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

1,721 papers, page 6 of 35

251. CVPR 2026Head-wise Adaptive Rotary Positional Encoding for Fine-Grained Image Generation
252. CVPR 2026Hg-I2P Bridging Modalities for Generalizable Image-to-Point-Cloud Registration via Heterogeneous Graphs
253. CVPR 2026HG-Lane High-Fidelity Generation of Lane Scenes under Adverse Weather and
254. CVPR 2026HiCoGen Hierarchical Compositional Text-to-Image Generation in Diffusion Models via Reinforcement
255. CVPR 2026Hidden Dangers of Compositional Generation Diagnosing Semantic Safety Failures in
256. CVPR 2026Hierarchical Concept Embedding Pursuit for Interpretable Image Classification
257. CVPR 2026Hierarchical Enhancement of Semantic Priors for Disentangled Text-Driven Motion Generation
258. CVPR 2026HiFi-BRep High-Fidelity Latent Representation for Robust B-Rep Generation
259. CVPR 2026High-Fidelity Virtual Try-On beyond Paired Data Scarcity via Diffusion-based Cycle-Consistent
260. CVPR 2026High-Precision Dichotomous Image Segmentation via Depth Integrity-Prior and Fine-Grained Patch
261. CVPR 2026Hilbert Curve-Based Attention Enabling Topology-Preserving Image Tensor Representation for Semantic
262. CVPR 2026Hint2Gen Bridging Understanding and Generation via Code-structured Hints
263. CVPR 2026HOG-Layout Hierarchical 3D Scene Generation Optimization and Editing via Vision-Language
264. CVPR 2026HoloCine Holistic Generation of Cinematic Multi-Shot Long Video Narratives
265. CVPR 2026Human Geometry Distribution for 3D Animation Generation
266. CVPR 2026Human Interaction-Aware 3D Reconstruction from a Single Image
267. CVPR 2026HUMORCHAIN Theory-Guided Multi-Stage Reasoning for Interpretable Multimodal Humor Generation
268. CVPR 2026Hybrid Agents for Image Restoration
269. CVPR 2026Hyperbolic Busemann Neural Networks
270. CVPR 2026Hyperbolic Defect Feature Synthesis for Few-Shot Defect Classification
271. CVPR 2026I2I-Bench A Comprehensive Benchmark Suite for Image-to-Image Editing Models
272. CVPR 2026ID-Sim An Identity-Focused Similarity Metric
273. CVPR 2026Identity-Preserving Image-to-Video Generation via Reward-Guided Optimization
274. CVPR 2026IFCSR Inference-Free Fidelity-Realism Control for One-Step Diffusion-based Real-World Image Super-Resolution
275. CVPR 2026Illustrators Depth Monocular Layer Index Prediction for Image Decomposition
276. CVPR 2026Image Diffusion Preview with Consistency Solver
277. CVPR 2026Image Generation from Contextually-Contradictory Prompts
278. CVPR 2026Image Guides Images Consistent Video Amodal Completion with Rectified In-Context
279. CVPR 2026Image-based Outlier Synthesis With Training Data
280. CVPR 2026Image-Guided Geometric Stylization of 3D Meshes
281. CVPR 2026ImageRAGTurbo Towards One-step Text-to-Image Generation with Retrieval-Augmented Diffusion Models
282. CVPR 2026iMontage Unified Versatile Highly Dynamic Many-to-many Image Generation
283. CVPR 2026Improving Controllable Generation Faster Training and Better Performance via x0-Supervision
284. CVPR 2026Improving Motion in Image-to-Video Models via Adaptive Low-Pass Guidance
285. CVPR 2026Improving Text-to-Image Generation with Intrinsic Self-Confidence Rewards
286. CVPR 2026InnoAds-Composer Efficient Condition Composition for E-Commerce Poster Generation
287. CVPR 2026InstantRetouch Efficient and High-Fidelity Instruction-Guided Image Retouching with Bilateral Space
288. CVPR 2026Inter-Edit First Benchmark for Interactive Instruction-Based Image Editing
289. CVPR 2026Interact2Ar Full-Body Human-Human Interaction Generation via Autoregressive Diffusion Models
290. CVPR 2026Interpretable Prompts made Edit-Friendly Token-to-Token Similarity Reduction in dLLMs for
291. CVPR 2026Intrinsic Image Fusion for Multi-View 3D Material Reconstruction
292. CVPR 2026IntroSVG Learning from Rendering Feedback for Text-to-SVG Generation via an
293. CVPR 2026Iris Integrating Language into Diffusion-based Monocular Depth Estimation
294. CVPR 2026Is Bin Generation Indispensable A Bin-Generation-Free Dataset Quantization via Semantic
295. CVPR 2026IVAAN Instance-level Vision-Language Alignment via Attribute-Guided Text Prompts Generation for
296. CVPR 2026Jailbreaking Vision-Language Models via Dissonance-Guided Suffix Optimization and Image-Phrase Injection
297. CVPR 2026JANUS A Lightweight Framework for Jailbreaking Text-to-Image Models via Distribution
298. CVPR 2026Joint Spectral Image Reconstruction and Semantic Segmentation with Cooperative Unfolding
299. CVPR 2026KAMP Knowledge-Anchored Multimodal Pretraining Framework for Medical Image Representation
300. CVPR 2026Kontinuous Kontext Continuous Strength Control for Instruction-based Image Editing

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.