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

453 papers, page 4 of 10

151. NeurIPS 2026From Generation to Restoration: Residual Diffusion for Neural Channel Decoding
152. NeurIPS 2026From Heartbeat to Cardiochoreography: A Mechanics Foundation Model for Individualized 4D Cardiac Motion Generation Conditioned on Electrophysiology
153. NeurIPS 2026From Structural Feedback to Prompt Policies: Learning Faithful Text-to-Image Prompt Editors
154. NeurIPS 2026G-Zero: Self-Play for Open-Ended Generation from Zero Data
155. NeurIPS 2026G$^2$TR: Generation-Guided Visual Token Reduction for Separate-Encoder Unified Multimodal Models
156. NeurIPS 2026G2Fusion: Geometric-to-Generative Image Fusion via Registration-Restoration Evolution
157. NeurIPS 2026GARDO: Reinforcing Diffusion Models without Reward Hacking
158. NeurIPS 2026Gen-Searcher: Reinforcing Agentic Search for Image Generation
159. NeurIPS 2026Gender Artifacts from Art History to Text-to-Image Generation
160. NeurIPS 2026Generating the Wild: Individual-Consistent Image-to-Video Generation for Wildlife
161. NeurIPS 2026Generation Navigator: A State-Aware Agentic Framework for Image Generation
162. NeurIPS 2026Generation-Drift-Guided Block Pruning for Large Language Models
163. NeurIPS 2026GenEvolve: Self-Evolving Image Generation Agents via Tool-Orchestrated Visual Experience Distillation
164. NeurIPS 2026GenScale: A Benchmark for Relative Object Scale in Image Generation and Editing
165. NeurIPS 2026GeoFidelity-Bench: Evaluating Block-Conditioned Geographic Fidelity in Text-to-Image Street-View Generation
166. NeurIPS 2026GeoG2U-Bench: When Does Generation Help Understanding in Ultra-High-Resolution Remote Sensing?
167. NeurIPS 2026GeoMamba: Geometry-Aware State Space Modeling for Image Restoration
168. NeurIPS 2026Geometry-Aware Representation Denoising for Multi-view Image Restoration and 3D Reconstruction
169. NeurIPS 2026GeoRouter: Dynamic Paradigm Routing for Worldwide Image Geolocalization
170. NeurIPS 2026Glance Before You Tell: Anomaly-Guided 3D Radiology Report Generation with Heat-Conduction Slice Encoders
171. NeurIPS 2026GlyphAnchor: Enhancing Visual Text Rendering via Position-Anchored Glyph Priors
172. NeurIPS 2026GRASP: Guided Residual Adapters with Sample-wise Partitioning
173. NeurIPS 2026GRINQH: Graded Input-based Quantization Hierarchy for Efficient LLM Generation
174. NeurIPS 2026Grounded-Exo2Ego: Structured Semantic Grounding for Robust Exocentric-to-Egocentric Video Generation
175. NeurIPS 2026Guided Data Generation for Understanding Model Behavior
176. NeurIPS 2026Guiding Visual Autoregressive Models through Spectrum Weakening
177. NeurIPS 2026GWScore: A structural diversity metric for consistent text-to-image generation
178. NeurIPS 2026HalluciText: Mitigating Text Hallucinations in Diffusion-Based Image Restoration
179. NeurIPS 2026Harnessing Image Diffusion Prior for Photo-Realistic Video Restoration
180. NeurIPS 2026HELICS: Biobank-scale Conditional Synthetic Genome Generation via Latent Flow Matching
181. NeurIPS 2026Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering via Relaxed Representatives
182. NeurIPS 2026Hierarchical Variational Policies for Reward-Guided Diffusion
183. NeurIPS 2026HIFC-IQA: Train-Free Cross-Domain Image Quality Assessment via Dual-Process Cognition
184. NeurIPS 2026High-Dimensional Conditional Independence Testing via Random Projection Aggregation
185. NeurIPS 2026HilbertGen-3D:Hilbert--Multifractal Conditioning for Topology-Aware 3D Generation
186. NeurIPS 2026How Diffusion Models Memorize
187. NeurIPS 2026Hypergraph Generation via Structured Stochastic Diffusion
188. NeurIPS 2026Hypergraph Generation with Latent Diffusion
189. NeurIPS 2026HyperNSDE: Personalized Neural SDEs for Joint Static—Longitudinal Clinical Data Generation
190. NeurIPS 2026HyperVQ: Enabling Hyperprior Entropy Modeling for VQ-Based Generative Image Compression
191. NeurIPS 2026Hypothesis generation and updating in large language models
192. NeurIPS 2026i-DEQ: A stable inertial Deep Equilibrium model for image restoration
193. NeurIPS 2026I2V-DETACH: Source Grounding Detachment for Unauthorized Image-to-Video Generation
194. NeurIPS 2026IdealCache: Rethinking Cache Scheduling in Diffusion Transformers via Ideal Trajectories
195. NeurIPS 2026Identified-Set Geometry of Distributional Model Extraction under Top-K Censored API Access
196. NeurIPS 2026ImageNet FID is a Pass Check, Not a Finish Line
197. NeurIPS 2026Imagine Before You Draw: Visual Prompt Engineering for Image Generation
198. NeurIPS 2026Improving Diffusion Posterior Samplers with Lagged Temporal Corrections for Image Restoration
199. NeurIPS 2026Improving Guidance-Free Visual Generation via Self-Contrastive Alignment for Likelihood Estimation
200. NeurIPS 2026IndustryCode: A Benchmark for Industry Code Generation

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.