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

278 papers, page 6 of 6

251. ICLR 2025TIPS: Text-Image Pretraining with Spatial awareness
252. ICLR 2025ToddlerDiffusion: Interactive Structured Image Generation with Cascaded Schrödinger Bridge
253. ICLR 2025Topograph: An Efficient Graph-Based Framework for Strictly Topology Preserving Image Segmentation
254. ICLR 2025Topological Zigzag Spaghetti for Diffusion-based Generation and Prediction on Graphs
255. ICLR 2025Towards Multiple Character Image Animation Through Enhancing Implicit Decoupling
256. ICLR 2025Towards Realistic Data Generation for Real-World Super-Resolution
257. ICLR 2025Towards Semantic Equivalence of Tokenization in Multimodal LLM
258. ICLR 2025Towards Understanding Text Hallucination of Diffusion Models via Local Generation Bias
259. ICLR 2025Training Free Guided Flow-Matching with Optimal Control
260. ICLR 2025Transfusion: Predict the Next Token and Diffuse Images with One Multi-Modal Model
261. ICLR 2025Turning Up the Heat: Min-p Sampling for Creative and Coherent LLM Outputs
262. ICLR 2025TweedieMix: Improving Multi-Concept Fusion for Diffusion-based Image/Video Generation
263. ICLR 2025UIFace: Unleashing Inherent Model Capabilities to Enhance Intra-Class Diversity in Synthetic Face Recognition
264. ICLR 2025Unbounded: A Generative Infinite Game of Character Life Simulation
265. ICLR 2025UniCon: Unidirectional Information Flow for Effective Control of Large-Scale Diffusion Models
266. ICLR 2025UniGS: Unified Language-Image-3D Pretraining with Gaussian Splatting
267. ICLR 2025Universal Image Restoration Pre-training via Degradation Classification
268. ICLR 2025Vec2Face: Scaling Face Dataset Generation with Loosely Constrained Vectors
269. ICLR 2025VideoShield: Regulating Diffusion-based Video Generation Models via Watermarking
270. ICLR 2025ViDiT-Q: Efficient and Accurate Quantization of Diffusion Transformers for Image and Video Generation
271. ICLR 2025VisRAG: Vision-based Retrieval-augmented Generation on Multi-modality Documents
272. ICLR 2025Visually Consistent Hierarchical Image Classification
273. ICLR 2025Visually Guided Decoding: Gradient-Free Hard Prompt Inversion with Language Models
274. ICLR 2025Warm Diffusion: Recipe for Blur-Noise Mixture Diffusion Models
275. ICLR 2025Weakly Supervised Video Scene Graph Generation via Natural Language Supervision
276. ICLR 2025What Makes Large Language Models Reason in (Multi-Turn) Code Generation?
277. ICLR 2025What's New in My Data? Novelty Exploration via Contrastive Generation
278. ICLR 2025You Only Sample Once: Taming One-Step Text-to-Image Synthesis by Self-Cooperative Diffusion GANs

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.