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. ICML 2025Contrastive Localized Language-Image Pre-Training
252. ICML 2025Contrastive Visual Data Augmentation
253. ICML 2025Control and Realism: Best of Both Worlds in Layout-to-Image without Training
254. ICML 2025Controllable Data Generation with Hierarchical Neural Representations
255. ICML 2025CtrlSynth: Controllable Image Text Synthesis for Data-Efficient Multimodal Learning
256. ICML 2025DCTdiff: Intriguing Properties of Image Generative Modeling in the DCT Space
257. ICML 2025DEALing with Image Reconstruction: Deep Attentive Least Squares
258. ICML 2025Deep Unsupervised Hashing via External Guidance
259. ICML 2025DeFoG: Discrete Flow Matching for Graph Generation
260. ICML 2025Devil is in the Details: Density Guidance for Detail-Aware Generation with Flow Models
261. ICML 2025Diffusion Adversarial Post-Training for One-Step Video Generation
262. ICML 2025Diffusion Counterfactual Generation with Semantic Abduction
263. ICML 2025Dimension-Independent Rates for Structured Neural Density Estimation
264. ICML 2025Distributed Parallel Gradient Stacking(DPGS): Solving Whole Slide Image Stacking Challenge in Multi-Instance Learning
265. ICML 2025Distribution-aware Fairness Learning in Medical Image Segmentation From A Control-Theoretic Perspective
266. ICML 2025Does Generation Require Memorization? Creative Diffusion Models using Ambient Diffusion
267. ICML 2025Effective and Efficient Masked Image Generation Models
268. ICML 2025EffiCoder: Enhancing Code Generation in Large Language Models through Efficiency-Aware Fine-tuning
269. ICML 2025Elucidating the design space of language models for image generation
270. ICML 2025Enforcing Idempotency in Neural Networks
271. ICML 2025Enhancing Visual Localization with Cross-Domain Image Generation
272. ICML 2025EpiCoder: Encompassing Diversity and Complexity in Code Generation
273. ICML 2025Epsilon-VAE: Denoising as Visual Decoding
274. ICML 2025EQ-VAE: Equivariance Regularized Latent Space for Improved Generative Image Modeling
275. ICML 2025Event-Customized Image Generation
276. ICML 2025Exponential Family Variational Flow Matching for Tabular Data Generation
277. ICML 2025FDGen: A Fairness-Aware Graph Generation Model
278. ICML 2025Feature out! Let Raw Image as Your Condition for Blind Face Restoration
279. ICML 2025FireFlow: Fast Inversion of Rectified Flow for Image Semantic Editing
280. ICML 2025FlexControl: Computation-Aware Conditional Control with Differentiable Router for Text-to-Image Generation
281. ICML 2025FlexTok: Resampling Images into 1D Token Sequences of Flexible Length
282. ICML 2025FlowAR: Scale-wise Autoregressive Image Generation Meets Flow Matching
283. ICML 2025FourierMamba: Fourier Learning Integration with State Space Models for Image Deraining
284. ICML 2025FrameBridge: Improving Image-to-Video Generation with Bridge Models
285. ICML 2025FreeMesh: Boosting Mesh Generation with Coordinates Merging
286. ICML 2025Generation from Noisy Examples
287. ICML 2025Geometry Informed Tokenization of Molecules for Language Model Generation
288. ICML 2025Graph Generative Pre-trained Transformer
289. ICML 2025GraphCL: Graph-based Clustering for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
290. ICML 2025Gumiho: A Hybrid Architecture to Prioritize Early Tokens in Speculative Decoding
291. ICML 2025HetSSNet: Spatial-Spectral Heterogeneous Graph Learning Network for Panchromatic and Multispectral Images Fusion
292. ICML 2025Hide & Seek: Transformer Symmetries Obscure Sharpness & Riemannian Geometry Finds It
293. ICML 2025Hierarchical Masked Autoregressive Models with Low-Resolution Token Pivots
294. ICML 2025High Dynamic Range Novel View Synthesis with Single Exposure
295. ICML 2025Highly Compressed Tokenizer Can Generate Without Training
296. ICML 2025How to Move Your Dragon: Text-to-Motion Synthesis for Large-Vocabulary Objects
297. ICML 2025Improving Compositional Generation with Diffusion Models Using Lift Scores
298. ICML 2025Improving the Diffusability of Autoencoders
299. ICML 2025Instruct2See: Learning to Remove Any Obstructions Across Distributions
300. ICML 2025Introducing 3D Representation for Dense Volume-to-Volume Translation via Score Fusion

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.