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

156 papers, page 3 of 4

101. ICML 2024Not Just Pretty Pictures: Toward Interventional Data Augmentation Using Text-to-Image Generators
102. ICML 2024On Mechanistic Knowledge Localization in Text-to-Image Generative Models
103. ICML 2024On the Trajectory Regularity of ODE-based Diffusion Sampling
104. ICML 2024Optimal Eye Surgeon: Finding image priors through sparse generators at initialization
105. ICML 2024PerceptAnon: Exploring the Human Perception of Image Anonymization Beyond Pseudonymization for GDPR
106. ICML 2024PinNet: Pinpoint Instructive Information for Retrieval Augmented Code-to-Text Generation
107. ICML 2024Plug-and-Play image restoration with Stochastic deNOising REgularization
108. ICML 2024Position: Bayesian Deep Learning is Needed in the Age of Large-Scale AI
109. ICML 2024Position: Towards Implicit Prompt For Text-To-Image Models
110. ICML 2024Position: What makes an image realistic?
111. ICML 2024Post-hoc Part-Prototype Networks
112. ICML 2024Probabilistic Generating Circuits - Demystified
113. ICML 2024Prompt Sketching for Large Language Models
114. ICML 2024Prompting4Debugging: Red-Teaming Text-to-Image Diffusion Models by Finding Problematic Prompts
115. ICML 2024Protein Conformation Generation via Force-Guided SE(3) Diffusion Models
116. ICML 2024Proteus: Exploring Protein Structure Generation for Enhanced Designability and Efficiency
117. ICML 2024Quantum Implicit Neural Representations
118. ICML 2024RAUCA: A Novel Physical Adversarial Attack on Vehicle Detectors via Robust and Accurate Camouflage Generation
119. ICML 2024Referee Can Play: An Alternative Approach to Conditional Generation via Model Inversion
120. ICML 2024ReGAL: Refactoring Programs to Discover Generalizable Abstractions
121. ICML 2024Rejuvenating image-GPT as Strong Visual Representation Learners
122. ICML 2024Residual-Conditioned Optimal Transport: Towards Structure-Preserving Unpaired and Paired Image Restoration
123. ICML 2024Retrieval-Augmented Score Distillation for Text-to-3D Generation
124. ICML 2024Revisiting Context Aggregation for Image Matting
125. ICML 2024RoboCodeX: Multimodal Code Generation for Robotic Behavior Synthesis
126. ICML 2024Robust Universal Adversarial Perturbations
127. ICML 2024Scalable High-Resolution Pixel-Space Image Synthesis with Hourglass Diffusion Transformers
128. ICML 2024Scalable Pre-training of Large Autoregressive Image Models
129. ICML 2024Scale-Free Image Keypoints Using Differentiable Persistent Homology
130. ICML 2024Scaling Rectified Flow Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis
131. ICML 2024Scene Graph Generation Strategy with Co-occurrence Knowledge and Learnable Term Frequency
132. ICML 2024Score identity Distillation: Exponentially Fast Distillation of Pretrained Diffusion Models for One-Step Generation
133. ICML 2024See More Details: Efficient Image Super-Resolution by Experts Mining
134. ICML 2024Self-Infilling Code Generation
135. ICML 2024Semantic-Aware Human Object Interaction Image Generation
136. ICML 2024Sharpness-Aware Data Generation for Zero-shot Quantization
137. ICML 2024Sparse Cocktail: Every Sparse Pattern Every Sparse Ratio All At Once
138. ICML 2024Stochastic Conditional Diffusion Models for Robust Semantic Image Synthesis
139. ICML 2024Stochastic positional embeddings improve masked image modeling
140. ICML 2024StrokeNUWA—Tokenizing Strokes for Vector Graphic Synthesis
141. ICML 2024Successor Features for Efficient Multi-Subject Controlled Text Generation
142. ICML 2024Superposition Prompting: Improving and Accelerating Retrieval-Augmented Generation
143. ICML 2024Swallowing the Bitter Pill: Simplified Scalable Conformer Generation
144. ICML 2024Switchable Decision: Dynamic Neural Generation Networks
145. ICML 2024Test-Time Degradation Adaptation for Open-Set Image Restoration
146. ICML 2024The Perception-Robustness Tradeoff in Deterministic Image Restoration
147. ICML 2024The Surprising Effectiveness of Skip-Tuning in Diffusion Sampling
148. ICML 2024Time Weaver: A Conditional Time Series Generation Model
149. ICML 2024To Each (Textual Sequence) Its Own: Improving Memorized-Data Unlearning in Large Language Models
150. ICML 2024Unified Generation, Reconstruction, and Representation: Generalized Diffusion with Adaptive Latent Encoding-Decoding

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.