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

278 papers, page 5 of 6

201. ICLR 2025PaRa: Personalizing Text-to-Image Diffusion via Parameter Rank Reduction
202. ICLR 2025PathGen-1.6M: 1.6 Million Pathology Image-text Pairs Generation through Multi-agent Collaboration
203. ICLR 2025Periodic Materials Generation using Text-Guided Joint Diffusion Model
204. ICLR 2025Phidias: A Generative Model for Creating 3D Content from Text, Image, and 3D Conditions with Reference-Augmented Diffusion
205. ICLR 2025PivotMesh: Generic 3D Mesh Generation via Pivot Vertices Guidance
206. ICLR 2025PixWizard: Versatile Image-to-Image Visual Assistant with Open-Language Instructions
207. ICLR 2025PnP-Flow: Plug-and-Play Image Restoration with Flow Matching
208. ICLR 2025Positive-Unlabeled Diffusion Models for Preventing Sensitive Data Generation
209. ICLR 2025Precise Parameter Localization for Textual Generation in Diffusion Models
210. ICLR 2025Probabilistic Language-Image Pre-Training
211. ICLR 2025Progressive Compositionality in Text-to-Image Generative Models
212. ICLR 2025ProtPainter: Draw or Drag Protein via Topology-guided Diffusion
213. ICLR 2025PT-T2I/V: An Efficient Proxy-Tokenized Diffusion Transformer for Text-to-Image/Video-Task
214. ICLR 2025Ranking-aware adapter for text-driven image ordering with CLIP
215. ICLR 2025Rare-to-Frequent: Unlocking Compositional Generation Power of Diffusion Models on Rare Concepts with LLM Guidance
216. ICLR 2025Real2Code: Reconstruct Articulated Objects via Code Generation
217. ICLR 2025RecDreamer: Consistent Text-to-3D Generation via Uniform Score Distillation
218. ICLR 2025Refine-by-Align: Reference-Guided Artifacts Refinement through Semantic Alignment
219. ICLR 2025Reflexive Guidance: Improving OoDD in Vision-Language Models via Self-Guided Image-Adaptive Concept Generation
220. ICLR 2025Representation Alignment for Generation: Training Diffusion Transformers Is Easier Than You Think
221. ICLR 2025Resolution Attack: Exploiting Image Compression to Deceive Deep Neural Networks
222. ICLR 2025Rethinking Artistic Copyright Infringements In the Era Of Text-to-Image Generative Models
223. ICLR 2025Revisit Large-Scale Image-Caption Data in Pre-training Multimodal Foundation Models
224. ICLR 2025RGB-Event ISP: The Dataset and Benchmark
225. ICLR 2025Robust Watermarking Using Generative Priors Against Image Editing: From Benchmarking to Advances
226. ICLR 2025SAFREE: Training-Free and Adaptive Guard for Safe Text-to-Image And Video Generation
227. ICLR 2025Salvage: Shapley-distribution Approximation Learning Via Attribution Guided Exploration for Explainable Image Classification
228. ICLR 2025SANA: Efficient High-Resolution Text-to-Image Synthesis with Linear Diffusion Transformers
229. ICLR 2025Scaling up Masked Diffusion Models on Text
230. ICLR 2025ScImage: How good are multimodal large language models at scientific text-to-image generation?
231. ICLR 2025SCOPE: A Self-supervised Framework for Improving Faithfulness in Conditional Text Generation
232. ICLR 2025See It from My Perspective: How Language Affects Cultural Bias in Image Understanding
233. ICLR 2025SG-I2V: Self-Guided Trajectory Control in Image-to-Video Generation
234. ICLR 2025Should VLMs be Pre-trained with Image Data?
235. ICLR 2025Show-o: One Single Transformer to Unify Multimodal Understanding and Generation
236. ICLR 2025SINGAPO: Single Image Controlled Generation of Articulated Parts in Objects
237. ICLR 2025Sitcom-Crafter: A Plot-Driven Human Motion Generation System in 3D Scenes
238. ICLR 2025Slot-Guided Adaptation of Pre-trained Diffusion Models for Object-Centric Learning and Compositional Generation
239. ICLR 2025Solving Video Inverse Problems Using Image Diffusion Models
240. ICLR 2025StochSync: Stochastic Diffusion Synchronization for Image Generation in Arbitrary Spaces
241. ICLR 2025Storybooth: Training-Free Multi-Subject Consistency for Improved Visual Storytelling
242. ICLR 2025SymDiff: Equivariant Diffusion via Stochastic Symmetrisation
243. ICLR 2025SynCamMaster: Synchronizing Multi-Camera Video Generation from Diverse Viewpoints
244. ICLR 2025SynFlowNet: Design of Diverse and Novel Molecules with Synthesis Constraints
245. ICLR 2025Temporal Heterogeneous Graph Generation with Privacy, Utility, and Efficiency
246. ICLR 2025Text-to-Image Rectified Flow as Plug-and-Play Priors
247. ICLR 2025Text4Seg: Reimagining Image Segmentation as Text Generation
248. ICLR 2025The Hyperfitting Phenomenon: Sharpening and Stabilizing LLMs for Open-Ended Text Generation
249. ICLR 2025The Superposition of Diffusion Models Using the Itô Density Estimator
250. ICLR 2025TIGeR: Unifying Text-to-Image Generation and Retrieval with Large Multimodal Models

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.