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 33 of 35

1601. NeurIPS 2026Render Structure Uncertainty for HTML Repair in MLLM-based UI-to-Code Generation
1602. NeurIPS 2026RePiD: Efficient Recursive Pixel-Space Diffusion via Hierarchical Patch Denoising
1603. NeurIPS 2026Representation Fréchet Loss for Visual Generation
1604. NeurIPS 2026ResFusion: Medical Image Fusion Driven by Implicit-Forward Diffusion and Time-aware Joint Optimization
1605. NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Contrastive Targets in Radiology Language-Image Pretraining
1606. NeurIPS 2026Retrieve What’s Missing: Coverage-Maximizing Retrieval for Consistent Long Video Generation
1607. NeurIPS 2026Revisiting The Power of Closed-Form: Robust Deep Image Prototype Discovery via Scale Mixtures
1608. NeurIPS 2026Reward Shaping to Improve Language Model Query Generation
1609. NeurIPS 2026RIFLE: Removal of Image Flicker-Banding via Latent Diffusion Enhancement
1610. NeurIPS 2026RISE: Red-teaming via Iterative Strategy Evolution for Modern Text-to-Image Models
1611. NeurIPS 2026RiSE: Residual Subspace Expert for Generalizable Text-Centric Image Forgery Localization
1612. NeurIPS 2026RobustStress: Stress-Testing AI-Generated Text Detectors under Gradual Perturbations
1613. NeurIPS 2026RoPEMover: Depth-Aware Object Relocation via Positional Embeddings
1614. NeurIPS 2026Safe Few-Step Generation via Velocity Editing
1615. NeurIPS 2026SafePro: Generation of Safe and Functional Proteins via Cross-Task Conflict-Aware Alignment
1616. NeurIPS 2026SAGE: Semantic-Agnostic Image Embedding for Generalized AI-Generated Image Detection
1617. NeurIPS 2026Same Function, Different Mechanism: Implementation-Local Geometry Beyond Accuracy
1618. NeurIPS 2026Scalable Fair Learning via Cramér-von Mises Regularization
1619. NeurIPS 2026ScrapeGraphAI-100k: Dataset for Schema-Constrained LLM Generation
1620. NeurIPS 2026SCULPT: Advancing Masked Discrete Diffusion for High-Resolution Image Synthesis.
1621. NeurIPS 2026Search-Augmented Masked Diffusion Models for Constrained Generation
1622. NeurIPS 2026Seeing the Unseen: Unified Visible–Invisible Motion for Physically Consistent Video Generation
1623. NeurIPS 2026Seeing the World through Any Eyes
1624. NeurIPS 2026Seg3DParts: Segmentation-Grounded Controllable Part-Level 3D Generation
1625. NeurIPS 2026SEGA: Spectral-Energy Guided Attention for Resolution Extrapolation in Diffusion Transformers
1626. NeurIPS 2026Selective Disk Bispectrum: A Complete and Rotation Invariant Image Descriptor
1627. NeurIPS 2026Self-Cleaning Diffusion Models
1628. NeurIPS 2026SemGeo-Gen: Unsupervised Generation of Approximate Cross-Instance Semantic-Geometric Correspondences
1629. NeurIPS 2026SemISP: Semantic-Consistent Diffusion for Cross-Camera RAW-to-sRGB Generation
1630. NeurIPS 2026SIGMA: Semantic-Difference Instruction-Grounding Mask Annotator for Text-Driven Image Manipulation Localization
1631. NeurIPS 2026SILSA: Sliding-Window Slice Latents for Topology-Preserving High-Resolution 3D Generation
1632. NeurIPS 2026Simplified Reversible Residual Networks
1633. NeurIPS 2026SimWorld Studio: Automatic Environment Generation with Evolving Coding Agent for Embodied Agent Learning
1634. NeurIPS 2026Single Shot HDR Recovery via a Video Diffusion Prior
1635. NeurIPS 2026SkillCIR: Intent-Guided Skill Composition for Training-Free Composed Image Retrieval
1636. NeurIPS 2026SliceWorld: A Predictive and Controllable World-State Model for CT Report Generation
1637. NeurIPS 2026SNACK: A Sequential Notation Framework for Probabilistic Graph Generation
1638. NeurIPS 2026SocialDirector: Training-Free Social Interaction Control for Multi-Person Video Generation
1639. NeurIPS 2026Source-Causal Control of Historical Context in Longitudinal Radiology Report Generation
1640. NeurIPS 2026Sparse Internal Control of Language Models
1641. NeurIPS 2026SpatialFlow-GRPO: Where Spatial Credit Drives Image Editing
1642. NeurIPS 2026Spatially Feasible 3D Indoor Scene Generation via Interaction-Oriented Human Proxy
1643. NeurIPS 2026Spatially-Grounded Long Video Generation with Self Geometry Forcing
1644. NeurIPS 2026Spectral Progressive Diffusion for Efficient Image and Video Generation
1645. NeurIPS 2026Spherical Boltzmann machines: a solvable theory of learning and generation in energy-based models
1646. NeurIPS 2026SPRING: Solver-guided Process Rewards for Novel Logical Reasoning Steps Generation
1647. NeurIPS 2026Steering Fields: Adaptive Vector Fields for Safe Image Generation and Beyond
1648. NeurIPS 2026SteerVTE: Seamless Video Text Editing with Style and Glyph Control
1649. NeurIPS 2026StepCAD: Mesh-to-CAD Code Generation via LLM Policy and Geometry-Guided Search
1650. NeurIPS 2026StitchEdit: Stitching Depth Priors into Image Editors via Per-Layer Gradient Probing

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.