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 28 of 30

1351. NeurIPS 2025Rethinking Nighttime Image Deraining via Learnable Color Space Transformation
1352. NeurIPS 2025Reward-Instruct: A Reward-Centric Approach to Fast Photo-Realistic Image Generation
1353. NeurIPS 2025RoomEditor: High-Fidelity Furniture Synthesis with Parameter-Sharing U-Net
1354. NeurIPS 2025Safe-Sora: Safe Text-to-Video Generation via Graphical Watermarking
1355. NeurIPS 2025Salient Concept-Aware Generative Data Augmentation
1356. NeurIPS 2025Sample and Map from a Single Convex Potential: Generation using Conjugate Moment Measures
1357. NeurIPS 2025SAP: Exact Sorting in Splatting via Screen-Aligned Primitives
1358. NeurIPS 2025Satellites Reveal Mobility: A Commuting Origin-destination Flow Generator for Global Cities
1359. NeurIPS 2025ScaleDiff: Higher-Resolution Image Synthesis via Efficient and Model-Agnostic Diffusion
1360. NeurIPS 2025Scaling can lead to compositional generalization
1361. NeurIPS 2025Scaling Diffusion Transformers Efficiently via $\mu$P
1362. NeurIPS 2025Scaling Image Geo-Localization to Continent Level
1363. NeurIPS 2025SceneDecorator: Towards Scene-Oriented Story Generation with Scene Planning and Scene Consistency
1364. NeurIPS 2025SceneDesigner: Controllable Multi-Object Image Generation with 9-DoF Pose Manipulation
1365. NeurIPS 2025scSplit: Bringing Severity Cognizance to Image Decomposition in Fluorescence Microscopy
1366. NeurIPS 2025Sculpting Features from Noise: Reward-Guided Hierarchical Diffusion for Task-Optimal Feature Transformation
1367. NeurIPS 2025Seg-VAR:Image Segmentation with Visual Autoregressive Modeling
1368. NeurIPS 2025Seg2Any: Open-set Segmentation-Mask-to-Image Generation with Precise Shape and Semantic Control
1369. NeurIPS 2025Seg4Diff: Unveiling Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation in Text-to-Image Diffusion Transformers
1370. NeurIPS 2025Segment Anything Model Meets Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation: A Novel Perspective
1371. NeurIPS 2025Semantic and Visual Crop-Guided Diffusion Models for Heterogeneous Tissue Synthesis in Histopathology
1372. NeurIPS 2025Semantic Surgery: Zero-Shot Concept Erasure in Diffusion Models
1373. NeurIPS 2025SGCD: Stain-Guided CycleDiffusion for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation of Histopathology Image Classification
1374. NeurIPS 2025Shallow Flow Matching for Coarse-to-Fine Text-to-Speech Synthesis
1375. NeurIPS 2025ShapeLLM-Omni: A Native Multimodal LLM for 3D Generation and Understanding
1376. NeurIPS 2025ShoeFit: A New Dataset and Dual-image-stream DiT Framework for Virtual Footwear Try-On
1377. NeurIPS 2025Shortcutting Pre-trained Flow Matching Diffusion Models is Almost Free Lunch
1378. NeurIPS 2025ShortListing Model: A Streamlined Simplex Diffusion for Discrete Variable Generation
1379. NeurIPS 2025Show-o2: Improved Native Unified Multimodal Models
1380. NeurIPS 2025Simple Distillation for One-Step Diffusion Models
1381. NeurIPS 2025SingRef6D: Monocular Novel Object Pose Estimation with a Single RGB Reference
1382. NeurIPS 2025SnapMoGen: Human Motion Generation from Expressive Texts
1383. NeurIPS 2025SoPo: Text-to-Motion Generation Using Semi-Online Preference Optimization
1384. NeurIPS 2025Sparse Image Synthesis via Joint Latent and RoI Flow
1385. NeurIPS 2025SpecMER: Fast Protein Generation with K-mer Guided Speculative Decoding
1386. NeurIPS 2025Speculative Jacobi-Denoising Decoding for Accelerating Autoregressive Text-to-image Generation
1387. NeurIPS 2025Spike-RetinexFormer: Rethinking Low-light Image Enhancement with Spiking Neural Networks
1388. NeurIPS 2025Spiking Meets Attention: Efficient Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution with Attention Spiking Neural Networks
1389. NeurIPS 2025SplitFlow: Flow Decomposition for Inversion-Free Text-to-Image Editing
1390. NeurIPS 2025Spot the Fake: Large Multimodal Model-Based Synthetic Image Detection with Artifact Explanation
1391. NeurIPS 2025SPRO: Improving Image Generation via Self-Play
1392. NeurIPS 2025SRHand: Super-Resolving Hand Images and 3D Shapes via View/Pose-aware Neural Image Representations and Explicit Meshes
1393. NeurIPS 2025SRSR: Enhancing Semantic Accuracy in Real-World Image Super-Resolution with Spatially Re-Focused Text-Conditioning
1394. NeurIPS 2025SSIMBaD: Sigma Scaling with SSIM-Guided Balanced Diffusion for AnimeFace Colorization
1395. NeurIPS 2025Stable Cinemetrics : Structured Taxonomy and Evaluation for Professional Video Generation
1396. NeurIPS 2025Stable Part Diffusion 4D: Multi-View RGB and Kinematic Parts Video Generation
1397. NeurIPS 2025STARFlow: Scaling Latent Normalizing Flows for High-resolution Image Synthesis
1398. NeurIPS 2025Stop the Nonconsensual Use of Nude Images in Research
1399. NeurIPS 2025Straight-Line Diffusion Model for Efficient 3D Molecular Generation
1400. NeurIPS 2025Stratify or Die: Rethinking Data Splits in Image Segmentation

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.