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

430 papers, page 7 of 9

301. NeurIPS 2025Recognition through Reasoning: Reinforcing Image Geo-localization with Large Vision-Language Models
302. NeurIPS 2025Rectified CFG++ for Flow Based Models
303. NeurIPS 2025Red-Teaming Text-to-Image Systems by Rule-based Preference Modeling
304. NeurIPS 2025Reduction-based Pseudo-label Generation for Instance-dependent Partial Label Learning
305. NeurIPS 2025Reinforcement Learning Meets Masked Generative Models: Mask-GRPO for Text-to-Image Generation
306. NeurIPS 2025Reinventing Multi-Agent Collaboration through Gaussian-Image Synergy in Diffusion Policies
307. NeurIPS 2025Removing Concepts from Text-to-Image Models with Only Negative Samples
308. NeurIPS 2025REN: Fast and Efficient Region Encodings from Patch-Based Image Encoders
309. NeurIPS 2025Rendering-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Vector Graphics Generation
310. NeurIPS 2025RepLDM: Reprogramming Pretrained Latent Diffusion Models for High-Quality, High-Efficiency, High-Resolution Image Generation
311. NeurIPS 2025Representation Entanglement for Generation: Training Diffusion Transformers Is Much Easier Than You Think
312. NeurIPS 2025RespoDiff: Dual-Module Bottleneck Transformation for Responsible & Faithful T2I Generation
313. NeurIPS 2025Rethinking Gradient Step Denoiser: Towards Truly Pseudo-Contractive Operator
314. NeurIPS 2025Rethinking Nighttime Image Deraining via Learnable Color Space Transformation
315. NeurIPS 2025Reward-Instruct: A Reward-Centric Approach to Fast Photo-Realistic Image Generation
316. NeurIPS 2025RoomEditor: High-Fidelity Furniture Synthesis with Parameter-Sharing U-Net
317. NeurIPS 2025Safe-Sora: Safe Text-to-Video Generation via Graphical Watermarking
318. NeurIPS 2025Salient Concept-Aware Generative Data Augmentation
319. NeurIPS 2025Sample and Map from a Single Convex Potential: Generation using Conjugate Moment Measures
320. NeurIPS 2025SAP: Exact Sorting in Splatting via Screen-Aligned Primitives
321. NeurIPS 2025Satellites Reveal Mobility: A Commuting Origin-destination Flow Generator for Global Cities
322. NeurIPS 2025ScaleDiff: Higher-Resolution Image Synthesis via Efficient and Model-Agnostic Diffusion
323. NeurIPS 2025Scaling can lead to compositional generalization
324. NeurIPS 2025Scaling Diffusion Transformers Efficiently via $\mu$P
325. NeurIPS 2025Scaling Image Geo-Localization to Continent Level
326. NeurIPS 2025SceneDecorator: Towards Scene-Oriented Story Generation with Scene Planning and Scene Consistency
327. NeurIPS 2025SceneDesigner: Controllable Multi-Object Image Generation with 9-DoF Pose Manipulation
328. NeurIPS 2025scSplit: Bringing Severity Cognizance to Image Decomposition in Fluorescence Microscopy
329. NeurIPS 2025Sculpting Features from Noise: Reward-Guided Hierarchical Diffusion for Task-Optimal Feature Transformation
330. NeurIPS 2025Seg-VAR:Image Segmentation with Visual Autoregressive Modeling
331. NeurIPS 2025Seg2Any: Open-set Segmentation-Mask-to-Image Generation with Precise Shape and Semantic Control
332. NeurIPS 2025Seg4Diff: Unveiling Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation in Text-to-Image Diffusion Transformers
333. NeurIPS 2025Segment Anything Model Meets Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation: A Novel Perspective
334. NeurIPS 2025Semantic and Visual Crop-Guided Diffusion Models for Heterogeneous Tissue Synthesis in Histopathology
335. NeurIPS 2025Semantic Surgery: Zero-Shot Concept Erasure in Diffusion Models
336. NeurIPS 2025SGCD: Stain-Guided CycleDiffusion for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation of Histopathology Image Classification
337. NeurIPS 2025Shallow Flow Matching for Coarse-to-Fine Text-to-Speech Synthesis
338. NeurIPS 2025ShapeLLM-Omni: A Native Multimodal LLM for 3D Generation and Understanding
339. NeurIPS 2025ShoeFit: A New Dataset and Dual-image-stream DiT Framework for Virtual Footwear Try-On
340. NeurIPS 2025Shortcutting Pre-trained Flow Matching Diffusion Models is Almost Free Lunch
341. NeurIPS 2025ShortListing Model: A Streamlined Simplex Diffusion for Discrete Variable Generation
342. NeurIPS 2025Show-o2: Improved Native Unified Multimodal Models
343. NeurIPS 2025Simple Distillation for One-Step Diffusion Models
344. NeurIPS 2025SingRef6D: Monocular Novel Object Pose Estimation with a Single RGB Reference
345. NeurIPS 2025SnapMoGen: Human Motion Generation from Expressive Texts
346. NeurIPS 2025SoPo: Text-to-Motion Generation Using Semi-Online Preference Optimization
347. NeurIPS 2025Sparse Image Synthesis via Joint Latent and RoI Flow
348. NeurIPS 2025SpecMER: Fast Protein Generation with K-mer Guided Speculative Decoding
349. NeurIPS 2025Speculative Jacobi-Denoising Decoding for Accelerating Autoregressive Text-to-image Generation
350. NeurIPS 2025Spike-RetinexFormer: Rethinking Low-light Image Enhancement with Spiking Neural Networks

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.