Image Generation papers, 2023–2026
Text-to-image and synthesis
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 5,184 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 170 | 118 | 74 | 418 | 780 |
| 2024 | 318 | 199 | 156 | 543 | 1,216 |
| 2025 | 430 | 278 | 147 | 612 | 1,467 |
| 2026 | 453 | 349 | 230 | 689 | 1,721 |
Representative papers
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- 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 6 of 104
- CVPR 2026Head-wise Adaptive Rotary Positional Encoding for Fine-Grained Image Generation
- CVPR 2026Hg-I2P Bridging Modalities for Generalizable Image-to-Point-Cloud Registration via Heterogeneous Graphs
- CVPR 2026HG-Lane High-Fidelity Generation of Lane Scenes under Adverse Weather and
- CVPR 2026HiCoGen Hierarchical Compositional Text-to-Image Generation in Diffusion Models via Reinforcement
- CVPR 2026Hidden Dangers of Compositional Generation Diagnosing Semantic Safety Failures in
- CVPR 2026Hierarchical Concept Embedding Pursuit for Interpretable Image Classification
- CVPR 2026Hierarchical Enhancement of Semantic Priors for Disentangled Text-Driven Motion Generation
- CVPR 2026HiFi-BRep High-Fidelity Latent Representation for Robust B-Rep Generation
- CVPR 2026High-Fidelity Virtual Try-On beyond Paired Data Scarcity via Diffusion-based Cycle-Consistent
- CVPR 2026High-Precision Dichotomous Image Segmentation via Depth Integrity-Prior and Fine-Grained Patch
- CVPR 2026Hilbert Curve-Based Attention Enabling Topology-Preserving Image Tensor Representation for Semantic
- CVPR 2026Hint2Gen Bridging Understanding and Generation via Code-structured Hints
- CVPR 2026HOG-Layout Hierarchical 3D Scene Generation Optimization and Editing via Vision-Language
- CVPR 2026HoloCine Holistic Generation of Cinematic Multi-Shot Long Video Narratives
- CVPR 2026Human Geometry Distribution for 3D Animation Generation
- CVPR 2026Human Interaction-Aware 3D Reconstruction from a Single Image
- CVPR 2026HUMORCHAIN Theory-Guided Multi-Stage Reasoning for Interpretable Multimodal Humor Generation
- CVPR 2026Hybrid Agents for Image Restoration
- CVPR 2026Hyperbolic Busemann Neural Networks
- CVPR 2026Hyperbolic Defect Feature Synthesis for Few-Shot Defect Classification
- CVPR 2026I2I-Bench A Comprehensive Benchmark Suite for Image-to-Image Editing Models
- CVPR 2026ID-Sim An Identity-Focused Similarity Metric
- CVPR 2026Identity-Preserving Image-to-Video Generation via Reward-Guided Optimization
- CVPR 2026IFCSR Inference-Free Fidelity-Realism Control for One-Step Diffusion-based Real-World Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2026Illustrators Depth Monocular Layer Index Prediction for Image Decomposition
- CVPR 2026Image Diffusion Preview with Consistency Solver
- CVPR 2026Image Generation from Contextually-Contradictory Prompts
- CVPR 2026Image Guides Images Consistent Video Amodal Completion with Rectified In-Context
- CVPR 2026Image-based Outlier Synthesis With Training Data
- CVPR 2026Image-Guided Geometric Stylization of 3D Meshes
- CVPR 2026ImageRAGTurbo Towards One-step Text-to-Image Generation with Retrieval-Augmented Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026iMontage Unified Versatile Highly Dynamic Many-to-many Image Generation
- CVPR 2026Improving Controllable Generation Faster Training and Better Performance via x0-Supervision
- CVPR 2026Improving Motion in Image-to-Video Models via Adaptive Low-Pass Guidance
- CVPR 2026Improving Text-to-Image Generation with Intrinsic Self-Confidence Rewards
- CVPR 2026InnoAds-Composer Efficient Condition Composition for E-Commerce Poster Generation
- CVPR 2026InstantRetouch Efficient and High-Fidelity Instruction-Guided Image Retouching with Bilateral Space
- CVPR 2026Inter-Edit First Benchmark for Interactive Instruction-Based Image Editing
- CVPR 2026Interact2Ar Full-Body Human-Human Interaction Generation via Autoregressive Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026Interpretable Prompts made Edit-Friendly Token-to-Token Similarity Reduction in dLLMs for
- CVPR 2026Intrinsic Image Fusion for Multi-View 3D Material Reconstruction
- CVPR 2026IntroSVG Learning from Rendering Feedback for Text-to-SVG Generation via an
- CVPR 2026Iris Integrating Language into Diffusion-based Monocular Depth Estimation
- CVPR 2026Is Bin Generation Indispensable A Bin-Generation-Free Dataset Quantization via Semantic
- CVPR 2026IVAAN Instance-level Vision-Language Alignment via Attribute-Guided Text Prompts Generation for
- CVPR 2026Jailbreaking Vision-Language Models via Dissonance-Guided Suffix Optimization and Image-Phrase Injection
- CVPR 2026JANUS A Lightweight Framework for Jailbreaking Text-to-Image Models via Distribution
- CVPR 2026Joint Spectral Image Reconstruction and Semantic Segmentation with Cooperative Unfolding
- CVPR 2026KAMP Knowledge-Anchored Multimodal Pretraining Framework for Medical Image Representation
- CVPR 2026Kontinuous Kontext Continuous Strength Control for Instruction-based Image Editing
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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.