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

453 papers, page 5 of 10

201. NeurIPS 2026Inference-Time Vulnerability Beyond Shallow Safety: Alignment Along Generation Trajectories
202. NeurIPS 2026Inline Critic Steers Image Editing
203. NeurIPS 2026Instantiation of Human Values in Image Generation
204. NeurIPS 2026Intent2CAD: How Semantic-Parametric Supervision Shapes Text-to-CAD Generation
205. NeurIPS 2026Intervention-Guided Image-Free Classifier Expansion for Fine-Grained Recognition
206. NeurIPS 2026It Just Takes Two: Scaling Amortized Inference to Large Sets
207. NeurIPS 2026ITO: Multi-View Alignment and Training-Time Fusion for Image-Text Pretraining
208. NeurIPS 2026Keep It CALM: Analyzing the Limits of Global Unsafety in Text-to-Image Generation
209. NeurIPS 2026LADDERS: Length-Aware Data Distribution and Existing-Response Speculation for Fast RL Rollout Generation
210. NeurIPS 2026Lang-SVG: Hierarchical Image Vectorization with Language Priors
211. NeurIPS 2026Latent Process Generator Matching
212. NeurIPS 2026Latent Refinement Decoding: Enhancing Diffusion Language Models by Refining Belief States
213. NeurIPS 2026Layout Before Pixels: Topology-Anchored Transcriptome-to-Histology Generation
214. NeurIPS 2026LayoutBridge: Anisotropic Brownian Bridges for Public Indoor Floorplan Generation
215. NeurIPS 2026Learn Locally, Recurse Globally: Neural Circuit Synthesis Beyond Training Depth
216. NeurIPS 2026Learning Cultural Vectors for Cross-Cultural Generation
217. NeurIPS 2026Learning to Complete Extremal Mathematical Structures
218. NeurIPS 2026Learning to Solve Generative ODEs Beyond the Linear Span
219. NeurIPS 2026Learning Where and What to Restore for Composite Image Restoration
220. NeurIPS 2026LENS: Low-Frequency Eigen Noise Shaping for Efficient Diffusion Sampling
221. NeurIPS 2026LibEvoBench: Probing Temporal Knowledge Stratification in Code Generation Models
222. NeurIPS 2026LiFT: Lifted Inter-slice Feature Trajectories for 3D Image Generation from 2D Generators
223. NeurIPS 2026LIPAR: Latent Inter-Frame Pruning with Attention Recovery
224. NeurIPS 2026LLM Is a Good Conditioner: End-to-End Sign Language Video Generation with VQ-Diffusion
225. NeurIPS 2026LLMs Optimizing LLMs: Automated MegaKernel Generation for Inference Acceleration
226. NeurIPS 2026Local Intrinsic Dimension Unveils Hallucinations in Diffusion Models
227. NeurIPS 2026LogicDirector: Enforcing Temporal Composition in Text-to-Video Generation
228. NeurIPS 2026LoopWeaver: Weaving Feedback Loops into Hierarchical Generation under Constraints
229. NeurIPS 2026Magnetic Resonance Unpaired Image Translation with Pseudometric Schrödinger Bridges
230. NeurIPS 2026Manifold Embedding of Deep Image Features for Image Matching via Neural Adjoint Maps
231. NeurIPS 2026Manifold Prior Guided Deep Unfolding for Hyperspectral Image Reconstruction
232. NeurIPS 2026Matchability-Aware Conformal Prediction for Open-Ended Language Model Generation
233. NeurIPS 2026Matching2Matching: Zero-Shot Light Field Image Denoising with Matching View Construction
234. NeurIPS 2026MDMR-Bench: A Multi-Dimensional Benchmark for Multi-Reference Image Generation
235. NeurIPS 2026MedIGen: Reliable Medical Illustration Generation via Interleaved Introspective Reasoning
236. NeurIPS 2026MegaStyle: Constructing Diverse and Scalable Style Dataset via Consistent Text-to-Image Style Mapping
237. NeurIPS 2026Mesh BDF: Barycentric Dominance Field for 3D Native Mesh Generation
238. NeurIPS 2026Meta-TTRL: A Metacognitive Framework for Self-Improving Test-Time Reinforcement Learning for T2I Generation in Unified Multimodal Models
239. NeurIPS 2026MFlowAudio: Efficient Text-to-Audio Synthesis via Mamba-based Stateful Flow Matching
240. NeurIPS 2026MIRROR: Manifold Ideal Reference ReconstructOR for AI-Generated Image Detection
241. NeurIPS 2026Mission Impossible: Diagnosing and Fixing Non-Operative Instruction Following in Image Editing
242. NeurIPS 2026Mix-Opt: Mixed Optimization for Memory-Efficient Personalization of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
243. NeurIPS 2026Mixed-Curvature Geometric Latent Diffusion Model for Graph Generation
244. NeurIPS 2026Mixture of Attribute-Aware Attention Experts for Fine-grained E-Commerce Composed Image Retrieval
245. NeurIPS 2026MLLM-Edit: Benchmarking Image Forgery Detection and Localization under MLLM-based Editing
246. NeurIPS 2026MobTA: Bus-Conditioned Zero-Shot Trajectory Generation via Task Arithmetic
247. NeurIPS 2026MoCA: Mixture-of-Components Attention for Scalable Compositional 3D Generation
248. NeurIPS 2026Model Incrimination: Investigating Whether Concerning Behavior Reflects Misalignment
249. NeurIPS 2026MODULE: A Mutual-Promoting Deep Unfolding Framework Towards Degradation-Robust Multi-modal Image Fusion
250. NeurIPS 2026MolHIT: Advancing Molecular-Graph Generation with Hierarchical Discrete 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.