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
5,184 papers, page 68 of 104
- CVPR 2024Emu Edit: Precise Image Editing via Recognition and Generation Tasks
- CVPR 2024Enhance Image Classification via Inter-Class Image Mixup with Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024Enhanced Motion-Text Alignment for Image-to-Video Transfer Learning
- CVPR 2024EpiDiff: Enhancing Multi-View Synthesis via Localized Epipolar-Constrained Diffusion
- CVPR 2024Equivariant Multi-Modality Image Fusion
- CVPR 2024Equivariant Plug-and-Play Image Reconstruction
- CVPR 2024Estimating Extreme 3D Image Rotations using Cascaded Attention
- CVPR 2024EvalCrafter: Benchmarking and Evaluating Large Video Generation Models
- CVPR 2024Exact Fusion via Feature Distribution Matching for Few-shot Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Explaining the Implicit Neural Canvas: Connecting Pixels to Neurons by Tracing their Contributions
- CVPR 2024FaceChain-SuDe: Building Derived Class to Inherit Category Attributes for One-shot Subject-Driven Generation
- CVPR 2024Fair-VPT: Fair Visual Prompt Tuning for Image Classification
- CVPR 2024FairRAG: Fair Human Generation via Fair Retrieval Augmentation
- CVPR 2024FakeInversion: Learning to Detect Images from Unseen Text-to-Image Models by Inverting Stable Diffusion
- CVPR 2024Fixed Point Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024FlashEval: Towards Fast and Accurate Evaluation of Text-to-image Diffusion Generative Models
- CVPR 2024FlowIE: Efficient Image Enhancement via Rectified Flow
- CVPR 2024FlowVid: Taming Imperfect Optical Flows for Consistent Video-to-Video Synthesis
- CVPR 2024FlowVQTalker: High-Quality Emotional Talking Face Generation through Normalizing Flow and Quantization
- CVPR 2024Focus on Your Instruction: Fine-grained and Multi-instruction Image Editing by Attention Modulation
- CVPR 2024Forgery-aware Adaptive Transformer for Generalizable Synthetic Image Detection
- CVPR 2024Fourier-basis Functions to Bridge Augmentation Gap: Rethinking Frequency Augmentation in Image Classification
- CVPR 2024Free3D: Consistent Novel View Synthesis without 3D Representation
- CVPR 2024FreeControl: Training-Free Spatial Control of Any Text-to-Image Diffusion Model with Any Condition
- CVPR 2024FreeCustom: Tuning-Free Customized Image Generation for Multi-Concept Composition
- CVPR 2024FreeDrag: Feature Dragging for Reliable Point-based Image Editing
- CVPR 2024FreeU: Free Lunch in Diffusion U-Net
- CVPR 2024FreGS: 3D Gaussian Splatting with Progressive Frequency Regularization
- CVPR 2024G-NeRF: Geometry-enhanced Novel View Synthesis from Single-View Images
- CVPR 2024Gaussian Shading: Provable Performance-Lossless Image Watermarking for Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Gaussian Shell Maps for Efficient 3D Human Generation
- CVPR 2024GaussianDreamer: Fast Generation from Text to 3D Gaussians by Bridging 2D and 3D Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024GAvatar: Animatable 3D Gaussian Avatars with Implicit Mesh Learning
- CVPR 2024GeneAvatar: Generic Expression-Aware Volumetric Head Avatar Editing from a Single Image
- CVPR 2024Generalizable Whole Slide Image Classification with Fine-Grained Visual-Semantic Interaction
- CVPR 2024Generate Like Experts: Multi-Stage Font Generation by Incorporating Font Transfer Process into Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Generating Illustrated Instructions
- CVPR 2024Generating Non-Stationary Textures using Self-Rectification
- CVPR 2024Generative Image Dynamics
- CVPR 2024Generative Rendering: Controllable 4D-Guided Video Generation with 2D Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024GenesisTex: Adapting Image Denoising Diffusion to Texture Space
- CVPR 2024GenTron: Diffusion Transformers for Image and Video Generation
- CVPR 2024GPT-4V(ision) is a Human-Aligned Evaluator for Text-to-3D Generation
- CVPR 2024GPT4Point: A Unified Framework for Point-Language Understanding and Generation
- CVPR 2024GraphDreamer: Compositional 3D Scene Synthesis from Scene Graphs
- CVPR 2024Grid Diffusion Models for Text-to-Video Generation
- CVPR 2024Grounded Text-to-Image Synthesis with Attention Refocusing
- CVPR 2024H-ViT: A Hierarchical Vision Transformer for Deformable Image Registration
- CVPR 2024HandDiff: 3D Hand Pose Estimation with Diffusion on Image-Point Cloud
- CVPR 2024HanDiffuser: Text-to-Image Generation With Realistic Hand Appearances
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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.