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

5,184 papers, page 20 of 104

951. ICLR 2026Sample Reward Soups: Query-efficient Multi-Reward Guidance for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
952. ICLR 2026Sat3DGen: Comprehensive Street-Level 3D Scene Generation from Single Satellite Image
953. ICLR 2026SatDreamer360: Multiview-Consistent Generation of Ground-Level Scenes from Satellite Imagery
954. ICLR 2026SAVE: A Generalizable Framework for Multi-Condition Single-Cell Generation with Gene Block Attention
955. ICLR 2026Scalable Training for Vector-Quantized Networks with 100% Codebook Utilization
956. ICLR 2026Scale-wise Distillation of Diffusion Models
957. ICLR 2026ScaleCap: Scalable Image Captioning via Dual-Modality Debiasing
958. ICLR 2026Scaling Group Inference for Diverse and High-Quality Generation
959. ICLR 2026ScalingCache: Extreme Acceleration of DiTs through Difference Scaling and Dynamic Interval Caching
960. ICLR 2026SceneTransporter: Optimal Transport-Guided Compositional Latent Diffusion for Single-Image Structured 3D Scene Generation
961. ICLR 2026SE-Diff: Simulator and Experience Enhanced Diffusion Model for Comprehensive ECG Generation
962. ICLR 2026Secret-Protected Evolution for Differentially Private Synthetic Text Generation
963. ICLR 2026Self-Forcing++: Towards Minute-Scale High-Quality Video Generation
964. ICLR 2026SemHiTok: A Unified Image Tokenizer via Semantic-Guided Hierarchical Codebook for Multimodal Understanding and Generation
965. ICLR 2026SenseFlow: Scaling Distribution Matching for Flow-based Text-to-Image Distillation
966. ICLR 2026SERUM: Simple, Efficient, Robust, and Unifying Marking for Diffusion-based Image Generation
967. ICLR 2026SesaHand: Enhancing 3D Hand Reconstruction via Controllable Generation with Semantic and Structural Alignment
968. ICLR 2026ShapeGen4D: Towards High Quality 4D Shape Generation from Videos
969. ICLR 2026SIGMA-GEN: STRUCTURE AND IDENTITY GUIDED MULTI-SUBJECT ASSEMBLY FOR IMAGE GENERATION
970. ICLR 2026SimpleGVR: A Simple Baseline for Latent-Cascaded Generative Video Super-Resolution
971. ICLR 2026SketchEvo: Leveraging Drawing Dynamics for Enhanced Image Synthesis
972. ICLR 2026SketchingReality: From Freehand Scene Sketches to Photorealistic Images
973. ICLR 2026Soft-Di[M]O: Improved one-step Image Discrete Model
974. ICLR 2026Soft-Masked Diffusion Language Models
975. ICLR 2026SONA: Learning Conditional, Unconditional, and Matching-Aware Discriminator
976. ICLR 2026Source-Guided Flow Matching
977. ICLR 2026SPARTA: Scalable and Principled Benchmark of Tree-Structured Multi-hop QA over Text and Tables
978. ICLR 2026Spatial Structure and Selective Text Jointly Facilitate Image Clustering
979. ICLR 2026SPRINT: Sparse-Dense Residual Fusion for Efficient Diffusion Transformers
980. ICLR 2026SSG: Scaled Spatial Guidance for Multi-Scale Visual Autoregressive Generation
981. ICLR 2026STEDiff: Revealing the Spatial and Temporal Redundancy of Backdoor Attacks in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
982. ICLR 2026Story-Iter: A Training-free Iterative Paradigm for Long Story Visualization
983. ICLR 2026StoryAlign: Evaluating and Training Reward Models for Story Generation
984. ICLR 2026Streaming Autoregressive Video Generation via Diagonal Distillation
985. ICLR 2026Stroke3D: Lifting 2D strokes into rigged 3D model via latent diffusion models
986. ICLR 2026StyliTruth : Unlocking Stylized yet Truthful LLM Generation via Disentangled Steering
987. ICLR 2026TabStruct: Measuring Structural Fidelity of Tabular Data
988. ICLR 2026Test-time Domain Generalization for Image Super-resolution
989. ICLR 2026Text-Aware Image Restoration with Diffusion Models
990. ICLR 2026Text2Interact: High-Fidelity and Diverse Text-to-Two-Person Interaction Generation
991. ICLR 2026The Intricate Dance of Prompt Complexity, Quality, Diversity and Consistency in T2I Models
992. ICLR 2026There and Back Again: On the relation between Noise and Image Inversions in Diffusion Models
993. ICLR 2026TIGaussian: Disentangle Gaussians for Spatial-Awared Text-Image-3D Alignment
994. ICLR 2026Time-to-Move: Training-Free Motion-Controlled Video Generation via Dual-Clock Denoising
995. ICLR 2026TIPO: Text to Image with Text Pre-sampling for Prompt Optimization
996. ICLR 2026ToolACE-MT: Non-Autoregressive Generation for Agentic Multi-Turn Interaction
997. ICLR 2026Topology-Preserved Auto-regressive Mesh Generation in the Manner of Weaving Silk
998. ICLR 2026ToProVAR: Efficient Visual Autoregressive Modeling via Tri-Dimensional Entropy-Aware Semantic Analysis and Sparsity Optimization
999. ICLR 2026TOUCH: Text-guided Controllable Generation of Free-Form Hand-Object Interactions
1000. ICLR 2026Towards One-step Causal Video Generation via Adversarial Self-Distillation

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.