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
780 papers, page 6 of 16
- CVPR 2023Omni Aggregation Networks for Lightweight Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2023OmniAvatar: Geometry-Guided Controllable 3D Head Synthesis
- CVPR 2023OmniObject3D: Large-Vocabulary 3D Object Dataset for Realistic Perception, Reconstruction and Generation
- CVPR 2023On Data Scaling in Masked Image Modeling
- CVPR 2023On Distillation of Guided Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023One-Shot High-Fidelity Talking-Head Synthesis With Deformable Neural Radiance Field
- CVPR 2023OneFormer: One Transformer To Rule Universal Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2023OPE-SR: Orthogonal Position Encoding for Designing a Parameter-Free Upsampling Module in Arbitrary-Scale Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2023Open-Vocabulary Panoptic Segmentation With Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023ORCa: Glossy Objects As Radiance-Field Cameras
- CVPR 2023Orthogonal Annotation Benefits Barely-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2023OSRT: Omnidirectional Image Super-Resolution With Distortion-Aware Transformer
- CVPR 2023Paint by Example: Exemplar-Based Image Editing With Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023Painting 3D Nature in 2D: View Synthesis of Natural Scenes From a Single Semantic Mask
- CVPR 2023PanoHead: Geometry-Aware 3D Full-Head Synthesis in 360deg
- CVPR 2023Parallel Diffusion Models of Operator and Image for Blind Inverse Problems
- CVPR 2023Patch-Based 3D Natural Scene Generation From a Single Example
- CVPR 2023Patch-Craft Self-Supervised Training for Correlated Image Denoising
- CVPR 2023PC2: Projection-Conditioned Point Cloud Diffusion for Single-Image 3D Reconstruction
- CVPR 2023PCT-Net: Full Resolution Image Harmonization Using Pixel-Wise Color Transformations
- CVPR 2023PEFAT: Boosting Semi-Supervised Medical Image Classification via Pseudo-Loss Estimation and Feature Adversarial Training
- CVPR 2023Perception-Oriented Single Image Super-Resolution Using Optimal Objective Estimation
- CVPR 2023Person Image Synthesis via Denoising Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2023Perspective Fields for Single Image Camera Calibration
- CVPR 2023Pic2Word: Mapping Pictures to Words for Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2023Picture That Sketch: Photorealistic Image Generation From Abstract Sketches
- CVPR 2023PIP-Net: Patch-Based Intuitive Prototypes for Interpretable Image Classification
- CVPR 2023PixHt-Lab: Pixel Height Based Light Effect Generation for Image Compositing
- CVPR 2023Plug-and-Play Diffusion Features for Text-Driven Image-to-Image Translation
- CVPR 2023PMatch: Paired Masked Image Modeling for Dense Geometric Matching
- CVPR 2023Polarized Color Image Denoising
- CVPR 2023PolyFormer: Referring Image Segmentation As Sequential Polygon Generation
- CVPR 2023Positive-Augmented Contrastive Learning for Image and Video Captioning Evaluation
- CVPR 2023PREIM3D: 3D Consistent Precise Image Attribute Editing From a Single Image
- CVPR 2023PRISE: Demystifying Deep Lucas-Kanade With Strongly Star-Convex Constraints for Multimodel Image Alignment
- CVPR 2023Private Image Generation With Dual-Purpose Auxiliary Classifier
- CVPR 2023Prototype-Based Embedding Network for Scene Graph Generation
- CVPR 2023Pseudo-Label Guided Contrastive Learning for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Quality-Aware Pre-Trained Models for Blind Image Quality Assessment
- CVPR 2023QuantArt: Quantizing Image Style Transfer Towards High Visual Fidelity
- CVPR 2023Quantitative Manipulation of Custom Attributes on 3D-Aware Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2023Quantum-Inspired Spectral-Spatial Pyramid Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification
- CVPR 2023RA-CLIP: Retrieval Augmented Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training
- CVPR 2023Raw Image Reconstruction With Learned Compact Metadata
- CVPR 2023Re-IQA: Unsupervised Learning for Image Quality Assessment in the Wild
- CVPR 2023Real-Time 6K Image Rescaling With Rate-Distortion Optimization
- CVPR 2023Real-Time Controllable Denoising for Image and Video
- CVPR 2023RealFusion: 360deg Reconstruction of Any Object From a Single Image
- CVPR 2023Realistic Saliency Guided Image Enhancement
- CVPR 2023ReCo: Region-Controlled Text-to-Image Generation
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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.