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

147 papers, page 3 of 3

101. ICML 2025Position: You Can't Manufacture a NeRF
102. ICML 2025Preference Adaptive and Sequential Text-to-Image Generation
103. ICML 2025Prior Knowledge Guided Neural Architecture Generation
104. ICML 2025Privacy-Shielded Image Compression: Defending Against Exploitation from Vision-Language Pretrained Models
105. ICML 2025Proactive Agents for Multi-Turn Text-to-Image Generation Under Uncertainty
106. ICML 2025Q-VDiT: Towards Accurate Quantization and Distillation of Video-Generation Diffusion Transformers
107. ICML 2025QMamba: On First Exploration of Vision Mamba for Image Quality Assessment
108. ICML 2025QuRe: Query-Relevant Retrieval through Hard Negative Sampling in Composed Image Retrieval
109. ICML 2025RealRAG: Retrieval-augmented Realistic Image Generation via Self-reflective Contrastive Learning
110. ICML 2025Reflection-Window Decoding: Text Generation with Selective Refinement
111. ICML 2025REG: Rectified Gradient Guidance for Conditional Diffusion Models
112. ICML 2025Representative Language Generation
113. ICML 2025ReQFlow: Rectified Quaternion Flow for Efficient and High-Quality Protein Backbone Generation
114. ICML 2025Rethinking Score Distilling Sampling for 3D Editing and Generation
115. ICML 2025Revisiting Diffusion Models: From Generative Pre-training to One-Step Generation
116. ICML 2025SageAttention2: Efficient Attention with Thorough Outlier Smoothing and Per-thread INT4 Quantization
117. ICML 2025Scalable Generation of Spatial Transcriptomics from Histology Images via Whole-Slide Flow Matching
118. ICML 2025Selective Prompt Anchoring for Code Generation
119. ICML 2025Shielded Diffusion: Generating Novel and Diverse Images using Sparse Repellency
120. ICML 2025Simple and Critical Iterative Denoising: A Recasting of Discrete Diffusion in Graph Generation
121. ICML 2025Skrr: Skip and Re-use Text Encoder Layers for Memory Efficient Text-to-Image Generation
122. ICML 2025SongGen: A Single Stage Auto-regressive Transformer for Text-to-Song Generation
123. ICML 2025SpargeAttention: Accurate and Training-free Sparse Attention Accelerating Any Model Inference
124. ICML 2025Spherical-Nested Diffusion Model for Panoramic Image Outpainting
125. ICML 2025Staged and Physics-Grounded Learning Framework with Hyperintensity Prior for Pre-Contrast MRI Synthesis
126. ICML 2025Strategic Planning: A Top-Down Approach to Option Generation
127. ICML 2025Structure-Guided Large Language Models for Text-to-SQL Generation
128. ICML 2025Symmetry-Aware GFlowNets
129. ICML 2025Synonymous Variational Inference for Perceptual Image Compression
130. ICML 2025Synthetic Text Generation for Training Large Language Models via Gradient Matching
131. ICML 2025Text-to-CAD Generation Through Infusing Visual Feedback in Large Language Models
132. ICML 2025TextCenGen: Attention-Guided Text-Centric Background Adaptation for Text-to-Image Generation
133. ICML 2025The Logical Implication Steering Method for Conditional Interventions on Transformer Generation
134. ICML 2025TRACE Back from the Future: A Probabilistic Reasoning Approach to Controllable Language Generation
135. ICML 2025Tractable Transformers for Flexible Conditional Generation
136. ICML 2025Ultra Lowrate Image Compression with Semantic Residual Coding and Compression-aware Diffusion
137. ICML 2025UniMC: Taming Diffusion Transformer for Unified Keypoint-Guided Multi-Class Image Generation
138. ICML 2025Upcycling Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Multi-Task Capabilities
139. ICML 2025Vector Grimoire: Codebook-based Shape Generation under Raster Image Supervision
140. ICML 2025VerbalTS: Generating Time Series from Texts
141. ICML 2025Visual Abstraction: A Plug-and-Play Approach for Text-Visual Retrieval
142. ICML 2025Visual Attention Never Fades: Selective Progressive Attention ReCalibration for Detailed Image Captioning in Multimodal Large Language Models
143. ICML 2025What If We Recaption Billions of Web Images with LLaMA-3?
144. ICML 2025When Model Knowledge meets Diffusion Model: Diffusion-assisted Data-free Image Synthesis with Alignment of Domain and Class
145. ICML 2025Wyckoff Transformer: Generation of Symmetric Crystals
146. ICML 2025You Always Recognize Me (YARM): Robust Texture Synthesis Against Multi-View Corruption
147. ICML 2025ZipAR: Parallel Autoregressive Image Generation through Spatial Locality

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.