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
2,262 papers, page 35 of 46
- CVPR 2024Revisiting Single Image Reflection Removal In the Wild
- CVPR 2024Revisiting Spatial-Frequency Information Integration from a Hierarchical Perspective for Panchromatic and Multi-Spectral Image Fusion
- CVPR 2024Rich Human Feedback for Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2024RichDreamer: A Generalizable Normal-Depth Diffusion Model for Detail Richness in Text-to-3D
- CVPR 2024Robust Image Denoising through Adversarial Frequency Mixup
- CVPR 2024Robust Noisy Correspondence Learning with Equivariant Similarity Consistency
- CVPR 2024Rotation-Agnostic Image Representation Learning for Digital Pathology
- CVPR 2024Sat2Scene: 3D Urban Scene Generation from Satellite Images with Diffusion
- CVPR 2024SatSynth: Augmenting Image-Mask Pairs through Diffusion Models for Aerial Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Scaling Up to Excellence: Practicing Model Scaling for Photo-Realistic Image Restoration In the Wild
- CVPR 2024SCEdit: Efficient and Controllable Image Diffusion Generation via Skip Connection Editing
- CVPR 2024SceneTex: High-Quality Texture Synthesis for Indoor Scenes via Diffusion Priors
- CVPR 2024SCINeRF: Neural Radiance Fields from a Snapshot Compressive Image
- CVPR 2024SCoFT: Self-Contrastive Fine-Tuning for Equitable Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Sculpt3D: Multi-View Consistent Text-to-3D Generation with Sparse 3D Prior
- CVPR 2024Sculpting Holistic 3D Representation in Contrastive Language-Image-3D Pre-training
- CVPR 2024SeD: Semantic-Aware Discriminator for Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2024SEED-Bench: Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2024Seeing Motion at Nighttime with an Event Camera
- CVPR 2024SeeSR: Towards Semantics-Aware Real-World Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2024Selective Hourglass Mapping for Universal Image Restoration Based on Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024Selectively Informative Description can Reduce Undesired Embedding Entanglements in Text-to-Image Personalization
- CVPR 2024Self-Discovering Interpretable Diffusion Latent Directions for Responsible Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Shadow Generation for Composite Image Using Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024Shadow-Enlightened Image Outpainting
- CVPR 2024SHAP-EDITOR: Instruction-Guided Latent 3D Editing in Seconds
- CVPR 2024Sherpa3D: Boosting High-Fidelity Text-to-3D Generation via Coarse 3D Prior
- CVPR 2024Sieve: Multimodal Dataset Pruning using Image Captioning Models
- CVPR 2024SIGNeRF: Scene Integrated Generation for Neural Radiance Fields
- CVPR 2024SimAC: A Simple Anti-Customization Method for Protecting Face Privacy against Text-to-Image Synthesis of Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024SimDA: Simple Diffusion Adapter for Efficient Video Generation
- CVPR 2024Single Mesh Diffusion Models with Field Latents for Texture Generation
- CVPR 2024Single View Refractive Index Tomography with Neural Fields
- CVPR 2024SinSR: Diffusion-Based Image Super-Resolution in a Single Step
- CVPR 2024SiTH: Single-view Textured Human Reconstruction with Image-Conditioned Diffusion
- CVPR 2024SLICE: Stabilized LIME for Consistent Explanations for Image Classification
- CVPR 2024SmartMask: Context Aware High-Fidelity Mask Generation for Fine-grained Object Insertion and Layout Control
- CVPR 2024Smooth Diffusion: Crafting Smooth Latent Spaces in Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Snap Video: Scaled Spatiotemporal Transformers for Text-to-Video Synthesis
- CVPR 2024Snapshot Lidar: Fourier Embedding of Amplitude and Phase for Single-Image Depth Reconstruction
- CVPR 2024SpatialTracker: Tracking Any 2D Pixels in 3D Space
- CVPR 2024SPECAT: SPatial-spEctral Cumulative-Attention Transformer for High-Resolution Hyperspectral Image Reconstruction
- CVPR 2024Splatter Image: Ultra-Fast Single-View 3D Reconstruction
- CVPR 2024SSR-Encoder: Encoding Selective Subject Representation for Subject-Driven Generation
- CVPR 2024StegoGAN: Leveraging Steganography for Non-Bijective Image-to-Image Translation
- CVPR 2024Stratified Avatar Generation from Sparse Observations
- CVPR 2024StrokeFaceNeRF: Stroke-based Facial Appearance Editing in Neural Radiance Field
- CVPR 2024Structure Matters: Tackling the Semantic Discrepancy in Diffusion Models for Image Inpainting
- CVPR 2024Structure-Guided Adversarial Training of Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Style Aligned Image Generation via Shared Attention
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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.