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
2,262 papers, page 8 of 46
- CVPR 2026MICo-150K A Comprehensive Dataset Advancing Multi-Image Composition
- CVPR 2026MICON-Bench Benchmarking and Enhancing Multi-Image Context Image Generation in Unified
- CVPR 2026Mind the Way You Select Negative Texts Pursuing the Distance
- CVPR 2026Mirai Autoregressive Visual Generation Needs Foresight
- CVPR 2026Missing No More Dictionary-Guided Cross-Modal Image Fusion under Missing Infrared
- CVPR 2026Mixture of States Routing Token-Level Dynamics for Multimodal Generation
- CVPR 2026Mixture of Style Experts for Diverse Image Stylization
- CVPR 2026Mixture-of-Experts based Feature Decoupling for Open Vocabulary Scene Graph Generation
- CVPR 2026MM-ACT Learn from Multimodal Parallel Generation to Act
- CVPR 2026MM-ReCoder Advancing Chart-to-Code Generation with Reinforcement Learning and Self-Correction
- CVPR 2026MM-SeR Multimodal Self-Refinement for Lightweight Image Captioning
- CVPR 2026MMDIR Multimodal Instruction-Driven Framework for Mixed-Degradation Document Image Restoration
- CVPR 2026MMFace-DiT A Dual-Stream Diffusion Transformer for High-Fidelity Multimodal Face Generation
- CVPR 2026MMTIT-Bench A Multilingual and Multi-Scenario Benchmark with Cognition-Perception-Reasoning Guided Text-Image
- CVPR 2026mmWaveFlow Unified Enhancement and Generation of mmWave Human Point Clouds
- CVPR 2026Mobile-VTON High-Fidelity On-Device Virtual Try-On
- CVPR 2026MoCoDiff A Controllable Autoregressive Diffusion Model for Expressive Motion Generation
- CVPR 2026MOFA-VTON More Fashion Possibilities with Fine-Grained Adaptations in Virtual Try-On
- CVPR 2026MoLingo Motion-Language Alignment for Text-to-Human Motion Generation
- CVPR 2026Monet Reasoning in Latent Visual Space Beyond Image and Language
- CVPR 2026More Than Meets the Eye A Unified Image Fusion Framework
- CVPR 2026MorphSeek Fine-grained Latent Representation-Level Policy Optimization for Deformable Image Registration
- CVPR 2026MotionEdit Benchmarking and Learning Motion-Centric Image Editing
- CVPR 2026MotionMaster Generalizable Text-Driven Motion Generation and Editing
- CVPR 2026MR. Illuminate Zero-Shot Low-Light Image Enhancement with Diffusion Prior
- CVPR 2026Multi-level Causal LLM-based Text-to-Motion Generation with Human Alignment
- CVPR 2026Multi-Modal Image Fusion via Intervention-Stable Feature Learning
- CVPR 2026Multi-Scale Local Speculative Decoding for Image Generation
- CVPR 2026Multi-view Consistent 3D Gaussian Head Avatars without Multi-view Generation
- CVPR 2026MultiAnimate Pose-Guided Image Animation Made Extensible
- CVPR 2026MultiBanana A Challenging Benchmark for Multi-Reference Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2026MultiCrafter High-Fidelity Multi-Subject Generation via Disentangled Attention and Identity-Aware Preference
- CVPR 2026Multimodal Causality-Driven Representation Learning for Generalizable Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2026Multimodal RewardBench 2 Evaluating Omni Reward Models for Interleaved Text
- CVPR 2026Multimodal Semantic Bias Mitigation for Diverse Text-To-3D Generation
- CVPR 2026Multinex Lightweight Low-light Image Enhancement via Multi-prior Retinex
- CVPR 2026MultiShotMaster A Controllable Multi-Shot Video Generation Framework
- CVPR 2026MuM Multi-View Masked Image Modeling for 3D Vision
- CVPR 2026Muses Designing Composing Generating Nonexistent Fantasy 3D Creatures without Training
- CVPR 2026MV2UV Generating High-quality UV Texture Maps with Multiview Prompts
- CVPR 2026NAMI Efficient Image Generation via Bridged Progressive Rectified Flow Transformers
- CVPR 2026NanoSD Edge Efficient Foundation Model for Real Time Image Restoration
- CVPR 2026NaTex Seamless Texture Generation as Latent Color Diffusion
- CVPR 2026Native and Compact Structured Latents for 3D Generation
- CVPR 2026NEAF Natural Image Editing with Attention Fusion for Generalizable Test-time
- CVPR 2026Neighbor-Aware Localized Concept Erasure in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026Nestwork Conditional 3D Furnished House Layout Generation through Latent Heterogeneous
- CVPR 2026Neurodynamics-Driven Coupled Neural P Systems for Multi-Focus Image Fusion
- CVPR 2026Next-Scale Autoregressive Models for Text-to-Motion Generation
- CVPR 2026NI-Tex Non-isometric Image-based Garment Texture Generation
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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.