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

5,184 papers, page 19 of 104

901. ICLR 2026One2Scene: Geometric Consistent Explorable 3D Scene Generation from a Single Image
902. ICLR 2026Parallel Token Generation for Language Models
903. ICLR 2026PAT3D: Physics-Augmented Text-to-3D Scene Generation
904. ICLR 2026PCPO: Proportionate Credit Policy Optimization for Preference Alignment of Image Generation Models
905. ICLR 2026PE-SGD: Differentially Private Deep Learning via Evolution of Gradient Subspace for Text
906. ICLR 2026PerfGuard: A Performance-Aware Agent for Visual Content Generation
907. ICLR 2026PetaGAIL++: Utility Optimized Private Trajectory Generation with Imitation Learning
908. ICLR 2026pi-Flow: Policy-Based Few-Step Generation via Imitation Distillation
909. ICLR 2026PICS: Pairwise Image Compositing with Spatial Interactions
910. ICLR 2026Pixel-Level Residual Diffusion Transformer: Scalable 3D CT Volume Generation
911. ICLR 2026PixNerd: Pixel Neural Field Diffusion
912. ICLR 2026Planned Diffusion
913. ICLR 2026Planner Aware Path Learning in Diffusion Language Models Training
914. ICLR 2026PlantRSR: A New Plant Dataset and Method for Reference-based Super-Resolution
915. ICLR 2026POEMetric: The Last Stanza of Humanity
916. ICLR 2026PolyGraph Discrepancy: a classifier-based metric for graph generation
917. ICLR 2026PoSh: Using Scene Graphs to Guide LLMs-as-a-Judge for Detailed Image Descriptions
918. ICLR 2026Positional Encoding Field
919. ICLR 2026Preserve and Personalize: Personalized Text-to-Image Diffusion Models without Distributional Drift
920. ICLR 2026Product of Experts for Visual Generation
921. ICLR 2026Product-Quantised Image Representation for High-Quality Image Synthesis
922. ICLR 2026Projected Coupled Diffusion for Test-Time Constrained Joint Generation
923. ICLR 2026ProReGen: Progressive Residual Generation under Attribute Correlations
924. ICLR 2026Provably Accelerated Imaging with Restarted Inertia and Score-based Image Priors
925. ICLR 2026PTQ4ARVG: Post-Training Quantization for AutoRegressive Visual Generation Models
926. ICLR 2026Purrception: Variational Flow Matching for Vector-Quantized Image Generation
927. ICLR 2026Pyramid Patchification Flow for Visual Generation
928. ICLR 2026Q&C: When Quantization Meets Cache in Efficient Generation
929. ICLR 2026RAG4DMC: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Data-Level Modality Completion
930. ICLR 2026ReactID: Synchronizing Realistic Actions and Identity in Personalized Video Generation
931. ICLR 2026Reconciling Visual Perception and Generation in Diffusion Models
932. ICLR 2026Reconstruction Alignment Improves Unified Multimodal Models
933. ICLR 2026ReconViaGen: Towards Accurate Multi-view 3D Object Reconstruction via Generation
934. ICLR 2026ReDDiT: Rehashing Noise for Discrete Visual Generation
935. ICLR 2026Reducing Class-Wise Performance Disparity via Margin Regularization
936. ICLR 2026RefAny3D: 3D Asset-Referenced Diffusion Models for Image Generation
937. ICLR 2026Referring Layer Decomposition
938. ICLR 2026RefineStat: Efficient Exploration for Probabilistic Program Synthesis
939. ICLR 2026RegionE: Adaptive Region-Aware Generation for Efficient Image Editing
940. ICLR 2026RePrompt: Reasoning-Augmented Reprompting for Text-to-Image Generation via Reinforcement Learning
941. ICLR 2026RestoreVAR: Visual Autoregressive Generation for All-in-One Image Restoration
942. ICLR 2026Rethinking Expressivity and Degradation-Awareness in Attention for All-in-One Blind Image Restoration
943. ICLR 2026Rethinking Model Calibration through Spectral Entropy Regularization in Medical Image Segmentation
944. ICLR 2026Revisiting Global Text Conditioning in Diffusion Transformers
945. ICLR 2026RMFlow: Refined Mean Flow by a Noise-Injection Step for Multimodal Generation
946. ICLR 2026RobustSpring: Benchmarking Robustness to Image Corruptions for Optical Flow, Scene Flow and Stereo
947. ICLR 2026Routing Matters in MoE: Scaling Diffusion Transformers with Explicit Routing Guidance
948. ICLR 2026ROVER: Benchmarking Reciprocal Cross-Modal Reasoning for Omnimodal Generation
949. ICLR 2026S3OD: Towards Generalizable Salient Object Detection with Synthetic Data
950. ICLR 2026SAFETY-GUIDED FLOW (SGF): A UNIFIED FRAMEWORK FOR NEGATIVE GUIDANCE IN SAFE 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.