Image Generation papers, 2023–2026

Text-to-image and synthesis

Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 5,184 papers are tagged with this topic.

Key findings

Papers per year

Papers per venue

Counts by year and venue

Image Generation papers by year and venue
YearNeurIPSICLRICMLCVPRTotal
202317011874418780
20243181991565431,216
20254302781476121,467
20264533492306891,721

Representative papers

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All Image Generation papers

1,721 papers, page 21 of 35

  1. ICLR 2026Towards Sequence Modeling Alignment between Tokenizer and Autoregressive Model
  2. ICLR 2026Towards Text-Mask Consistency in Medical Image Segmentation
  3. ICLR 2026Training-Free Reward-Guided Image Editing via Trajectory Optimal Control
  4. ICLR 2026Trajectory Generation with Conservative Value Guidance for Offline Reinforcement Learning
  5. ICLR 2026TrajTok: What makes for a good trajectory tokenizer in behavior generation?
  6. ICLR 2026TriC-Motion: Tri-Domain Causal Modeling Grounded Text-to-Motion Generation
  7. ICLR 2026Trust The Typical
  8. ICLR 2026TS-Attn: Temporal-wise Separable Attention for Multi-Event Video Generation
  9. ICLR 2026TTOM: Test-Time Optimization and Memorization for Compositional Video Generation
  10. ICLR 2026Turning Internal Gap into Self-Improvement: Promoting the Generation-Understanding Unification in MLLMs
  11. ICLR 2026TwinFlow: Realizing One-step Generation on Large Models with Self-adversarial Flows
  12. ICLR 2026Ultra-Fast Language Generation via Discrete Diffusion Divergence Instruct
  13. ICLR 2026Uncovering Conceptual Blindspots in Generative Image Models Using Sparse Autoencoders
  14. ICLR 2026Understanding vs. Generation: Navigating Optimization Dilemma in Multimodal Models
  15. ICLR 2026Uni-CoT: Towards Unified Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Across Text and Vision
  16. ICLR 2026UniCalli: A Unified Diffusion Framework for Column-Level Generation and Recognition of Chinese Calligraphy
  17. ICLR 2026UniEdit-Flow: Unleashing Inversion and Editing in the Era of Flow Models
  18. ICLR 2026UniF$^2$ace: A $\underline{Uni}$fied $\underline{F}$ine-grained $\underline{Face}$ Understanding and Generation Model
  19. ICLR 2026Uniform Discrete Diffusion with Metric Path for Video Generation
  20. ICLR 2026UniLiP: Adapting CLIP for Unified Multimodal Understanding, Generation and Editing
  21. ICLR 2026Using maximal information auxiliary variables to improve synthetic data generation based on TabPFN foundation models
  22. ICLR 2026Value Matching: Scalable and Gradient-Free Reward-Guided Flow Adaptation
  23. ICLR 2026VARestorer: One-Step VAR Distillation for Real-World Image Super-Resolution
  24. ICLR 2026VINCIE: Unlocking In-context Image Editing from Video
  25. ICLR 2026VIRTUE: Visual-Interactive Text-Image Universal Embedder
  26. ICLR 2026VisualPrompter: Semantic-Aware Prompt Optimization with Visual Feedback for Text-to-Image Synthesis
  27. ICLR 2026VLM-Guided Adaptive Negative Prompting for Creative Generation
  28. ICLR 2026VMDiff: Visual Mixing Diffusion for Limitless Cross-Object Synthesis
  29. ICLR 2026VOGUE: Unified Understanding, Generation, and Editing for Videos
  30. ICLR 2026VSF: Simple, Efficient, and Effective Negative Guidance in Few-Step Image Generation Models By Value Sign Flip
  31. ICLR 2026W-EDIT: A Wavelet-Based Frequency-Aware Framework for Text-Driven Image Editing
  32. ICLR 2026Watermark-based Attribution of AI-Generated Content
  33. ICLR 2026Weak-to-Strong Diffusion
  34. ICLR 2026WeTok: Powerful Discrete Tokenization for High-Fidelity Visual Reconstruction
  35. ICLR 2026What Exactly Does Guidance Do in Masked Discrete Diffusion Models
  36. ICLR 2026WithAnyone: Toward Controllable and ID Consistent Image Generation
  37. ICLR 2026WorldSplat: Gaussian-Centric Feed-Forward 4D Scene Generation for Autonomous Driving
  38. ICLR 2026XIL: Cross-Expanding Incremental Learning
  39. ICML 2026A Flat Vocabulary or a Rich Hierarchy? Re-introducing Intrinsic Structure Transforms the Autoregressive Image Generation
  40. ICML 2026AAD-1: Asymmetric Adversarial Distillation for One-Step Autoregressive Video Generation
  41. ICML 2026ACTG-ARL: Differentially Private Conditional Text Generation with RL-Boosted Control
  42. ICML 2026Addressing Semantic Blind Spots in Text-to-SQL via Component Pre-generation and AST Matching Rewards
  43. ICML 2026AlgoVeri: An Aligned Benchmark for Verified Code Generation on Classical Algorithms
  44. ICML 2026AlignVid: Taming Visual Dominance via Training-Free Attention Modulation in Text-guided Image-to-Video Generation
  45. ICML 2026Anomaly-Preference Image Generation
  46. ICML 2026AnyBand-Diff: A Unified Remote Sensing Image Generation and Band Repair Framework with Spectral Priors
  47. ICML 2026AnyCanvas: Potential Field Guidance for Training-Free Spatial Control in Text-to-Image Diffusion
  48. ICML 2026Are First-Order Diffusion Samplers Really Slower? A Fast Forward-Value Approach
  49. ICML 2026AtelierEval: Agentic Evaluation of Humans & LLMs as Text-to-Image Prompters
  50. ICML 2026Autoregressive Image Generation with Masked Bit Modeling

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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.

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