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

230 papers, page 4 of 5

151. ICML 2026ReTabSyn: Realistic Tabular Data Synthesis via Reinforcement Learning
152. ICML 2026Rethinking 3D Shape Generation: Diffusion over Superquadrics
153. ICML 2026Rethinking Generative Image Pretraining: How Far Are We From Scaling Up Next-Pixel Prediction?
154. ICML 2026Riemannian MeanFlow for One-Step Generation on Manifolds
155. ICML 2026RobuQ: Pushing DiTs to W1.58A2 via Robust Activation Quantization
156. ICML 2026Rooted Absorbed Prefix Trajectory Balance with Submodular Replay for GFlowNet Training
157. ICML 2026RSF-GLLM: Bridging the Semantic Gap in Multi-Hop Knowledge Graph QA via Recurrent Soft-Flow and Decoupled LLM Generation
158. ICML 2026S-Quant: Rethinking Weight Quantization with Seed-Based Generation
159. ICML 2026Safe Autoregressive Image Generation with Iterative Self-Improving Codebooks
160. ICML 2026SAMT: Generating Structured Avatar Meshes and Textures from a Single Image
161. ICML 2026Scalable Single-Cell Gene Expression Generation with Latent Diffusion Models
162. ICML 2026ScaleErasure: Inference-Time Minimal Intervention for Precise Concept Erasure in Next-Scale Autoregressive Image Generation
163. ICML 2026ScalingAR: Scaling Confidence for Autoregressive Image Generation
164. ICML 2026Self-Supervised Flow Matching for Scalable Multi-Modal Synthesis
165. ICML 2026Semantic Granularity Navigation in Image Editing
166. ICML 2026Semantic-level Backdoor Attack against Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
167. ICML 2026SEPS: Semantic-Enhanced Patch Slimming Framework for Fine-Grained Cross-Modal Alignment
168. ICML 2026Shape of Thought: Progressive Object Assembly via Visual Chain-of-Thought
169. ICML 2026Show, Don't Tell: Morphing Latent Reasoning into Image Generation
170. ICML 2026SJD-SV: Speculative Jacobi Decoding with Semantics Verification for Autoregressive Image Generation
171. ICML 2026Skipping the Zeros in Diffusion Models for Sparse Data Generation
172. ICML 2026Spectral Evolution Search: Efficient Inference-Time Scaling for Reward-Aligned Image Generation
173. ICML 2026Spectrally-Guided Diffusion Noise Schedules
174. ICML 2026Speculative Coupled Decoding for Training-Free Lossless Acceleration of Autoregressive Visual Generation
175. ICML 2026SphericalDreamer: Generating Navigable Immersive 3D Worlds with Panorama Fusion
176. ICML 2026SpreadsheetArena: Decomposing Preference in LLM Generation of Spreadsheet Workbooks
177. ICML 2026SSDCN: Spatial-Spectral Dual-Clustering-based Network for Hyperspectral Image Super-resolution
178. ICML 2026STD-Former: Image-Conditioned Texture Dictionary Encoding with Sparse Topological Supervision for Texture Recognition
179. ICML 2026Stein Diffusion Guidance: Training-Free Posterior Correction for Sampling Beyond High-Density Regions
180. ICML 2026Stop When Further Reasoning Won’t Help: Attention-State Adaptive Generation in Reasoning Models
181. ICML 2026StreamFlow: Theory, Algorithm, and Implementation for High-Efficiency Rectified Flow Generation
182. ICML 2026StructMAR: Structure-Aware Masked Autoregression for Explicit Layout Alignment in Text-to-Image Generation
183. ICML 2026StyleDistillation: A New Insight of Image Style Enables Personalized Aesthetic Manipulation
184. ICML 2026SuperHype: Hypergraph Generation via Graph-Superposition Decomposition
185. ICML 2026SurrogateSHAP: Training-Free Contributor Attribution for Text-to-Image (T2I) Models
186. ICML 2026SynerMedGen: Synergizing Medical Multimodal Understanding with Generation via Task Alignment
187. ICML 2026Synthesizable Molecular Generation via Soft-constrained GFlowNets with Rich Chemical Priors
188. ICML 2026TAGRPO: Boosting GRPO on Image-to-Video Generation with Direct Trajectory Alignment
189. ICML 2026Taylor-Gaussians-Flow: Towards Non-uniform Motion for Novel View Synthesis from Monocular Video
190. ICML 2026TDM-R1: Reinforcing Few-Step Diffusion Models with Non-Differentiable Reward
191. ICML 2026TestExplora: Benchmarking LLMs for Proactive Bug Discovery via Repository-Level Test Generation
192. ICML 2026Text-Driven Fusion for Infrared and Visible Images: Achieving Image Scene Adaptation on Hyperbolic Space
193. ICML 2026TextAtlas5M: A Large-Scale Dataset for Long Text Image Generation
194. ICML 2026TextMesh4D: Zero-shot Text-to-4D Mesh Generation
195. ICML 2026TFTF: Training-Free Targeted Flow for Conditional Sampling
196. ICML 2026The Double Dilemma in Multi-Task Radiology Report Generation: A Gradient Dynamics Analysis and Solution
197. ICML 2026The Latent Color Subspace: Emergent Order in High-Dimensional Chaos
198. ICML 2026The Safety-Aware Denoiser for Text Diffusion Models
199. ICML 2026The Velocity Deficit: Initial Energy Injection for Flow Matching
200. ICML 2026TIMI: Training-Free Image-to-3D Multi-Instance Generation with Spatial Fidelity

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.