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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51. ICML 2024DITTO: Diffusion Inference-Time T-Optimization for Music Generation
52. ICML 2024E$^2$GAN: Efficient Training of Efficient GANs for Image-to-Image Translation
53. ICML 2024Embarrassingly Parallel GFlowNets
54. ICML 2024Enhancing Cross-Modal Fine-Tuning with Gradually Intermediate Modality Generation
55. ICML 2024Exploring the Low-Pass Filtering Behavior in Image Super-Resolution
56. ICML 2024Fast Text-to-3D-Aware Face Generation and Manipulation via Direct Cross-modal Mapping and Geometric Regularization
57. ICML 2024Flexible Residual Binarization for Image Super-Resolution
58. ICML 2024GALA3D: Towards Text-to-3D Complex Scene Generation via Layout-guided Generative Gaussian Splatting
59. ICML 2024Graph Generation with Diffusion Mixture
60. ICML 2024Guiding LLMs The Right Way: Fast, Non-Invasive Constrained Generation
61. ICML 2024How Flawed Is ECE? An Analysis via Logit Smoothing
62. ICML 2024HumanTOMATO: Text-aligned Whole-body Motion Generation
63. ICML 2024Hyperbolic Geometric Latent Diffusion Model for Graph Generation
64. ICML 2024HyperFields: Towards Zero-Shot Generation of NeRFs from Text
65. ICML 2024IM-3D: Iterative Multiview Diffusion and Reconstruction for High-Quality 3D Generation
66. ICML 2024Image Clustering with External Guidance
67. ICML 2024Image Fusion via Vision-Language Model
68. ICML 2024Image Hijacks: Adversarial Images can Control Generative Models at Runtime
69. ICML 2024Image Restoration Through Generalized Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Bridge
70. ICML 2024Implicit Representations for Constrained Image Segmentation
71. ICML 2024Implicit Representations via Operator Learning
72. ICML 2024Improving Accuracy-robustness Trade-off via Pixel Reweighted Adversarial Training
73. ICML 2024Improving fine-grained understanding in image-text pre-training
74. ICML 2024Improving Open-Ended Text Generation via Adaptive Decoding
75. ICML 2024Instruction Tuning for Secure Code Generation
76. ICML 2024Integrating Global Context Contrast and Local Sensitivity for Blind Image Quality Assessment
77. ICML 2024Interpreting Equivariant Representations
78. ICML 2024Kepler codebook
79. ICML 2024KV-Runahead: Scalable Causal LLM Inference by Parallel Key-Value Cache Generation
80. ICML 2024LaMAGIC: Language-Model-based Topology Generation for Analog Integrated Circuits
81. ICML 2024Language Generation with Strictly Proper Scoring Rules
82. ICML 2024Learning High-Frequency Functions Made Easy with Sinusoidal Positional Encoding
83. ICML 2024Learning to Compile Programs to Neural Networks
84. ICML 2024Learning Universal Predictors
85. ICML 2024Leverage Class-Specific Accuracy to Guide Data Generation for Improving Image Classification
86. ICML 2024Leveraging VLM-Based Pipelines to Annotate 3D Objects
87. ICML 2024Lightweight Image Super-Resolution via Flexible Meta Pruning
88. ICML 2024MagicLens: Self-Supervised Image Retrieval with Open-Ended Instructions
89. ICML 2024Magicoder: Empowering Code Generation with OSS-Instruct
90. ICML 2024Manifold Integrated Gradients: Riemannian Geometry for Feature Attribution
91. ICML 2024MFTN: A Multi-scale Feature Transfer Network Based on IMatchFormer for Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution
92. ICML 2024MILP-FBGen: LP/MILP Instance Generation with Feasibility/Boundedness
93. ICML 2024MindEye2: Shared-Subject Models Enable fMRI-To-Image With 1 Hour of Data
94. ICML 2024MLIP: Efficient Multi-Perspective Language-Image Pretraining with Exhaustive Data Utilization
95. ICML 2024Model-Based Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding for Text Generation
96. ICML 2024MorphGrower: A Synchronized Layer-by-layer Growing Approach for Plausible Neuronal Morphology Generation
97. ICML 2024MusicFlow: Cascaded Flow Matching for Text Guided Music Generation
98. ICML 2024Neural Diffusion Models
99. ICML 2024Neural Image Compression with Text-guided Encoding for both Pixel-level and Perceptual Fidelity
100. ICML 2024Non-confusing Generation of Customized Concepts in Diffusion Models

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.