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
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- 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
5,184 papers, page 66 of 104
- CVPR 2024CGI-DM: Digital Copyright Authentication for Diffusion Models via Contrasting Gradient Inversion
- CVPR 2024Characteristics Matching Based Hash Codes Generation for Efficient Fine-grained Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2024Chat-UniVi: Unified Visual Representation Empowers Large Language Models with Image and Video Understanding
- CVPR 2024Check Locate Rectify: A Training-Free Layout Calibration System for Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Classes Are Not Equal: An Empirical Study on Image Recognition Fairness
- CVPR 2024CLIB-FIQA: Face Image Quality Assessment with Confidence Calibration
- CVPR 2024CLIP-Driven Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Graph Generation via Cross-Modality Contrastive Learning
- CVPR 2024CLIPtone: Unsupervised Learning for Text-based Image Tone Adjustment
- CVPR 2024Clockwork Diffusion: Efficient Generation With Model-Step Distillation
- CVPR 2024Clustering Propagation for Universal Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Coarse-to-Fine Latent Diffusion for Pose-Guided Person Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2024CoDe: An Explicit Content Decoupling Framework for Image Restoration
- CVPR 2024Codebook Transfer with Part-of-Speech for Vector-Quantized Image Modeling
- CVPR 2024CoDi-2: In-Context Interleaved and Interactive Any-to-Any Generation
- CVPR 2024CoDi: Conditional Diffusion Distillation for Higher-Fidelity and Faster Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Color Shift Estimation-and-Correction for Image Enhancement
- CVPR 2024Composing Object Relations and Attributes for Image-Text Matching
- CVPR 2024Concept Weaver: Enabling Multi-Concept Fusion in Text-to-Image Models
- CVPR 2024Condition-Aware Neural Network for Controlled Image Generation
- CVPR 2024CONFORM: Contrast is All You Need for High-Fidelity Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Consistent3D: Towards Consistent High-Fidelity Text-to-3D Generation with Deterministic Sampling Prior
- CVPR 2024Constrained Layout Generation with Factor Graphs
- CVPR 2024Constructing and Exploring Intermediate Domains in Mixed Domain Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024ConTex-Human: Free-View Rendering of Human from a Single Image with Texture-Consistent Synthesis
- CVPR 2024Continuous Optical Zooming: A Benchmark for Arbitrary-Scale Image Super-Resolution in Real World
- CVPR 2024ControlRoom3D: Room Generation using Semantic Proxy Rooms
- CVPR 2024CoralSCOP: Segment any COral Image on this Planet
- CVPR 2024CORE-MPI: Consistency Object Removal with Embedding MultiPlane Image
- CVPR 2024Correcting Diffusion Generation through Resampling
- CVPR 2024Correlation-aware Coarse-to-fine MLPs for Deformable Medical Image Registration
- CVPR 2024CoSeR: Bridging Image and Language for Cognitive Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2024CosmicMan: A Text-to-Image Foundation Model for Humans
- CVPR 2024Countering Personalized Text-to-Image Generation with Influence Watermarks
- CVPR 2024CPR: Retrieval Augmented Generation for Copyright Protection
- CVPR 2024CricaVPR: Cross-image Correlation-aware Representation Learning for Visual Place Recognition
- CVPR 2024Cross Initialization for Face Personalization of Text-to-Image Models
- CVPR 2024Curriculum Point Prompting for Weakly-Supervised Referring Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Customization Assistant for Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2024CustomListener: Text-guided Responsive Interaction for User-friendly Listening Head Generation
- CVPR 2024CVT-xRF: Contrastive In-Voxel Transformer for 3D Consistent Radiance Fields from Sparse Inputs
- CVPR 2024D3still: Decoupled Differential Distillation for Asymmetric Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2024DEADiff: An Efficient Stylization Diffusion Model with Disentangled Representations
- CVPR 2024Deep Equilibrium Diffusion Restoration with Parallel Sampling
- CVPR 2024Deep Generative Model based Rate-Distortion for Image Downscaling Assessment
- CVPR 2024Deep Single Image Camera Calibration by Heatmap Regression to Recover Fisheye Images Under Manhattan World Assumption
- CVPR 2024Defense Against Adversarial Attacks on No-Reference Image Quality Models with Gradient Norm Regularization
- CVPR 2024DemoCaricature: Democratising Caricature Generation with a Rough Sketch
- CVPR 2024DemoFusion: Democratising High-Resolution Image Generation With No $$$
- CVPR 2024Depth Information Assisted Collaborative Mutual Promotion Network for Single Image Dehazing
- CVPR 2024Describing Differences in Image Sets with Natural Language
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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.