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
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- 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
5,184 papers, page 40 of 104
- CVPR 2025GEN3C: 3D-Informed World-Consistent Video Generation with Precise Camera Control
- CVPR 2025GenDeg: Diffusion-based Degradation Synthesis for Generalizable All-In-One Image Restoration
- CVPR 2025Generalized Zero-Shot Classification via Semantics-Free Inter-Class Feature Generation
- CVPR 2025Generative Gaussian Splatting for Unbounded 3D City Generation
- CVPR 2025Generative Image Layer Decomposition with Visual Effects
- CVPR 2025Generative Photography: Scene-Consistent Camera Control for Realistic Text-to-Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2025Generative Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2025GenFusion: Closing the Loop between Reconstruction and Generation via Videos
- CVPR 2025GenVDM: Generating Vector Displacement Maps From a Single Image
- CVPR 2025Geometry in Style: 3D Stylization via Surface Normal Deformation
- CVPR 2025Glossy Object Reconstruction with Cost-effective Polarized Acquisition
- CVPR 2025Good, Cheap, and Fast: Overfitted Image Compression with Wasserstein Distortion
- CVPR 2025GPS as a Control Signal for Image Generation
- CVPR 2025GRAPHGPT-O: Synergistic Multimodal Comprehension and Generation on Graphs
- CVPR 2025GraphI2P: Image-to-Point Cloud Registration with Exploring Pattern of Correspondence via Graph Learning
- CVPR 2025GS-DiT: Advancing Video Generation with Dynamic 3D Gaussian Fields through Efficient Dense 3D Point Tracking
- CVPR 2025Gyro-based Neural Single Image Deblurring
- CVPR 2025Hallo3: Highly Dynamic and Realistic Portrait Image Animation with Video Diffusion Transformer
- CVPR 2025Harnessing Frequency Spectrum Insights for Image Copyright Protection Against Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Hash3D: Training-free Acceleration for 3D Generation
- CVPR 2025HEIE: MLLM-Based Hierarchical Explainable AIGC Image Implausibility Evaluator
- CVPR 2025Hierarchical Adaptive Filtering Network for Text Image Specular Highlight Removal
- CVPR 2025Hierarchical Gaussian Mixture Model Splatting for Efficient and Part Controllable 3D Generation
- CVPR 2025HiFi-Portrait: Zero-shot Identity-preserved Portrait Generation with High-fidelity Multi-face Fusion
- CVPR 2025High-fidelity 3D Object Generation from Single Image with RGBN-Volume Gaussian Reconstruction Model
- CVPR 2025HIIF: Hierarchical Encoding based Implicit Image Function for Continuous Super-resolution
- CVPR 2025HistoFS: Non-IID Histopathologic Whole Slide Image Classification via Federated Style Transfer with RoI-Preserving
- CVPR 2025HMAR: Efficient Hierarchical Masked Auto-Regressive Image Generation
- CVPR 2025Human-centered Interactive Learning via MLLMs for Text-to-Image Person Re-identification
- CVPR 2025HumanDreamer: Generating Controllable Human-Motion Videos via Decoupled Generation
- CVPR 2025HUNet: Homotopy Unfolding Network for Image Compressive Sensing
- CVPR 2025HVI: A New Color Space for Low-light Image Enhancement
- CVPR 2025Hybrid Global-Local Representation with Augmented Spatial Guidance for Zero-Shot Referring Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Hybrid Reciprocal Transformer with Triplet Feature Alignment for Scene Graph Generation
- CVPR 2025HyperLoRA: Parameter-Efficient Adaptive Generation for Portrait Synthesis
- CVPR 2025HyperNet Fields: Efficiently Training Hypernetworks without Ground Truth by Learning Weight Trajectories
- CVPR 2025I2VGuard: Safeguarding Images against Misuse in Diffusion-based Image-to-Video Models
- CVPR 2025ICE: Intrinsic Concept Extraction from a Single Image via Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025ICT: Image-Object Cross-Level Trusted Intervention for Mitigating Object Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2025Identifying and Mitigating Position Bias of Multi-image Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2025Identity-preserving Distillation Sampling by Fixed-Point Iterator
- CVPR 2025Identity-Preserving Text-to-Video Generation by Frequency Decomposition
- CVPR 2025IDOL: Instant Photorealistic 3D Human Creation from a Single Image
- CVPR 2025IDProtector: An Adversarial Noise Encoder to Protect Against ID-Preserving Image Generation
- CVPR 2025ILIAS: Instance-Level Image retrieval At Scale
- CVPR 2025Illumination Spectrum Estimation for Multispectral Images via Surface Reflectance Modeling and Spatial-Spectral Feature Generation
- CVPR 2025IM-Zero: Instance-level Motion Controllable Video Generation in a Zero-shot Manner
- CVPR 2025Image Generation Diversity Issues and How to Tame Them
- CVPR 2025Image is All You Need to Empower Large-scale Diffusion Models for In-Domain Generation
- CVPR 2025Image Over Text: Transforming Formula Recognition Evaluation with Character Detection 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.