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

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101. ICML 2026Learning Context-Conditioned Predicate Semantics via Prototype Feedback
102. ICML 2026Let EEG Models Learn EEG
103. ICML 2026LineageFlow: Flow Matching for High-Fidelity Family-Aware Protein Sequence Generation
104. ICML 2026LithoGRPO: Fast Inverse Lithography via GRPO Reinforced Flow Matching
105. ICML 2026LiveFigure: Generating Editable Scientific Illustration with VLM Agents
106. ICML 2026LoCoT2V-Bench: Benchmarking Long-Form and Complex Text-to-Video Generation
107. ICML 2026LOVE: Benchmarking and Evaluating Text-to-Video Generation and Video-to-Text Interpretation
108. ICML 2026MacroGuide: Topological Guidance for Macrocycle Generation
109. ICML 2026MAMBO-G: Magnitude-Aware Mitigation for Boosted Guidance
110. ICML 2026Mean Flow Distillation: Robust and Stable Distillation for Flow Matching Models
111. ICML 2026Measuring and Mitigating Post-Hoc Rationalization in Reverse Chain-of-Thought Generation
112. ICML 2026Med-SegLens: Latent-Level Model Diffing for Interpretable Medical Image Segmentation
113. ICML 2026MICE-Bench: A Challenging and Comprehensive Benchmark for Multi-Reference Image Creation and Editing
114. ICML 2026MIRO: MultI-Reward cOnditioned pretraining improves T2I quality and efficiency
115. ICML 2026MIST: Moment-Aligned Invariant Stability Transform for Robust Flow Matching
116. ICML 2026Mitigating Bias in Locally Constrained Decoding via Tractable Proposals
117. ICML 2026Mitigating Noise-Induced Layout Priors for Object Counting in Diffusion Models
118. ICML 2026MobileFusion: Mobile-Friendly Infrared and Visible Image Fusion via Structural Re-parameterization
119. ICML 2026Mode Seeking meets Mean Seeking for Fast Long Video Generation
120. ICML 2026Motion Attribution for Video Generation
121. ICML 2026Motion-Aware Caching for Efficient Autoregressive Video Generation
122. ICML 2026Multi-marginal temporal Schrödinger Bridge Matching from unpaired data
123. ICML 2026NanoFLUX: Distillation-Driven Compression of Large Text-to-Image Generation Models for Mobile Devices
124. ICML 2026NNiT: Width-Agnostic Neural Network Generation with Structurally Aligned Weight Spaces
125. ICML 2026Noisy-Channel Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding
126. ICML 2026Normalization Equivariance for Arbitrary Backbones, with Application to Image Denoising
127. ICML 2026OcclusionFormer: Arranging Z-Order for Layout-Grounded Image Generation
128. ICML 2026On Stable Long-Form Generation: Benchmarking and Mitigating Length Volatility
129. ICML 2026On the Difficulty of Learning a Meta-network for Training Data Selection
130. ICML 2026One-step Latent-free Image Generation with Pixel Mean Flows
131. ICML 2026One-step Optimal Transport via Regularized Distribution Matching Distillation
132. ICML 2026OpenGPT-4o-Image: A Comprehensive Dataset for Advanced Image Generation and Editing
133. ICML 2026Optimizing Diversity and Quality through Base-Aligned Model Collaboration
134. ICML 2026Optimizing Few-Step Generation with Adaptive Matching Distillation
135. ICML 2026Orchestrating Spatial Semantics via a Zone-Graph Paradigm for Intricate Indoor Scene Generation
136. ICML 2026OrchJail: Jailbreaking Tool-Calling Text-to-Image Agents by Orchestration-Guided Fuzzing
137. ICML 2026PaperBanana: Automating Academic Illustration for AI Scientists
138. ICML 2026Parameter Manifold Purification
139. ICML 2026Periodic Bayesian Flow Networks with Additive Accuracy
140. ICML 2026PhyScene3D: Physically Consistent 3D Interactive Tabletop Scene Generation
141. ICML 2026Planar Symmetric Pattern Generation
142. ICML 2026Pose-ICL: 3D-Aware In-Context Learning for Pose-Controllable Subject Customization
143. ICML 2026Primal-Spectral Generative Modeling: Fast Analytical Generation via Pseudoinverse Lévy Inversion
144. ICML 2026Q-Tab: Quantized Tabular Data Generator
145. ICML 2026RAIGen: Rare Attribute Identification in Text-to-Image Generative Models
146. ICML 2026Random Selection Reveals Implicit Knowledge Consensus in Code Generation
147. ICML 2026RECOVER: Reliable Detection of Unauthorized Data Usage in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Inversion Robustness
148. ICML 2026RelaxFlow: Text-Driven Amodal 3D Generation
149. ICML 2026Responsible Text-to-Image Diffusion: Interpretable and Linearly Controllable Semantics for Fair and Safe Generation
150. ICML 2026Restoring Initial Noise Sensitivity in Text-to-Image Distillation through Geometric Alignment

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.