelf Diffusion Model
793. ICLR 2026Evolving Graph Structured Programs for Circuit Generation with Large Language Models
794. ICLR 2026Exploring Diverse Generation Paths via Inference-time Stiefel Activation Steering
795. ICLR 2026FACM: Flow-Anchored Consistency Models
796. ICLR 2026Factuality Matters: When Image Generation and Editing Meet Structured Visuals
797. ICLR 2026FakeXplain: AI-Generated Image Detection via Human-Aligned Grounded Reasoning
798. ICLR 2026FAST‑DIPS: Adjoint‑Free Analytic Steps and Hard‑Constrained Likelihood Correction for Diffusion‑Prior Inverse Problems
799. ICLR 2026Fastcar: Cache Attentive Replay for Fast Auto-Regressive Video Generation on the Edge
800. ICLR 2026Flow Along the $K$-Amplitude for Generative Modeling

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.