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
612 papers, page 7 of 13
- CVPR 2025ITA-MDT: Image-Timestep-Adaptive Masked Diffusion Transformer Framework for Image-Based Virtual Try-On
- CVPR 2025Iterative Predictor-Critic Code Decoding for Real-World Image Dehazing
- CVPR 2025JanusFlow: Harmonizing Autoregression and Rectified Flow for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation
- CVPR 2025JarvisIR: Elevating Autonomous Driving Perception with Intelligent Image Restoration
- CVPR 2025Kiss3DGen: Repurposing Image Diffusion Models for 3D Asset Generation
- CVPR 2025Language-Guided Image Tokenization for Generation
- CVPR 2025Large-Scale Text-to-Image Model with Inpainting is a Zero-Shot Subject-Driven Image Generator
- CVPR 2025Latent Drifting in Diffusion Models for Counterfactual Medical Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2025Latent Space Super-Resolution for Higher-Resolution Image Generation with Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025LatentHOI: On the Generalizable Hand Object Motion Generation with Latent Hand Diffusion.
- CVPR 2025LaTexBlend: Scaling Multi-concept Customized Generation with Latent Textual Blending
- CVPR 2025Layered Image Vectorization via Semantic Simplification
- CVPR 2025Learned Image Compression with Dictionary-based Entropy Model
- CVPR 2025Learning 4D Panoptic Scene Graph Generation from Rich 2D Visual Scene
- CVPR 2025Learning Flow Fields in Attention for Controllable Person Image Generation
- CVPR 2025Learning Hazing to Dehazing: Towards Realistic Haze Generation for Real-World Image Dehazing
- CVPR 2025Learning Partonomic 3D Reconstruction from Image Collections
- CVPR 2025Learning to Sample Effective and Diverse Prompts for Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2025Learning with Noisy Triplet Correspondence for Composed Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2025Learning-enabled Polynomial Lyapunov Function Synthesis via High-Accuracy Counterexample-Guided Framework
- CVPR 2025LEDiff: Latent Exposure Diffusion for HDR Generation
- CVPR 2025Less is More: Efficient Image Vectorization with Adaptive Parameterization
- CVPR 2025Let's Verify and Reinforce Image Generation Step by Step
- CVPR 2025LeviTor: 3D Trajectory Oriented Image-to-Video Synthesis
- CVPR 2025LinGen: Towards High-Resolution Minute-Length Text-to-Video Generation with Linear Computational Complexity
- CVPR 2025Linguistics-aware Masked Image Modeling for Self-supervised Scene Text Recognition
- CVPR 2025Localized Concept Erasure for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models Using Training-Free Gated Low-Rank Adaptation
- CVPR 2025LOCORE: Image Re-ranking with Long-Context Sequence Modeling
- CVPR 2025Low-Biased General Annotated Dataset Generation
- CVPR 2025M3amba: Memory Mamba is All You Need for Whole Slide Image Classification
- CVPR 2025MAGE : Single Image to Material-Aware 3D via the Multi-View G-Buffer Estimation Model
- CVPR 2025MagicQuill: An Intelligent Interactive Image Editing System
- CVPR 2025MaIR: A Locality- and Continuity-Preserving Mamba for Image Restoration
- CVPR 2025Make It Count: Text-to-Image Generation with an Accurate Number of Objects
- CVPR 2025MambaIRv2: Attentive State Space Restoration
- CVPR 2025MAR-3D: Progressive Masked Auto-regressor for High-Resolution 3D Generation
- CVPR 2025Marten: Visual Question Answering with Mask Generation for Multi-modal Document Understanding
- CVPR 2025Mask^2DiT: Dual Mask-based Diffusion Transformer for Multi-Scene Long Video Generation
- CVPR 2025Matrix3D: Large Photogrammetry Model All-in-One
- CVPR 2025MC^2: Multi-concept Guidance for Customized Multi-concept Generation
- CVPR 2025MCCD: Multi-Agent Collaboration-based Compositional Diffusion for Complex Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2025MEAT: Multiview Diffusion Model for Human Generation on Megapixels with Mesh Attention
- CVPR 2025MedUnifier: Unifying Vision-and-Language Pre-training on Medical Data with Vision Generation Task using Discrete Visual Representations
- CVPR 2025MegaSynth: Scaling Up 3D Scene Reconstruction with Synthesized Data
- CVPR 2025Memories of Forgotten Concepts
- CVPR 2025MergeVQ: A Unified Framework for Visual Generation and Representation with Disentangled Token Merging and Quantization
- CVPR 2025MESC-3D:Mining Effective Semantic Cues for 3D Reconstruction from a Single Image
- CVPR 2025MetaShadow: Object-Centered Shadow Detection, Removal, and Synthesis
- CVPR 2025MExD: An Expert-Infused Diffusion Model for Whole-Slide Image Classification
- CVPR 2025MG-MotionLLM: A Unified Framework for Motion Comprehension and Generation across Multiple Granularities
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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.