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 23 of 30

1101. NeurIPS 2025Cue3D: Quantifying the Role of Image Cues in Single-Image 3D Generation
1102. NeurIPS 2025Cypher-RI: Reinforcement Learning for Integrating Schema Selection into Cypher Generation
1103. NeurIPS 2025DCI: Dual-Conditional Inversion for Boosting Diffusion-Based Image Editing
1104. NeurIPS 2025DeblurDiff: Real-Word Image Deblurring with Generative Diffusion Models
1105. NeurIPS 2025Deep Compositional Phase Diffusion for Long Motion Sequence Generation
1106. NeurIPS 2025Deep Tree Tensor Networks
1107. NeurIPS 2025DEFT: Decompositional Efficient Fine-Tuning for Text-to-Image Models
1108. NeurIPS 2025Degradation-Aware Dynamic Schrödinger Bridge for Unpaired Image Restoration
1109. NeurIPS 2025Delving into Cascaded Instability: A Lipschitz Continuity View on Image Restoration and Object Detection Synergy
1110. NeurIPS 2025Delving into RL for Image Generation with CoT: A Study on DPO vs. GRPO
1111. NeurIPS 2025Deno-IF: Unsupervised Noisy Visible and Infrared Image Fusion Method
1112. NeurIPS 2025Denoising Trajectory Biases for Zero-Shot AI-Generated Image Detection
1113. NeurIPS 2025Depth-Supervised Fusion Network for Seamless-Free Image Stitching
1114. NeurIPS 2025Derivative-Free Guidance in Continuous and Discrete Diffusion Models with Soft Value-based Decoding
1115. NeurIPS 2025DermaCon-IN: A Multiconcept-Annotated Dermatological Image Dataset of Indian Skin Disorders for Clinical AI Research
1116. NeurIPS 2025Detecting Generated Images by Fitting Natural Image Distributions
1117. NeurIPS 2025DetectiumFire: A Comprehensive Multi-modal Dataset Bridging Vision and Language for Fire Understanding
1118. NeurIPS 2025DexFlyWheel: A Scalable and Self-improving Data Generation Framework for Dexterous Manipulation
1119. NeurIPS 2025DGSolver: Diffusion Generalist Solver with Universal Posterior Sampling for Image Restoration
1120. NeurIPS 2025DiCo: Revitalizing ConvNets for Scalable and Efficient Diffusion Modeling
1121. NeurIPS 2025Diff-ICMH: Harmonizing Machine and Human Vision in Image Compression with Generative Prior
1122. NeurIPS 2025DiffEye: Diffusion-Based Continuous Eye-Tracking Data Generation Conditioned on Natural Images
1123. NeurIPS 2025DIFFSSR: Stereo Image Super-resolution Using Differential Transformer
1124. NeurIPS 2025Diffusion Adaptive Text Embedding for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
1125. NeurIPS 2025Diffusion Feature Field for Text-based 3D Editing with Gaussian Splatting
1126. NeurIPS 2025Dimension-Reduction Attack! Video Generative Models are Experts on Controllable Image Synthesis
1127. NeurIPS 2025DIPO: Dual-State Images Controlled Articulated Object Generation Powered by Diverse Data
1128. NeurIPS 2025Direct Numerical Layout Generation for 3D Indoor Scene Synthesis via Spatial Reasoning
1129. NeurIPS 2025Direct3D-S2: Gigascale 3D Generation Made Easy with Spatial Sparse Attention
1130. NeurIPS 2025DISCO: DISCrete nOise for Conditional Control in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
1131. NeurIPS 2025Discovering Latent Graphs with GFlowNets for Diverse Conditional Image Generation
1132. NeurIPS 2025Distil-E2D: Distilling Image-to-Depth Priors for Event-Based Monocular Depth Estimation
1133. NeurIPS 2025Distilled Decoding 2: One-step Sampling of Image Auto-regressive Models with Conditional Score Distillation
1134. NeurIPS 2025DMol: A Highly Efficient and Chemical Motif-Preserving Molecule Generation Platform
1135. NeurIPS 2025DNAEdit: Direct Noise Alignment for Text-Guided Rectified Flow Editing
1136. NeurIPS 2025Domain-RAG: Retrieval-Guided Compositional Image Generation for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Object Detection
1137. NeurIPS 2025Don’t Let It Fade: Preserving Edits in Diffusion Language Models via Token Timestep Allocation
1138. NeurIPS 2025DP²O-SR: Direct Perceptual Preference Optimization for Real-World Image Super-Resolution
1139. NeurIPS 2025DreamLight: Towards Harmonious and Consistent Image Relighting
1140. NeurIPS 2025Dual Data Alignment Makes AI-Generated Image Detector Easier Generalizable
1141. NeurIPS 2025DualCnst: Enhancing Zero-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection via Text-Image Consistency in Vision-Language Models
1142. NeurIPS 2025EchoShot: Multi-Shot Portrait Video Generation
1143. NeurIPS 2025EditInfinity: Image Editing with Binary-Quantized Generative Models
1144. NeurIPS 2025EF-3DGS: Event-Aided Free-Trajectory 3D Gaussian Splatting
1145. NeurIPS 2025Efficient Part-level 3D Object Generation via Dual Volume Packing
1146. NeurIPS 2025Efficient RAW Image Deblurring with Adaptive Frequency Modulation
1147. NeurIPS 2025Efficient Rectified Flow for Image Fusion
1148. NeurIPS 2025Enabling Instructional Image Editing with In-Context Generation in Large Scale Diffusion Transformer
1149. NeurIPS 2025End-to-End Vision Tokenizer Tuning
1150. NeurIPS 2025Enhancing Consistency of Flow-Based Image Editing through Kalman Control

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.