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. ICLR 2026Incentive-Aligned LLM Summaries
152. ICLR 2026Interleave-VLA: Enhancing Robot Manipulation with Image-Text Interleaved Instructions
153. ICLR 2026Interleaving Reasoning for Better Text-to-Image Generation
154. ICLR 2026Interp3D: Correspondence-aware Interpolation for Generative Textured 3D Morphing
155. ICLR 2026jqBench: a benchmark for reading and editing JSON from natural language and/or examples
156. ICLR 2026La-Proteina: Atomistic Protein Generation via Partially Latent Flow Matching
157. ICLR 2026Laplacian Multi-scale Flow Matching for Generative Modeling
158. ICLR 2026Large Scale Diffusion Distillation via Score-Regularized Continuous-Time Consistency
159. ICLR 2026Latent Denoising Makes Good Tokenizers
160. ICLR 2026Latent Wavelet Diffusion For Ultra High-Resolution Image Synthesis
161. ICLR 2026Lavida-O: Elastic Large Masked Diffusion Models for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation
162. ICLR 2026Learning Collective Variables from BioEmu with Time-Lagged Generation
163. ICLR 2026Learning Patient-Specific Disease Dynamics With Latent Flow Matching For Longitudinal Imaging Generation
164. ICLR 2026Learning to Generate Stylized Handwritten Text via a Unified Representation of Style, Content, and Noise
165. ICLR 2026LearnIR: Learnable Posterior Sampling for Real-World Image Restoration
166. ICLR 2026Light-X: Generative 4D Video Rendering with Camera and Illumination Control
167. ICLR 2026LiveMoments: Reselected Key Photo Restoration in Live Photos via Reference-guided Diffusion
168. ICLR 2026Locality-aware Parallel Decoding for Efficient Autoregressive Image Generation
169. ICLR 2026Localized Concept Erasure in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via High-Level Representation Misdirection
170. ICLR 2026LogiStory: A Logic-Aware Framework for Multi-Image Story Visualization
171. ICLR 2026Logit‑KL Flow Matching: Non‑Autoregressive Text Generation via Sampling‑Hybrid Inference
172. ICLR 2026Long-Text-to-Image Generation via Compositional Prompt Decomposition
173. ICLR 2026LongWriter-Zero: Mastering Ultra-Long Text Generation via Reinforcement Learning
174. ICLR 2026LookaheadKV: Fast and Accurate KV Cache Eviction by Glimpsing into the Future without Generation
175. ICLR 2026LoRAGen: Structure-Aware Weight Space Learning for LoRA Generation
176. ICLR 2026Lumos-1: On Autoregressive Video Generation with Discrete Diffusion from a Unified Model Perspective
177. ICLR 2026Many-for-Many: Unify the Training of Multiple Video and Image Generation and Manipulation Tasks
178. ICLR 2026MANZANO: A Simple and Scalable Unified Multimodal Model with a Hybrid Vision Tokenizer
179. ICLR 2026MaskCO: Masked Generation Drives Effective Representation Learning and Exploiting for Combinatorial Optimization
180. ICLR 2026Massive Editing for Large Language Models Based on Dynamic Weight Generation
181. ICLR 2026MATRIX: Mask Track Alignment for Interaction-aware Video Generation
182. ICLR 2026MILR: Improving Multimodal Image Generation via Test-Time Latent Reasoning
183. ICLR 2026MME-Unify: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation Models
184. ICLR 2026MoCa: Modeling Object Consistency for 3D Camera Control in Video Generation
185. ICLR 2026Mod-Adapter: Tuning-Free and Versatile Multi-concept Personalization via Modulation Adapter
186. ICLR 2026MoSA: Motion-Coherent Human Video Generation via Structure-Appearance Decoupling
187. ICLR 2026MOSAIC: Multi-Subject Personalized Generation via Correspondence-Aware Alignment and Disentanglement
188. ICLR 2026Motion-Aligned Word Embeddings for Text-to-Motion Generation
189. ICLR 2026Motion-R1: Enhancing Motion Generation with Decomposed Chain-of-Thought and RL Binding
190. ICLR 2026MotionGPT3: Human Motion as a Second Modality
191. ICLR 2026MotionStream: Real-Time Video Generation with Interactive Motion Controls
192. ICLR 2026MotionWeaver: Holistic 4D-Anchored Framework for Multi-Humanoid Image Animation
193. ICLR 2026Moving Beyond Diffusion: Hierarchy-to-Hierarchy Autoregression for fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction
194. ICLR 2026MTVCraft: Tokenizing 4D Motion for Arbitrary Character Animation
195. ICLR 2026Multimodal Aligned Semantic Knowledge for Unpaired Image-text Matching
196. ICLR 2026MVAR: Visual Autoregressive Modeling with Scale and Spatial Markovian Conditioning
197. ICLR 2026Nano3D: A Training-Free Approach for Efficient 3D Editing Without Masks
198. ICLR 2026Neodragon: Mobile Video Generation Using Diffusion Transformer
199. ICLR 2026Neon: Negative Extrapolation From Self-Training Improves Image Generation
200. ICLR 2026NewtonGen: Physics-consistent and Controllable Text-to-Video Generation via Neural Newtonian Dynamics

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.