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
5,184 papers, page 72 of 104
- CVPR 2024Person in Place: Generating Associative Skeleton-Guidance Maps for Human-Object Interaction Image Editing
- CVPR 2024Personalized Residuals for Concept-Driven Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2024PI3D: Efficient Text-to-3D Generation with Pseudo-Image Diffusion
- CVPR 2024PIA: Your Personalized Image Animator via Plug-and-Play Modules in Text-to-Image Models
- CVPR 2024PICTURE: PhotorealistIC virtual Try-on from UnconstRained dEsigns
- CVPR 2024PIGEON: Predicting Image Geolocations
- CVPR 2024pixelSplat: 3D Gaussian Splats from Image Pairs for Scalable Generalizable 3D Reconstruction
- CVPR 2024PLACE: Adaptive Layout-Semantic Fusion for Semantic Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2024Plug-and-Play Diffusion Distillation
- CVPR 2024Polos: Multimodal Metric Learning from Human Feedback for Image Captioning
- CVPR 2024PortraitBooth: A Versatile Portrait Model for Fast Identity-preserved Personalization
- CVPR 2024Posterior Distillation Sampling
- CVPR 2024Practical Measurements of Translucent Materials with Inter-Pixel Translucency Prior
- CVPR 2024Predicated Diffusion: Predicate Logic-Based Attention Guidance for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Probing Synergistic High-Order Interaction in Infrared and Visible Image Fusion
- CVPR 2024Prompt Augmentation for Self-supervised Text-guided Image Manipulation
- CVPR 2024Prompt-Free Diffusion: Taking "Text" out of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Prompting Hard or Hardly Prompting: Prompt Inversion for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Prompting Vision Foundation Models for Pathology Image Analysis
- CVPR 2024Psychometry: An Omnifit Model for Image Reconstruction from Human Brain Activity
- CVPR 2024Ranni: Taming Text-to-Image Diffusion for Accurate Instruction Following
- CVPR 2024Rapid 3D Model Generation with Intuitive 3D Input
- CVPR 2024Readout Guidance: Learning Control from Diffusion Features
- CVPR 2024Real-World Mobile Image Denoising Dataset with Efficient Baselines
- CVPR 2024RealCustom: Narrowing Real Text Word for Real-Time Open-Domain Text-to-Image Customization
- CVPR 2024RecDiffusion: Rectangling for Image Stitching with Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Referring Image Editing: Object-level Image Editing via Referring Expressions
- CVPR 2024Repurposing Diffusion-Based Image Generators for Monocular Depth Estimation
- CVPR 2024Residual Denoising Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Restoration by Generation with Constrained Priors
- CVPR 2024Rethinking FID: Towards a Better Evaluation Metric for Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Rethinking Interactive Image Segmentation with Low Latency High Quality and Diverse Prompts
- CVPR 2024Rethinking Prior Information Generation with CLIP for Few-Shot Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Rethinking the Objectives of Vector-Quantized Tokenizers for Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2024Rethinking the Spatial Inconsistency in Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance
- CVPR 2024Retrieval-Augmented Layout Transformer for Content-Aware Layout Generation
- CVPR 2024Revisiting Non-Autoregressive Transformers for Efficient Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2024Revisiting Single Image Reflection Removal In the Wild
- CVPR 2024Revisiting Spatial-Frequency Information Integration from a Hierarchical Perspective for Panchromatic and Multi-Spectral Image Fusion
- CVPR 2024Rich Human Feedback for Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2024RichDreamer: A Generalizable Normal-Depth Diffusion Model for Detail Richness in Text-to-3D
- CVPR 2024Robust Image Denoising through Adversarial Frequency Mixup
- CVPR 2024Robust Noisy Correspondence Learning with Equivariant Similarity Consistency
- CVPR 2024Rotation-Agnostic Image Representation Learning for Digital Pathology
- CVPR 2024Sat2Scene: 3D Urban Scene Generation from Satellite Images with Diffusion
- CVPR 2024SatSynth: Augmenting Image-Mask Pairs through Diffusion Models for Aerial Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Scaling Up to Excellence: Practicing Model Scaling for Photo-Realistic Image Restoration In the Wild
- CVPR 2024SCEdit: Efficient and Controllable Image Diffusion Generation via Skip Connection Editing
- CVPR 2024SceneTex: High-Quality Texture Synthesis for Indoor Scenes via Diffusion Priors
- CVPR 2024SCINeRF: Neural Radiance Fields from a Snapshot Compressive Image
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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.