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

147 papers, page 2 of 3

51. ICML 2025FlexTok: Resampling Images into 1D Token Sequences of Flexible Length
52. ICML 2025FlowAR: Scale-wise Autoregressive Image Generation Meets Flow Matching
53. ICML 2025FourierMamba: Fourier Learning Integration with State Space Models for Image Deraining
54. ICML 2025FrameBridge: Improving Image-to-Video Generation with Bridge Models
55. ICML 2025FreeMesh: Boosting Mesh Generation with Coordinates Merging
56. ICML 2025Generation from Noisy Examples
57. ICML 2025Geometry Informed Tokenization of Molecules for Language Model Generation
58. ICML 2025Graph Generative Pre-trained Transformer
59. ICML 2025GraphCL: Graph-based Clustering for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
60. ICML 2025Gumiho: A Hybrid Architecture to Prioritize Early Tokens in Speculative Decoding
61. ICML 2025HetSSNet: Spatial-Spectral Heterogeneous Graph Learning Network for Panchromatic and Multispectral Images Fusion
62. ICML 2025Hide & Seek: Transformer Symmetries Obscure Sharpness & Riemannian Geometry Finds It
63. ICML 2025Hierarchical Masked Autoregressive Models with Low-Resolution Token Pivots
64. ICML 2025High Dynamic Range Novel View Synthesis with Single Exposure
65. ICML 2025Highly Compressed Tokenizer Can Generate Without Training
66. ICML 2025How to Move Your Dragon: Text-to-Motion Synthesis for Large-Vocabulary Objects
67. ICML 2025Improving Compositional Generation with Diffusion Models Using Lift Scores
68. ICML 2025Improving the Diffusability of Autoencoders
69. ICML 2025Instruct2See: Learning to Remove Any Obstructions Across Distributions
70. ICML 2025Introducing 3D Representation for Dense Volume-to-Volume Translation via Score Fusion
71. ICML 2025Inverse Bridge Matching Distillation
72. ICML 2025LaMAGIC2: Advanced Circuit Formulations for Language Model-Based Analog Topology Generation
73. ICML 2025Language Models over Canonical Byte-Pair Encodings
74. ICML 2025Large Displacement Motion Transfer with Unsupervised Anytime Interpolation
75. ICML 2025LDMol: A Text-to-Molecule Diffusion Model with Structurally Informative Latent Space Surpasses AR Models
76. ICML 2025Learning Attribute-Aware Hash Codes for Fine-Grained Image Retrieval via Query Optimization
77. ICML 2025Learning to Quantize for Training Vector-Quantized Networks
78. ICML 2025Learning Vision and Language Concepts for Controllable Image Generation
79. ICML 2025Learning-Order Autoregressive Models with Application to Molecular Graph Generation
80. ICML 2025LLaVA-ReID: Selective Multi-image Questioner for Interactive Person Re-Identification
81. ICML 2025LLMs can see and hear without any training
82. ICML 2025LoRA-Gen: Specializing Large Language Model via Online LoRA Generation
83. ICML 2025LotteryCodec: Searching the Implicit Representation in a Random Network for Low-Complexity Image Compression
84. ICML 2025Masked Generative Nested Transformers with Decode Time Scaling
85. ICML 2025MDDM: Practical Message-Driven Generative Image Steganography Based on Diffusion Models
86. ICML 2025MimicMotion: High-Quality Human Motion Video Generation with Confidence-aware Pose Guidance
87. ICML 2025Mitigating Object Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models via Image-Grounded Guidance
88. ICML 2025MixBridge: Heterogeneous Image-to-Image Backdoor Attack through Mixture of Schrödinger Bridges
89. ICML 2025Morse: Dual-Sampling for Lossless Acceleration of Diffusion Models
90. ICML 2025MuLan: Adapting Multilingual Diffusion Models for Hundreds of Languages with Negligible Cost
91. ICML 2025NegMerge: Sign-Consensual Weight Merging for Machine Unlearning
92. ICML 2025Neural Genetic Search in Discrete Spaces
93. ICML 2025Noise-Guided Predicate Representation Extraction and Diffusion-Enhanced Discretization for Scene Graph Generation
94. ICML 2025On Exact Bit-level Reversible Transformers Without Changing Architecture
95. ICML 2025On the Query Complexity of Verifier-Assisted Language Generation
96. ICML 2025One Image is Worth a Thousand Words: A Usability Preservable Text-Image Collaborative Erasing Framework
97. ICML 2025Origin Identification for Text-Guided Image-to-Image Diffusion Models
98. ICML 2025Orthus: Autoregressive Interleaved Image-Text Generation with Modality-Specific Heads
99. ICML 2025Overcoming Non-monotonicity in Transducer-based Streaming Generation
100. ICML 2025Overcoming Spurious Solutions in Semi-Dual Neural Optimal Transport: A Smoothing Approach for Learning the Optimal Transport Plan

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.