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

2,262 papers, page 7 of 46

301. CVPR 2026LacTokGen Latent Consistency Tokenizer for 1024-pixel Image Generation by 256
302. CVPR 2026LaMoGen Language to Motion Generation Through LLM-Guided Symbolic Inference
303. CVPR 2026LATTICE Democratize High-Fidelity 3D Generation at Scale
304. CVPR 2026Layer-wise Instance Binding for Regional and Occlusion Control in Text-to-Image
305. CVPR 2026LazyVAR Accelerating Visual Autoregressive Models via Scale-wise Token Pruning and
306. CVPR 2026LeapAlign Post-training Flow Matching Models at Any Generation Step by
307. CVPR 2026Learned Image Compression via Sparse Attention and Adaptive Frequency
308. CVPR 2026Learning complete and explainable visual representations from itemized text supervision
309. CVPR 2026Learning Diffeomorphism for Medical Image Registration with Time-Embedded Architectures Using
310. CVPR 2026Learning Generalizable 3D Medical Image Representations from Mask-Guided Self-Supervision
311. CVPR 2026Learning Hierarchical Hyperbolic Mixture Model for Part-aware 3D Generation
312. CVPR 2026Learning Latent Proxies for Controllable Single-Image Relighting
313. CVPR 2026Learning Long-term Motion Embeddings for Efficient Kinematics Generation
314. CVPR 2026Learning Straight Flows Variational Flow Matching for Efficient Generation
315. CVPR 2026Learning to Learn Weight Generation via Local Consistency Diffusion
316. CVPR 2026Learning What to Trust Bayesian Prior-Guided Optimization for Visual Generation
317. CVPR 2026Learning Where to Look and How to Judge Resolution-agnostic Image
318. CVPR 2026Let Your Image Move with Your Motion -- Implicit Multi-Object
319. CVPR 2026Life-IQA Boosting Blind Image Quality Assessment through GCN-enhanced Layer Interaction
320. CVPR 2026Lighting-grounded Video Generation with Renderer-based Agent Reasoning
321. CVPR 2026LightRR A Lightweight Network for Single Image Reflection Removal
322. CVPR 2026Linear Image Generation by Synthesizing Exposure Brackets
323. CVPR 2026LNEM Lunar Neural Elevation Model
324. CVPR 2026LogCD Local-to-global Consistency Distillation for Few-step Image Generation
325. CVPR 2026LottieGPT Tokenizing Vector Animation for Autoregressive Generation
326. CVPR 2026LumiX Structured and Coherent Text-to-Intrinsic Generation
327. CVPR 2026Lynx Towards High-Fidelity Personalized Video Generation
328. CVPR 2026M4V Multimodal Mamba for Efficient Text-to-Video Generation
329. CVPR 2026MacTok Robust Continuous Tokenization for Image Generation
330. CVPR 2026MagicFuse Single Image Fusion for Visual and Semantic Reinforcement
331. CVPR 2026MagicQuill V2 Precise and Interactive Image Editing with Layered Visual
332. CVPR 2026MajutsuCity Language-driven Aesthetic-adaptive City Generation with Controllable 3D Assets and
333. CVPR 2026MakeAnything Harnessing Diffusion Transformers for Multi-Domain Procedural Sequence Generation
334. CVPR 2026MambaSIC Mamba-based Stereo Image Compression with Bi-directional Multi-reference Entropy Model
335. CVPR 2026Markovian Scale Prediction A New Era of Visual Autoregressive Generation
336. CVPR 2026Masked Region Transformer for Layered Image Generation and Editing at
337. CVPR 2026MaskFocus Focusing Policy Optimization on Critical Steps for Masked Image
338. CVPR 2026Match-and-Fuse Consistent Generation from Unstructured Image Sets
339. CVPR 2026MatE Material Extraction from Single-Image via Geometric Prior
340. CVPR 2026MatLat Material Latent Space for PBR Texture Generation
341. CVPR 2026MatMart Material Reconstruction of 3D Objects via Diffusion
342. CVPR 2026MatPedia A Universal Generative Foundation for High-Fidelity Material Synthesis
343. CVPR 2026MeanFuser Fast One-Step Multi-Modal Trajectory Generation and Adaptive Reconstruction via
344. CVPR 2026MERIT Multi-domain Efficient RAW Image Translation
345. CVPR 2026MeshFlow Efficient Artistic Mesh Generation via MeshVAE and Flow-based Diffusion
346. CVPR 2026MeshMosaic Scaling Artist Mesh Generation via Local-to-Global Assembly
347. CVPR 2026MeshRipple Structured Autoregressive Generation of Artist-Meshes
348. CVPR 2026MeshWeaver Sparse-Voxel-Guided Surface Weaving for Autoregressive Mesh Generation
349. CVPR 2026Meta-CoT Enhancing Granularity and Generalization in Image Editing
350. CVPR 2026MIBURI Towards Expressive Interactive Gesture Synthesis

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.