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
5,184 papers, page 5 of 104
- CVPR 2026FlexTraj Image-to-Video Generation with Flexible Point Trajectory Control
- CVPR 2026FloodDiffusion Tailored Diffusion Forcing for Streaming Motion Generation
- CVPR 2026Flowception Temporally Expansive Flow Matching for Video Generation
- CVPR 2026FlowDC Flow-Based Decoupling-Decay for Complex Image Editing
- CVPR 2026FlowDIS Language-Guided Dichotomous Image Segmentation with Flow Matching
- CVPR 2026FlowFixer Towards Detail-Preserving Subject-Driven Generation
- CVPR 2026FlowSteer Guiding Few-Step Image Synthesis with Authentic Trajectories
- CVPR 2026Focus on Background Exploring SAMs Potential in Few-shot Medical Image
- CVPR 2026FontCrafter High-Fidelity Element-Driven Artistic Font Creation with Visual In-Context Generation
- CVPR 2026Forensic-Friendly Image Manipulation via Controllable Latent Diffusion
- CVPR 2026FoundIR-v2 Optimizing Pre-Training Data Mixtures for Image Restoration Foundation Model
- CVPR 2026FrankenMotion Part-level Human Motion Generation and Composition
- CVPR 2026FreeScale Scaling 3D Scenes via Certainty-Aware Free-View Generation
- CVPR 2026FreqEdit Preserving High-Frequency Features for Robust Multi-Turn Image Editing
- CVPR 2026FreqSIC Frequency-aware Stereo Image Compression with Bi-directional Checkerboard Context Model
- CVPR 2026Frequency-Aware Flow Matching for High-Quality Image Generation
- CVPR 2026From Few-way to Many-way Rethinking Few-shot Fine-grained Image Classification
- CVPR 2026From Infusion to Assimilation Distillation for Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2026From Scale to Speed Adaptive Test-Time Scaling for Image Editing
- CVPR 2026FusionRegister Every Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Deserves Registration
- CVPR 2026GardenDesigner Encoding Aesthetic Principles into Jiangnan Garden Construction via a
- CVPR 2026Gated Condition Injection without Multimodal Attention Towards Controllable Linear-Attention Transformers
- CVPR 2026GaussFusion Improving 3D Reconstruction in the Wild with A Geometry-Informed
- CVPR 2026Gaussian Splatting-based Low-Rank Tensor Representation for Multi-Dimensional Image Recovery
- CVPR 2026GaussianVision Vision-Language Alignment from Compressed Image Representations using 2D Gaussian
- CVPR 2026Gen3R 3D Scene Generation Meets Feed-Forward Reconstruction
- CVPR 2026GenBreak Red Teaming Text-to-Image Generation Using Large Language Models
- CVPR 2026GenColorBench A Color Evaluation Benchmark for Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2026GeniNav Generative Model Driven Image-Goal Navigation via Imagination-Guided Consistency Flow
- CVPR 2026GenMask Adapting DiT for Segmentation via Direct Mask Generation
- CVPR 2026Geo2 Geometry-Guided Cross-view Geo-Localization and Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2026Geometry-as-context Modulating Explicit 3D in Scene-consistent Video Generation to Geometry
- CVPR 2026GeoTikzBridge Advancing Multimodal Code Generation for Geometric Perception and Reasoning
- CVPR 2026GFRRN Explore the Gaps in Single Image Reflection Removal
- CVPR 2026gQIR Generative Quanta Image Reconstruction
- CVPR 2026Grid Distillation Compositional Image Distillation via Structured Generative Grids
- CVPR 2026GrOCE Graph-Guided Online Concept Erasure for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026Grounded Latents for Entity-Centric 4D Scene Generation
- CVPR 2026Group Diffusion Enhancing Image Generation by Unlocking Cross-Sample Collaboration
- CVPR 2026GROW Watermark Generation with Progressive Guidance for Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026Guiding a Diffusion Model by Swapping Its Tokens
- CVPR 2026Guiding a Diffusion Transformer with the Internal Dynamics of Itself
- CVPR 2026Guiding Diffusion Models with Semantically Degraded Conditions
- CVPR 2026Guiding Token-Sparse Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026GVIS Generative Vector Image Steganography
- CVPR 2026H-Sets Hessian-Guided Discovery of Set-Level Feature Interactions in Image Classifiers
- CVPR 2026HalluGen Synthesizing Realistic and Controllable Hallucinations for Evaluating Image Restoration
- CVPR 2026HandDreamer Zero-Shot Text to 3D Hand Model Generation using Corrective
- CVPR 2026HandWorld Hand-Centric Unified Video Action Generation
- CVPR 2026HandX Scaling Bimanual Motion and Interaction Generation
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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.