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

1,371 papers, page 23 of 28

1101. NeurIPS 2024Probing Social Bias in Labor Market Text Generation by ChatGPT: A Masked Language Model Approach
1102. NeurIPS 2024PromptFix: You Prompt and We Fix the Photo
1103. NeurIPS 2024Provably Robust Score-Based Diffusion Posterior Sampling for Plug-and-Play Image Reconstruction
1104. NeurIPS 2024Prune and Repaint: Content-Aware Image Retargeting for any Ratio
1105. NeurIPS 2024PuLID: Pure and Lightning ID Customization via Contrastive Alignment
1106. NeurIPS 2024Query-Based Adversarial Prompt Generation
1107. NeurIPS 2024Real-world Image Dehazing with Coherence-based Pseudo Labeling and Cooperative Unfolding Network
1108. NeurIPS 2024RealCompo: Balancing Realism and Compositionality Improves Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
1109. NeurIPS 2024Reconstructing the Image Stitching Pipeline: Integrating Fusion and Rectangling into a Unified Inpainting Model
1110. NeurIPS 2024RectifID: Personalizing Rectified Flow with Anchored Classifier Guidance
1111. NeurIPS 2024ReF-LDM: A Latent Diffusion Model for Reference-based Face Image Restoration
1112. NeurIPS 2024RefDrop: Controllable Consistency in Image or Video Generation via Reference Feature Guidance
1113. NeurIPS 2024ReNO: Enhancing One-step Text-to-Image Models through Reward-based Noise Optimization
1114. NeurIPS 2024Reproducibility Study of "ITI-GEN: Inclusive Text-to-Image Generation"
1115. NeurIPS 2024Reproducibility study of “LICO: Explainable Models with Language-Image Consistency"
1116. NeurIPS 2024Reranking Laws for Language Generation: A Communication-Theoretic Perspective
1117. NeurIPS 2024Resfusion: Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models for Image Restoration Based on Prior Residual Noise
1118. NeurIPS 2024Rethinking Imbalance in Image Super-Resolution for Efficient Inference
1119. NeurIPS 2024Rethinking No-reference Image Exposure Assessment from Holism to Pixel: Models, Datasets and Benchmarks
1120. NeurIPS 2024Rethinking Score Distillation as a Bridge Between Image Distributions
1121. NeurIPS 2024Rethinking The Training And Evaluation of Rich-Context Layout-to-Image Generation
1122. NeurIPS 2024Rethinking Transformer for Long Contextual Histopathology Whole Slide Image Analysis
1123. NeurIPS 2024Return of Unconditional Generation: A Self-supervised Representation Generation Method
1124. NeurIPS 2024ROBIN: Robust and Invisible Watermarks for Diffusion Models with Adversarial Optimization
1125. NeurIPS 2024Robustly overfitting latents for flexible neural image compression
1126. NeurIPS 2024Scaling Sign Language Translation
1127. NeurIPS 2024Scaling the Codebook Size of VQ-GAN to 100,000 with a Utilization Rate of 99%
1128. NeurIPS 2024Scene Graph Disentanglement and Composition for Generalizable Complex Image Generation
1129. NeurIPS 2024Scene Graph Generation with Role-Playing Large Language Models
1130. NeurIPS 2024SceneCraft: Layout-Guided 3D Scene Generation
1131. NeurIPS 2024Schedule Your Edit: A Simple yet Effective Diffusion Noise Schedule for Image Editing
1132. NeurIPS 2024SciCode: A Research Coding Benchmark Curated by Scientists
1133. NeurIPS 2024Score Distillation via Reparametrized DDIM
1134. NeurIPS 2024Score-based 3D molecule generation with neural fields
1135. NeurIPS 2024SELECT: A Large-Scale Benchmark of Data Curation Strategies for Image Classification
1136. NeurIPS 2024Selective Generation for Controllable Language Models
1137. NeurIPS 2024SELMA: Learning and Merging Skill-Specific Text-to-Image Experts with Auto-Generated Data
1138. NeurIPS 2024SemFlow: Binding Semantic Segmentation and Image Synthesis via Rectified Flow
1139. NeurIPS 2024Semi-Truths: A Large-Scale Dataset of AI-Augmented Images for Evaluating Robustness of AI-Generated Image detectors
1140. NeurIPS 2024Sequence-Augmented SE(3)-Flow Matching For Conditional Protein Generation
1141. NeurIPS 2024SF-V: Single Forward Video Generation Model
1142. NeurIPS 2024ShareGPT4Video: Improving Video Understanding and Generation with Better Captions
1143. NeurIPS 2024Sharing Key Semantics in Transformer Makes Efficient Image Restoration
1144. NeurIPS 2024Single Image Reflection Separation via Dual-Stream Interactive Transformers
1145. NeurIPS 2024Single Image Unlearning: Efficient Machine Unlearning in Multimodal Large Language Models
1146. NeurIPS 2024Smoothed Energy Guidance: Guiding Diffusion Models with Reduced Energy Curvature of Attention
1147. NeurIPS 2024SnapKV: LLM Knows What You are Looking for Before Generation
1148. NeurIPS 2024Soft Superpixel Neighborhood Attention
1149. NeurIPS 2024Spatio-Temporal Interactive Learning for Efficient Image Reconstruction of Spiking Cameras
1150. NeurIPS 2024SR-CACO-2: A Dataset for Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy Image Super-Resolution

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.