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 53 of 104

2601. ICLR 2025Vec2Face: Scaling Face Dataset Generation with Loosely Constrained Vectors
2602. ICLR 2025VideoShield: Regulating Diffusion-based Video Generation Models via Watermarking
2603. ICLR 2025ViDiT-Q: Efficient and Accurate Quantization of Diffusion Transformers for Image and Video Generation
2604. ICLR 2025VisRAG: Vision-based Retrieval-augmented Generation on Multi-modality Documents
2605. ICLR 2025Visually Consistent Hierarchical Image Classification
2606. ICLR 2025Visually Guided Decoding: Gradient-Free Hard Prompt Inversion with Language Models
2607. ICLR 2025Warm Diffusion: Recipe for Blur-Noise Mixture Diffusion Models
2608. ICLR 2025Weakly Supervised Video Scene Graph Generation via Natural Language Supervision
2609. ICLR 2025What Makes Large Language Models Reason in (Multi-Turn) Code Generation?
2610. ICLR 2025What's New in My Data? Novelty Exploration via Contrastive Generation
2611. ICLR 2025You Only Sample Once: Taming One-Step Text-to-Image Synthesis by Self-Cooperative Diffusion GANs
2612. ICML 2025"Why Is There a Tumor?": Tell Me the Reason, Show Me the Evidence
2613. ICML 20253D-LMVIC: Learning-based Multi-View Image Compression with 3D Gaussian Geometric Priors
2614. ICML 2025Adaptive Median Smoothing: Adversarial Defense for Unlearned Text-to-Image Diffusion Models at Inference Time
2615. ICML 2025Adversarial Perturbations Are Formed by Iteratively Learning Linear Combinations of the Right Singular Vectors of the Adversarial Jacobian
2616. ICML 2025AdvI2I: Adversarial Image Attack on Image-to-Image Diffusion Models
2617. ICML 2025AKRMap: Adaptive Kernel Regression for Trustworthy Visualization of Cross-Modal Embeddings
2618. ICML 2025Angle Domain Guidance: Latent Diffusion Requires Rotation Rather Than Extrapolation
2619. ICML 2025Are High-Quality AI-Generated Images More Difficult for Models to Detect?
2620. ICML 2025AUTOCIRCUIT-RL: Reinforcement Learning-Driven LLM for Automated Circuit Topology Generation
2621. ICML 2025BiMark: Unbiased Multilayer Watermarking for Large Language Models
2622. ICML 2025BOOD: Boundary-based Out-Of-Distribution Data Generation
2623. ICML 2025Boost-and-Skip: A Simple Guidance-Free Diffusion for Minority Generation
2624. ICML 2025Bridging Protein Sequences and Microscopy Images with Unified Diffusion Models
2625. ICML 2025Broadband Ground Motion Synthesis by Diffusion Model with Minimal Condition
2626. ICML 2025CAD-Editor: A Locate-then-Infill Framework with Automated Training Data Synthesis for Text-Based CAD Editing
2627. ICML 2025CFP-Gen: Combinatorial Functional Protein Generation via Diffusion Language Models
2628. ICML 2025CHATS: Combining Human-Aligned Optimization and Test-Time Sampling for Text-to-Image Generation
2629. ICML 2025CodeSync: Synchronizing Large Language Models with Dynamic Code Evolution at Scale
2630. ICML 2025Compressed Image Generation with Denoising Diffusion Codebook Models
2631. ICML 2025Compression via Pre-trained Transformers: A Study on Byte-Level Multimodal Data
2632. ICML 2025Contrastive Localized Language-Image Pre-Training
2633. ICML 2025Contrastive Visual Data Augmentation
2634. ICML 2025Control and Realism: Best of Both Worlds in Layout-to-Image without Training
2635. ICML 2025Controllable Data Generation with Hierarchical Neural Representations
2636. ICML 2025CtrlSynth: Controllable Image Text Synthesis for Data-Efficient Multimodal Learning
2637. ICML 2025DCTdiff: Intriguing Properties of Image Generative Modeling in the DCT Space
2638. ICML 2025DEALing with Image Reconstruction: Deep Attentive Least Squares
2639. ICML 2025Deep Unsupervised Hashing via External Guidance
2640. ICML 2025DeFoG: Discrete Flow Matching for Graph Generation
2641. ICML 2025Devil is in the Details: Density Guidance for Detail-Aware Generation with Flow Models
2642. ICML 2025Diffusion Adversarial Post-Training for One-Step Video Generation
2643. ICML 2025Diffusion Counterfactual Generation with Semantic Abduction
2644. ICML 2025Dimension-Independent Rates for Structured Neural Density Estimation
2645. ICML 2025Distributed Parallel Gradient Stacking(DPGS): Solving Whole Slide Image Stacking Challenge in Multi-Instance Learning
2646. ICML 2025Distribution-aware Fairness Learning in Medical Image Segmentation From A Control-Theoretic Perspective
2647. ICML 2025Does Generation Require Memorization? Creative Diffusion Models using Ambient Diffusion
2648. ICML 2025Effective and Efficient Masked Image Generation Models
2649. ICML 2025EffiCoder: Enhancing Code Generation in Large Language Models through Efficiency-Aware Fine-tuning
2650. ICML 2025Elucidating the design space of language models for image generation

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.