Image Generation papers, 2023–2026
Text-to-image and synthesis
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 5,184 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 170 | 118 | 74 | 418 | 780 |
| 2024 | 318 | 199 | 156 | 543 | 1,216 |
| 2025 | 430 | 278 | 147 | 612 | 1,467 |
| 2026 | 453 | 349 | 230 | 689 | 1,721 |
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
5,184 papers, page 35 of 104
- NeurIPS 2026Video Generation Research Needs a Legally Sustainable Data Infrastructure
- NeurIPS 2026VideoMDM: Towards 3D Human Motion Generation From 2D Supervision
- NeurIPS 2026VisionCreator-S1: Evolving Visual-Generation Agents via Skill-GRPO Optimization
- NeurIPS 2026VolCo: Volumetric Contact for High-Fidelity Human Grasp Generation
- NeurIPS 2026VolFill: Single-View Amodal 3D Scene Reconstruction with Volumetric Flow Matching
- NeurIPS 2026VUM: Visual Unified Models for Image Generation and Perception
- NeurIPS 2026WaveGen: Truly End-to-End Waveform Generation via Internal Spectral Trajectory Learning
- NeurIPS 2026What Matters for Diffusion-Friendly Latent Manifold? Prior-Aligned Autoencoders for Latent Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2026When Do Cosine Prototypes Mislead? A Whitening-Aware Benchmark for Frozen-Feature Image Classification
- NeurIPS 2026When Should LLMs Be Less Specific? Selective Abstraction for Reliable Long-Form Text Generation
- NeurIPS 2026When Think-with-Image Meets Safety: What Determines Multimodal Jailbreak Robustness?
- NeurIPS 2026Where Do Long Captions Fail? Position-Aware Diagnosis and Reinforcement Learning for Detailed Image Captioning
- NeurIPS 2026Where to Look Is Not How to Fix: Pre-Denoising Diagnostics and Modality-Dependent Control in Diffusion Composition
- NeurIPS 2026Which Tokens to Merge? Diffusion Dynamics for Efficient Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2026Why Do DiT Editors Drift? Plug-and-Play Low Frequency Alignment in VAE Latent Space
- NeurIPS 2026World Tracing: Pixel-Aligned Geometry Beyond the Visible
- NeurIPS 2026WorldSR: Harnessing World Knowledge Search for Grounded Image Super-Resolution
- NeurIPS 2026WovenAnchor Matcher: Specialized Intra- and Inter-Image Context Modeling for Feature Matching
- NeurIPS 2026X2HDR: HDR Image Generation in a Perceptually Uniform Space
- NeurIPS 2026XTraj: A Coarse-to-Fine Autoregressive Framework for Transferable Trajectory Generation
- NeurIPS 2026You Can’t Have It Both Ways: Concept Entanglement Limits Diffusion Model Unlearning
- CVPR 20253D-HGS: 3D Half-Gaussian Splatting
- CVPR 20254D LangSplat: 4D Language Gaussian Splatting via Multimodal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2025A Bias-Free Training Paradigm for More General AI-generated Image Detection
- CVPR 2025A Comprehensive Study of Decoder-Only LLMs for Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2025A Polarization-Aided Transformer for Image Deblurring via Motion Vector Decomposition
- CVPR 2025A Regularization-Guided Equivariant Approach for Image Restoration
- CVPR 2025A Semantic Knowledge Complementarity based Decoupling Framework for Semi-supervised Class-imbalanced Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2025A Unified Image-Dense Annotation Generation Model for Underwater Scenes
- CVPR 2025A Universal Scale-Adaptive Deformable Transformer for Image Restoration across Diverse Artifacts
- CVPR 2025ABBSPO: Adaptive Bounding Box Scaling and Symmetric Prior based Orientation Prediction for Detecting Aerial Image Objects
- CVPR 2025Acc3D: Accelerating Single Image to 3D Diffusion Models via Edge Consistency Guided Score Distillation
- CVPR 2025Accelerating Diffusion Transformer via Increment-Calibrated Caching with Channel-Aware Singular Value Decomposition
- CVPR 2025ACE: Anti-Editing Concept Erasure in Text-to-Image Models
- CVPR 2025ACL: Activating Capability of Linear Attention for Image Restoration
- CVPR 2025Acquire and then Adapt: Squeezing out Text-to-Image Model for Image Restoration
- CVPR 2025Adapting Text-to-Image Generation with Feature Difference Instruction for Generic Image Restoration
- CVPR 2025Adaptive Dropout: Unleashing Dropout across Layers for Generalizable Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2025Adaptive Markup Language Generation for Contextually-Grounded Visual Document Understanding
- CVPR 2025ADD: Attribution-Driven Data Augmentation Framework for Boosting Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2025Adv-CPG: A Customized Portrait Generation Framework with Facial Adversarial Attacks
- CVPR 2025Advancing Myopia To Holism: Fully Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training
- CVPR 2025Adversarial Diffusion Compression for Real-World Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2025Adversarial Domain Prompt Tuning and Generation for Single Domain Generalization
- CVPR 2025AeroGen: Enhancing Remote Sensing Object Detection with Diffusion-Driven Data Generation
- CVPR 2025AIGV-Assessor: Benchmarking and Evaluating the Perceptual Quality of Text-to-Video Generation with LMM
- CVPR 2025Alias-Free Latent Diffusion Models: Improving Fractional Shift Equivariance of Diffusion Latent Space
- CVPR 2025All-Optical Nonlinear Diffractive Deep Network for Ultrafast Image Denoising
- CVPR 2025AMO Sampler: Enhancing Text Rendering with Overshooting
- CVPR 2025Anatomical Consistency and Adaptive Prior-informed Transformation for Multi-contrast MR Image Synthesis via Diffusion Model
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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.