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
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
5,184 papers, page 70 of 104
- CVPR 2024Lane2Seq: Towards Unified Lane Detection via Sequence Generation
- CVPR 2024Language-guided Image Reflection Separation
- CVPR 2024Language-only Training of Zero-shot Composed Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2024Laplacian-guided Entropy Model in Neural Codec with Blur-dissipated Synthesis
- CVPR 2024LaRE^2: Latent Reconstruction Error Based Method for Diffusion-Generated Image Detection
- CVPR 2024Layout-Agnostic Scene Text Image Synthesis with Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024LDP: Language-driven Dual-Pixel Image Defocus Deblurring Network
- CVPR 2024Learned Lossless Image Compression based on Bit Plane Slicing
- CVPR 2024Learned Representation-Guided Diffusion Models for Large-Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Learning Continuous 3D Words for Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Learning Coupled Dictionaries from Unpaired Data for Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2024Learning Diffusion Texture Priors for Image Restoration
- CVPR 2024Learning Disentangled Identifiers for Action-Customized Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Learning Large-Factor EM Image Super-Resolution with Generative Priors
- CVPR 2024Learning Multi-Dimensional Human Preference for Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Learning to Rank Patches for Unbiased Image Redundancy Reduction
- CVPR 2024Learning to Remove Wrinkled Transparent Film with Polarized Prior
- CVPR 2024Learning to Segment Referred Objects from Narrated Egocentric Videos
- CVPR 2024LEDITS++: Limitless Image Editing using Text-to-Image Models
- CVPR 2024LeftRefill: Filling Right Canvas based on Left Reference through Generalized Text-to-Image Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024LeGO: Leveraging a Surface Deformation Network for Animatable Stylized Face Generation with One Example
- CVPR 2024Let's Think Outside the Box: Exploring Leap-of-Thought in Large Language Models with Creative Humor Generation
- CVPR 2024Leveraging Predicate and Triplet Learning for Scene Graph Generation
- CVPR 2024Leveraging Vision-Language Models for Improving Domain Generalization in Image Classification
- CVPR 2024LightOctree: Lightweight 3D Spatially-Coherent Indoor Lighting Estimation
- CVPR 2024LLM4SGG: Large Language Models for Weakly Supervised Scene Graph Generation
- CVPR 2024Logarithmic Lenses: Exploring Log RGB Data for Image Classification
- CVPR 2024Look-Up Table Compression for Efficient Image Restoration
- CVPR 2024LucidDreamer: Towards High-Fidelity Text-to-3D Generation via Interval Score Matching
- CVPR 2024MACE: Mass Concept Erasure in Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024MagicAnimate: Temporally Consistent Human Image Animation using Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024MAGICK: A Large-scale Captioned Dataset from Matting Generated Images using Chroma Keying
- CVPR 2024Make Pixels Dance: High-Dynamic Video Generation
- CVPR 2024Make-It-Vivid: Dressing Your Animatable Biped Cartoon Characters from Text
- CVPR 2024Make-Your-Anchor: A Diffusion-based 2D Avatar Generation Framework
- CVPR 2024Making Visual Sense of Oracle Bones for You and Me
- CVPR 2024MarkovGen: Structured Prediction for Efficient Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2024MAS: Multi-view Ancestral Sampling for 3D Motion Generation Using 2D Diffusion
- 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
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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.