Image Generation papers, 2023–2026
Text-to-image and synthesis
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 5,184 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 170 | 118 | 74 | 418 | 780 |
| 2024 | 318 | 199 | 156 | 543 | 1,216 |
| 2025 | 430 | 278 | 147 | 612 | 1,467 |
| 2026 | 453 | 349 | 230 | 689 | 1,721 |
Representative papers
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- 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 26 of 30
- NeurIPS 2025MesaTask: Towards Task-Driven Tabletop Scene Generation via 3D Spatial Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2025Mesh-RFT: Enhancing Mesh Generation via Fine-grained Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
- NeurIPS 2025MeshCoder: LLM-Powered Structured Mesh Code Generation from Point Clouds
- NeurIPS 2025MetaDefense: Defending Fine-tuning based Jailbreak Attack Before and During Generation
- NeurIPS 2025MGE-LDM: Joint Latent Diffusion for Simultaneous Music Generation and Source Extraction
- NeurIPS 2025Mind-the-Glitch: Visual Correspondence for Detecting Inconsistencies in Subject-Driven Generation
- NeurIPS 2025Mitigating Occlusions in Virtual Try-On via A Simple-Yet-Effective Mask-Free Framework
- NeurIPS 2025Mitigating Sexual Content Generation via Embedding Distortion in Text-conditioned Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2025Mixture of Inputs: Text Generation Beyond Discrete Token Sampling
- NeurIPS 2025MJ-Bench: Is Your Multimodal Reward Model Really a Good Judge for Text-to-Image Generation?
- NeurIPS 2025MLEP: Multi-granularity Local Entropy Patterns for Generalized AI-generated Image Detection
- NeurIPS 2025MMIG-Bench: Towards Comprehensive and Explainable Evaluation of Multi-Modal Image Generation Models
- NeurIPS 2025MMMG: A Massive, Multidisciplinary, Multi-Tier Generation Benchmark for Text-to-Image Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2025MobileODE: An Extra Lightweight Network
- NeurIPS 2025MODEM: A Morton-Order Degradation Estimation Mechanism for Adverse Weather Image Recovery
- NeurIPS 2025Moment- and Power-Spectrum-Based Gaussianity Regularization for Text-to-Image Models
- NeurIPS 2025MoonCast: High-Quality Zero-Shot Podcast Generation
- NeurIPS 2025More Than Generation: Unifying Generation and Depth Estimation via Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2025More Than Just Functional: LLM-as-a-Critique for Efficient Code Generation
- NeurIPS 2025MotionBind: Multi-Modal Human Motion Alignment for Retrieval, Recognition, and Generation
- NeurIPS 2025MotionRAG: Motion Retrieval-Augmented Image-to-Video Generation
- NeurIPS 2025MSTAR: Box-free Multi-query Scene Text Retrieval with Attention Recycling
- NeurIPS 2025MultiHuman-Testbench: Benchmarking Image Generation for Multiple Humans
- NeurIPS 2025MV-CoLight: Efficient Object Compositing with Consistent Lighting and Shadow Generation
- NeurIPS 2025Native-Resolution Image Synthesis
- NeurIPS 2025Navigating the MIL Trade-Off: Flexible Pooling for Whole Slide Image Classification
- NeurIPS 2025NEED: Cross-Subject and Cross-Task Generalization for Video and Image Reconstruction from EEG Signals
- NeurIPS 2025Neither Valid nor Reliable? Investigating the Use of LLMs as Judges
- NeurIPS 2025NEP: Autoregressive Image Editing via Next Editing Token Prediction
- NeurIPS 2025Neptune-X: Active X-to-Maritime Generation for Universal Maritime Object Detection
- NeurIPS 2025Neural-Driven Image Editing
- NeurIPS 2025NFIG: Multi-Scale Autoregressive Image Generation via Frequency Ordering
- NeurIPS 2025Noise Consistency Training: A Native Approach for One-step Generator in Learning Additional Controls
- NeurIPS 2025Non-Adaptive Adversarial Face Generation
- NeurIPS 2025ObCLIP: Oblivious CLoud-Device Hybrid Image Generation with Privacy Preservation
- NeurIPS 2025OmniConsistency: Learning Style-Agnostic Consistency from Paired Stylization Data
- NeurIPS 2025Omnidirectional 3D Scene Reconstruction from Single Image
- NeurIPS 2025OmniGen-AR: AutoRegressive Any-to-Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2025OmniSVG: A Unified Scalable Vector Graphics Generation Model
- NeurIPS 2025OmniTry: Virtual Try-On Anything without Masks
- NeurIPS 2025On Fairness of Unified Multimodal Large Language Model for Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2025On the Entropy Calibration of Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025On Union-Closedness of Language Generation
- NeurIPS 2025One Stone with Two Birds: A Null-Text-Null Frequency-Aware Diffusion Models for Text-Guided Image Inpainting
- NeurIPS 2025One-Step Diffusion-Based Image Compression with Semantic Distillation
- NeurIPS 2025One-Step is Enough: Sparse Autoencoders for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2025OneIG-Bench: Omni-dimensional Nuanced Evaluation for Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2025OpenWorldSAM: Extending SAM2 for Universal Image Segmentation with Language Prompts
- NeurIPS 2025OptiScene: LLM-driven Indoor Scene Layout Generation via Scaled Human-aligned Data Synthesis and Multi-Stage Preference Optimization
- NeurIPS 2025ORIGEN: Zero-Shot 3D Orientation Grounding in Text-to-Image Generation
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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.