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

118 papers, page 3 of 3

101. ICLR 2023Self-Guided Noise-Free Data Generation for Efficient Zero-Shot Learning
102. ICLR 2023Semantic Uncertainty: Linguistic Invariances for Uncertainty Estimation in Natural Language Generation
103. ICLR 2023SketchKnitter: Vectorized Sketch Generation with Diffusion Models
104. ICLR 2023StrucTexTv2: Masked Visual-Textual Prediction for Document Image Pre-training
105. ICLR 2023StyleMorph: Disentangled 3D-Aware Image Synthesis with a 3D Morphable StyleGAN
106. ICLR 2023Tailoring Language Generation Models under Total Variation Distance
107. ICLR 2023That Label's got Style: Handling Label Style Bias for Uncertain Image Segmentation
108. ICLR 2023The Augmented Image Prior: Distilling 1000 Classes by Extrapolating from a Single Image
109. ICLR 2023This Looks Like It Rather Than That: ProtoKNN For Similarity-Based Classifiers
110. ICLR 2023Towards Smooth Video Composition
111. ICLR 2023Training-Free Structured Diffusion Guidance for Compositional Text-to-Image Synthesis
112. ICLR 2023Unicom: Universal and Compact Representation Learning for Image Retrieval
113. ICLR 2023Unified Detoxifying and Debiasing in Language Generation via Inference-time Adaptive Optimization
114. ICLR 2023Unified Discrete Diffusion for Simultaneous Vision-Language Generation
115. ICLR 2023Unsupervised visualization of image datasets using contrastive learning
116. ICLR 2023VA-DepthNet: A Variational Approach to Single Image Depth Prediction
117. ICLR 2023Verifying the Union of Manifolds Hypothesis for Image Data
118. ICLR 2023Zero-Shot Image Restoration Using Denoising Diffusion Null-Space Model

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.