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 29 of 30
- NeurIPS 2025Struct-Bench: A Benchmark for Differentially Private Structured Text Generation
- NeurIPS 2025StyleGuard: Preventing Text-to-Image-Model-based Style Mimicry Attacks by Style Perturbations
- NeurIPS 2025Support Vector Generation: Kernelizing Large Language Models for Efficient Zero‑Shot NLP
- NeurIPS 2025Switchable Token-Specific Codebook Quantization For Face Image Compression
- NeurIPS 2025SynBrain: Enhancing Visual-to-fMRI Synthesis via Probabilistic Representation Learning
- NeurIPS 2025System-Embedded Diffusion Bridge Models
- NeurIPS 2025Table2LaTeX-RL: High-Fidelity LaTeX Code Generation from Table Images via Reinforced Multimodal Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025TalkCuts: A Large-Scale Dataset for Multi-Shot Human Speech Video Generation
- NeurIPS 2025TEMPO: Temporal Multi-scale Autoregressive Generation of Protein Conformational Ensembles
- NeurIPS 2025Text to Sketch Generation with Multi-Styles
- NeurIPS 2025Text-Aware Real-World Image Super-Resolution via Diffusion Model with Joint Segmentation Decoders
- NeurIPS 2025Text-to-Code Generation for Modular Building Layouts in Building Information Modeling
- NeurIPS 2025The Future Unmarked: Watermark Removal in AI-Generated Images via Next-Frame Prediction
- NeurIPS 2025The Matrix: Infinite-Horizon World Generation with Real-Time Moving Control
- NeurIPS 2025The Narrow Gate: Localized Image-Text Communication in Native Multimodal Models
- NeurIPS 2025Top-H Decoding: Adapting the Creativity and Coherence with Bounded Entropy in Text Generation
- NeurIPS 2025Tortoise and Hare Guidance: Accelerating Diffusion Model Inference with Multirate Integration
- NeurIPS 2025Toward a Unified Geometry Understanding : Riemannian Diffusion Framework for Graph Generation and Prediction
- NeurIPS 2025Toward Real-world Text Image Forgery Localization: Structured and Interpretable Data Synthesis
- NeurIPS 2025Toward Relative Positional Encoding in Spiking Transformers
- NeurIPS 2025Towards a Golden Classifier-Free Guidance Path via Foresight Fixed Point Iterations
- NeurIPS 2025Towards Better & Faster Autoregressive Image Generation: From the Perspective of Entropy
- NeurIPS 2025Towards General Modality Translation with Contrastive and Predictive Latent Diffusion Bridge
- NeurIPS 2025Towards Generalizable Detector for Generated Image
- NeurIPS 2025Towards Implicit Aggregation: Robust Image Representation for Place Recognition in the Transformer Era
- NeurIPS 2025Towards Prospective Medical Image Reconstruction via Knowledge-Informed Dynamic Optimal Transport
- NeurIPS 2025Towards Robust Uncertainty Calibration for Composed Image Retrieval
- NeurIPS 2025Towards Unified Multimodal Interleaved Generation via Group Relative Policy Optimization
- NeurIPS 2025Track, Inpaint, Resplat: Subject-driven 3D and 4D Generation with Progressive Texture Infilling
- NeurIPS 2025Training-Free Constrained Generation With Stable Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2025Training-Free Safe Text Embedding Guidance for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2025Transferable Black-Box One-Shot Forging of Watermarks via Image Preference Models
- NeurIPS 2025Transstratal Adversarial Attack: Compromising Multi-Layered Defenses in Text-to-Image Models
- NeurIPS 2025TTS-VAR: A Test-Time Scaling Framework for Visual Auto-Regressive Generation
- NeurIPS 2025UltraHR-100K: Enhancing UHR Image Synthesis with A Large-Scale High-Quality Dataset
- NeurIPS 2025UltraLED: Learning to See Everything in Ultra-High Dynamic Range Scenes
- NeurIPS 2025UltraVideo: High-Quality UHD Video Dataset with Comprehensive Captions
- NeurIPS 2025Understand Before You Generate: Self-Guided Training for Autoregressive Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2025Uni-Instruct: One-step Diffusion Model through Unified Diffusion Divergence Instruction
- NeurIPS 2025Unified all-atom molecule generation with neural fields
- NeurIPS 2025UniLumos: Fast and Unified Image and Video Relighting with Physics-Plausible Feedback
- NeurIPS 2025Universal Few-shot Spatial Control for Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2025Unleashing the Power of One-Step Diffusion based Image Super-Resolution via a Large-Scale Diffusion Discriminator
- NeurIPS 2025Unlocking SLM Potential for Data Analysis Code Generation via Non-Parametric Knowledge Distillation
- NeurIPS 2025URLs Help, Topics Guide: Understanding Metadata Utility in LLM Training
- NeurIPS 2025VASA-3D: Lifelike Audio-Driven Gaussian Head Avatars from a Single Image
- NeurIPS 2025VETA-DiT: Variance-Equalized and Temporally Adaptive Quantization for Efficient 4-bit Diffusion Transformers
- NeurIPS 2025vHector and HeisenVec: Scalable Vector Graphics Generation Through Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Video Perception Models for 3D Scene Synthesis
- NeurIPS 2025VideoMAR: Autoregressive Video Generation with Continuous Tokens
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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.