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

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901. CVPR 2025FinePhys: Fine-grained Human Action Generation by Explicitly Incorporating Physical Laws for Effective Skeletal Guidance
902. CVPR 2025Fitted Neural Lossless Image Compression
903. CVPR 2025FLAIR: VLM with Fine-grained Language-informed Image Representations
904. CVPR 2025FLAME: Frozen Large Language Models Enable Data-Efficient Language-Image Pre-training
905. CVPR 2025FlexiDiT: Your Diffusion Transformer Can Easily Generate High-Quality Samples with Less Compute
906. CVPR 2025Floating No More: Object-Ground Reconstruction from a Single Image
907. CVPR 2025FluxSpace: Disentangled Semantic Editing in Rectified Flow Models
908. CVPR 2025Focus-N-Fix: Region-Aware Fine-Tuning for Text-to-Image Generation
909. CVPR 2025FoundHand: Large-Scale Domain-Specific Learning for Controllable Hand Image Generation
910. CVPR 2025Free360: Layered Gaussian Splatting for Unbounded 360-Degree View Synthesis from Extremely Sparse and Unposed Views
911. CVPR 2025FreeScene: Mixed Graph Diffusion for 3D Scene Synthesis from Free Prompts
912. CVPR 2025Frequency Dynamic Convolution for Dense Image Prediction
913. CVPR 2025Frequency-Biased Synergistic Design for Image Compression and Compensation
914. CVPR 2025From Sparse Signal to Smooth Motion: Real-Time Motion Generation with Rolling Prediction Models
915. CVPR 2025From Words to Structured Visuals: A Benchmark and Framework for Text-to-Diagram Generation and Editing
916. CVPR 2025From Zero to Detail: Deconstructing Ultra-High-Definition Image Restoration from Progressive Spectral Perspective
917. CVPR 2025Gaussian Splatting for Efficient Satellite Image Photogrammetry
918. CVPR 2025GaussianIP: Identity-Preserving Realistic 3D Human Generation via Human-Centric Diffusion Prior
919. CVPR 2025GEN3C: 3D-Informed World-Consistent Video Generation with Precise Camera Control
920. CVPR 2025GenDeg: Diffusion-based Degradation Synthesis for Generalizable All-In-One Image Restoration
921. CVPR 2025Generalized Zero-Shot Classification via Semantics-Free Inter-Class Feature Generation
922. CVPR 2025Generative Gaussian Splatting for Unbounded 3D City Generation
923. CVPR 2025Generative Image Layer Decomposition with Visual Effects
924. CVPR 2025Generative Photography: Scene-Consistent Camera Control for Realistic Text-to-Image Synthesis
925. CVPR 2025Generative Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval
926. CVPR 2025GenFusion: Closing the Loop between Reconstruction and Generation via Videos
927. CVPR 2025GenVDM: Generating Vector Displacement Maps From a Single Image
928. CVPR 2025Geometry in Style: 3D Stylization via Surface Normal Deformation
929. CVPR 2025Glossy Object Reconstruction with Cost-effective Polarized Acquisition
930. CVPR 2025Good, Cheap, and Fast: Overfitted Image Compression with Wasserstein Distortion
931. CVPR 2025GPS as a Control Signal for Image Generation
932. CVPR 2025GRAPHGPT-O: Synergistic Multimodal Comprehension and Generation on Graphs
933. CVPR 2025GraphI2P: Image-to-Point Cloud Registration with Exploring Pattern of Correspondence via Graph Learning
934. CVPR 2025GS-DiT: Advancing Video Generation with Dynamic 3D Gaussian Fields through Efficient Dense 3D Point Tracking
935. CVPR 2025Gyro-based Neural Single Image Deblurring
936. CVPR 2025Hallo3: Highly Dynamic and Realistic Portrait Image Animation with Video Diffusion Transformer
937. CVPR 2025Harnessing Frequency Spectrum Insights for Image Copyright Protection Against Diffusion Models
938. CVPR 2025Hash3D: Training-free Acceleration for 3D Generation
939. CVPR 2025HEIE: MLLM-Based Hierarchical Explainable AIGC Image Implausibility Evaluator
940. CVPR 2025Hierarchical Adaptive Filtering Network for Text Image Specular Highlight Removal
941. CVPR 2025Hierarchical Gaussian Mixture Model Splatting for Efficient and Part Controllable 3D Generation
942. CVPR 2025HiFi-Portrait: Zero-shot Identity-preserved Portrait Generation with High-fidelity Multi-face Fusion
943. CVPR 2025High-fidelity 3D Object Generation from Single Image with RGBN-Volume Gaussian Reconstruction Model
944. CVPR 2025HIIF: Hierarchical Encoding based Implicit Image Function for Continuous Super-resolution
945. CVPR 2025HistoFS: Non-IID Histopathologic Whole Slide Image Classification via Federated Style Transfer with RoI-Preserving
946. CVPR 2025HMAR: Efficient Hierarchical Masked Auto-Regressive Image Generation
947. CVPR 2025Human-centered Interactive Learning via MLLMs for Text-to-Image Person Re-identification
948. CVPR 2025HumanDreamer: Generating Controllable Human-Motion Videos via Decoupled Generation
949. CVPR 2025HUNet: Homotopy Unfolding Network for Image Compressive Sensing
950. CVPR 2025HVI: A New Color Space for Low-light Image Enhancement

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.