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. NeurIPS 2023Nearest Neighbour with Bandit Feedback
102. NeurIPS 2023Networks are Slacking Off: Understanding Generalization Problem in Image Deraining
103. NeurIPS 2023Neural Image Compression: Generalization, Robustness, and Spectral Biases
104. NeurIPS 2023NICE: NoIse-modulated Consistency rEgularization for Data-Efficient GANs
105. NeurIPS 2023NIS3D: A Completely Annotated Benchmark for Dense 3D Nuclei Image Segmentation
106. NeurIPS 2023Norm-guided latent space exploration for text-to-image generation
107. NeurIPS 2023OBELICS: An Open Web-Scale Filtered Dataset of Interleaved Image-Text Documents
108. NeurIPS 2023One-2-3-45: Any Single Image to 3D Mesh in 45 Seconds without Per-Shape Optimization
109. NeurIPS 2023Optimal Transport-Guided Conditional Score-Based Diffusion Model
110. NeurIPS 2023Optimizing Prompts for Text-to-Image Generation
111. NeurIPS 2023PanoGen: Text-Conditioned Panoramic Environment Generation for Vision-and-Language Navigation
112. NeurIPS 2023PanoGRF: Generalizable Spherical Radiance Fields for Wide-baseline Panoramas
113. NeurIPS 2023PGDiff: Guiding Diffusion Models for Versatile Face Restoration via Partial Guidance
114. NeurIPS 2023PHOTOSWAP: Personalized Subject Swapping in Images
115. NeurIPS 2023Pick-a-Pic: An Open Dataset of User Preferences for Text-to-Image Generation
116. NeurIPS 2023PLANNER: Generating Diversified Paragraph via Latent Language Diffusion Model
117. NeurIPS 2023Point Cloud Completion with Pretrained Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
118. NeurIPS 2023ProlificDreamer: High-Fidelity and Diverse Text-to-3D Generation with Variational Score Distillation
119. NeurIPS 2023PromptIR: Prompting for All-in-One Image Restoration
120. NeurIPS 2023PromptRestorer: A Prompting Image Restoration Method with Degradation Perception
121. NeurIPS 2023PUCA: Patch-Unshuffle and Channel Attention for Enhanced Self-Supervised Image Denoising
122. NeurIPS 2023Q-DM: An Efficient Low-bit Quantized Diffusion Model
123. NeurIPS 2023Quilt-1M: One Million Image-Text Pairs for Histopathology
124. NeurIPS 2023RAPHAEL: Text-to-Image Generation via Large Mixture of Diffusion Paths
125. NeurIPS 2023Real-World Image Variation by Aligning Diffusion Inversion Chain
126. NeurIPS 2023Recaptured Raw Screen Image and Video Demoiréing via Channel and Spatial Modulations
127. NeurIPS 2023Reconstructing the Mind's Eye: fMRI-to-Image with Contrastive Learning and Diffusion Priors
128. NeurIPS 2023Reproducibility Study of ”CartoonX: Cartoon Explanations of Image Classifiers”
129. NeurIPS 2023Reproducibility Study of “Quantifying Societal Bias Amplification in Image Captioning”
130. NeurIPS 2023ResShift: Efficient Diffusion Model for Image Super-resolution by Residual Shifting
131. NeurIPS 2023Revisiting the Evaluation of Image Synthesis with GANs
132. NeurIPS 2023Rubik's Cube: High-Order Channel Interactions with a Hierarchical Receptive Field
133. NeurIPS 2023Scalable 3D Captioning with Pretrained Models
134. NeurIPS 2023SceneScape: Text-Driven Consistent Scene Generation
135. NeurIPS 2023SEGA: Instructing Text-to-Image Models using Semantic Guidance
136. NeurIPS 2023Semantic Image Synthesis with Unconditional Generator
137. NeurIPS 2023SnapFusion: Text-to-Image Diffusion Model on Mobile Devices within Two Seconds
138. NeurIPS 2023Spatio-Angular Convolutions for Super-resolution in Diffusion MRI
139. NeurIPS 2023SpokenWOZ: A Large-Scale Speech-Text Benchmark for Spoken Task-Oriented Dialogue Agents
140. NeurIPS 2023Stable Bias: Evaluating Societal Representations in Diffusion Models
141. NeurIPS 2023StableRep: Synthetic Images from Text-to-Image Models Make Strong Visual Representation Learners
142. NeurIPS 2023StoryBench: A Multifaceted Benchmark for Continuous Story Visualization
143. NeurIPS 2023Structured Voronoi Sampling
144. NeurIPS 2023StyleDrop: Text-to-Image Synthesis of Any Style
145. NeurIPS 2023Subject-driven Text-to-Image Generation via Apprenticeship Learning
146. NeurIPS 2023SyncDiffusion: Coherent Montage via Synchronized Joint Diffusions
147. NeurIPS 2023T2I-CompBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Open-world Compositional Text-to-image Generation
148. NeurIPS 2023Tame a Wild Camera: In-the-Wild Monocular Camera Calibration
149. NeurIPS 2023TextDiffuser: Diffusion Models as Text Painters
150. NeurIPS 2023The CLIP Model is Secretly an Image-to-Prompt Converter

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.