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
543 papers, page 5 of 11
- CVPR 2024Generative Image Dynamics
- CVPR 2024Generative Rendering: Controllable 4D-Guided Video Generation with 2D Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024GenesisTex: Adapting Image Denoising Diffusion to Texture Space
- CVPR 2024GenTron: Diffusion Transformers for Image and Video Generation
- CVPR 2024GPT-4V(ision) is a Human-Aligned Evaluator for Text-to-3D Generation
- CVPR 2024GPT4Point: A Unified Framework for Point-Language Understanding and Generation
- CVPR 2024GraphDreamer: Compositional 3D Scene Synthesis from Scene Graphs
- CVPR 2024Grid Diffusion Models for Text-to-Video Generation
- CVPR 2024Grounded Text-to-Image Synthesis with Attention Refocusing
- CVPR 2024H-ViT: A Hierarchical Vision Transformer for Deformable Image Registration
- CVPR 2024HandDiff: 3D Hand Pose Estimation with Diffusion on Image-Point Cloud
- CVPR 2024HanDiffuser: Text-to-Image Generation With Realistic Hand Appearances
- CVPR 2024HarmonyView: Harmonizing Consistency and Diversity in One-Image-to-3D
- CVPR 2024Harnessing the Power of MLLMs for Transferable Text-to-Image Person ReID
- CVPR 2024Hierarchical Patch Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Video Generation
- CVPR 2024Hierarchical Spatio-temporal Decoupling for Text-to-Video Generation
- CVPR 2024High-fidelity Person-centric Subject-to-Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2024HIR-Diff: Unsupervised Hyperspectral Image Restoration Via Improved Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Holo-Relighting: Controllable Volumetric Portrait Relighting from a Single Image
- CVPR 2024Holodeck: Language Guided Generation of 3D Embodied AI Environments
- CVPR 2024HomoFormer: Homogenized Transformer for Image Shadow Removal
- CVPR 2024How to Handle Sketch-Abstraction in Sketch-Based Image Retrieval?
- CVPR 2024How to Make Cross Encoder a Good Teacher for Efficient Image-Text Retrieval?
- CVPR 2024HumanGaussian: Text-Driven 3D Human Generation with Gaussian Splatting
- CVPR 2024HumanNorm: Learning Normal Diffusion Model for High-quality and Realistic 3D Human Generation
- CVPR 2024HumanRef: Single Image to 3D Human Generation via Reference-Guided Diffusion
- CVPR 2024HyperDreamBooth: HyperNetworks for Fast Personalization of Text-to-Image Models
- CVPR 2024HyperSDFusion: Bridging Hierarchical Structures in Language and Geometry for Enhanced 3D Text2Shape Generation
- CVPR 2024IBD-SLAM: Learning Image-Based Depth Fusion for Generalizable SLAM
- CVPR 2024ID-Blau: Image Deblurring by Implicit Diffusion-based reBLurring AUgmentation
- CVPR 2024Identifying Important Group of Pixels using Interactions
- CVPR 2024IIRP-Net: Iterative Inference Residual Pyramid Network for Enhanced Image Registration
- CVPR 2024Image Neural Field Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Image Processing GNN: Breaking Rigidity in Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2024Image Restoration by Denoising Diffusion Models with Iteratively Preconditioned Guidance
- CVPR 2024Image Sculpting: Precise Object Editing with 3D Geometry Control
- CVPR 2024Image-Text Co-Decomposition for Text-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Improving Image Restoration through Removing Degradations in Textual Representations
- CVPR 2024Improving Subject-Driven Image Synthesis with Subject-Agnostic Guidance
- CVPR 2024In-distribution Public Data Synthesis with Diffusion Models for Differentially Private Image Classification
- CVPR 2024Infinigen Indoors: Photorealistic Indoor Scenes using Procedural Generation
- CVPR 2024InitNO: Boosting Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Initial Noise Optimization
- CVPR 2024Ink Dot-Oriented Differentiable Optimization for Neural Image Halftoning
- CVPR 2024Instance-level Expert Knowledge and Aggregate Discriminative Attention for Radiology Report Generation
- CVPR 2024InstanceDiffusion: Instance-level Control for Image Generation
- CVPR 2024InstantBooth: Personalized Text-to-Image Generation without Test-Time Finetuning
- CVPR 2024InteractDiffusion: Interaction Control in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Interactive3D: Create What You Want by Interactive 3D Generation
- CVPR 2024InterHandGen: Two-Hand Interaction Generation via Cascaded Reverse Diffusion
- CVPR 2024Interpretable Measures of Conceptual Similarity by Complexity-Constrained Descriptive Auto-Encoding
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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.