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

278 papers, page 2 of 6

51. ICLR 2025Continuous Diffusion for Mixed-Type Tabular Data
52. ICLR 2025Continuous Exposure Learning for Low-light Image Enhancement using Neural ODEs
53. ICLR 2025ControlAR: Controllable Image Generation with Autoregressive Models
54. ICLR 2025Controllable Generation via Locally Constrained Resampling
55. ICLR 2025ConvCodeWorld: Benchmarking Conversational Code Generation in Reproducible Feedback Environments
56. ICLR 2025Copyright-Protected Language Generation via Adaptive Model Fusion
57. ICLR 2025Cross the Gap: Exposing the Intra-modal Misalignment in CLIP via Modality Inversion
58. ICLR 2025Cross-Attention Head Position Patterns Can Align with Human Visual Concepts in Text-to-Image Generative Models
59. ICLR 2025Ctrl-Adapter: An Efficient and Versatile Framework for Adapting Diverse Controls to Any Diffusion Model
60. ICLR 2025Ctrl-U: Robust Conditional Image Generation via Uncertainty-aware Reward Modeling
61. ICLR 2025CtrLoRA: An Extensible and Efficient Framework for Controllable Image Generation
62. ICLR 2025CubeDiff: Repurposing Diffusion-Based Image Models for Panorama Generation
63. ICLR 2025Decoding Game: On Minimax Optimality of Heuristic Text Generation Strategies
64. ICLR 2025DEEM: Diffusion models serve as the eyes of large language models for image perception
65. ICLR 2025DeepRTL: Bridging Verilog Understanding and Generation with a Unified Representation Model
66. ICLR 2025Denoising Autoregressive Transformers for Scalable Text-to-Image Generation
67. ICLR 2025Denoising with a Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture
68. ICLR 2025DGQ: Distribution-Aware Group Quantization for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
69. ICLR 2025Diff3DS: Generating View-Consistent 3D Sketch via Differentiable Curve Rendering
70. ICLR 2025DiffPC: Diffusion-based High Perceptual Fidelity Image Compression with Semantic Refinement
71. ICLR 2025DiffSplat: Repurposing Image Diffusion Models for Scalable Gaussian Splat Generation
72. ICLR 2025Diffusion Bridge Implicit Models
73. ICLR 2025Diffusion Transformers for Tabular Data Time Series Generation
74. ICLR 2025Diffusion-based Neural Network Weights Generation
75. ICLR 2025Diffusion-NPO: Negative Preference Optimization for Better Preference Aligned Generation of Diffusion Models
76. ICLR 2025Diffusion$^2$: Dynamic 3D Content Generation via Score Composition of Video and Multi-view Diffusion Models
77. ICLR 2025Discovering Clone Negatives via Adaptive Contrastive Learning for Image-Text Matching
78. ICLR 2025Discrete Copula Diffusion
79. ICLR 2025Discrete Distribution Networks
80. ICLR 2025Discriminating image representations with principal distortions
81. ICLR 2025DisEnvisioner: Disentangled and Enriched Visual Prompt for Customized Image Generation
82. ICLR 2025DisPose: Disentangling Pose Guidance for Controllable Human Image Animation
83. ICLR 2025Distilled Decoding 1: One-step Sampling of Image Auto-regressive Models with Flow Matching
84. ICLR 2025Distribution Backtracking Builds A Faster Convergence Trajectory for Diffusion Distillation
85. ICLR 2025Do Vision & Language Decoders use Images and Text equally? How Self-consistent are their Explanations?
86. ICLR 2025DreamBench++: A Human-Aligned Benchmark for Personalized Image Generation
87. ICLR 2025DreamDistribution: Learning Prompt Distribution for Diverse In-distribution Generation
88. ICLR 2025Dynamic Diffusion Transformer
89. ICLR 2025Dynamic Negative Guidance of Diffusion Models
90. ICLR 2025DynamicCity: Large-Scale 4D Occupancy Generation from Dynamic Scenes
91. ICLR 2025E(3)-equivariant models cannot learn chirality: Field-based molecular generation
92. ICLR 2025EC-Diffuser: Multi-Object Manipulation via Entity-Centric Behavior Generation
93. ICLR 2025EC-DIT: Scaling Diffusion Transformers with Adaptive Expert-Choice Routing
94. ICLR 2025Edge-aware Image Smoothing with Relative Wavelet Domain Representation
95. ICLR 2025EdgeRunner: Auto-regressive Auto-encoder for Artistic Mesh Generation
96. ICLR 2025EG4D: Explicit Generation of 4D Object without Score Distillation
97. ICLR 2025Energy-Based Diffusion Language Models for Text Generation
98. ICLR 2025Enhancing Compositional Text-to-Image Generation with Reliable Random Seeds
99. ICLR 2025Ensembling Diffusion Models via Adaptive Feature Aggregation
100. ICLR 2025Erasing Concept Combination from Text-to-Image Diffusion Model

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.