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

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301. ICML 2025Inverse Bridge Matching Distillation
302. ICML 2025LaMAGIC2: Advanced Circuit Formulations for Language Model-Based Analog Topology Generation
303. ICML 2025Language Models over Canonical Byte-Pair Encodings
304. ICML 2025Large Displacement Motion Transfer with Unsupervised Anytime Interpolation
305. ICML 2025LDMol: A Text-to-Molecule Diffusion Model with Structurally Informative Latent Space Surpasses AR Models
306. ICML 2025Learning Attribute-Aware Hash Codes for Fine-Grained Image Retrieval via Query Optimization
307. ICML 2025Learning to Quantize for Training Vector-Quantized Networks
308. ICML 2025Learning Vision and Language Concepts for Controllable Image Generation
309. ICML 2025Learning-Order Autoregressive Models with Application to Molecular Graph Generation
310. ICML 2025LLaVA-ReID: Selective Multi-image Questioner for Interactive Person Re-Identification
311. ICML 2025LLMs can see and hear without any training
312. ICML 2025LoRA-Gen: Specializing Large Language Model via Online LoRA Generation
313. ICML 2025LotteryCodec: Searching the Implicit Representation in a Random Network for Low-Complexity Image Compression
314. ICML 2025Masked Generative Nested Transformers with Decode Time Scaling
315. ICML 2025MDDM: Practical Message-Driven Generative Image Steganography Based on Diffusion Models
316. ICML 2025MimicMotion: High-Quality Human Motion Video Generation with Confidence-aware Pose Guidance
317. ICML 2025Mitigating Object Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models via Image-Grounded Guidance
318. ICML 2025MixBridge: Heterogeneous Image-to-Image Backdoor Attack through Mixture of Schrödinger Bridges
319. ICML 2025Morse: Dual-Sampling for Lossless Acceleration of Diffusion Models
320. ICML 2025MuLan: Adapting Multilingual Diffusion Models for Hundreds of Languages with Negligible Cost
321. ICML 2025NegMerge: Sign-Consensual Weight Merging for Machine Unlearning
322. ICML 2025Neural Genetic Search in Discrete Spaces
323. ICML 2025Noise-Guided Predicate Representation Extraction and Diffusion-Enhanced Discretization for Scene Graph Generation
324. ICML 2025On Exact Bit-level Reversible Transformers Without Changing Architecture
325. ICML 2025On the Query Complexity of Verifier-Assisted Language Generation
326. ICML 2025One Image is Worth a Thousand Words: A Usability Preservable Text-Image Collaborative Erasing Framework
327. ICML 2025Origin Identification for Text-Guided Image-to-Image Diffusion Models
328. ICML 2025Orthus: Autoregressive Interleaved Image-Text Generation with Modality-Specific Heads
329. ICML 2025Overcoming Non-monotonicity in Transducer-based Streaming Generation
330. ICML 2025Overcoming Spurious Solutions in Semi-Dual Neural Optimal Transport: A Smoothing Approach for Learning the Optimal Transport Plan
331. ICML 2025Position: You Can't Manufacture a NeRF
332. ICML 2025Preference Adaptive and Sequential Text-to-Image Generation
333. ICML 2025Prior Knowledge Guided Neural Architecture Generation
334. ICML 2025Privacy-Shielded Image Compression: Defending Against Exploitation from Vision-Language Pretrained Models
335. ICML 2025Proactive Agents for Multi-Turn Text-to-Image Generation Under Uncertainty
336. ICML 2025Q-VDiT: Towards Accurate Quantization and Distillation of Video-Generation Diffusion Transformers
337. ICML 2025QMamba: On First Exploration of Vision Mamba for Image Quality Assessment
338. ICML 2025QuRe: Query-Relevant Retrieval through Hard Negative Sampling in Composed Image Retrieval
339. ICML 2025RealRAG: Retrieval-augmented Realistic Image Generation via Self-reflective Contrastive Learning
340. ICML 2025Reflection-Window Decoding: Text Generation with Selective Refinement
341. ICML 2025REG: Rectified Gradient Guidance for Conditional Diffusion Models
342. ICML 2025Representative Language Generation
343. ICML 2025ReQFlow: Rectified Quaternion Flow for Efficient and High-Quality Protein Backbone Generation
344. ICML 2025Rethinking Score Distilling Sampling for 3D Editing and Generation
345. ICML 2025Revisiting Diffusion Models: From Generative Pre-training to One-Step Generation
346. ICML 2025SageAttention2: Efficient Attention with Thorough Outlier Smoothing and Per-thread INT4 Quantization
347. ICML 2025Scalable Generation of Spatial Transcriptomics from Histology Images via Whole-Slide Flow Matching
348. ICML 2025Selective Prompt Anchoring for Code Generation
349. ICML 2025Shielded Diffusion: Generating Novel and Diverse Images using Sparse Repellency
350. ICML 2025Simple and Critical Iterative Denoising: A Recasting of Discrete Diffusion in Graph Generation

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.