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

349 papers, page 7 of 7

301. ICLR 2026Text2Interact: High-Fidelity and Diverse Text-to-Two-Person Interaction Generation
302. ICLR 2026The Intricate Dance of Prompt Complexity, Quality, Diversity and Consistency in T2I Models
303. ICLR 2026There and Back Again: On the relation between Noise and Image Inversions in Diffusion Models
304. ICLR 2026TIGaussian: Disentangle Gaussians for Spatial-Awared Text-Image-3D Alignment
305. ICLR 2026Time-to-Move: Training-Free Motion-Controlled Video Generation via Dual-Clock Denoising
306. ICLR 2026TIPO: Text to Image with Text Pre-sampling for Prompt Optimization
307. ICLR 2026ToolACE-MT: Non-Autoregressive Generation for Agentic Multi-Turn Interaction
308. ICLR 2026Topology-Preserved Auto-regressive Mesh Generation in the Manner of Weaving Silk
309. ICLR 2026ToProVAR: Efficient Visual Autoregressive Modeling via Tri-Dimensional Entropy-Aware Semantic Analysis and Sparsity Optimization
310. ICLR 2026TOUCH: Text-guided Controllable Generation of Free-Form Hand-Object Interactions
311. ICLR 2026Towards One-step Causal Video Generation via Adversarial Self-Distillation
312. ICLR 2026Towards Sequence Modeling Alignment between Tokenizer and Autoregressive Model
313. ICLR 2026Towards Text-Mask Consistency in Medical Image Segmentation
314. ICLR 2026Training-Free Reward-Guided Image Editing via Trajectory Optimal Control
315. ICLR 2026Trajectory Generation with Conservative Value Guidance for Offline Reinforcement Learning
316. ICLR 2026TrajTok: What makes for a good trajectory tokenizer in behavior generation?
317. ICLR 2026TriC-Motion: Tri-Domain Causal Modeling Grounded Text-to-Motion Generation
318. ICLR 2026Trust The Typical
319. ICLR 2026TS-Attn: Temporal-wise Separable Attention for Multi-Event Video Generation
320. ICLR 2026TTOM: Test-Time Optimization and Memorization for Compositional Video Generation
321. ICLR 2026Turning Internal Gap into Self-Improvement: Promoting the Generation-Understanding Unification in MLLMs
322. ICLR 2026TwinFlow: Realizing One-step Generation on Large Models with Self-adversarial Flows
323. ICLR 2026Ultra-Fast Language Generation via Discrete Diffusion Divergence Instruct
324. ICLR 2026Uncovering Conceptual Blindspots in Generative Image Models Using Sparse Autoencoders
325. ICLR 2026Understanding vs. Generation: Navigating Optimization Dilemma in Multimodal Models
326. ICLR 2026Uni-CoT: Towards Unified Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Across Text and Vision
327. ICLR 2026UniCalli: A Unified Diffusion Framework for Column-Level Generation and Recognition of Chinese Calligraphy
328. ICLR 2026UniEdit-Flow: Unleashing Inversion and Editing in the Era of Flow Models
329. ICLR 2026UniF$^2$ace: A $\underline{Uni}$fied $\underline{F}$ine-grained $\underline{Face}$ Understanding and Generation Model
330. ICLR 2026Uniform Discrete Diffusion with Metric Path for Video Generation
331. ICLR 2026UniLiP: Adapting CLIP for Unified Multimodal Understanding, Generation and Editing
332. ICLR 2026Using maximal information auxiliary variables to improve synthetic data generation based on TabPFN foundation models
333. ICLR 2026Value Matching: Scalable and Gradient-Free Reward-Guided Flow Adaptation
334. ICLR 2026VARestorer: One-Step VAR Distillation for Real-World Image Super-Resolution
335. ICLR 2026VINCIE: Unlocking In-context Image Editing from Video
336. ICLR 2026VIRTUE: Visual-Interactive Text-Image Universal Embedder
337. ICLR 2026VisualPrompter: Semantic-Aware Prompt Optimization with Visual Feedback for Text-to-Image Synthesis
338. ICLR 2026VLM-Guided Adaptive Negative Prompting for Creative Generation
339. ICLR 2026VMDiff: Visual Mixing Diffusion for Limitless Cross-Object Synthesis
340. ICLR 2026VOGUE: Unified Understanding, Generation, and Editing for Videos
341. ICLR 2026VSF: Simple, Efficient, and Effective Negative Guidance in Few-Step Image Generation Models By Value Sign Flip
342. ICLR 2026W-EDIT: A Wavelet-Based Frequency-Aware Framework for Text-Driven Image Editing
343. ICLR 2026Watermark-based Attribution of AI-Generated Content
344. ICLR 2026Weak-to-Strong Diffusion
345. ICLR 2026WeTok: Powerful Discrete Tokenization for High-Fidelity Visual Reconstruction
346. ICLR 2026What Exactly Does Guidance Do in Masked Discrete Diffusion Models
347. ICLR 2026WithAnyone: Toward Controllable and ID Consistent Image Generation
348. ICLR 2026WorldSplat: Gaussian-Centric Feed-Forward 4D Scene Generation for Autonomous Driving
349. ICLR 2026XIL: Cross-Expanding Incremental Learning

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.