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 29 of 35

1401. NeurIPS 2026Estimating Model-Level Membership Inference Vulnerability Without Reference Models
1402. NeurIPS 2026Everything at Every Scale: Scale-Invariant Diffusion with Continuous Super-Resolution
1403. NeurIPS 2026Exact Regular-Constrained Sampling for Variable-Order Markov Generation
1404. NeurIPS 2026Exploring Advertising Manipulation in Diffusion Image Generation
1405. NeurIPS 2026FaceProbe: Recovering HDR Environment Map via Masked Diffusion and Physical Preference
1406. NeurIPS 2026FaithfulFaces: Pose-Faithful Facial Identity Preservation for Text-to-Video Generation
1407. NeurIPS 2026FARE: Forensic Acceptance Region Estimation for Catching Bait-and-Switch Image Generators
1408. NeurIPS 2026Fast 4D Mesh Generation by Spatio-Temporal Attention Chains
1409. NeurIPS 2026Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian Splatting for High-Fidelity Animatable Hand Avatar Reconstruction from a Single Image
1410. NeurIPS 2026Fine-Grained Benchmark Generation for Comprehensive Evaluation of Foundation Models
1411. NeurIPS 2026FiRe: Fine-grained Multimodal Reasoning for Enhanced Image Generation
1412. NeurIPS 2026Firefly: Illuminating Verified Real-world Tool Call Data Generation
1413. NeurIPS 2026FlashControl: One-Step Controllable Generator via Distillation-Friendly Single-Stream Teachers.
1414. NeurIPS 2026FlexCover: Flexible Cover Song Generation via Symbolic Lead Sheet Control
1415. NeurIPS 2026Flow-DPPO: Divergence Proximal Policy Optimization for Flow Matching Models
1416. NeurIPS 2026Flowette: Flow Matching with Graphette Priors for Graph Generation
1417. NeurIPS 2026Focus, Align, and Diffuse: Time-Series-Aware Keyframe Diffusion for Cardiac Dynamic Synthesis from Sparse Observations
1418. NeurIPS 2026FreqCa: Accelerating Image generation and editing via Frequency-Aware Caching
1419. NeurIPS 2026From Generation to Restoration: Residual Diffusion for Neural Channel Decoding
1420. NeurIPS 2026From Heartbeat to Cardiochoreography: A Mechanics Foundation Model for Individualized 4D Cardiac Motion Generation Conditioned on Electrophysiology
1421. NeurIPS 2026From Structural Feedback to Prompt Policies: Learning Faithful Text-to-Image Prompt Editors
1422. NeurIPS 2026G-Zero: Self-Play for Open-Ended Generation from Zero Data
1423. NeurIPS 2026G$^2$TR: Generation-Guided Visual Token Reduction for Separate-Encoder Unified Multimodal Models
1424. NeurIPS 2026G2Fusion: Geometric-to-Generative Image Fusion via Registration-Restoration Evolution
1425. NeurIPS 2026GARDO: Reinforcing Diffusion Models without Reward Hacking
1426. NeurIPS 2026Gen-Searcher: Reinforcing Agentic Search for Image Generation
1427. NeurIPS 2026Gender Artifacts from Art History to Text-to-Image Generation
1428. NeurIPS 2026Generating the Wild: Individual-Consistent Image-to-Video Generation for Wildlife
1429. NeurIPS 2026Generation Navigator: A State-Aware Agentic Framework for Image Generation
1430. NeurIPS 2026Generation-Drift-Guided Block Pruning for Large Language Models
1431. NeurIPS 2026GenEvolve: Self-Evolving Image Generation Agents via Tool-Orchestrated Visual Experience Distillation
1432. NeurIPS 2026GenScale: A Benchmark for Relative Object Scale in Image Generation and Editing
1433. NeurIPS 2026GeoFidelity-Bench: Evaluating Block-Conditioned Geographic Fidelity in Text-to-Image Street-View Generation
1434. NeurIPS 2026GeoG2U-Bench: When Does Generation Help Understanding in Ultra-High-Resolution Remote Sensing?
1435. NeurIPS 2026GeoMamba: Geometry-Aware State Space Modeling for Image Restoration
1436. NeurIPS 2026Geometry-Aware Representation Denoising for Multi-view Image Restoration and 3D Reconstruction
1437. NeurIPS 2026GeoRouter: Dynamic Paradigm Routing for Worldwide Image Geolocalization
1438. NeurIPS 2026Glance Before You Tell: Anomaly-Guided 3D Radiology Report Generation with Heat-Conduction Slice Encoders
1439. NeurIPS 2026GlyphAnchor: Enhancing Visual Text Rendering via Position-Anchored Glyph Priors
1440. NeurIPS 2026GRASP: Guided Residual Adapters with Sample-wise Partitioning
1441. NeurIPS 2026GRINQH: Graded Input-based Quantization Hierarchy for Efficient LLM Generation
1442. NeurIPS 2026Grounded-Exo2Ego: Structured Semantic Grounding for Robust Exocentric-to-Egocentric Video Generation
1443. NeurIPS 2026Guided Data Generation for Understanding Model Behavior
1444. NeurIPS 2026Guiding Visual Autoregressive Models through Spectrum Weakening
1445. NeurIPS 2026GWScore: A structural diversity metric for consistent text-to-image generation
1446. NeurIPS 2026HalluciText: Mitigating Text Hallucinations in Diffusion-Based Image Restoration
1447. NeurIPS 2026Harnessing Image Diffusion Prior for Photo-Realistic Video Restoration
1448. NeurIPS 2026HELICS: Biobank-scale Conditional Synthetic Genome Generation via Latent Flow Matching
1449. NeurIPS 2026Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering via Relaxed Representatives
1450. NeurIPS 2026Hierarchical Variational Policies for Reward-Guided Diffusion

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.