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 26 of 35

1251. ICML 2026UFO: Chain-of-Evaluation for Omni-Condition Alignment in Multi-Modal Image Generation
1252. ICML 2026Unified Safe In-context Image Generation in Multimodal Diffusion Transformers via Restricting Unsafe Information Flows
1253. ICML 2026Unifying Deep Stochastic Processes for Image Enhancement
1254. ICML 2026Unifying Heterogeneous Degradations: Uncertainty-Aware Diffusion Bridge Model for All-in-One Image Restoration
1255. ICML 2026Unifying Masked Diffusion Models with Various Generation Orders and Beyond
1256. ICML 2026UniMedVL: Unifying Medical Multimodal Understanding and Generation through Observation-Knowledge-Analysis
1257. ICML 2026UniPercept: Towards Unified Perceptual-Level Image Understanding across Aesthetics, Quality, Structure, and Texture
1258. ICML 2026Unlocking Speech–Text Compositional Powers: Instruction-Following Speech Language Models without Instruction Tuning
1259. ICML 2026Variable-Length Tokenization via Learnable Global Merging for Diffusion Transformers
1260. ICML 2026Variational Flow Maps: Make Some Noise for One-Step Conditional Generation
1261. ICML 2026Variational Learning for Insertion-based Generation
1262. ICML 2026ViewMask-1-to-3: Multi-View Consistent Image Generation via Multimodal Discrete Diffusion Models
1263. ICML 2026WeatherSyn: An Instruction Tuning MLLM For Weather Forecasting Report Generation
1264. ICML 2026When Attributes Disagree: Gradient Conflict in Image Aesthetic Assessment
1265. ICML 2026Winformer: Transcending Pairwise Similarity for Time-series Generation
1266. ICML 2026WISE: World Knowledge-Informed Semantic Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation
1267. ICML 2026World-Shaper: A Unified Framework for 360° Panoramic Editing
1268. ICML 2026You Don’t Need All That Attention: Surgical Memorization Mitigation in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
1269. NeurIPS 2026$\text{PartConcepts}$: A Unified Mechanism for Fine-Grained Part Localization and Generation
1270. NeurIPS 2026$\texttt{bispectrum}$: Selective $G$-Bispectra Made Practical
1271. NeurIPS 2026$\texttt{RNAGenScape}$: property-guided, optimized generation of mRNA sequences with manifold Langevin dynamics
1272. NeurIPS 2026$h$-control: Training-Free Camera Control via Block-Conditional Gibbs Refinement
1273. NeurIPS 2026$SE(2)$-Aware Conditional Distribution Transport for Vehicle Trajectory Generation
1274. NeurIPS 20263D Consistency Tokens
1275. NeurIPS 2026A Closer Look at Dynamic Scene Graph Generation in the Era of Multimodal Large Language Models
1276. NeurIPS 2026A Favorable Regime Between ODE and SDE for Few-Step Diffusion Sampling
1277. NeurIPS 2026A Hierarchical World Model for Driving
1278. NeurIPS 2026A Theoretical Analysis of Test-Driven Code Generation
1279. NeurIPS 2026A Theory of Time-Sensitive Language Generation: Sparse Hallucination Beats Mode Collapse
1280. NeurIPS 2026A Unified Image and Video Encoder for Multimodal LLMs
1281. NeurIPS 2026A World Model of Radiologist Reading for Medical Image Representation Learning
1282. NeurIPS 2026A2I: Adjacency-to-Image Structural Encodings for Graph Learning
1283. NeurIPS 2026AbSpecAlign: Specificity Reward Alignment for Antigen-Conditioned Antibody Generation
1284. NeurIPS 2026Accelerated Image Editing via Consistency-Aware Source Token Pruning
1285. NeurIPS 2026Accelerating Rectified Flow Models via Trajectory-Aware Caching
1286. NeurIPS 2026AdaPCLA: Curriculum Prior Internalization For Long-Tailed Longitudinal EHR Generation
1287. NeurIPS 2026Addressable Memory for Video World Models
1288. NeurIPS 2026Advancing Narrative Long Video Generation via Training-Free Identity-Aware Memory
1289. NeurIPS 2026AegisFlow: Training-free Non-myopic Path-safe Guided Flow Matching
1290. NeurIPS 2026Affine-Image Propagation for Tight and Scalable $\ell_{2}$ Neural Network Verification
1291. NeurIPS 2026AgenticOCR: Parsing Only What You Need for Efficient Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1292. NeurIPS 2026AgentOdyssey: Open-Ended Long-Horizon Text Game Generation for Test-Time Continual Learning Agents
1293. NeurIPS 2026AHPA: Adaptive Hierarchical Prior Alignment for Diffusion Transformers
1294. NeurIPS 2026AIR: Rethinking Image-Text Offset Alignment in Multimodal Contrastive Representation Space
1295. NeurIPS 2026Amortized Guidance for Image Inpainting with Pretrained Diffusion Models
1296. NeurIPS 2026AnaDiffusion: Anatomically Compositional Latent Diffusion for Controllable 3D Brain MRI Generation
1297. NeurIPS 2026AnalogToBi: Device-Level Analog Circuit Topology Generation via Bipartite Graph and Grammar Guided Decoding
1298. NeurIPS 2026Anchoring LLM-based Chest X-ray Report Generation via Diffusion Language Planning
1299. NeurIPS 2026Antibody Generation via Redistributed Latent Diffusion
1300. NeurIPS 2026Are Text-to-Image Models Inductivist Turkeys? A Counterfactual Benchmark for Causal Reasoning

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.