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
1,216 papers, page 7 of 25
- CVPR 2024Material Palette: Extraction of Materials from a Single Image
- CVPR 2024MatFuse: Controllable Material Generation with Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024MeaCap: Memory-Augmented Zero-shot Image Captioning
- CVPR 2024MedM2G: Unifying Medical Multi-Modal Generation via Cross-Guided Diffusion with Visual Invariant
- CVPR 2024MeLFusion: Synthesizing Music from Image and Language Cues using Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024MeshGPT: Generating Triangle Meshes with Decoder-Only Transformers
- CVPR 2024MetaCloak: Preventing Unauthorized Subject-driven Text-to-image Diffusion-based Synthesis via Meta-learning
- CVPR 2024MicroCinema: A Divide-and-Conquer Approach for Text-to-Video Generation
- CVPR 2024MIGC: Multi-Instance Generation Controller for Text-to-Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2024Misalignment-Robust Frequency Distribution Loss for Image Transformation
- CVPR 2024MMA-Diffusion: MultiModal Attack on Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024MMSum: A Dataset for Multimodal Summarization and Thumbnail Generation of Videos
- CVPR 2024MobileCLIP: Fast Image-Text Models through Multi-Modal Reinforced Training
- CVPR 2024Modality-Agnostic Structural Image Representation Learning for Deformable Multi-Modality Medical Image Registration
- CVPR 2024MoDE: CLIP Data Experts via Clustering
- CVPR 2024Monkey: Image Resolution and Text Label Are Important Things for Large Multi-modal Models
- CVPR 2024Morphable Diffusion: 3D-Consistent Diffusion for Single-image Avatar Creation
- CVPR 2024Move Anything with Layered Scene Diffusion
- CVPR 2024Move as You Say Interact as You Can: Language-guided Human Motion Generation with Scene Affordance
- CVPR 2024MPOD123: One Image to 3D Content Generation Using Mask-enhanced Progressive Outline-to-Detail Optimization
- CVPR 2024MRFS: Mutually Reinforcing Image Fusion and Segmentation
- CVPR 2024MULAN: A Multi Layer Annotated Dataset for Controllable Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Multi-view Aggregation Network for Dichotomous Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024MultiDiff: Consistent Novel View Synthesis from a Single Image
- CVPR 2024Multimodal Prompt Perceiver: Empower Adaptiveness Generalizability and Fidelity for All-in-One Image Restoration
- CVPR 2024MVD-Fusion: Single-view 3D via Depth-consistent Multi-view Generation
- CVPR 2024Named Entity Driven Zero-Shot Image Manipulation
- CVPR 2024Navigating Beyond Dropout: An Intriguing Solution towards Generalizable Image Super Resolution
- CVPR 2024NAYER: Noisy Layer Data Generation for Efficient and Effective Data-free Knowledge Distillation
- CVPR 2024NB-GTR: Narrow-Band Guided Turbulence Removal
- CVPR 2024NeRF On-the-go: Exploiting Uncertainty for Distractor-free NeRFs in the Wild
- CVPR 2024Neural 3D Strokes: Creating Stylized 3D Scenes with Vectorized 3D Strokes
- CVPR 2024Neural Point Cloud Diffusion for Disentangled 3D Shape and Appearance Generation
- CVPR 2024Neural Spline Fields for Burst Image Fusion and Layer Separation
- CVPR 2024NIVeL: Neural Implicit Vector Layers for Text-to-Vector Generation
- CVPR 2024NoiseCollage: A Layout-Aware Text-to-Image Diffusion Model Based on Noise Cropping and Merging
- CVPR 2024Noisy-Correspondence Learning for Text-to-Image Person Re-identification
- CVPR 2024NOPE: Novel Object Pose Estimation from a Single Image
- CVPR 2024Novel View Synthesis with View-Dependent Effects from a Single Image
- CVPR 2024NRDF: Neural Riemannian Distance Fields for Learning Articulated Pose Priors
- CVPR 2024NViST: In the Wild New View Synthesis from a Single Image with Transformers
- CVPR 2024Observation-Guided Diffusion Probabilistic Models
- CVPR 2024ODCR: Orthogonal Decoupling Contrastive Regularization for Unpaired Image Dehazing
- CVPR 2024ODM: A Text-Image Further Alignment Pre-training Approach for Scene Text Detection and Spotting
- CVPR 2024OED: Towards One-stage End-to-End Dynamic Scene Graph Generation
- CVPR 2024OmniMotionGPT: Animal Motion Generation with Limited Data
- CVPR 2024On the Estimation of Image-matching Uncertainty in Visual Place Recognition
- CVPR 2024On the Robustness of Large Multimodal Models Against Image Adversarial Attacks
- CVPR 2024On the Scalability of Diffusion-based Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2024On Train-Test Class Overlap and Detection for Image Retrieval
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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.