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
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
944 papers, page 6 of 19
- ICLR 2026RePrompt: Reasoning-Augmented Reprompting for Text-to-Image Generation via Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2026RestoreVAR: Visual Autoregressive Generation for All-in-One Image Restoration
- ICLR 2026Rethinking Expressivity and Degradation-Awareness in Attention for All-in-One Blind Image Restoration
- ICLR 2026Rethinking Model Calibration through Spectral Entropy Regularization in Medical Image Segmentation
- ICLR 2026Revisiting Global Text Conditioning in Diffusion Transformers
- ICLR 2026RMFlow: Refined Mean Flow by a Noise-Injection Step for Multimodal Generation
- ICLR 2026RobustSpring: Benchmarking Robustness to Image Corruptions for Optical Flow, Scene Flow and Stereo
- ICLR 2026Routing Matters in MoE: Scaling Diffusion Transformers with Explicit Routing Guidance
- ICLR 2026ROVER: Benchmarking Reciprocal Cross-Modal Reasoning for Omnimodal Generation
- ICLR 2026S3OD: Towards Generalizable Salient Object Detection with Synthetic Data
- ICLR 2026SAFETY-GUIDED FLOW (SGF): A UNIFIED FRAMEWORK FOR NEGATIVE GUIDANCE IN SAFE GENERATION
- ICLR 2026Sample Reward Soups: Query-efficient Multi-Reward Guidance for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2026Sat3DGen: Comprehensive Street-Level 3D Scene Generation from Single Satellite Image
- ICLR 2026SatDreamer360: Multiview-Consistent Generation of Ground-Level Scenes from Satellite Imagery
- ICLR 2026SAVE: A Generalizable Framework for Multi-Condition Single-Cell Generation with Gene Block Attention
- ICLR 2026Scalable Training for Vector-Quantized Networks with 100% Codebook Utilization
- ICLR 2026Scale-wise Distillation of Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2026ScaleCap: Scalable Image Captioning via Dual-Modality Debiasing
- ICLR 2026Scaling Group Inference for Diverse and High-Quality Generation
- ICLR 2026ScalingCache: Extreme Acceleration of DiTs through Difference Scaling and Dynamic Interval Caching
- ICLR 2026SceneTransporter: Optimal Transport-Guided Compositional Latent Diffusion for Single-Image Structured 3D Scene Generation
- ICLR 2026SE-Diff: Simulator and Experience Enhanced Diffusion Model for Comprehensive ECG Generation
- ICLR 2026Secret-Protected Evolution for Differentially Private Synthetic Text Generation
- ICLR 2026Self-Forcing++: Towards Minute-Scale High-Quality Video Generation
- ICLR 2026SemHiTok: A Unified Image Tokenizer via Semantic-Guided Hierarchical Codebook for Multimodal Understanding and Generation
- ICLR 2026SenseFlow: Scaling Distribution Matching for Flow-based Text-to-Image Distillation
- ICLR 2026SERUM: Simple, Efficient, Robust, and Unifying Marking for Diffusion-based Image Generation
- ICLR 2026SesaHand: Enhancing 3D Hand Reconstruction via Controllable Generation with Semantic and Structural Alignment
- ICLR 2026ShapeGen4D: Towards High Quality 4D Shape Generation from Videos
- ICLR 2026SIGMA-GEN: STRUCTURE AND IDENTITY GUIDED MULTI-SUBJECT ASSEMBLY FOR IMAGE GENERATION
- ICLR 2026SimpleGVR: A Simple Baseline for Latent-Cascaded Generative Video Super-Resolution
- ICLR 2026SketchEvo: Leveraging Drawing Dynamics for Enhanced Image Synthesis
- ICLR 2026SketchingReality: From Freehand Scene Sketches to Photorealistic Images
- ICLR 2026Soft-Di[M]O: Improved one-step Image Discrete Model
- ICLR 2026Soft-Masked Diffusion Language Models
- ICLR 2026SONA: Learning Conditional, Unconditional, and Matching-Aware Discriminator
- ICLR 2026Source-Guided Flow Matching
- ICLR 2026SPARTA: Scalable and Principled Benchmark of Tree-Structured Multi-hop QA over Text and Tables
- ICLR 2026Spatial Structure and Selective Text Jointly Facilitate Image Clustering
- ICLR 2026SPRINT: Sparse-Dense Residual Fusion for Efficient Diffusion Transformers
- ICLR 2026SSG: Scaled Spatial Guidance for Multi-Scale Visual Autoregressive Generation
- ICLR 2026STEDiff: Revealing the Spatial and Temporal Redundancy of Backdoor Attacks in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2026Story-Iter: A Training-free Iterative Paradigm for Long Story Visualization
- ICLR 2026StoryAlign: Evaluating and Training Reward Models for Story Generation
- ICLR 2026Streaming Autoregressive Video Generation via Diagonal Distillation
- ICLR 2026Stroke3D: Lifting 2D strokes into rigged 3D model via latent diffusion models
- ICLR 2026StyliTruth : Unlocking Stylized yet Truthful LLM Generation via Disentangled Steering
- ICLR 2026TabStruct: Measuring Structural Fidelity of Tabular Data
- ICLR 2026Test-time Domain Generalization for Image Super-resolution
- ICLR 2026Text-Aware Image Restoration with Diffusion Models
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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.