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

5,184 papers, page 52 of 104

2551. ICLR 2025Refine-by-Align: Reference-Guided Artifacts Refinement through Semantic Alignment
2552. ICLR 2025Reflexive Guidance: Improving OoDD in Vision-Language Models via Self-Guided Image-Adaptive Concept Generation
2553. ICLR 2025Representation Alignment for Generation: Training Diffusion Transformers Is Easier Than You Think
2554. ICLR 2025Resolution Attack: Exploiting Image Compression to Deceive Deep Neural Networks
2555. ICLR 2025Rethinking Artistic Copyright Infringements In the Era Of Text-to-Image Generative Models
2556. ICLR 2025Revisit Large-Scale Image-Caption Data in Pre-training Multimodal Foundation Models
2557. ICLR 2025RGB-Event ISP: The Dataset and Benchmark
2558. ICLR 2025Robust Watermarking Using Generative Priors Against Image Editing: From Benchmarking to Advances
2559. ICLR 2025SAFREE: Training-Free and Adaptive Guard for Safe Text-to-Image And Video Generation
2560. ICLR 2025Salvage: Shapley-distribution Approximation Learning Via Attribution Guided Exploration for Explainable Image Classification
2561. ICLR 2025SANA: Efficient High-Resolution Text-to-Image Synthesis with Linear Diffusion Transformers
2562. ICLR 2025Scaling up Masked Diffusion Models on Text
2563. ICLR 2025ScImage: How good are multimodal large language models at scientific text-to-image generation?
2564. ICLR 2025SCOPE: A Self-supervised Framework for Improving Faithfulness in Conditional Text Generation
2565. ICLR 2025See It from My Perspective: How Language Affects Cultural Bias in Image Understanding
2566. ICLR 2025SG-I2V: Self-Guided Trajectory Control in Image-to-Video Generation
2567. ICLR 2025Should VLMs be Pre-trained with Image Data?
2568. ICLR 2025Show-o: One Single Transformer to Unify Multimodal Understanding and Generation
2569. ICLR 2025SINGAPO: Single Image Controlled Generation of Articulated Parts in Objects
2570. ICLR 2025Sitcom-Crafter: A Plot-Driven Human Motion Generation System in 3D Scenes
2571. ICLR 2025Slot-Guided Adaptation of Pre-trained Diffusion Models for Object-Centric Learning and Compositional Generation
2572. ICLR 2025Solving Video Inverse Problems Using Image Diffusion Models
2573. ICLR 2025StochSync: Stochastic Diffusion Synchronization for Image Generation in Arbitrary Spaces
2574. ICLR 2025Storybooth: Training-Free Multi-Subject Consistency for Improved Visual Storytelling
2575. ICLR 2025SymDiff: Equivariant Diffusion via Stochastic Symmetrisation
2576. ICLR 2025SynCamMaster: Synchronizing Multi-Camera Video Generation from Diverse Viewpoints
2577. ICLR 2025SynFlowNet: Design of Diverse and Novel Molecules with Synthesis Constraints
2578. ICLR 2025Temporal Heterogeneous Graph Generation with Privacy, Utility, and Efficiency
2579. ICLR 2025Text-to-Image Rectified Flow as Plug-and-Play Priors
2580. ICLR 2025Text4Seg: Reimagining Image Segmentation as Text Generation
2581. ICLR 2025The Hyperfitting Phenomenon: Sharpening and Stabilizing LLMs for Open-Ended Text Generation
2582. ICLR 2025The Superposition of Diffusion Models Using the Itô Density Estimator
2583. ICLR 2025TIGeR: Unifying Text-to-Image Generation and Retrieval with Large Multimodal Models
2584. ICLR 2025TIPS: Text-Image Pretraining with Spatial awareness
2585. ICLR 2025ToddlerDiffusion: Interactive Structured Image Generation with Cascaded Schrödinger Bridge
2586. ICLR 2025Topograph: An Efficient Graph-Based Framework for Strictly Topology Preserving Image Segmentation
2587. ICLR 2025Topological Zigzag Spaghetti for Diffusion-based Generation and Prediction on Graphs
2588. ICLR 2025Towards Multiple Character Image Animation Through Enhancing Implicit Decoupling
2589. ICLR 2025Towards Realistic Data Generation for Real-World Super-Resolution
2590. ICLR 2025Towards Semantic Equivalence of Tokenization in Multimodal LLM
2591. ICLR 2025Towards Understanding Text Hallucination of Diffusion Models via Local Generation Bias
2592. ICLR 2025Training Free Guided Flow-Matching with Optimal Control
2593. ICLR 2025Transfusion: Predict the Next Token and Diffuse Images with One Multi-Modal Model
2594. ICLR 2025Turning Up the Heat: Min-p Sampling for Creative and Coherent LLM Outputs
2595. ICLR 2025TweedieMix: Improving Multi-Concept Fusion for Diffusion-based Image/Video Generation
2596. ICLR 2025UIFace: Unleashing Inherent Model Capabilities to Enhance Intra-Class Diversity in Synthetic Face Recognition
2597. ICLR 2025Unbounded: A Generative Infinite Game of Character Life Simulation
2598. ICLR 2025UniCon: Unidirectional Information Flow for Effective Control of Large-Scale Diffusion Models
2599. ICLR 2025UniGS: Unified Language-Image-3D Pretraining with Gaussian Splatting
2600. ICLR 2025Universal Image Restoration Pre-training via Degradation Classification

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.