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

1,721 papers, page 31 of 35

1501. NeurIPS 2026Matching2Matching: Zero-Shot Light Field Image Denoising with Matching View Construction
1502. NeurIPS 2026MDMR-Bench: A Multi-Dimensional Benchmark for Multi-Reference Image Generation
1503. NeurIPS 2026MedIGen: Reliable Medical Illustration Generation via Interleaved Introspective Reasoning
1504. NeurIPS 2026MegaStyle: Constructing Diverse and Scalable Style Dataset via Consistent Text-to-Image Style Mapping
1505. NeurIPS 2026Mesh BDF: Barycentric Dominance Field for 3D Native Mesh Generation
1506. NeurIPS 2026Meta-TTRL: A Metacognitive Framework for Self-Improving Test-Time Reinforcement Learning for T2I Generation in Unified Multimodal Models
1507. NeurIPS 2026MFlowAudio: Efficient Text-to-Audio Synthesis via Mamba-based Stateful Flow Matching
1508. NeurIPS 2026MIRROR: Manifold Ideal Reference ReconstructOR for AI-Generated Image Detection
1509. NeurIPS 2026Mission Impossible: Diagnosing and Fixing Non-Operative Instruction Following in Image Editing
1510. NeurIPS 2026Mix-Opt: Mixed Optimization for Memory-Efficient Personalization of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
1511. NeurIPS 2026Mixed-Curvature Geometric Latent Diffusion Model for Graph Generation
1512. NeurIPS 2026Mixture of Attribute-Aware Attention Experts for Fine-grained E-Commerce Composed Image Retrieval
1513. NeurIPS 2026MLLM-Edit: Benchmarking Image Forgery Detection and Localization under MLLM-based Editing
1514. NeurIPS 2026MobTA: Bus-Conditioned Zero-Shot Trajectory Generation via Task Arithmetic
1515. NeurIPS 2026MoCA: Mixture-of-Components Attention for Scalable Compositional 3D Generation
1516. NeurIPS 2026Model Incrimination: Investigating Whether Concerning Behavior Reflects Misalignment
1517. NeurIPS 2026MODULE: A Mutual-Promoting Deep Unfolding Framework Towards Degradation-Robust Multi-modal Image Fusion
1518. NeurIPS 2026MolHIT: Advancing Molecular-Graph Generation with Hierarchical Discrete Diffusion Models
1519. NeurIPS 2026MONET: A Massive, Open, Non-redundant and Enriched Text-to-image dataset
1520. NeurIPS 2026MorphGen: Controllable Cell-Image Generation with Biological Representation Alignment
1521. NeurIPS 2026MotionCFG: Boosting Motion Dynamics via Semantic Motion Sharpening
1522. NeurIPS 2026MulTaBench: Benchmarking Multimodal Tabular Learning with Text and Image
1523. NeurIPS 2026Multidimensional Observer Model and Perceptual Dimensions of Human Image Quality Assessment
1524. NeurIPS 2026Multimodal Context-Aware Human Motion Generation with Language, Vision, and Object
1525. NeurIPS 2026MUNI: Multimodal Unified Latent Diffusion for Coherent Any-to-Any Generation
1526. NeurIPS 2026N-vium: Mixture-of-Exits Transformer for Accelerated Exact Generation
1527. NeurIPS 2026NAMVIS: Next-Scale Autoregressive Multi-View Image Synthesis
1528. NeurIPS 2026Natural-Language-Guided Protein Generation for Ligand-Binding Design
1529. NeurIPS 2026NDPP-Grasp: Non-Differentiable Physical Plausibility Constraint-Guided Task-Oriented Dexterous Grasp Generation
1530. NeurIPS 2026NeuroSynTheos: Learning to accelerate counterexample-guided reactive synthesis modulo theories
1531. NeurIPS 2026NIV: Neural Axis Variations for Variable Font Generation
1532. NeurIPS 2026Noise-Started One-Step Image Super-Resolution via LR-Conditioned SplitMeanFlow and GAN Refinement
1533. NeurIPS 2026Nonparametric Distribution Matching for Self-Supervised Whole-Slide Image Condensation
1534. NeurIPS 2026Not All Layers Are Equal in Image-to-Video Transfer
1535. NeurIPS 2026Not Every Image Teaches Vision: Visual-Necessity-Gated Continual Learning for Multimodal Large Language Models
1536. NeurIPS 2026NP-LoRA: Null Space Projection for Subject-Style LoRA Fusion
1537. NeurIPS 2026NSARM: Next-Scale Autoregressive Modeling for Robust Real-World Image Super-Resolution
1538. NeurIPS 2026OBJECT-UNI: A Unified Model for Object-Centric Spatial Understanding and Controllable Generation
1539. NeurIPS 2026On the Price of Privacy for Language Identification and Generation
1540. NeurIPS 2026On the Relaxation of Conditional Independence Assumption for Image Segmentation
1541. NeurIPS 2026On-Policy Distillation with Open Property-Equivalence Reward for LLM-Based NL-to-SVA Generation
1542. NeurIPS 2026One Unified Representation: Resolving the Appearance-Semantics Dilemma via Structural Regularization
1543. NeurIPS 2026One View Is Enough: In-the-Wild Monocular Pretraining for Novel View Generation
1544. NeurIPS 2026ONE-SHOT: Compositional Human-Environment Video Synthesis via Spatial-Decoupled Motion Injection and Hybrid Context Integration
1545. NeurIPS 2026Opening the Black Box of Classifier-Free Guidance via Information Bottleneck
1546. NeurIPS 2026OptiWorld: Optimal Control for Video World Generation under Physical Constraints
1547. NeurIPS 2026ORCA: Hunting Compositional Failures in Text-to-Image Diffusion
1548. NeurIPS 2026Origami as a Real-Image Benchmark for Procedural State-Transition Reasoning
1549. NeurIPS 2026Orthrus: Memory-Efficient Parallel Token Generation via Dual-View Diffusion
1550. NeurIPS 2026OTEdit: Entropic Transport Corrected Trajectory for Inversion-Free Flow-Based Image Editing

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.