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 22 of 104

1051. ICML 2026Autoregressive, Yet Revisable: In Decoding Revision for Secure Code Generation
1052. ICML 2026Backward SDE–Based Diffusion for Physics-Constrained Generation
1053. ICML 2026Balancing Understanding and Generation in Discrete Diffusion Models
1054. ICML 2026Beyond Looking Up, Try Looking Around: Harmonizing Global Structure and Local Consistency in Optimal Transport for Short Text Clustering
1055. ICML 2026Beyond Problem Solving: UOJ-Bench for Evaluating Code Generation, Hacking, and Repair in Competitive Programming
1056. ICML 2026Boost the Identity-Preserving Embedding for Consistent Visual Generation
1057. ICML 2026Both Semantics and Reconstruction Matter: Making Representation Encoders Ready for Text-to-Image Generation and Editing
1058. ICML 2026BrainJanus: A Unified Model for Understanding and Generation across Brain, Vision, and Language
1059. ICML 2026Breaking the Lock-in: Diversifying Text-to-Image Generation via Representation Modulation
1060. ICML 2026Bridging Tokens and Geometry: Token-wise 3D Supervision for CAD Generation
1061. ICML 2026Bridging Your Imagination with Audio-Video Generation via a Unified Director
1062. ICML 2026CADFit: Precise Mesh-to-CAD Program Generation with Hybrid Optimization
1063. ICML 2026CamGeo: Sparse Camera-Conditioned Image-to-Video Generation with 3D Geometry Priors
1064. ICML 2026Categorical Flow Maps
1065. ICML 2026Causal-Adapter: Taming Text-to-Image Diffusion for Faithful Counterfactual Generation
1066. ICML 2026Cert-LAS: Toward Certified Model Ownership Verification for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Layer-Adaptive Smoothing
1067. ICML 2026Characterizing the Effect of Noise in Language Generation in the Limit
1068. ICML 2026CoD-Lite: Real-Time Diffusion-Based Generative Image Compression
1069. ICML 2026CoF-T2I: Video Models as Pure Visual Reasoners for Text-to-Image Generation
1070. ICML 2026CoFrGeNet: Continued Fraction Architectures for Language Generation
1071. ICML 2026Comp-Attn: Present-and-Align Attention for Compositional Video Generation
1072. ICML 2026Concept Removal for Frontier Image Generative Models
1073. ICML 2026Concept-Guided Tokenization: Closing the Gap Between Reconstruction and Generation
1074. ICML 2026Conformal Reliability: A New Evaluation Metric for Conditional Generation
1075. ICML 2026ConTSG-Bench: A Unified Benchmark for Conditional Time Series Generation
1076. ICML 2026CorrSteer: Generation-Time LLM Steering via Correlated Sparse Autoencoder Features
1077. ICML 2026CountsDiff: A diffusion model on the natural numbers for generation and imputation of count-based data
1078. ICML 2026Cross-Modal Semantic Decoupling and Transfer for Text-to-Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification
1079. ICML 2026CSD: Content-aware Speculative Decoding for Efficient Image Generation
1080. ICML 2026DEER: A Benchmark for Evaluating Deep Research Agents on Expert Report Generation
1081. ICML 2026Degradation-Aware Metric Prompting for Hyperspectral Image Restoration
1082. ICML 2026DetailMaster: Can Your Text-to-Image Model Handle Long Prompts?
1083. ICML 2026Deterministic Component Mining for Multi-Framework UI2Code Generation
1084. ICML 2026DGS-Net: Distillation-Guided Gradient Surgery for CLIP Fine-Tuning in AI-Generated Image Detection
1085. ICML 2026Difference-Aware Decision Learning for Multimodal Image Fusion
1086. ICML 2026Direct 3D-Aware Object Insertion via Decomposed Visual Proxies
1087. ICML 2026Diversity-Preserved Distribution Matching Distillation for Fast Visual Synthesis
1088. ICML 2026Do Text Edits Generalize to Visual Generation? Benchmarking Cross-Modal Knowledge Editing in UMMs
1089. ICML 2026Dual Optimal Transport for Multi-Concept Composition: Structural Alignment and Texture Injection in Diffusion Models
1090. ICML 2026Dual-View Predictive Diffusion: Lightweight Speech Enhancement via Spectrogram-Image Synergy
1091. ICML 2026DyPE: Dynamic Position Extrapolation for Ultra High Resolution Diffusion
1092. ICML 2026ECA: Efficient Continual Alignment for Open-Ended Image-to-Text Generation
1093. ICML 2026Efficient Generative Modeling beyond Memoryless Diffusion via Adjoint Schrödinger Bridge Matching
1094. ICML 2026Efficient Learned Image Compression without Entropy Coding
1095. ICML 2026Embedding Trust: Semantic Isotropy Predicts Nonfactuality in Long-Form Text Generation
1096. ICML 2026End-to-End Autoregressive Image Generation with 1D Semantic Tokenizer
1097. ICML 2026Enhancing Train-Free Infinite-Frame Generation for Consistent Long Videos
1098. ICML 2026Entropy-Aware Dynamic KV Cache Sparsification for Autoregressive Image Generation and Editing
1099. ICML 2026Envisioning Beyond the Few: Disentangled Semantics and Primitives for Few-Shot Atypical Layout-to-Image Generation
1100. ICML 2026Escaping Mode Collapse in LLM Generation via Geometric Regulation

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.