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

199 papers, page 4 of 4

151. ICLR 2024Perceptual Group Tokenizer: Building Perception with Iterative Grouping
152. ICLR 2024Personalize Segment Anything Model with One Shot
153. ICLR 2024PixArt-$\alpha$: Fast Training of Diffusion Transformer for Photorealistic Text-to-Image Synthesis
154. ICLR 2024Pre-training with Random Orthogonal Projection Image Modeling
155. ICLR 2024Probabilistic Adaptation of Black-Box Text-to-Video Models
156. ICLR 2024Progressive3D: Progressively Local Editing for Text-to-3D Content Creation with Complex Semantic Prompts
157. ICLR 2024PromptTTS 2: Describing and Generating Voices with Text Prompt
158. ICLR 2024Provable Robust Watermarking for AI-Generated Text
159. ICLR 2024R&B: Region and Boundary Aware Zero-shot Grounded Text-to-image Generation
160. ICLR 2024Real-Fake: Effective Training Data Synthesis Through Distribution Matching
161. ICLR 2024Real3D-Portrait: One-shot Realistic 3D Talking Portrait Synthesis
162. ICLR 2024Recursive Generalization Transformer for Image Super-Resolution
163. ICLR 2024Relay Diffusion: Unifying diffusion process across resolutions for image synthesis
164. ICLR 2024Ring-A-Bell! How Reliable are Concept Removal Methods For Diffusion Models?
165. ICLR 2024Role of Locality and Weight Sharing in Image-Based Tasks: A Sample Complexity Separation between CNNs, LCNs, and FCNs
166. ICLR 2024Safe and Robust Watermark Injection with a Single OoD Image
167. ICLR 2024SalUn: Empowering Machine Unlearning via Gradient-based Weight Saliency in Both Image Classification and Generation
168. ICLR 2024ScaleCrafter: Tuning-free Higher-Resolution Visual Generation with Diffusion Models
169. ICLR 2024SDXL: Improving Latent Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Image Synthesis
170. ICLR 2024SE(3)-Stochastic Flow Matching for Protein Backbone Generation
171. ICLR 2024Seer: Language Instructed Video Prediction with Latent Diffusion Models
172. ICLR 2024SEINE: Short-to-Long Video Diffusion Model for Generative Transition and Prediction
173. ICLR 2024Sentence-level Prompts Benefit Composed Image Retrieval
174. ICLR 2024Sin3DM: Learning a Diffusion Model from a Single 3D Textured Shape
175. ICLR 2024SLiMe: Segment Like Me
176. ICLR 2024Solving Diffusion ODEs with Optimal Boundary Conditions for Better Image Super-Resolution
177. ICLR 2024Source-Free and Image-Only Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Category Level Object Pose Estimation
178. ICLR 2024Space Group Constrained Crystal Generation
179. ICLR 2024Spatio-Temporal Few-Shot Learning via Diffusive Neural Network Generation
180. ICLR 2024SyncDreamer: Generating Multiview-consistent Images from a Single-view Image
181. ICLR 2024T-MARS: Improving Visual Representations by Circumventing Text Feature Learning
182. ICLR 2024Tag2Text: Guiding Vision-Language Model via Image Tagging
183. ICLR 2024TapMo: Shape-aware Motion Generation of Skeleton-free Characters
184. ICLR 2024TextField3D: Towards Enhancing Open-Vocabulary 3D Generation with Noisy Text Fields
185. ICLR 2024The Consensus Game: Language Model Generation via Equilibrium Search
186. ICLR 2024The Hidden Language of Diffusion Models
187. ICLR 2024The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Linear Prediction as a Perceptual Metric
188. ICLR 2024TokenFlow: Consistent Diffusion Features for Consistent Video Editing
189. ICLR 2024TOSS: High-quality Text-guided Novel View Synthesis from a Single Image
190. ICLR 2024Towards image compression with perfect realism at ultra-low bitrates
191. ICLR 2024Uncertainty-aware Graph-based Hyperspectral Image Classification
192. ICLR 2024Universal Backdoor Attacks
193. ICLR 2024Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation via Neural Schrödinger Bridge
194. ICLR 2024Unveiling and Manipulating Prompt Influence in Large Language Models
195. ICLR 2024VersVideo: Leveraging Enhanced Temporal Diffusion Models for Versatile Video Generation
196. ICLR 2024Vision-by-Language for Training-Free Compositional Image Retrieval
197. ICLR 2024WildFusion: Learning 3D-Aware Latent Diffusion Models in View Space
198. ICLR 2024Würstchen: An Efficient Architecture for Large-Scale Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
199. ICLR 2024Xformer: Hybrid X-Shaped Transformer for Image Denoising

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.