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

430 papers, page 3 of 9

101. NeurIPS 2025DP²O-SR: Direct Perceptual Preference Optimization for Real-World Image Super-Resolution
102. NeurIPS 2025DreamLight: Towards Harmonious and Consistent Image Relighting
103. NeurIPS 2025Dual Data Alignment Makes AI-Generated Image Detector Easier Generalizable
104. NeurIPS 2025DualCnst: Enhancing Zero-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection via Text-Image Consistency in Vision-Language Models
105. NeurIPS 2025EchoShot: Multi-Shot Portrait Video Generation
106. NeurIPS 2025EditInfinity: Image Editing with Binary-Quantized Generative Models
107. NeurIPS 2025EF-3DGS: Event-Aided Free-Trajectory 3D Gaussian Splatting
108. NeurIPS 2025Efficient Part-level 3D Object Generation via Dual Volume Packing
109. NeurIPS 2025Efficient RAW Image Deblurring with Adaptive Frequency Modulation
110. NeurIPS 2025Efficient Rectified Flow for Image Fusion
111. NeurIPS 2025Enabling Instructional Image Editing with In-Context Generation in Large Scale Diffusion Transformer
112. NeurIPS 2025End-to-End Vision Tokenizer Tuning
113. NeurIPS 2025Enhancing Consistency of Flow-Based Image Editing through Kalman Control
114. NeurIPS 2025Enhancing Text-to-Image Diffusion Transformer via Split-Text Conditioning
115. NeurIPS 2025Entropy Rectifying Guidance for Diffusion and Flow Models
116. NeurIPS 2025EnzyControl: Adding Functional and Substrate-Specific Control for Enzyme Backbone Generation
117. NeurIPS 2025EraseFlow: Learning Concept Erasure Policies via GFlowNet-Driven Alignment
118. NeurIPS 2025EVODiff: Entropy-aware Variance Optimized Diffusion Inference
119. NeurIPS 2025Exploring Diffusion Transformer Designs via Grafting
120. NeurIPS 2025FairImagen: Post-Processing for Bias Mitigation in Text-to-Image Models
121. NeurIPS 2025Fast constrained sampling in pre-trained diffusion models
122. NeurIPS 2025Fast Data Attribution for Text-to-Image Models
123. NeurIPS 2025Feedback Guidance of Diffusion Models
124. NeurIPS 2025FerretNet: Efficient Synthetic Image Detection via Local Pixel Dependencies
125. NeurIPS 2025FineGRAIN: Evaluating Failure Modes of Text-to-Image Models with Vision Language Model Judges
126. NeurIPS 2025FIPER: Factorized Features for Robust Image Super-Resolution and Compression
127. NeurIPS 2025FlareX: A Physics-Informed Dataset for Lens Flare Removal via 2D Synthesis and 3D Rendering
128. NeurIPS 2025FlashMo: Geometric Interpolants and Frequency-Aware Sparsity for Scalable Efficient Motion Generation
129. NeurIPS 2025Flexible MOF Generation with Torsion-Aware Flow Matching
130. NeurIPS 2025FlexVAR: Flexible Visual Autoregressive Modeling without Residual Prediction
131. NeurIPS 2025Flow-GRPO: Training Flow Matching Models via Online RL
132. NeurIPS 2025FlowMo: Variance-Based Flow Guidance for Coherent Motion in Video Generation
133. NeurIPS 2025Foresight: Adaptive Layer Reuse for Accelerated and High-Quality Text-to-Video Generation
134. NeurIPS 2025ForgerySleuth: Empowering Multimodal Large Language Models for Image Manipulation Detection
135. NeurIPS 2025Foundation Cures Personalization: Improving Personalized Models’ Prompt Consistency via Hidden Foundation Knowledge
136. NeurIPS 2025Fourier Token Merging: Understanding and Capitalizing Frequency Domain for Efficient Image Generation
137. NeurIPS 2025Frame In-N-Out: Unbounded Controllable Image-to-Video Generation
138. NeurIPS 2025Free-Lunch Color-Texture Disentanglement for Stylized Image Generation
139. NeurIPS 2025FreeControl: Efficient, Training-Free Structural Control via One-Step Attention Extraction
140. NeurIPS 2025FRN: Fractal-Based Recursive Spectral Reconstruction Network
141. NeurIPS 2025From Programs to Poses: Factored Real-World Scene Generation via Learned Program Libraries
142. NeurIPS 2025FSI-Edit: Frequency and Stochasticity Injection for Flexible Diffusion-Based Image Editing
143. NeurIPS 2025FuncGenFoil: Airfoil Generation and Editing Model in Function Space
144. NeurIPS 2025Fused View-Time Attention and Feedforward Reconstruction for 4D Scene Generation
145. NeurIPS 2025GauSAM: Contour‑Guided 2D Gaussian Fields for Multi‑Scale Medical Image Segmentation with Segment Anything
146. NeurIPS 2025Generating and Checking DNN Verification Proofs
147. NeurIPS 2025Generating Physically Sound Designs from Text and a Set of Physical Constraints
148. NeurIPS 2025GenIR: Generative Visual Feedback for Mental Image Retrieval
149. NeurIPS 2025GenSpace: Benchmarking Spatially-Aware Image Generation
150. NeurIPS 2025GeoCAD: Local Geometry-Controllable CAD Generation with Large Language Models

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.