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

1,467 papers, page 21 of 30

1001. ICML 2025REG: Rectified Gradient Guidance for Conditional Diffusion Models
1002. ICML 2025Representative Language Generation
1003. ICML 2025ReQFlow: Rectified Quaternion Flow for Efficient and High-Quality Protein Backbone Generation
1004. ICML 2025Rethinking Score Distilling Sampling for 3D Editing and Generation
1005. ICML 2025Revisiting Diffusion Models: From Generative Pre-training to One-Step Generation
1006. ICML 2025SageAttention2: Efficient Attention with Thorough Outlier Smoothing and Per-thread INT4 Quantization
1007. ICML 2025Scalable Generation of Spatial Transcriptomics from Histology Images via Whole-Slide Flow Matching
1008. ICML 2025Selective Prompt Anchoring for Code Generation
1009. ICML 2025Shielded Diffusion: Generating Novel and Diverse Images using Sparse Repellency
1010. ICML 2025Simple and Critical Iterative Denoising: A Recasting of Discrete Diffusion in Graph Generation
1011. ICML 2025Skrr: Skip and Re-use Text Encoder Layers for Memory Efficient Text-to-Image Generation
1012. ICML 2025SongGen: A Single Stage Auto-regressive Transformer for Text-to-Song Generation
1013. ICML 2025SpargeAttention: Accurate and Training-free Sparse Attention Accelerating Any Model Inference
1014. ICML 2025Spherical-Nested Diffusion Model for Panoramic Image Outpainting
1015. ICML 2025Staged and Physics-Grounded Learning Framework with Hyperintensity Prior for Pre-Contrast MRI Synthesis
1016. ICML 2025Strategic Planning: A Top-Down Approach to Option Generation
1017. ICML 2025Structure-Guided Large Language Models for Text-to-SQL Generation
1018. ICML 2025Symmetry-Aware GFlowNets
1019. ICML 2025Synonymous Variational Inference for Perceptual Image Compression
1020. ICML 2025Synthetic Text Generation for Training Large Language Models via Gradient Matching
1021. ICML 2025Text-to-CAD Generation Through Infusing Visual Feedback in Large Language Models
1022. ICML 2025TextCenGen: Attention-Guided Text-Centric Background Adaptation for Text-to-Image Generation
1023. ICML 2025The Logical Implication Steering Method for Conditional Interventions on Transformer Generation
1024. ICML 2025TRACE Back from the Future: A Probabilistic Reasoning Approach to Controllable Language Generation
1025. ICML 2025Tractable Transformers for Flexible Conditional Generation
1026. ICML 2025Ultra Lowrate Image Compression with Semantic Residual Coding and Compression-aware Diffusion
1027. ICML 2025UniMC: Taming Diffusion Transformer for Unified Keypoint-Guided Multi-Class Image Generation
1028. ICML 2025Upcycling Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Multi-Task Capabilities
1029. ICML 2025Vector Grimoire: Codebook-based Shape Generation under Raster Image Supervision
1030. ICML 2025VerbalTS: Generating Time Series from Texts
1031. ICML 2025Visual Abstraction: A Plug-and-Play Approach for Text-Visual Retrieval
1032. ICML 2025Visual Attention Never Fades: Selective Progressive Attention ReCalibration for Detailed Image Captioning in Multimodal Large Language Models
1033. ICML 2025What If We Recaption Billions of Web Images with LLaMA-3?
1034. ICML 2025When Model Knowledge meets Diffusion Model: Diffusion-assisted Data-free Image Synthesis with Alignment of Domain and Class
1035. ICML 2025Wyckoff Transformer: Generation of Symmetric Crystals
1036. ICML 2025You Always Recognize Me (YARM): Robust Texture Synthesis Against Multi-View Corruption
1037. ICML 2025ZipAR: Parallel Autoregressive Image Generation through Spatial Locality
1038. NeurIPS 20253DOT: Texture Transfer for 3DGS Objects from a Single Reference Image
1039. NeurIPS 2025A Closer Look at NTK Alignment: Linking Phase Transitions in Deep Image Regression
1040. NeurIPS 2025A Diffusion Model for Regular Time Series Generation from Irregular Data with Completion and Masking
1041. NeurIPS 2025Adjusting Initial Noise to Mitigate Memorization in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
1042. NeurIPS 2025Alchemist: Turning Public Text-to-Image Data into Generative Gold
1043. NeurIPS 2025AlignedGen: Aligning Style Across Generated Images
1044. NeurIPS 2025Aligning Text to Image in Diffusion Models is Easier Than You Think
1045. NeurIPS 2025Aligning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models to Human Preference by Classification
1046. NeurIPS 2025ALTER: All-in-One Layer Pruning and Temporal Expert Routing for Efficient Diffusion Generation
1047. NeurIPS 2025AmorLIP: Efficient Language-Image Pretraining via Amortization
1048. NeurIPS 2025Amortized Active Generation of Pareto Sets
1049. NeurIPS 2025AnimateQR: Bridging Aesthetics and Functionality in Dynamic QR Code Generation
1050. NeurIPS 2025Approximately Aligned Decoding

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.