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
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
2,262 papers, page 29 of 46
- CVPR 2024Customization Assistant for Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2024CustomListener: Text-guided Responsive Interaction for User-friendly Listening Head Generation
- CVPR 2024CVT-xRF: Contrastive In-Voxel Transformer for 3D Consistent Radiance Fields from Sparse Inputs
- CVPR 2024D3still: Decoupled Differential Distillation for Asymmetric Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2024DEADiff: An Efficient Stylization Diffusion Model with Disentangled Representations
- CVPR 2024Deep Equilibrium Diffusion Restoration with Parallel Sampling
- CVPR 2024Deep Generative Model based Rate-Distortion for Image Downscaling Assessment
- CVPR 2024Deep Single Image Camera Calibration by Heatmap Regression to Recover Fisheye Images Under Manhattan World Assumption
- CVPR 2024Defense Against Adversarial Attacks on No-Reference Image Quality Models with Gradient Norm Regularization
- CVPR 2024DemoCaricature: Democratising Caricature Generation with a Rough Sketch
- CVPR 2024DemoFusion: Democratising High-Resolution Image Generation With No $$$
- CVPR 2024Depth Information Assisted Collaborative Mutual Promotion Network for Single Image Dehazing
- CVPR 2024Describing Differences in Image Sets with Natural Language
- CVPR 2024Desigen: A Pipeline for Controllable Design Template Generation
- CVPR 2024Design2Cloth: 3D Cloth Generation from 2D Masks
- CVPR 2024DetDiffusion: Synergizing Generative and Perceptive Models for Enhanced Data Generation and Perception
- CVPR 2024DIEM: Decomposition-Integration Enhancing Multimodal Insights
- CVPR 2024DiffAgent: Fast and Accurate Text-to-Image API Selection with Large Language Model
- CVPR 2024DiffEditor: Boosting Accuracy and Flexibility on Diffusion-based Image Editing
- CVPR 2024DiffForensics: Leveraging Diffusion Prior to Image Forgery Detection and Localization
- CVPR 2024DiffInDScene: Diffusion-based High-Quality 3D Indoor Scene Generation
- CVPR 2024DiffMorpher: Unleashing the Capability of Diffusion Models for Image Morphing
- CVPR 2024DiffSHEG: A Diffusion-Based Approach for Real-Time Speech-driven Holistic 3D Expression and Gesture Generation
- CVPR 2024DiffuseMix: Label-Preserving Data Augmentation with Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Diffusion Models Without Attention
- CVPR 2024Diffusion Reflectance Map: Single-Image Stochastic Inverse Rendering of Illumination and Reflectance
- CVPR 2024Diffusion Time-step Curriculum for One Image to 3D Generation
- CVPR 2024Diffusion-based Blind Text Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2024Diffusion-driven GAN Inversion for Multi-Modal Face Image Generation
- CVPR 2024DiffusionGAN3D: Boosting Text-guided 3D Generation and Domain Adaptation by Combining 3D GANs and Diffusion Priors
- CVPR 2024DIRECT-3D: Learning Direct Text-to-3D Generation on Massive Noisy 3D Data
- CVPR 2024Direct2.5: Diverse Text-to-3D Generation via Multi-view 2.5D Diffusion
- CVPR 2024DisCo: Disentangled Control for Realistic Human Dance Generation
- CVPR 2024Discover and Mitigate Multiple Biased Subgroups in Image Classifiers
- CVPR 2024Discriminative Probing and Tuning for Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Distilling ODE Solvers of Diffusion Models into Smaller Steps
- CVPR 2024Distilling Semantic Priors from SAM to Efficient Image Restoration Models
- CVPR 2024Distraction is All You Need: Memory-Efficient Image Immunization against Diffusion-Based Image Editing
- CVPR 2024Diversified and Personalized Multi-rater Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024DocRes: A Generalist Model Toward Unifying Document Image Restoration Tasks
- CVPR 2024Don't Look into the Dark: Latent Codes for Pluralistic Image Inpainting
- CVPR 2024Doubly Abductive Counterfactual Inference for Text-based Image Editing
- CVPR 2024DragDiffusion: Harnessing Diffusion Models for Interactive Point-based Image Editing
- CVPR 2024DreamAvatar: Text-and-Shape Guided 3D Human Avatar Generation via Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024DreamComposer: Controllable 3D Object Generation via Multi-View Conditions
- CVPR 2024DreamControl: Control-Based Text-to-3D Generation with 3D Self-Prior
- CVPR 2024DreamMatcher: Appearance Matching Self-Attention for Semantically-Consistent Text-to-Image Personalization
- CVPR 2024DreamPropeller: Supercharge Text-to-3D Generation with Parallel Sampling
- CVPR 2024DreamSalon: A Staged Diffusion Framework for Preserving Identity-Context in Editable Face Generation
- CVPR 2024DSGG: Dense Relation Transformer for an End-to-end Scene Graph 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.