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 57 of 104

2801. NeurIPS 2025CHiQPM: Calibrated Hierarchical Interpretable Image Classification
2802. NeurIPS 2025CLEAR: Conv-Like Linearization Revs Pre-Trained Diffusion Transformers Up
2803. NeurIPS 2025Co-Reinforcement Learning for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation
2804. NeurIPS 2025COCONut-PanCap: Joint Panoptic Segmentation and Grounded Captions for Fine-Grained Understanding and Generation
2805. NeurIPS 2025Color Conditional Generation with Sliced Wasserstein Guidance
2806. NeurIPS 2025ComfyMind: Toward General-Purpose Generation via Tree-Based Planning and Reactive Feedback
2807. NeurIPS 2025Comprehensive Assessment and Analysis for NSFW Content Erasure in Text-to-Image Diffusion models
2808. NeurIPS 2025Compress & Cache: Vision token compression for efficient generation and retrieval
2809. NeurIPS 2025Conditional Panoramic Image Generation via Masked Autoregressive Modeling
2810. NeurIPS 2025Consistent Story Generation: Unlocking the Potential of Zigzag Sampling
2811. NeurIPS 2025Constrained Discrete Diffusion
2812. NeurIPS 2025Contact Map Transfer with Conditional Diffusion Model for Generalizable Dexterous Grasp Generation
2813. NeurIPS 2025Contextual Thompson Sampling via Generation of Missing Data
2814. NeurIPS 2025Continuous Concepts Removal in Text-to-image Diffusion Models
2815. NeurIPS 2025ControlFusion: A Controllable Image Fusion Network with Language-Vision Degradation Prompts
2816. NeurIPS 2025Convolution Goes Higher-Order: A Biologically Inspired Mechanism Empowers Image Classification
2817. NeurIPS 2025CoT-lized Diffusion: Let's Reinforce T2I Generation Step-by-step
2818. NeurIPS 2025CovMatch: Cross-Covariance Guided Multimodal Dataset Distillation with Trainable Text Encoder
2819. NeurIPS 2025CPO: Condition Preference Optimization for Controllable Image Generation
2820. NeurIPS 2025CREA: A Collaborative Multi-Agent Framework for Creative Image Editing and Generation
2821. NeurIPS 2025CSGO: Content-Style Composition in Text-to-Image Generation
2822. NeurIPS 2025Cue3D: Quantifying the Role of Image Cues in Single-Image 3D Generation
2823. NeurIPS 2025Cypher-RI: Reinforcement Learning for Integrating Schema Selection into Cypher Generation
2824. NeurIPS 2025DCI: Dual-Conditional Inversion for Boosting Diffusion-Based Image Editing
2825. NeurIPS 2025DeblurDiff: Real-Word Image Deblurring with Generative Diffusion Models
2826. NeurIPS 2025Deep Compositional Phase Diffusion for Long Motion Sequence Generation
2827. NeurIPS 2025Deep Tree Tensor Networks
2828. NeurIPS 2025DEFT: Decompositional Efficient Fine-Tuning for Text-to-Image Models
2829. NeurIPS 2025Degradation-Aware Dynamic Schrödinger Bridge for Unpaired Image Restoration
2830. NeurIPS 2025Delving into Cascaded Instability: A Lipschitz Continuity View on Image Restoration and Object Detection Synergy
2831. NeurIPS 2025Delving into RL for Image Generation with CoT: A Study on DPO vs. GRPO
2832. NeurIPS 2025Deno-IF: Unsupervised Noisy Visible and Infrared Image Fusion Method
2833. NeurIPS 2025Denoising Trajectory Biases for Zero-Shot AI-Generated Image Detection
2834. NeurIPS 2025Depth-Supervised Fusion Network for Seamless-Free Image Stitching
2835. NeurIPS 2025Derivative-Free Guidance in Continuous and Discrete Diffusion Models with Soft Value-based Decoding
2836. NeurIPS 2025DermaCon-IN: A Multiconcept-Annotated Dermatological Image Dataset of Indian Skin Disorders for Clinical AI Research
2837. NeurIPS 2025Detecting Generated Images by Fitting Natural Image Distributions
2838. NeurIPS 2025DetectiumFire: A Comprehensive Multi-modal Dataset Bridging Vision and Language for Fire Understanding
2839. NeurIPS 2025DexFlyWheel: A Scalable and Self-improving Data Generation Framework for Dexterous Manipulation
2840. NeurIPS 2025DGSolver: Diffusion Generalist Solver with Universal Posterior Sampling for Image Restoration
2841. NeurIPS 2025DiCo: Revitalizing ConvNets for Scalable and Efficient Diffusion Modeling
2842. NeurIPS 2025Diff-ICMH: Harmonizing Machine and Human Vision in Image Compression with Generative Prior
2843. NeurIPS 2025DiffEye: Diffusion-Based Continuous Eye-Tracking Data Generation Conditioned on Natural Images
2844. NeurIPS 2025DIFFSSR: Stereo Image Super-resolution Using Differential Transformer
2845. NeurIPS 2025Diffusion Adaptive Text Embedding for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
2846. NeurIPS 2025Diffusion Feature Field for Text-based 3D Editing with Gaussian Splatting
2847. NeurIPS 2025Dimension-Reduction Attack! Video Generative Models are Experts on Controllable Image Synthesis
2848. NeurIPS 2025DIPO: Dual-State Images Controlled Articulated Object Generation Powered by Diverse Data
2849. NeurIPS 2025Direct Numerical Layout Generation for 3D Indoor Scene Synthesis via Spatial Reasoning
2850. NeurIPS 2025Direct3D-S2: Gigascale 3D Generation Made Easy with Spatial Sparse Attention

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.