Image Generation papers, 2023–2026

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.

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

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151. CVPR 2026DiT360 High-Fidelity Panoramic Image Generation via Hybrid Training
152. CVPR 2026DiverseGRPO Mitigating Mode Collapse in Image Generation via Diversity-Aware GRPO
153. CVPR 2026Diversity over Uniformity Rethinking Representation in Generated Image Detection
154. CVPR 2026DMAligner Enhancing Image Alignment via Diffusion Model Based View Synthesis
155. CVPR 2026DNF-SR Dual-Input and Negative-Aware Feature Fine-Tuning for Real-World Image Super-Resolution
156. CVPR 2026Does YOLO Really Need to See Every Training Image in
157. CVPR 2026DPAR Dynamic Patchification for Efficient Autoregressive Visual Generation
158. CVPR 2026DreamOmni2 Multimodal Instruction-based Generation and Editing
159. CVPR 2026DreamShot Personalized Storyboard Synthesis with Video Diffusion Prior
160. CVPR 2026DreamSR Towards Ultra-High-Resolution Image Super-Resolution via a Receptive-Field Enhanced Diffusion
161. CVPR 2026DriveLaW Unifying Planning and Video Generation in a Latent Driving
162. CVPR 2026DSFlash Comprehensive Panoptic Scene Graph Generation in Realtime
163. CVPR 2026Dual-Level Hypergraph Generation for Addressing Feature Scarcity in Whole-Slide Image
164. CVPR 2026DuetSVG Unified Multimodal SVG Generation with Internal Visual Guidance
165. CVPR 2026DuoGen Towards Autonomous Interleaved Multimodal Generation
166. CVPR 2026DVAR Dynamic Visual Autoregressive Modeling for Image Super-Resolution
167. CVPR 2026Dynamic Exposure Burst Image Restoration
168. CVPR 2026DynFusion Rethinking Condition Fusion for Adaptive Multi-Conditional Text-to-Image Generation
169. CVPR 2026EchoVDiff Cardiac-Cycle Echocardiography Video Generation from Arbitrary Single Frame
170. CVPR 2026Edit2Perceive Image Editing Diffusion Models Are Strong Dense Perceivers
171. CVPR 2026Editprint General Digital Image Forensics via Editing Fingerprint with Self-Augmentation
172. CVPR 2026EffectMaker Unifying Reasoning and Generation for Customized Visual Effect Creation
173. CVPR 2026Efficient and Training-Free Single-Image Diffusion Models
174. CVPR 2026EgoFlow Gradient-Guided Flow Matching for Egocentric 6DoF Object Motion Generation
175. CVPR 2026EMMA Concept Erasure Benchmark with Comprehensive Semantic Metrics and Diverse
176. CVPR 2026EmoStyle Emotion-Driven Image Stylization
177. CVPR 2026EMR-Diff Edge-aware Multimodal Residual Diffusion Model for Hyperspectral Image Super-resolution
178. CVPR 2026Energy-GS Image Energy-guided Pose Alignment Gaussian Splatting with redesigned pose
179. CVPR 2026Enhancing Spatial Understanding in Image Generation via Reward Modeling
180. CVPR 2026Enhancing Unregistered Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution via Unmixing-based Abundance Fusion Learning
181. CVPR 2026Erasing Thousands of Concepts Towards Scalable and Practical Concept Erasure
182. CVPR 2026Event-Illumination Collaborative Low-light Image Enhancement with a High-resolution Real-world Dataset
183. CVPR 2026ExpoCM Exposure-Aware One-Step Generative Single-Image HDR Reconstruction
184. CVPR 2026ExpPortrait Expressive Portrait Generation via Personalized Representation
185. CVPR 2026Extend3D Town-Scale 3D Generation
186. CVPR 2026Extending One-Step Image Generation from Class Labels to Text via
187. CVPR 2026F2-Assist Multi-Phase Fetal Growth Forecast and Report Generation from Ultrasound
188. CVPR 2026FabricGen Microstructure-Aware Woven Fabric Generation
189. CVPR 2026FACE A Face-based Autoregressive Representation for High-Fidelity and Efficient Mesh
190. CVPR 2026Face2Scene Using Facial Degradation as an Oracle for Diffusion-Based Scene
191. CVPR 2026FaithFusion Harmonizing Reconstruction and Generation via Pixel-wise Information Gain
192. CVPR 2026FAPE-IR Frequency-Aware Planning and Execution Framework for All-in-One Image Restoration
193. CVPR 2026FARMER Flow AutoRegressive Transformer over Pixels
194. CVPR 2026FastHybrid Accelerating Hybrid Autoregressive Image Generation with Lookahead and Guided
195. CVPR 2026FastLightGen Fast and Light Video Generation with Fewer Steps and
196. CVPR 2026Fine-grained Image Aesthetic Assessment Learning Discriminative Scores from Relative Ranks
197. CVPR 2026Fine-Grained Multi Image Object Hallucination Benchmark
198. CVPR 2026Flash-DMD Towards High-Fidelity Few-Step Image Generation with Efficient Distillation and
199. CVPR 2026FlashIn Fast and Accurate Image Inversion for Real-time Image Editing
200. CVPR 2026FlashMesh Faster and Better Autoregressive Mesh Synthesis via Structured Speculation

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.