Image Generation papers, 2023–2026
Text-to-image and synthesis
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 5,184 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 170 | 118 | 74 | 418 | 780 |
| 2024 | 318 | 199 | 156 | 543 | 1,216 |
| 2025 | 430 | 278 | 147 | 612 | 1,467 |
| 2026 | 453 | 349 | 230 | 689 | 1,721 |
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
780 papers, page 4 of 16
- CVPR 2023HouseDiffusion: Vector Floorplan Generation via a Diffusion Model With Discrete and Continuous Denoising
- CVPR 2023HRDFuse: Monocular 360deg Depth Estimation by Collaboratively Learning Holistic-With-Regional Depth Distributions
- CVPR 2023Human Guided Ground-Truth Generation for Realistic Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2023Human-Art: A Versatile Human-Centric Dataset Bridging Natural and Artificial Scenes
- CVPR 2023I2MVFormer: Large Language Model Generated Multi-View Document Supervision for Zero-Shot Image Classification
- CVPR 2023iCLIP: Bridging Image Classification and Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training for Visual Recognition
- CVPR 2023Identity-Preserving Talking Face Generation With Landmark and Appearance Priors
- CVPR 2023IFSeg: Image-Free Semantic Segmentation via Vision-Language Model
- CVPR 2023Im2Hands: Learning Attentive Implicit Representation of Interacting Two-Hand Shapes
- CVPR 2023Image as a Foreign Language: BEiT Pretraining for Vision and Vision-Language Tasks
- CVPR 2023Image Cropping With Spatial-Aware Feature and Rank Consistency
- CVPR 2023Image Quality-Aware Diagnosis via Meta-Knowledge Co-Embedding
- CVPR 2023Image Super-Resolution Using T-Tetromino Pixels
- CVPR 2023ImageBind: One Embedding Space To Bind Them All
- CVPR 2023Imagen Editor and EditBench: Advancing and Evaluating Text-Guided Image Inpainting
- CVPR 2023Imagic: Text-Based Real Image Editing With Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023Implicit Neural Head Synthesis via Controllable Local Deformation Fields
- CVPR 2023Improving Image Recognition by Retrieving From Web-Scale Image-Text Data
- CVPR 2023Improving the Transferability of Adversarial Samples by Path-Augmented Method
- CVPR 2023Improving Vision-and-Language Navigation by Generating Future-View Image Semantics
- CVPR 2023Inferring and Leveraging Parts From Object Shape for Improving Semantic Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2023Infinite Photorealistic Worlds Using Procedural Generation
- CVPR 2023Initialization Noise in Image Gradients and Saliency Maps
- CVPR 2023InstructPix2Pix: Learning To Follow Image Editing Instructions
- CVPR 2023Interactive and Explainable Region-Guided Radiology Report Generation
- CVPR 2023Inversion-Based Style Transfer With Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023IS-GGT: Iterative Scene Graph Generation With Generative Transformers
- CVPR 2023KD-DLGAN: Data Limited Image Generation via Knowledge Distillation
- CVPR 2023KiUT: Knowledge-Injected U-Transformer for Radiology Report Generation
- CVPR 2023LANA: A Language-Capable Navigator for Instruction Following and Generation
- CVPR 2023Language in a Bottle: Language Model Guided Concept Bottlenecks for Interpretable Image Classification
- CVPR 2023LANIT: Language-Driven Image-to-Image Translation for Unlabeled Data
- CVPR 2023Latent-NeRF for Shape-Guided Generation of 3D Shapes and Textures
- CVPR 2023LayoutDiffusion: Controllable Diffusion Model for Layout-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2023LayoutDM: Discrete Diffusion Model for Controllable Layout Generation
- CVPR 2023LayoutDM: Transformer-Based Diffusion Model for Layout Generation
- CVPR 2023LayoutFormer++: Conditional Graphic Layout Generation via Constraint Serialization and Decoding Space Restriction
- CVPR 2023Learned Image Compression With Mixed Transformer-CNN Architectures
- CVPR 2023Learning 3D Representations From 2D Pre-Trained Models via Image-to-Point Masked Autoencoders
- CVPR 2023Learning 3D-Aware Image Synthesis With Unknown Pose Distribution
- CVPR 2023Learning a Simple Low-Light Image Enhancer From Paired Low-Light Instances
- CVPR 2023Learning a Sparse Transformer Network for Effective Image Deraining
- CVPR 2023Learning Adaptive Dense Event Stereo From the Image Domain
- CVPR 2023Learning Bottleneck Concepts in Image Classification
- CVPR 2023Learning Compact Representations for LiDAR Completion and Generation
- CVPR 2023Learning Detailed Radiance Manifolds for High-Fidelity and 3D-Consistent Portrait Synthesis From Monocular Image
- CVPR 2023Learning Distortion Invariant Representation for Image Restoration From a Causality Perspective
- CVPR 2023Learning Generative Structure Prior for Blind Text Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2023Learning Partial Correlation Based Deep Visual Representation for Image Classification
- CVPR 2023Learning Semantic Relationship Among Instances for Image-Text Matching
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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.