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
2,262 papers, page 42 of 46
- CVPR 2023Learning Weather-General and Weather-Specific Features for Image Restoration Under Multiple Adverse Weather Conditions
- CVPR 2023LEMaRT: Label-Efficient Masked Region Transform for Image Harmonization
- CVPR 2023Leveraging per Image-Token Consistency for Vision-Language Pre-Training
- CVPR 2023Light Source Separation and Intrinsic Image Decomposition Under AC Illumination
- CVPR 2023LipFormer: High-Fidelity and Generalizable Talking Face Generation With a Pre-Learned Facial Codebook
- CVPR 2023Local Implicit Normalizing Flow for Arbitrary-Scale Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2023Low-Light Image Enhancement via Structure Modeling and Guidance
- CVPR 2023LVQAC: Lattice Vector Quantization Coupled With Spatially Adaptive Companding for Efficient Learned Image Compression
- CVPR 2023MAGE: MAsked Generative Encoder To Unify Representation Learning and Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2023Magic3D: High-Resolution Text-to-3D Content Creation
- CVPR 2023Make-a-Story: Visual Memory Conditioned Consistent Story Generation
- CVPR 2023MaLP: Manipulation Localization Using a Proactive Scheme
- CVPR 2023MaskCLIP: Masked Self-Distillation Advances Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining
- CVPR 2023Masked and Adaptive Transformer for Exemplar Based Image Translation
- CVPR 2023Masked Autoencoding Does Not Help Natural Language Supervision at Scale
- CVPR 2023Masked Image Modeling With Local Multi-Scale Reconstruction
- CVPR 2023Masked Image Training for Generalizable Deep Image Denoising
- CVPR 2023MaskSketch: Unpaired Structure-Guided Masked Image Generation
- CVPR 2023MCF: Mutual Correction Framework for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2023MeMaHand: Exploiting Mesh-Mano Interaction for Single Image Two-Hand Reconstruction
- CVPR 2023MetaFusion: Infrared and Visible Image Fusion via Meta-Feature Embedding From Object Detection
- CVPR 2023MetaPortrait: Identity-Preserving Talking Head Generation With Fast Personalized Adaptation
- CVPR 2023METransformer: Radiology Report Generation by Transformer With Multiple Learnable Expert Tokens
- CVPR 2023MIC: Masked Image Consistency for Context-Enhanced Domain Adaptation
- CVPR 2023Model-Agnostic Gender Debiased Image Captioning
- CVPR 2023MoStGAN-V: Video Generation With Temporal Motion Styles
- CVPR 2023MP-Former: Mask-Piloted Transformer for Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Multi-Concept Customization of Text-to-Image Diffusion
- CVPR 2023Multi-Realism Image Compression With a Conditional Generator
- CVPR 2023Multilateral Semantic Relations Modeling for Image Text Retrieval
- CVPR 2023Multiplicative Fourier Level of Detail
- CVPR 2023N-Gram in Swin Transformers for Efficient Lightweight Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2023Neighborhood Attention Transformer
- CVPR 2023NeRFInvertor: High Fidelity NeRF-GAN Inversion for Single-Shot Real Image Animation
- CVPR 2023Neumann Network With Recursive Kernels for Single Image Defocus Deblurring
- CVPR 2023Neural Fourier Filter Bank
- CVPR 2023Neural Scene Chronology
- CVPR 2023Neural Texture Synthesis With Guided Correspondence
- CVPR 2023Neural Transformation Fields for Arbitrary-Styled Font Generation
- CVPR 2023NeuralField-LDM: Scene Generation With Hierarchical Latent Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023NoisyTwins: Class-Consistent and Diverse Image Generation Through StyleGANs
- CVPR 2023Non-Contrastive Learning Meets Language-Image Pre-Training
- CVPR 2023Not All Image Regions Matter: Masked Vector Quantization for Autoregressive Image Generation
- CVPR 2023NUWA-LIP: Language-Guided Image Inpainting With Defect-Free VQGAN
- CVPR 2023Omni Aggregation Networks for Lightweight Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2023OmniAvatar: Geometry-Guided Controllable 3D Head Synthesis
- CVPR 2023OmniObject3D: Large-Vocabulary 3D Object Dataset for Realistic Perception, Reconstruction and Generation
- CVPR 2023On Data Scaling in Masked Image Modeling
- CVPR 2023On Distillation of Guided Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023One-Shot High-Fidelity Talking-Head Synthesis With Deformable Neural Radiance Field
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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.