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
612 papers, page 3 of 13
- CVPR 2025ConceptGuard: Continual Personalized Text-to-Image Generation with Forgetting and Confusion Mitigation
- CVPR 2025Conditional Balance: Improving Multi-Conditioning Trade-Offs in Image Generation
- CVPR 2025Conformal Prediction and MLLM aided Uncertainty Quantification in Scene Graph Generation
- CVPR 2025Consistency Posterior Sampling for Diverse Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2025Consistent and Controllable Image Animation with Motion Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025ConText-CIR: Learning from Concepts in Text for Composed Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2025Continuous Locomotive Crowd Behavior Generation
- CVPR 2025Controllable Human Image Generation with Personalized Multi-Garments
- CVPR 2025Convex Combination Star Shape Prior for Data-driven Image Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025CoSER: Towards Consistent Dense Multiview Text-to-Image Generator for 3D Creation
- CVPR 2025CPath-Omni: A Unified Multimodal Foundation Model for Patch and Whole Slide Image Analysis in Computational Pathology
- CVPR 2025CraftsMan3D: High-fidelity Mesh Generation with 3D Native Diffusion and Interactive Geometry Refiner
- CVPR 2025Cropper: Vision-Language Model for Image Cropping through In-Context Learning
- CVPR 2025Cross-Rejective Open-Set SAR Image Registration
- CVPR 2025CSC-PA: Cross-image Semantic Correlation via Prototype Attentions for Single-network Semi-supervised Breast Tumor Segmentation
- CVPR 2025CustAny: Customizing Anything from A Single Example
- CVPR 2025CXPMRG-Bench: Pre-training and Benchmarking for X-ray Medical Report Generation on CheXpert Plus Dataset
- CVPR 2025D^2iT: Dynamic Diffusion Transformer for Accurate Image Generation
- CVPR 2025DAGSM: Disentangled Avatar Generation with GS-enhanced Mesh
- CVPR 2025DarkIR: Robust Low-Light Image Restoration
- CVPR 2025DART: Disease-aware Image-Text Alignment and Self-correcting Re-alignment for Trustworthy Radiology Report Generation
- CVPR 2025Data-Free Group-Wise Fully Quantized Winograd Convolution via Learnable Scales
- CVPR 2025DCEvo: Discriminative Cross-Dimensional Evolutionary Learning for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion
- CVPR 2025DeClotH: Decomposable 3D Cloth and Human Body Reconstruction from a Single Image
- CVPR 2025Decouple Distortion from Perception: Region Adaptive Diffusion for Extreme-low Bitrate Perception Image Compression
- CVPR 2025Decoupling Training-Free Guided Diffusion by ADMM
- CVPR 2025DefectFill: Realistic Defect Generation with Inpainting Diffusion Model for Visual Inspection
- CVPR 2025DeformCL: Learning Deformable Centerline Representation for Vessel Extraction in 3D Medical Image
- CVPR 2025Degradation-Aware Feature Perturbation for All-in-One Image Restoration
- CVPR 2025Derivative-Free Diffusion Manifold-Constrained Gradient for Unified XAI
- CVPR 2025DesignDiffusion: High-Quality Text-to-Design Image Generation with Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Detect-and-Guide: Self-regulation of Diffusion Models for Safe Text-to-Image Generation via Guideline Token Optimization
- CVPR 2025Deterministic Image-to-Image Translation via Denoising Brownian Bridge Models with Dual Approximators
- CVPR 2025Devil is in the Detail: Towards Injecting Fine Details of Image Prompt in Image Generation via Conflict-free Guidance and Stratified Attention
- CVPR 2025DI-PCG: Diffusion-based Efficient Inverse Procedural Content Generation for High-quality 3D Asset Creation
- CVPR 2025Diff-Palm: Realistic Palmprint Generation with Polynomial Creases and Intra-Class Variation Controllable Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Difference Inversion: Interpolate and Isolate the Difference with Token Consistency for Image Analogy Generation
- CVPR 2025Differentiable Inverse Rendering with Interpretable Basis BRDFs
- CVPR 2025DiffFNO: Diffusion Fourier Neural Operator
- CVPR 2025DiffLocks: Generating 3D Hair from a Single Image using Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025DiffPortrait360: Consistent Portrait Diffusion for 360 View Synthesis
- CVPR 2025Diffusion Bridge: Leveraging Diffusion Model to Reduce the Modality Gap Between Text and Vision for Zero-Shot Image Captioning
- CVPR 2025Diffusion Model is Effectively Its Own Teacher
- CVPR 2025Diffusion Self-Distillation for Zero-Shot Customized Image Generation
- CVPR 2025Diffusion-4K: Ultra-High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Diffusion-based Event Generation for High-Quality Image Deblurring
- CVPR 2025DifIISR: A Diffusion Model with Gradient Guidance for Infrared Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2025DIFIX3D+: Improving 3D Reconstructions with Single-Step Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025DINOv2 Meets Text: A Unified Framework for Image- and Pixel-Level Vision-Language Alignment
- CVPR 2025DirectTriGS: Triplane-based Gaussian Splatting Field Representation for 3D 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.