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

1,721 papers, page 24 of 35

1151. ICML 2026MICE-Bench: A Challenging and Comprehensive Benchmark for Multi-Reference Image Creation and Editing
1152. ICML 2026MIRO: MultI-Reward cOnditioned pretraining improves T2I quality and efficiency
1153. ICML 2026MIST: Moment-Aligned Invariant Stability Transform for Robust Flow Matching
1154. ICML 2026Mitigating Bias in Locally Constrained Decoding via Tractable Proposals
1155. ICML 2026Mitigating Noise-Induced Layout Priors for Object Counting in Diffusion Models
1156. ICML 2026MobileFusion: Mobile-Friendly Infrared and Visible Image Fusion via Structural Re-parameterization
1157. ICML 2026Mode Seeking meets Mean Seeking for Fast Long Video Generation
1158. ICML 2026Motion Attribution for Video Generation
1159. ICML 2026Motion-Aware Caching for Efficient Autoregressive Video Generation
1160. ICML 2026Multi-marginal temporal Schrödinger Bridge Matching from unpaired data
1161. ICML 2026NanoFLUX: Distillation-Driven Compression of Large Text-to-Image Generation Models for Mobile Devices
1162. ICML 2026NNiT: Width-Agnostic Neural Network Generation with Structurally Aligned Weight Spaces
1163. ICML 2026Noisy-Channel Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding
1164. ICML 2026Normalization Equivariance for Arbitrary Backbones, with Application to Image Denoising
1165. ICML 2026OcclusionFormer: Arranging Z-Order for Layout-Grounded Image Generation
1166. ICML 2026On Stable Long-Form Generation: Benchmarking and Mitigating Length Volatility
1167. ICML 2026On the Difficulty of Learning a Meta-network for Training Data Selection
1168. ICML 2026One-step Latent-free Image Generation with Pixel Mean Flows
1169. ICML 2026One-step Optimal Transport via Regularized Distribution Matching Distillation
1170. ICML 2026OpenGPT-4o-Image: A Comprehensive Dataset for Advanced Image Generation and Editing
1171. ICML 2026Optimizing Diversity and Quality through Base-Aligned Model Collaboration
1172. ICML 2026Optimizing Few-Step Generation with Adaptive Matching Distillation
1173. ICML 2026Orchestrating Spatial Semantics via a Zone-Graph Paradigm for Intricate Indoor Scene Generation
1174. ICML 2026OrchJail: Jailbreaking Tool-Calling Text-to-Image Agents by Orchestration-Guided Fuzzing
1175. ICML 2026PaperBanana: Automating Academic Illustration for AI Scientists
1176. ICML 2026Parameter Manifold Purification
1177. ICML 2026Periodic Bayesian Flow Networks with Additive Accuracy
1178. ICML 2026PhyScene3D: Physically Consistent 3D Interactive Tabletop Scene Generation
1179. ICML 2026Planar Symmetric Pattern Generation
1180. ICML 2026Pose-ICL: 3D-Aware In-Context Learning for Pose-Controllable Subject Customization
1181. ICML 2026Primal-Spectral Generative Modeling: Fast Analytical Generation via Pseudoinverse Lévy Inversion
1182. ICML 2026Q-Tab: Quantized Tabular Data Generator
1183. ICML 2026RAIGen: Rare Attribute Identification in Text-to-Image Generative Models
1184. ICML 2026Random Selection Reveals Implicit Knowledge Consensus in Code Generation
1185. ICML 2026RECOVER: Reliable Detection of Unauthorized Data Usage in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Inversion Robustness
1186. ICML 2026RelaxFlow: Text-Driven Amodal 3D Generation
1187. ICML 2026Responsible Text-to-Image Diffusion: Interpretable and Linearly Controllable Semantics for Fair and Safe Generation
1188. ICML 2026Restoring Initial Noise Sensitivity in Text-to-Image Distillation through Geometric Alignment
1189. ICML 2026ReTabSyn: Realistic Tabular Data Synthesis via Reinforcement Learning
1190. ICML 2026Rethinking 3D Shape Generation: Diffusion over Superquadrics
1191. ICML 2026Rethinking Generative Image Pretraining: How Far Are We From Scaling Up Next-Pixel Prediction?
1192. ICML 2026Riemannian MeanFlow for One-Step Generation on Manifolds
1193. ICML 2026RobuQ: Pushing DiTs to W1.58A2 via Robust Activation Quantization
1194. ICML 2026Rooted Absorbed Prefix Trajectory Balance with Submodular Replay for GFlowNet Training
1195. ICML 2026RSF-GLLM: Bridging the Semantic Gap in Multi-Hop Knowledge Graph QA via Recurrent Soft-Flow and Decoupled LLM Generation
1196. ICML 2026S-Quant: Rethinking Weight Quantization with Seed-Based Generation
1197. ICML 2026Safe Autoregressive Image Generation with Iterative Self-Improving Codebooks
1198. ICML 2026SAMT: Generating Structured Avatar Meshes and Textures from a Single Image
1199. ICML 2026Scalable Single-Cell Gene Expression Generation with Latent Diffusion Models
1200. ICML 2026ScaleErasure: Inference-Time Minimal Intervention for Precise Concept Erasure in Next-Scale Autoregressive Image Generation

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.