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 39 of 104
- CVPR 2025Electromyography-Informed Facial Expression Reconstruction for Physiological-Based Synthesis and Analysis
- CVPR 2025EmoEdit: Evoking Emotions through Image Manipulation
- CVPR 2025Encapsulated Composition of Text-to-Image and Text-to-Video Models for High-Quality Video Synthesis
- CVPR 2025EnergyMoGen: Compositional Human Motion Generation with Energy-Based Diffusion Model in Latent Space
- CVPR 2025Enhanced Contrastive Learning with Multi-view Longitudinal Data for Chest X-ray Report Generation
- CVPR 2025Enhancing Creative Generation on Stable Diffusion-based Models
- CVPR 2025Enhancing Dance-to-Music Generation via Negative Conditioning Latent Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025Enhancing Virtual Try-On with Synthetic Pairs and Error-Aware Noise Scheduling
- CVPR 2025Erasing Undesirable Influence in Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025ETAP: Event-based Tracking of Any Point
- CVPR 2025Eval3D: Interpretable and Fine-grained Evaluation for 3D Generation
- CVPR 2025Every SAM Drop Counts: Embracing Semantic Priors for Multi-Modality Image Fusion and Beyond
- CVPR 2025Explaining Domain Shifts in Language: Concept Erasing for Interpretable Image Classification
- CVPR 2025Exploring Intrinsic Normal Prototypes within a Single Image for Universal Anomaly Detection
- CVPR 2025Exploring Semantic Feature Discrimination for Perceptual Image Super-Resolution and Opinion-Unaware No-Reference Image Quality Assessment
- CVPR 2025Exploring Sparse MoE in GANs for Text-conditioned Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2025Exploring the Deep Fusion of Large Language Models and Diffusion Transformers for Text-to-Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2025Exploring Timeline Control for Facial Motion Generation
- CVPR 2025Extrapolating and Decoupling Image-to-Video Generation Models: Motion Modeling is Easier Than You Think
- CVPR 2025FactCheXcker: Mitigating Measurement Hallucinations in Chest X-ray Report Generation Models
- CVPR 2025FaithDiff: Unleashing Diffusion Priors for Faithful Image Super-resolution
- CVPR 2025FAM Diffusion: Frequency and Attention Modulation for High-Resolution Image Generation with Stable Diffusion
- CVPR 2025Fancy123: One Image to High-Quality 3D Mesh Generation via Plug-and-Play Deformation
- CVPR 2025Fast and Accurate Gigapixel Pathological Image Classification with Hierarchical Distillation Multi-Instance Learning
- CVPR 2025FDS: Frequency-Aware Denoising Score for Text-Guided Latent Diffusion Image Editing
- CVPR 2025FeedEdit: Text-Based Image Editing with Dynamic Feedback Regulation
- CVPR 2025Few-shot Implicit Function Generation via Equivariance
- CVPR 2025Finding Local Diffusion Schrodinger Bridge using Kolmogorov-Arnold Network
- CVPR 2025Fine-Grained Erasure in Text-to-Image Diffusion-based Foundation Models
- CVPR 2025Fine-Grained Image-Text Correspondence with Cost Aggregation for Open-Vocabulary Part Segmentation
- CVPR 2025FINECAPTION: Compositional Image Captioning Focusing on Wherever You Want at Any Granularity
- CVPR 2025FineLIP: Extending CLIP's Reach via Fine-Grained Alignment with Longer Text Inputs
- CVPR 2025FinePhys: Fine-grained Human Action Generation by Explicitly Incorporating Physical Laws for Effective Skeletal Guidance
- CVPR 2025Fitted Neural Lossless Image Compression
- CVPR 2025FLAIR: VLM with Fine-grained Language-informed Image Representations
- CVPR 2025FLAME: Frozen Large Language Models Enable Data-Efficient Language-Image Pre-training
- CVPR 2025FlexiDiT: Your Diffusion Transformer Can Easily Generate High-Quality Samples with Less Compute
- CVPR 2025Floating No More: Object-Ground Reconstruction from a Single Image
- CVPR 2025FluxSpace: Disentangled Semantic Editing in Rectified Flow Models
- CVPR 2025Focus-N-Fix: Region-Aware Fine-Tuning for Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2025FoundHand: Large-Scale Domain-Specific Learning for Controllable Hand Image Generation
- CVPR 2025Free360: Layered Gaussian Splatting for Unbounded 360-Degree View Synthesis from Extremely Sparse and Unposed Views
- CVPR 2025FreeScene: Mixed Graph Diffusion for 3D Scene Synthesis from Free Prompts
- CVPR 2025Frequency Dynamic Convolution for Dense Image Prediction
- CVPR 2025Frequency-Biased Synergistic Design for Image Compression and Compensation
- CVPR 2025From Sparse Signal to Smooth Motion: Real-Time Motion Generation with Rolling Prediction Models
- CVPR 2025From Words to Structured Visuals: A Benchmark and Framework for Text-to-Diagram Generation and Editing
- CVPR 2025From Zero to Detail: Deconstructing Ultra-High-Definition Image Restoration from Progressive Spectral Perspective
- CVPR 2025Gaussian Splatting for Efficient Satellite Image Photogrammetry
- CVPR 2025GaussianIP: Identity-Preserving Realistic 3D Human Generation via Human-Centric Diffusion Prior
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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.