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
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- 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 36 of 46
- CVPR 2024StyleCineGAN: Landscape Cinemagraph Generation using a Pre-trained StyleGAN
- CVPR 2024StyLitGAN: Image-Based Relighting via Latent Control
- CVPR 2024SuperSVG: Superpixel-based Scalable Vector Graphics Synthesis
- CVPR 2024SVDTree: Semantic Voxel Diffusion for Single Image Tree Reconstruction
- CVPR 2024SVGDreamer: Text Guided SVG Generation with Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024SwiftBrush: One-Step Text-to-Image Diffusion Model with Variational Score Distillation
- CVPR 2024Tailored Visions: Enhancing Text-to-Image Generation with Personalized Prompt Rewriting
- CVPR 2024Taming Mode Collapse in Score Distillation for Text-to-3D Generation
- CVPR 2024Taming Stable Diffusion for Text to 360 Panorama Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Template Free Reconstruction of Human-object Interaction with Procedural Interaction Generation
- CVPR 2024TexOct: Generating Textures of 3D Models with Octree-based Diffusion
- CVPR 2024Text-conditional Attribute Alignment across Latent Spaces for 3D Controllable Face Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2024Text-Driven Image Editing via Learnable Regions
- CVPR 2024Text-Guided 3D Face Synthesis - From Generation to Editing
- CVPR 2024Text-guided Explorable Image Super-resolution
- CVPR 2024Text-Guided Variational Image Generation for Industrial Anomaly Detection and Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Text-IF: Leveraging Semantic Text Guidance for Degradation-Aware and Interactive Image Fusion
- CVPR 2024Text-Image Alignment for Diffusion-Based Perception
- CVPR 2024Text-to-3D Generation with Bidirectional Diffusion using both 2D and 3D priors
- CVPR 2024Text-to-Image Diffusion Models are Great Sketch-Photo Matchmakers
- CVPR 2024Text2HOI: Text-guided 3D Motion Generation for Hand-Object Interaction
- CVPR 2024Text2QR: Harmonizing Aesthetic Customization and Scanning Robustness for Text-Guided QR Code Generation
- CVPR 2024TextCraftor: Your Text Encoder Can be Image Quality Controller
- CVPR 2024TextNeRF: A Novel Scene-Text Image Synthesis Method based on Neural Radiance Fields
- CVPR 2024TextureDreamer: Image-Guided Texture Synthesis Through Geometry-Aware Diffusion
- CVPR 2024The Devil is in the Details: StyleFeatureEditor for Detail-Rich StyleGAN Inversion and High Quality Image Editing
- CVPR 2024The More You See in 2D the More You Perceive in 3D
- CVPR 2024Think Twice Before Selection: Federated Evidential Active Learning for Medical Image Analysis with Domain Shifts
- CVPR 2024TiNO-Edit: Timestep and Noise Optimization for Robust Diffusion-Based Image Editing
- CVPR 2024TokenCompose: Text-to-Image Diffusion with Token-level Supervision
- CVPR 2024Total Selfie: Generating Full-Body Selfies
- CVPR 2024Towards a Simultaneous and Granular Identity-Expression Control in Personalized Face Generation
- CVPR 2024Towards Accurate Post-training Quantization for Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Towards Automated Movie Trailer Generation
- CVPR 2024Towards Backward-Compatible Continual Learning of Image Compression
- CVPR 2024Towards Effective Usage of Human-Centric Priors in Diffusion Models for Text-based Human Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Towards High-fidelity Artistic Image Vectorization via Texture-Encapsulated Shape Parameterization
- CVPR 2024Towards Memorization-Free Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Towards Modern Image Manipulation Localization: A Large-Scale Dataset and Novel Methods
- CVPR 2024Towards Realistic Scene Generation with LiDAR Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Towards Robust Event-guided Low-Light Image Enhancement: A Large-Scale Real-World Event-Image Dataset and Novel Approach
- CVPR 2024Towards Text-guided 3D Scene Composition
- CVPR 2024Towards Understanding Cross and Self-Attention in Stable Diffusion for Text-Guided Image Editing
- CVPR 2024Towards Variable and Coordinated Holistic Co-Speech Motion Generation
- CVPR 2024Training Diffusion Models Towards Diverse Image Generation with Reinforcement Learning
- CVPR 2024Training Generative Image Super-Resolution Models by Wavelet-Domain Losses Enables Better Control of Artifacts
- CVPR 2024Training Like a Medical Resident: Context-Prior Learning Toward Universal Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Segmentation with Offline Diffusion-Augmented Prototype Generation
- CVPR 2024Transfer CLIP for Generalizable Image Denoising
- CVPR 2024TRINS: Towards Multimodal Language Models that Can Read
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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.