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 3 of 46
- CVPR 2026ConeSep Cone-based Robust Noise-Unlearning Compositional Network for Composed Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2026ConsID-Gen View-Consistent and Identity-Preserving Image-to-Video Generation
- CVPR 2026ConsistCompose Unified Multimodal Layout Control for Image Composition
- CVPR 2026Contrastive Cross-Bag Augmentation for Multiple Instance Learning-based Whole Slide Image
- CVPR 2026Conversational Image Segmentation Grounding Abstract Concepts with Scalable Supervision
- CVPR 2026Convexity-Aware Noise Calibration A Self-Supervised Framework for Noise-Level-Unknown Image Denoising
- CVPR 2026CoordSpeaker Exploiting Gesture Captioning for Coordinated Caption-Empowered Co-Speech Gesture Generation
- CVPR 2026COT-FM Cluster-wise Optimal Transport Flow Matching
- CVPR 2026Coupled Diffusion Sampling for Training-Free Multi-View Image Editing
- CVPR 2026CRAFT-LoRA Content-Style Personalization via Rank-Constrained Adaptation and Training-Free Fusion
- CVPR 2026CREward A Type-Specific Creativity Reward Model
- CVPR 2026CRFT Consistent-Recurrent Feature Flow Transformer for Cross-Modal Image Registration
- CVPR 2026CryoHype Reconstructing a thousand cryo-EM structures with transformer-based hypernetworks
- CVPR 2026CSF Black-box Fingerprinting via Compositional Semantics for Text-to-Image Models
- CVPR 2026CTCal Rethinking Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Cross-Timestep Self-Calibration
- CVPR 2026CubeComposer Spatio-Temporal Autoregressive 4K 360deg Video Generation from Perspective Video
- CVPR 2026Cycle-Consistent Tuning for Layered Image Decomposition
- CVPR 2026D2-FOSA Dual-Diffusion Guided EEG-to-Image Reconstruction with Frequency-Oriented Semantic Alignment
- CVPR 2026D2Dewarp Dual Dimensions Geometric Representation Learning Based Document Image Dewarping
- CVPR 2026Data Leakage Detection and De-duplication in Large Scale Geospatial Image
- CVPR 2026DBMSolver A Training-free Diffusion Bridge Sampler for High-Quality Image-to-Image Translation
- CVPR 2026DeCo Frequency-Decoupled Pixel Diffusion for End-to-End Image Generation
- CVPR 2026Decoupling Defense Strategies for Robust Image Watermarking
- CVPR 2026Degradation-Consistent Test-Time Adaptation for All-in-One Image Restoration
- CVPR 2026Degradation-Robust Fusion An Efficient Degradation-Aware Diffusion Framework for Multimodal Image
- CVPR 2026Dehallu3D Hallucination-Mitigated 3D Generation from a Single Image via Cyclic
- CVPR 2026Delta Rectified Flow Sampling for Text-to-Image Editing
- CVPR 2026Denoising Fast and Slow Difficulty-Aware Adaptive Sampling for Image Generation
- CVPR 2026Depth Hypothesis Guided Iterative Refinement for Event-Image Monocular Depth Estimation
- CVPR 2026DeRVOS Decoupling Consistent Trajectory Generation and Multimodal Understanding for Referring
- CVPR 2026Design Your Ad Personalized Advertising Image and Text Generation with
- CVPR 2026Designing Instance-Level Sampling Schedules via REINFORCE with James-Stein Shrinkage
- CVPR 2026Detect Any AI-Counterfeited Text Image
- CVPR 2026DextER Language-driven Dexterous Grasp Generation with Embodied Reasoning
- CVPR 2026Diff4Splat Repurposing Video Diffusion Models for Dynamic Scene Generation
- CVPR 2026DiffDecompose Layer-Wise Decomposition of Alpha-Composited Images via Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2026Differentiable Laplacian Matrix Guided Superpixel Segmentation
- CVPR 2026Differentiable Vector Quantization for Rate-Distortion Optimization of Generative Image Compression
- CVPR 2026DiffGraph An Automated Agent-driven Model Merging Framework for In-the-Wild Text-to-Image
- CVPR 2026Diffusion Mental Averages
- CVPR 2026Diffusion Probe Generated Image Result Prediction Using CNN Probes
- CVPR 2026Diffusion with a Linguistic Compass Steering the Generation of Clinically
- CVPR 2026Diffusion-Based sRGB Real Noise Generation via Prompt-Driven Noise Representation Learning
- CVPR 2026DiP Taming Diffusion Models in Pixel Space
- CVPR 2026Disentangle-then-Align Non-Iterative Hybrid Multimodal Image Registration via Cross-Scale Feature Disentanglement
- CVPR 2026Disentangled Textual Priors for Diffusion-based Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2026Disentanglement-wise Image Dehazing through Cross-Domain Manifold Consensus
- CVPR 2026Disentangling to Re-couple Resolving the Similarity-Controllability Paradox in Subject-Driven Text-to-Image
- CVPR 2026Distributed Image Compression with Multimodal Side Information at Extremely Low
- CVPR 2026DiT-IC Aligned Diffusion Transformer for Efficient Image Compression
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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.