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
5,184 papers, page 38 of 104
- CVPR 2025Derivative-Free Diffusion Manifold-Constrained Gradient for Unified XAI
- CVPR 2025DesignDiffusion: High-Quality Text-to-Design Image Generation with Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Detect-and-Guide: Self-regulation of Diffusion Models for Safe Text-to-Image Generation via Guideline Token Optimization
- CVPR 2025Deterministic Image-to-Image Translation via Denoising Brownian Bridge Models with Dual Approximators
- CVPR 2025Devil is in the Detail: Towards Injecting Fine Details of Image Prompt in Image Generation via Conflict-free Guidance and Stratified Attention
- CVPR 2025DI-PCG: Diffusion-based Efficient Inverse Procedural Content Generation for High-quality 3D Asset Creation
- CVPR 2025Diff-Palm: Realistic Palmprint Generation with Polynomial Creases and Intra-Class Variation Controllable Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Difference Inversion: Interpolate and Isolate the Difference with Token Consistency for Image Analogy Generation
- CVPR 2025Differentiable Inverse Rendering with Interpretable Basis BRDFs
- CVPR 2025DiffFNO: Diffusion Fourier Neural Operator
- CVPR 2025DiffLocks: Generating 3D Hair from a Single Image using Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025DiffPortrait360: Consistent Portrait Diffusion for 360 View Synthesis
- CVPR 2025Diffusion Bridge: Leveraging Diffusion Model to Reduce the Modality Gap Between Text and Vision for Zero-Shot Image Captioning
- CVPR 2025Diffusion Model is Effectively Its Own Teacher
- CVPR 2025Diffusion Self-Distillation for Zero-Shot Customized Image Generation
- CVPR 2025Diffusion-4K: Ultra-High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Diffusion-based Event Generation for High-Quality Image Deblurring
- CVPR 2025DifIISR: A Diffusion Model with Gradient Guidance for Infrared Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2025DIFIX3D+: Improving 3D Reconstructions with Single-Step Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025DINOv2 Meets Text: A Unified Framework for Image- and Pixel-Level Vision-Language Alignment
- CVPR 2025DirectTriGS: Triplane-based Gaussian Splatting Field Representation for 3D Generation
- CVPR 2025Disco4D: Disentangled 4D Human Generation and Animation from a Single Image
- CVPR 2025Disentangled Pose and Appearance Guidance for Multi-Pose Generation
- CVPR 2025Disentangling Safe and Unsafe Image Corruptions via Anisotropy and Locality
- CVPR 2025Distilling Spatially-Heterogeneous Distortion Perception for Blind Image Quality Assessment
- CVPR 2025Distraction is All You Need for Multimodal Large Language Model Jailbreaking
- CVPR 2025DiverseFlow: Sample-Efficient Diverse Mode Coverage in Flows
- CVPR 2025Divot: Diffusion Powers Video Tokenizer for Comprehension and Generation
- CVPR 2025DNF: Unconditional 4D Generation with Dictionary-based Neural Fields
- CVPR 2025DnLUT: Ultra-Efficient Color Image Denoising via Channel-Aware Lookup Tables
- CVPR 2025Do ImageNet-trained Models Learn Shortcuts? The Impact of Frequency Shortcuts on Generalization
- CVPR 2025DocSAM: Unified Document Image Segmentation via Query Decomposition and Heterogeneous Mixed Learning
- CVPR 2025DocVLM: Make Your VLM an Efficient Reader
- CVPR 2025Dragin3D: Image Editing by Dragging in 3D Space
- CVPR 2025DreamCache: Finetuning-Free Lightweight Personalized Image Generation via Feature Caching
- CVPR 2025DreamOmni: Unified Image Generation and Editing
- CVPR 2025DreamRelation: Bridging Customization and Relation Generation
- CVPR 2025DreamText: High Fidelity Scene Text Synthesis
- CVPR 2025DRiVE: Diffusion-based Rigging Empowers Generation of Versatile and Expressive Characters
- CVPR 2025DriveGEN: Generalized and Robust 3D Detection in Driving via Controllable Text-to-Image Diffusion Generation
- CVPR 2025Dual Diffusion for Unified Image Generation and Understanding
- CVPR 2025Dual Prompting Image Restoration with Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2025Dual-Interrelated Diffusion Model for Few-Shot Anomaly Image Generation
- CVPR 2025DynamicScaler: Seamless and Scalable Video Generation for Panoramic Scenes
- CVPR 2025DynScene: Scalable Generation of Dynamic Robotic Manipulation Scenes for Embodied AI
- CVPR 2025Easy-editable Image Vectorization with Multi-layer Multi-scale Distributed Visual Feature Embedding
- CVPR 2025EditAR: Unified Conditional Generation with Autoregressive Models
- CVPR 2025Efficient Personalization of Quantized Diffusion Model without Backpropagation
- CVPR 2025Efficient Visual State Space Model for Image Deblurring
- CVPR 2025EigenGS Representation: From Eigenspace to Gaussian Image Space
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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.