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

5,184 papers, page 49 of 104

2401. ICLR 2025DGQ: Distribution-Aware Group Quantization for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
2402. ICLR 2025Diff3DS: Generating View-Consistent 3D Sketch via Differentiable Curve Rendering
2403. ICLR 2025DiffPC: Diffusion-based High Perceptual Fidelity Image Compression with Semantic Refinement
2404. ICLR 2025DiffSplat: Repurposing Image Diffusion Models for Scalable Gaussian Splat Generation
2405. ICLR 2025Diffusion Bridge Implicit Models
2406. ICLR 2025Diffusion Transformers for Tabular Data Time Series Generation
2407. ICLR 2025Diffusion-based Neural Network Weights Generation
2408. ICLR 2025Diffusion-NPO: Negative Preference Optimization for Better Preference Aligned Generation of Diffusion Models
2409. ICLR 2025Diffusion$^2$: Dynamic 3D Content Generation via Score Composition of Video and Multi-view Diffusion Models
2410. ICLR 2025Discovering Clone Negatives via Adaptive Contrastive Learning for Image-Text Matching
2411. ICLR 2025Discrete Copula Diffusion
2412. ICLR 2025Discrete Distribution Networks
2413. ICLR 2025Discriminating image representations with principal distortions
2414. ICLR 2025DisEnvisioner: Disentangled and Enriched Visual Prompt for Customized Image Generation
2415. ICLR 2025DisPose: Disentangling Pose Guidance for Controllable Human Image Animation
2416. ICLR 2025Distilled Decoding 1: One-step Sampling of Image Auto-regressive Models with Flow Matching
2417. ICLR 2025Distribution Backtracking Builds A Faster Convergence Trajectory for Diffusion Distillation
2418. ICLR 2025Do Vision & Language Decoders use Images and Text equally? How Self-consistent are their Explanations?
2419. ICLR 2025DreamBench++: A Human-Aligned Benchmark for Personalized Image Generation
2420. ICLR 2025DreamDistribution: Learning Prompt Distribution for Diverse In-distribution Generation
2421. ICLR 2025Dynamic Diffusion Transformer
2422. ICLR 2025Dynamic Negative Guidance of Diffusion Models
2423. ICLR 2025DynamicCity: Large-Scale 4D Occupancy Generation from Dynamic Scenes
2424. ICLR 2025E(3)-equivariant models cannot learn chirality: Field-based molecular generation
2425. ICLR 2025EC-Diffuser: Multi-Object Manipulation via Entity-Centric Behavior Generation
2426. ICLR 2025EC-DIT: Scaling Diffusion Transformers with Adaptive Expert-Choice Routing
2427. ICLR 2025Edge-aware Image Smoothing with Relative Wavelet Domain Representation
2428. ICLR 2025EdgeRunner: Auto-regressive Auto-encoder for Artistic Mesh Generation
2429. ICLR 2025EG4D: Explicit Generation of 4D Object without Score Distillation
2430. ICLR 2025Energy-Based Diffusion Language Models for Text Generation
2431. ICLR 2025Enhancing Compositional Text-to-Image Generation with Reliable Random Seeds
2432. ICLR 2025Ensembling Diffusion Models via Adaptive Feature Aggregation
2433. ICLR 2025Erasing Concept Combination from Text-to-Image Diffusion Model
2434. ICLR 2025Evaluating Semantic Variation in Text-to-Image Synthesis: A Causal Perspective
2435. ICLR 2025Exploiting Distribution Constraints for Scalable and Efficient Image Retrieval
2436. ICLR 2025FakeShield: Explainable Image Forgery Detection and Localization via Multi-modal Large Language Models
2437. ICLR 2025Fantastic Copyrighted Beasts and How (Not) to Generate Them
2438. ICLR 2025Fast Direct: Query-Efficient Online Black-box Guidance for Diffusion-model Target Generation
2439. ICLR 2025FlexCAD: Unified and Versatile Controllable CAD Generation with Fine-tuned Large Language Models
2440. ICLR 2025Fluid: Scaling Autoregressive Text-to-image Generative Models with Continuous Tokens
2441. ICLR 2025Follow My Instruction and Spill the Beans: Scalable Data Extraction from Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems
2442. ICLR 2025Forking Paths in Neural Text Generation
2443. ICLR 2025FreCaS: Efficient Higher-Resolution Image Generation via Frequency-aware Cascaded Sampling
2444. ICLR 2025Fréchet Wavelet Distance: A Domain-Agnostic Metric for Image Generation
2445. ICLR 2025Free Hunch: Denoiser Covariance Estimation for Diffusion Models Without Extra Costs
2446. ICLR 2025FreeVS: Generative View Synthesis on Free Driving Trajectory
2447. ICLR 2025From Pixels to Tokens: Byte-Pair Encoding on Quantized Visual Modalities
2448. ICLR 2025GALA: Geometry-Aware Local Adaptive Grids for Detailed 3D Generation
2449. ICLR 2025GaussianAnything: Interactive Point Cloud Flow Matching for 3D Generation
2450. ICLR 2025GenARM: Reward Guided Generation with Autoregressive Reward Model for Test-Time Alignment

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.