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 17 of 30

801. ICLR 2025Narrowing Information Bottleneck Theory for Multimodal Image-Text Representations Interpretability
802. ICLR 2025Natural Language Inference Improves Compositionality in Vision-Language Models
803. ICLR 2025Neural networks on Symmetric Spaces of Noncompact Type
804. ICLR 2025Not All Prompts Are Made Equal: Prompt-based Pruning of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
805. ICLR 2025OASIS Uncovers: High-Quality T2I Models, Same Old Stereotypes
806. ICLR 2025OMNI-EPIC: Open-endedness via Models of human Notions of Interestingness with Environments Programmed in Code
807. ICLR 2025OmniCorpus: A Unified Multimodal Corpus of 10 Billion-Level Images Interleaved with Text
808. ICLR 2025On Disentangled Training for Nonlinear Transform in Learned Image Compression
809. ICLR 2025One Model Transfer to All: On Robust Jailbreak Prompts Generation against LLMs
810. ICLR 2025One-Prompt-One-Story: Free-Lunch Consistent Text-to-Image Generation Using a Single Prompt
811. ICLR 2025OpenVid-1M: A Large-Scale High-Quality Dataset for Text-to-video Generation
812. ICLR 2025Overcoming False Illusions in Real-World Face Restoration with Multi-Modal Guided Diffusion Model
813. ICLR 2025PaRa: Personalizing Text-to-Image Diffusion via Parameter Rank Reduction
814. ICLR 2025PathGen-1.6M: 1.6 Million Pathology Image-text Pairs Generation through Multi-agent Collaboration
815. ICLR 2025Periodic Materials Generation using Text-Guided Joint Diffusion Model
816. ICLR 2025Phidias: A Generative Model for Creating 3D Content from Text, Image, and 3D Conditions with Reference-Augmented Diffusion
817. ICLR 2025PivotMesh: Generic 3D Mesh Generation via Pivot Vertices Guidance
818. ICLR 2025PixWizard: Versatile Image-to-Image Visual Assistant with Open-Language Instructions
819. ICLR 2025PnP-Flow: Plug-and-Play Image Restoration with Flow Matching
820. ICLR 2025Positive-Unlabeled Diffusion Models for Preventing Sensitive Data Generation
821. ICLR 2025Precise Parameter Localization for Textual Generation in Diffusion Models
822. ICLR 2025Probabilistic Language-Image Pre-Training
823. ICLR 2025Progressive Compositionality in Text-to-Image Generative Models
824. ICLR 2025ProtPainter: Draw or Drag Protein via Topology-guided Diffusion
825. ICLR 2025PT-T2I/V: An Efficient Proxy-Tokenized Diffusion Transformer for Text-to-Image/Video-Task
826. ICLR 2025Ranking-aware adapter for text-driven image ordering with CLIP
827. ICLR 2025Rare-to-Frequent: Unlocking Compositional Generation Power of Diffusion Models on Rare Concepts with LLM Guidance
828. ICLR 2025Real2Code: Reconstruct Articulated Objects via Code Generation
829. ICLR 2025RecDreamer: Consistent Text-to-3D Generation via Uniform Score Distillation
830. ICLR 2025Refine-by-Align: Reference-Guided Artifacts Refinement through Semantic Alignment
831. ICLR 2025Reflexive Guidance: Improving OoDD in Vision-Language Models via Self-Guided Image-Adaptive Concept Generation
832. ICLR 2025Representation Alignment for Generation: Training Diffusion Transformers Is Easier Than You Think
833. ICLR 2025Resolution Attack: Exploiting Image Compression to Deceive Deep Neural Networks
834. ICLR 2025Rethinking Artistic Copyright Infringements In the Era Of Text-to-Image Generative Models
835. ICLR 2025Revisit Large-Scale Image-Caption Data in Pre-training Multimodal Foundation Models
836. ICLR 2025RGB-Event ISP: The Dataset and Benchmark
837. ICLR 2025Robust Watermarking Using Generative Priors Against Image Editing: From Benchmarking to Advances
838. ICLR 2025SAFREE: Training-Free and Adaptive Guard for Safe Text-to-Image And Video Generation
839. ICLR 2025Salvage: Shapley-distribution Approximation Learning Via Attribution Guided Exploration for Explainable Image Classification
840. ICLR 2025SANA: Efficient High-Resolution Text-to-Image Synthesis with Linear Diffusion Transformers
841. ICLR 2025Scaling up Masked Diffusion Models on Text
842. ICLR 2025ScImage: How good are multimodal large language models at scientific text-to-image generation?
843. ICLR 2025SCOPE: A Self-supervised Framework for Improving Faithfulness in Conditional Text Generation
844. ICLR 2025See It from My Perspective: How Language Affects Cultural Bias in Image Understanding
845. ICLR 2025SG-I2V: Self-Guided Trajectory Control in Image-to-Video Generation
846. ICLR 2025Should VLMs be Pre-trained with Image Data?
847. ICLR 2025Show-o: One Single Transformer to Unify Multimodal Understanding and Generation
848. ICLR 2025SINGAPO: Single Image Controlled Generation of Articulated Parts in Objects
849. ICLR 2025Sitcom-Crafter: A Plot-Driven Human Motion Generation System in 3D Scenes
850. ICLR 2025Slot-Guided Adaptation of Pre-trained Diffusion Models for Object-Centric Learning and Compositional Generation

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.