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 27 of 30

1301. NeurIPS 2025Orochi: Versatile Biomedical Image Processor
1302. NeurIPS 2025OSCAR: One-Step Diffusion Codec Across Multiple Bit-rates
1303. NeurIPS 2025OverLayBench: A Benchmark for Layout-to-Image Generation with Dense Overlaps
1304. NeurIPS 2025OVERT: A Benchmark for Over-Refusal Evaluation on Text-to-Image Models
1305. NeurIPS 2025PairEdit: Learning Semantic Variations for Exemplar-based Image Editing
1306. NeurIPS 2025PandaPose: 3D Human Pose Lifting from a Single Image via Propagating 2D Pose Prior to 3D Anchor Space
1307. NeurIPS 2025Panoptic Captioning: An Equivalence Bridge for Image and Text
1308. NeurIPS 2025PanoWan: Lifting Diffusion Video Generation Models to 360$^\circ$ with Latitude/Longitude-aware Mechanisms
1309. NeurIPS 2025Parameterized Synthetic Text Generation with SimpleStories
1310. NeurIPS 2025PAROAttention: Pattern-Aware ReOrdering for Efficient Sparse and Quantized Attention in Visual Generation Models
1311. NeurIPS 2025PartCrafter: Structured 3D Mesh Generation via Compositional Latent Diffusion Transformers
1312. NeurIPS 2025PathVQ: Reforming Computational Pathology Foundation Model for Whole Slide Image Analysis via Vector Quantization
1313. NeurIPS 2025PBR-SR: Mesh PBR Texture Super Resolution from 2D Image Priors
1314. NeurIPS 2025Perceive Anything: Recognize, Explain, Caption, and Segment Anything in Images and Videos
1315. NeurIPS 2025Perturb a Model, Not an Image: Towards Robust Privacy Protection via Anti-Personalized Diffusion Models
1316. NeurIPS 2025PF∆: A Benchmark Dataset for Power Flow under Load, Generation, and Topology Variations
1317. NeurIPS 2025Pin the Tail on the Model: Blindfolded Repair of User-Flagged Failures in Text-to-Image Services
1318. NeurIPS 2025PIVNO: Particle Image Velocimetry Neural Operator
1319. NeurIPS 2025PixPerfect: Seamless Latent Diffusion Local Editing with Discriminative Pixel-Space Refinement
1320. NeurIPS 2025Plenodium: Underwater 3D Scene Reconstruction with Plenoptic Medium Representation
1321. NeurIPS 2025Plug-and-Play Context Feature Reuse for Efficient Masked Generation
1322. NeurIPS 2025PocketSR: The Super-Resolution Expert in Your Pocket Mobiles
1323. NeurIPS 2025PoGDiff: Product-of-Gaussians Diffusion Models for Imbalanced Text-to-Image Generation
1324. NeurIPS 2025Policy Optimized Text-to-Image Pipeline Design
1325. NeurIPS 2025PolyJuice Makes It Real: Black-Box, Universal Red Teaming for Synthetic Image Detectors
1326. NeurIPS 2025PolyVivid: Vivid Multi-Subject Video Generation with Cross-Modal Interaction and Enhancement
1327. NeurIPS 2025PoseCrafter: Extreme Pose Estimation with Hybrid Video Synthesis
1328. NeurIPS 2025Precise Information Control in Long-Form Text Generation
1329. NeurIPS 2025Preventing Shortcuts in Adapter Training via Providing the Shortcuts
1330. NeurIPS 2025Projection-Manifold Regularized Latent Diffusion for Robust General Image Fusion
1331. NeurIPS 2025Prompt-Guided Alignment with Information Bottleneck Makes Image Compression Also a Restorer
1332. NeurIPS 2025PyraMotion: Attentional Pyramid-Structured Motion Integration for Co-Speech 3D Gesture Synthesis
1333. NeurIPS 2025Q-Insight: Understanding Image Quality via Visual Reinforcement Learning
1334. NeurIPS 2025QuARI: Query Adaptive Retrieval Improvement
1335. NeurIPS 2025RAG-IGBench: Innovative Evaluation for RAG-based Interleaved Generation in Open-domain Question Answering
1336. NeurIPS 2025Re-ttention: Ultra Sparse Visual Generation via Attention Statistical Reshape
1337. NeurIPS 2025Real-World Adverse Weather Image Restoration via Dual-Level Reinforcement Learning with High-Quality Cold Start
1338. NeurIPS 2025Recognition through Reasoning: Reinforcing Image Geo-localization with Large Vision-Language Models
1339. NeurIPS 2025Rectified CFG++ for Flow Based Models
1340. NeurIPS 2025Red-Teaming Text-to-Image Systems by Rule-based Preference Modeling
1341. NeurIPS 2025Reduction-based Pseudo-label Generation for Instance-dependent Partial Label Learning
1342. NeurIPS 2025Reinforcement Learning Meets Masked Generative Models: Mask-GRPO for Text-to-Image Generation
1343. NeurIPS 2025Reinventing Multi-Agent Collaboration through Gaussian-Image Synergy in Diffusion Policies
1344. NeurIPS 2025Removing Concepts from Text-to-Image Models with Only Negative Samples
1345. NeurIPS 2025REN: Fast and Efficient Region Encodings from Patch-Based Image Encoders
1346. NeurIPS 2025Rendering-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Vector Graphics Generation
1347. NeurIPS 2025RepLDM: Reprogramming Pretrained Latent Diffusion Models for High-Quality, High-Efficiency, High-Resolution Image Generation
1348. NeurIPS 2025Representation Entanglement for Generation: Training Diffusion Transformers Is Much Easier Than You Think
1349. NeurIPS 2025RespoDiff: Dual-Module Bottleneck Transformation for Responsible & Faithful T2I Generation
1350. NeurIPS 2025Rethinking Gradient Step Denoiser: Towards Truly Pseudo-Contractive Operator

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.