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

230 papers, page 5 of 5

201. ICML 2026Towards Cold-Start Drafting and Continual Refining: A Value-Driven Memory Approach with Application to NPU Kernel Synthesis
202. ICML 2026Towards Diffeomorphism-Equivariant Neural Networks via Canonicalization
203. ICML 2026Towards Scalable and Consistent 3D Editing
204. ICML 2026Towards Trustworthy and Identifiable Virtual Face Generation
205. ICML 2026TPGDiff : Hierarchical Triple-Prior Guided Diffusion for Image Restoration
206. ICML 2026Trainable Nonexpansive Denoisers for Contractive Image Reconstruction
207. ICML 2026Training-Free Coverless Multi-Image Steganography with Access Control
208. ICML 2026Trajectory Consistency for One-Step Generation on Euler Mean Flows
209. ICML 2026TranX-Adapter: Bridging Artifacts and Semantics within MLLMs for Robust AI-generated Image Detection
210. ICML 2026TSMGen: Target-Specific Molecule Generation via Higher-Order Structural Dependencies and Context-Aware Bidirectional Fusion
211. ICML 2026Turbo4DGen: Ultra-Fast Acceleration for 4D Generation
212. ICML 2026Twins: Learn to Predict Unified Representations with Focal Loss
213. ICML 2026UFO: Chain-of-Evaluation for Omni-Condition Alignment in Multi-Modal Image Generation
214. ICML 2026Unified Safe In-context Image Generation in Multimodal Diffusion Transformers via Restricting Unsafe Information Flows
215. ICML 2026Unifying Deep Stochastic Processes for Image Enhancement
216. ICML 2026Unifying Heterogeneous Degradations: Uncertainty-Aware Diffusion Bridge Model for All-in-One Image Restoration
217. ICML 2026Unifying Masked Diffusion Models with Various Generation Orders and Beyond
218. ICML 2026UniMedVL: Unifying Medical Multimodal Understanding and Generation through Observation-Knowledge-Analysis
219. ICML 2026UniPercept: Towards Unified Perceptual-Level Image Understanding across Aesthetics, Quality, Structure, and Texture
220. ICML 2026Unlocking Speech–Text Compositional Powers: Instruction-Following Speech Language Models without Instruction Tuning
221. ICML 2026Variable-Length Tokenization via Learnable Global Merging for Diffusion Transformers
222. ICML 2026Variational Flow Maps: Make Some Noise for One-Step Conditional Generation
223. ICML 2026Variational Learning for Insertion-based Generation
224. ICML 2026ViewMask-1-to-3: Multi-View Consistent Image Generation via Multimodal Discrete Diffusion Models
225. ICML 2026WeatherSyn: An Instruction Tuning MLLM For Weather Forecasting Report Generation
226. ICML 2026When Attributes Disagree: Gradient Conflict in Image Aesthetic Assessment
227. ICML 2026Winformer: Transcending Pairwise Similarity for Time-series Generation
228. ICML 2026WISE: World Knowledge-Informed Semantic Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation
229. ICML 2026World-Shaper: A Unified Framework for 360° Panoramic Editing
230. ICML 2026You Don’t Need All That Attention: Surgical Memorization Mitigation in Text-to-Image Diffusion 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.