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

418 papers, page 8 of 9

351. CVPR 2023SmartBrush: Text and Shape Guided Object Inpainting With Diffusion Model
352. CVPR 2023Soft Augmentation for Image Classification
353. CVPR 2023SpaText: Spatio-Textual Representation for Controllable Image Generation
354. CVPR 2023Spatio-Focal Bidirectional Disparity Estimation From a Dual-Pixel Image
355. CVPR 2023Specialist Diffusion: Plug-and-Play Sample-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models To Learn Any Unseen Style
356. CVPR 2023Spectral Bayesian Uncertainty for Image Super-Resolution
357. CVPR 2023Spectral Enhanced Rectangle Transformer for Hyperspectral Image Denoising
358. CVPR 2023sRGB Real Noise Synthesizing With Neighboring Correlation-Aware Noise Model
359. CVPR 2023Stare at What You See: Masked Image Modeling Without Reconstruction
360. CVPR 2023SteerNeRF: Accelerating NeRF Rendering via Smooth Viewpoint Trajectory
361. CVPR 2023Structural Multiplane Image: Bridging Neural View Synthesis and 3D Reconstruction
362. CVPR 2023Structure Aggregation for Cross-Spectral Stereo Image Guided Denoising
363. CVPR 2023Structured 3D Features for Reconstructing Controllable Avatars
364. CVPR 2023StyleGene: Crossover and Mutation of Region-Level Facial Genes for Kinship Face Synthesis
365. CVPR 2023StyleRes: Transforming the Residuals for Real Image Editing With StyleGAN
366. CVPR 2023Super-Resolution Neural Operator
367. CVPR 2023Synthesizing Photorealistic Virtual Humans Through Cross-Modal Disentanglement
368. CVPR 2023TAPS3D: Text-Guided 3D Textured Shape Generation From Pseudo Supervision
369. CVPR 2023Task-Specific Fine-Tuning via Variational Information Bottleneck for Weakly-Supervised Pathology Whole Slide Image Classification
370. CVPR 2023Tell Me What Happened: Unifying Text-Guided Video Completion via Multimodal Masked Video Generation
371. CVPR 2023Text-Guided Unsupervised Latent Transformation for Multi-Attribute Image Manipulation
372. CVPR 2023Texts as Images in Prompt Tuning for Multi-Label Image Recognition
373. CVPR 2023TopNet: Transformer-Based Object Placement Network for Image Compositing
374. CVPR 2023Topology-Guided Multi-Class Cell Context Generation for Digital Pathology
375. CVPR 2023Toward Accurate Post-Training Quantization for Image Super Resolution
376. CVPR 2023Toward Verifiable and Reproducible Human Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation
377. CVPR 2023Towards a Smaller Student: Capacity Dynamic Distillation for Efficient Image Retrieval
378. CVPR 2023Towards Accurate Image Coding: Improved Autoregressive Image Generation With Dynamic Vector Quantization
379. CVPR 2023Towards Artistic Image Aesthetics Assessment: A Large-Scale Dataset and a New Method
380. CVPR 2023Towards Bridging the Performance Gaps of Joint Energy-Based Models
381. CVPR 2023Towards Generalisable Video Moment Retrieval: Visual-Dynamic Injection to Image-Text Pre-Training
382. CVPR 2023Towards Modality-Agnostic Person Re-Identification With Descriptive Query
383. CVPR 2023Towards Robust Tampered Text Detection in Document Image: New Dataset and New Solution
384. CVPR 2023Towards Unified Scene Text Spotting Based on Sequence Generation
385. CVPR 2023Towards Universal Fake Image Detectors That Generalize Across Generative Models
386. CVPR 2023TruFor: Leveraging All-Round Clues for Trustworthy Image Forgery Detection and Localization
387. CVPR 2023Turning a CLIP Model Into a Scene Text Detector
388. CVPR 2023Ultrahigh Resolution Image/Video Matting With Spatio-Temporal Sparsity
389. CVPR 2023UMat: Uncertainty-Aware Single Image High Resolution Material Capture
390. CVPR 2023Unbiased Scene Graph Generation in Videos
391. CVPR 2023Uncertainty-Aware Unsupervised Image Deblurring With Deep Residual Prior
392. CVPR 2023Uncovering the Disentanglement Capability in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
393. CVPR 2023Uncurated Image-Text Datasets: Shedding Light on Demographic Bias
394. CVPR 2023Understanding Masked Image Modeling via Learning Occlusion Invariant Feature
395. CVPR 2023UniDexGrasp: Universal Robotic Dexterous Grasping via Learning Diverse Proposal Generation and Goal-Conditioned Policy
396. CVPR 2023Unifying Layout Generation With a Decoupled Diffusion Model
397. CVPR 2023Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation With Shortest Path Regularization
398. CVPR 2023Unsupervised Domain Adaption With Pixel-Level Discriminator for Image-Aware Layout Generation
399. CVPR 2023Unsupervised Intrinsic Image Decomposition With LiDAR Intensity
400. CVPR 2023Variational Distribution Learning for Unsupervised Text-to-Image Generation

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.