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
944 papers, page 2 of 19
- ICLR 2026CoEmoGen: Towards Semantically-Coherent and Scalable Emotional Image Content Generation
- ICLR 2026Condition Errors Refinement in Autoregressive Image Generation with Diffusion Loss
- ICLR 2026Condition Matters in Full-head 3D GANs
- ICLR 2026CONSIGN: Conformal Segmentation Informed by Spatial Groupings via Decomposition
- ICLR 2026Consistent Text-to-Image Generation via Scene De-Contextualization
- ICLR 2026Constantly Improving Image Models Need Constantly Improving Benchmarks
- ICLR 2026Constrained Decoding of Diffusion LLMs with Context-Free Grammars
- ICLR 2026ContextGen: Contextual Layout Anchoring for Identity-Consistent Multi-Instance Generation
- ICLR 2026Continual Unlearning for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models: A Regularization Perspective
- ICLR 2026Continuously Augmented Discrete Diffusion model for Categorical Generative Modeling
- ICLR 2026Controllable diffusion-based generation for multi-channel biological data
- ICLR 2026Controllable Video Generation with Provable Disentanglement
- ICLR 2026CreatiDesign: A Unified Multi-Conditional Diffusion Transformer for Creative Graphic Design
- ICLR 2026CroCoDiLight: Repurposing Cross-View Completion Encoders for Relighting
- ICLR 2026Cross-ControlNet: Training-Free Fusion of Multiple Conditions for Text-to-Image Generation
- ICLR 2026CrossPL: Systematic Evaluation of Large Language Models for Cross Programming Language Interoperating Code Generation
- ICLR 2026Culture in Action: Evaluating Text-to-Image Models through Social Activities
- ICLR 2026D-AR: Diffusion via Autoregressive Models
- ICLR 2026DanceTogether: Generating Interactive Multi-Person Video without Identity Drifting
- ICLR 2026Data Provenance for Image Auto-Regressive Generation
- ICLR 2026DCFold: Efficient Protein Structure Generation with Single Forward Pass
- ICLR 2026Deconstructing Guidance: A Semantic Hierarchy for Precise Diffusion Model Editing
- ICLR 2026DeLeaker: Dynamic Inference-Time Reweighting For Semantic Leakage Mitigation in Text-to-Image Models
- ICLR 2026Detective SAM: Adaptive AI-Image Forgery Localization
- ICLR 2026DiffInk: Glyph- and Style-Aware Latent Diffusion Transformer for Text to Online Handwriting Generation
- ICLR 2026Diffusion Negative Preference Optimization Made Simple
- ICLR 2026DiMeR: Disentangled Mesh Reconstruction Model with Normal-only Geometry Training
- ICLR 2026Directional Textual Inversion for Personalized Text-to-Image Generation
- ICLR 2026Discrete Bayesian Sample Inference for Graph Generation
- ICLR 2026Disentangled Hierarchical VAE for 3D Human-Human Interaction Generation
- ICLR 2026DistillKac: Few-Step Image Generation via Damped Wave Equations
- ICLR 2026Distributional Consistency Loss: Beyond Pointwise Data Terms in Inverse Problems
- ICLR 2026Divergence-Free Neural Networks with Application to Image Denoising
- ICLR 2026Diverse Text Decoding via Iterative Reweighting
- ICLR 2026Diverse Text-to-Image Generation via Contrastive Noise Optimization
- ICLR 2026Do We Need All the Synthetic Data? Targeted Image Augmentation via Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2026Dragging with Geometry: From Pixels to Geometry-Guided Image Editing
- ICLR 2026Draw-In-Mind: Rebalancing Designer-Painter Roles in Unified Multimodal Models Benefits Image Editing
- ICLR 2026DreamCS: Geometry-Aware Text-to-3D Generation with Unpaired 3D Reward Supervision
- ICLR 2026Dual-Kernel Adapter: Expanding Spatial Horizons for Data-Constrained Medical Image Analysis
- ICLR 2026Durian: Dual Reference Image-Guided Portrait Animation with Attribute Transfer
- ICLR 2026Dynamic Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance via Online Feedback
- ICLR 2026Easier Painting Than Thinking: Can Text-to-Image Models Set the Stage, but Not Direct the Play?
- ICLR 2026EchoGen: Generating Visual Echoes in Any Scene via Feed-Forward Subject-Driven Auto-Regressive Model
- ICLR 2026EditVerse: Unifying Image and Video Editing and Generation with In-Context Learning
- ICLR 2026ELLMob: Event-Driven Human Mobility Generation with Self-Aligned LLM Framework
- ICLR 2026Energy-Efficient Random Variate Generation via Compressed Lookup Tables
- ICLR 2026Enhancing Image-Conditional Coverage in Segmentation: Adaptive Thresholding via Differentiable Miscoverage Loss
- ICLR 2026Enhancing Multi-Image Understanding through Delimiter Token Scaling
- ICLR 2026Entropy Regularizing Activation: Boosting Continuous Control, Large Language Models, and Image Classification with Activation as Entropy Constraints
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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.