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

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

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.