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 25 of 30

1201. NeurIPS 2025Hierarchical Koopman Diffusion: Fast Generation with Interpretable Diffusion Trajectory
1202. NeurIPS 2025HiFlow: Training-free High-Resolution Image Generation with Flow-Aligned Guidance
1203. NeurIPS 2025Highlighting What Matters: Promptable Embeddings for Attribute-Focused Image Retrieval
1204. NeurIPS 2025HyPlaneHead: Rethinking Tri-plane-like Representations in Full-Head Image Synthesis
1205. NeurIPS 2025IBGS: Image-Based Gaussian Splatting
1206. NeurIPS 2025IllumiCraft: Unified Geometry and Illumination Diffusion for Controllable Video Generation
1207. NeurIPS 2025Image Editing As Programs with Diffusion Models
1208. NeurIPS 2025Image Stitching in Adverse Condition: A Bidirectional-Consistency Learning Framework and Benchmark
1209. NeurIPS 2025Image Super-Resolution with Guarantees via Conformalized Generative Models
1210. NeurIPS 2025Image Token Matters: Mitigating Hallucination in Discrete Tokenizer-based Large Vision-Language Models via Latent Editing
1211. NeurIPS 2025ImageSentinel: Protecting Visual Datasets from Unauthorized Retrieval-Augmented Image Generation
1212. NeurIPS 2025Improving Progressive Generation with Decomposable Flow Matching
1213. NeurIPS 2025Improving the Euclidean Diffusion Generation of Manifold Data by Mitigating Score Function Singularity
1214. NeurIPS 2025Increasing the Utility of Synthetic Images through Chamfer Guidance
1215. NeurIPS 2025Inexact Column Generation for Bayesian Network Structure Learning via Difference-of-Submodular Optimization
1216. NeurIPS 2025InfinityStar: Unified Spacetime AutoRegressive Modeling for Visual Generation
1217. NeurIPS 2025Instance-Level Composed Image Retrieval
1218. NeurIPS 2025InstanceAssemble: Layout-Aware Image Generation via Instance Assembling Attention
1219. NeurIPS 2025InstructRestore: Region-Customized Image Restoration with Human Instructions
1220. NeurIPS 2025Interaction-Centric Knowledge Infusion and Transfer for Open Vocabulary Scene Graph Generation
1221. NeurIPS 2025IntrinsiX: High-Quality PBR Generation using Image Priors
1222. NeurIPS 2025Is Artificial Intelligence Generated Image Detection a Solved Problem?
1223. NeurIPS 2025Janus-Pro-R1: Advancing Collaborative Visual Comprehension and Generation via Reinforcement Learning
1224. NeurIPS 2025Kernel Density Steering: Inference-Time Scaling via Mode Seeking for Image Restoration
1225. NeurIPS 2025KGGen: Extracting Knowledge Graphs from Plain Text with Language Models
1226. NeurIPS 2025KLASS: KL-Guided Fast Inference in Masked Diffusion Models
1227. NeurIPS 2025Kuramoto Orientation Diffusion Models
1228. NeurIPS 2025LABridge: Text–Image Latent Alignment Framework via Mean-Conditioned OU Process
1229. NeurIPS 2025Large Language Models for Lossless Image Compression: Next-Pixel Prediction in Language Space is All You Need
1230. NeurIPS 2025Latent Harmony: Synergistic Unified UHD Image Restoration via Latent Space Regularization and Controllable Refinement
1231. NeurIPS 2025LayerCraft: Enhancing Text-to-Image Generation with CoT Reasoning and Layered Object Integration
1232. NeurIPS 2025Learning Diffusion Models with Flexible Representation Guidance
1233. NeurIPS 2025Learning normalized image densities via dual score matching
1234. NeurIPS 2025Learning Relative Gene Expression Trends from Pathology Images in Spatial Transcriptomics
1235. NeurIPS 2025LEDiT: Your Length-Extrapolatable Diffusion Transformer without Positional Encoding
1236. NeurIPS 2025LeMiCa: Lexicographic Minimax Path Caching for Efficient Diffusion-Based Video Generation
1237. NeurIPS 2025LightFair: Towards an Efficient Alternative for Fair T2I Diffusion via Debiasing Pre-trained Text Encoders
1238. NeurIPS 2025Limited Preference Data? Learning Better Reward Model with Latent Space Synthesis
1239. NeurIPS 2025LinEAS: End-to-end Learning of Activation Steering with a Distributional Loss
1240. NeurIPS 2025LLM Meets Diffusion: A Hybrid Framework for Crystal Material Generation
1241. NeurIPS 2025LMFusion: Adapting Pretrained Language Models for Multimodal Generation
1242. NeurIPS 2025Locality in Image Diffusion Models Emerges from Data Statistics
1243. NeurIPS 2025LocDiff: Identifying Locations on Earth by Diffusing in the Hilbert Space
1244. NeurIPS 2025LoRAShop: Training-Free Multi-Concept Image Generation and Editing with Rectified Flow Transformers
1245. NeurIPS 2025Low-Rank Head Avatar Personalization with Registers
1246. NeurIPS 2025Machine Unlearning in 3D Generation: A Perspective-Coherent Acceleration Framework
1247. NeurIPS 2025MaintainCoder: Maintainable Code Generation Under Dynamic Requirements
1248. NeurIPS 2025Mask Image Watermarking
1249. NeurIPS 2025MEIcoder: Decoding Visual Stimuli from Neural Activity by Leveraging Most Exciting Inputs
1250. NeurIPS 2025Memory-Efficient Visual Autoregressive Modeling with Scale-Aware KV Cache Compression

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.