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 34 of 35

1651. NeurIPS 2026Stochastic Interpolants via Conditional Dependent Coupling
1652. NeurIPS 2026Structural Self-Teaching for Compositional Generation in Unified Multimodal Models
1653. NeurIPS 2026Structure-Semantic Co-optimized Latent Diffusion Model for Fast Visual Anagram Synthesis
1654. NeurIPS 2026Structured State-Space Regularization for Generation-Friendly Image Tokenization
1655. NeurIPS 2026SynBench: A Benchmark for Differentially Private Text Generation
1656. NeurIPS 2026SynMQG: Disentanglement and Mutual-Information Optimization for Synergistic Multi-modal Question Generation
1657. NeurIPS 2026Synsema: Syntax-Guided Learning of Semantically Valid Programs
1658. NeurIPS 2026Synthon Contrastive Learning for Synthesizable 3D Molecule Generation
1659. NeurIPS 2026TaxaAdapter: Scaling Fine-grained Species Image Generation To the Tree of Life
1660. NeurIPS 2026Temperature-Regulated Stochastic Sampling for Diffusion-Based High-Quality Molecular Generation
1661. NeurIPS 2026Tempered Guided Diffusion
1662. NeurIPS 2026TerraVis: Towards Evaluation of World-Grounded Visual Consistency in Text-to-Image Generation via MLLM Workflows
1663. NeurIPS 2026TESLA: Native 4D Gaussian Splatting Generation with Temporally Structured Latents
1664. NeurIPS 2026Tethered Predictive-Inertial Proposals with Objective Verification for Diffusion-Prior Inverse Problems
1665. NeurIPS 2026Text-Vision Co-Instructed Image Editing
1666. NeurIPS 2026The Fault in Our Metrics: Revisiting Generative Model Evaluation with Chamfer Distance
1667. NeurIPS 2026The Future of Facts: Tracing the Factual Generation-Verification Gap
1668. NeurIPS 2026The limbic navigation system as a hierarchical RNN
1669. NeurIPS 2026The road reaches every place, the short cut only one: Self-Adversarial Shortcut Mitigation for AI-Generated Image Detection
1670. NeurIPS 2026The Sharp Directions Are Against You: Curvature Analysis of Activation Steering
1671. NeurIPS 2026Thinking in Boxes: 3D Editing in Real Images Made Easy
1672. NeurIPS 2026Thinking in Pictures: A Systematic Benchmark for Reasoning-driven Image Generation
1673. NeurIPS 2026TIDE: Trajectory-Aware Watermark Propagation for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
1674. NeurIPS 2026TimeTok: Granularity-Controllable Time-Series Generation via Hierarchical Tokenization
1675. NeurIPS 2026TKCAM: Text and Keyframe to Camera Trajectory Generation
1676. NeurIPS 2026Token by Token, Compromised: Backdoor Vulnerabilities in Unified Autoregressive Models
1677. NeurIPS 2026Tokenizer-Generator Coupling in Medical Image Generation
1678. NeurIPS 2026TokenRepel: Generating Diverse Image Sets Without Sacrificing Quality
1679. NeurIPS 2026Tool-IQA: Augmenting Image Quality Assessment with Simple Tools
1680. NeurIPS 2026Topology-Reinforced Swin Transformer for Medical Image Analysis
1681. NeurIPS 2026Transforming Image Editors into Video Editors
1682. NeurIPS 2026TransitLM: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Map-Free Transit Route Generation
1683. NeurIPS 2026TreemapMix: Dirichlet-Controlled Multi-Image Augmentation for Probability and Ordinal Supervision
1684. NeurIPS 2026Trellis4D: Complex 4D Mesh Generation
1685. NeurIPS 2026Tri-Prompting: Controllable Video Generation with Scene, Subject, and Motion Prompts
1686. NeurIPS 2026TRIAD: Benchmarking Omni-Modal Ambiguity in Multimodal Large Language Models
1687. NeurIPS 2026TrioPose: Native Triple-Stream Diffusion Transformers for Pose-Guided Text-to-Image Generation
1688. NeurIPS 2026TriTD: Tri-Partite Trajectory–Distribution Distillation for Real-Time Autoregressive Video Generation
1689. NeurIPS 2026Tuna-2: Pixel Embeddings Beat Vision Encoders for Multimodal Understanding and Generation
1690. NeurIPS 2026Unaligned Image Guided Denoising via Cross-modal Conditional Flow Matching
1691. NeurIPS 2026Uncertainty Estimation for Pretrained Medical Image Registration Models via Transformation Equivariance
1692. NeurIPS 2026UniCustom: Unified Visual Conditioning for Multi-reference Image Generation
1693. NeurIPS 2026Unified Forensic Preference Learning for Generalizable Synthetic Image Detection
1694. NeurIPS 2026Unify-Agent: A Unified Multimodal Agent for World-Grounded Image Synthesis
1695. NeurIPS 2026UniSHARP: Universal Sharp Monocular View Synthesis
1696. NeurIPS 2026Universal Time Series Generation with Neural Controlled Differential Equations
1697. NeurIPS 2026VAR-Q: Tuning-free KV Cache Quantization for Visual Autoregressive Image and Video Generation
1698. NeurIPS 2026Variational Wasserstein Model on Riemannian Manifolds for Image Segmentation
1699. NeurIPS 2026VeriContest: A Competitive-Programming Benchmark for Verifiable Code Generation
1700. NeurIPS 2026Verifier Choice is a Benchmark Design Variable: Auditing Structural Counting Evaluation in Text-to-Image 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.