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

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351. ICML 2025Skrr: Skip and Re-use Text Encoder Layers for Memory Efficient Text-to-Image Generation
352. ICML 2025SongGen: A Single Stage Auto-regressive Transformer for Text-to-Song Generation
353. ICML 2025SpargeAttention: Accurate and Training-free Sparse Attention Accelerating Any Model Inference
354. ICML 2025Spherical-Nested Diffusion Model for Panoramic Image Outpainting
355. ICML 2025Staged and Physics-Grounded Learning Framework with Hyperintensity Prior for Pre-Contrast MRI Synthesis
356. ICML 2025Strategic Planning: A Top-Down Approach to Option Generation
357. ICML 2025Structure-Guided Large Language Models for Text-to-SQL Generation
358. ICML 2025Symmetry-Aware GFlowNets
359. ICML 2025Synonymous Variational Inference for Perceptual Image Compression
360. ICML 2025Synthetic Text Generation for Training Large Language Models via Gradient Matching
361. ICML 2025Text-to-CAD Generation Through Infusing Visual Feedback in Large Language Models
362. ICML 2025TextCenGen: Attention-Guided Text-Centric Background Adaptation for Text-to-Image Generation
363. ICML 2025The Logical Implication Steering Method for Conditional Interventions on Transformer Generation
364. ICML 2025TRACE Back from the Future: A Probabilistic Reasoning Approach to Controllable Language Generation
365. ICML 2025Tractable Transformers for Flexible Conditional Generation
366. ICML 2025Ultra Lowrate Image Compression with Semantic Residual Coding and Compression-aware Diffusion
367. ICML 2025UniMC: Taming Diffusion Transformer for Unified Keypoint-Guided Multi-Class Image Generation
368. ICML 2025Upcycling Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Multi-Task Capabilities
369. ICML 2025Vector Grimoire: Codebook-based Shape Generation under Raster Image Supervision
370. ICML 2025VerbalTS: Generating Time Series from Texts
371. ICML 2025Visual Abstraction: A Plug-and-Play Approach for Text-Visual Retrieval
372. ICML 2025Visual Attention Never Fades: Selective Progressive Attention ReCalibration for Detailed Image Captioning in Multimodal Large Language Models
373. ICML 2025What If We Recaption Billions of Web Images with LLaMA-3?
374. ICML 2025When Model Knowledge meets Diffusion Model: Diffusion-assisted Data-free Image Synthesis with Alignment of Domain and Class
375. ICML 2025Wyckoff Transformer: Generation of Symmetric Crystals
376. ICML 2025You Always Recognize Me (YARM): Robust Texture Synthesis Against Multi-View Corruption
377. ICML 2025ZipAR: Parallel Autoregressive Image Generation through Spatial Locality
378. ICML 2024A Dense Reward View on Aligning Text-to-Image Diffusion with Preference
379. ICML 2024A Tale of Tails: Model Collapse as a Change of Scaling Laws
380. ICML 2024Accelerating Parallel Sampling of Diffusion Models
381. ICML 2024Accelerating PDE Data Generation via Differential Operator Action in Solution Space
382. ICML 2024ACM-MILP: Adaptive Constraint Modification via Grouping and Selection for Hardness-Preserving MILP Instance Generation
383. ICML 2024Adaptive Feature Selection for No-Reference Image Quality Assessment by Mitigating Semantic Noise Sensitivity
384. ICML 2024Adaptive Stabilization Based on Machine Learning for Column Generation
385. ICML 2024Aligned Objective for Soft-Pseudo-Label Generation in Supervised Learning
386. ICML 2024Amortizing Pragmatic Program Synthesis with Rankings
387. ICML 2024An Image is Worth Multiple Words: Discovering Object Level Concepts using Multi-Concept Prompt Learning
388. ICML 2024An Independence-promoting Loss for Music Generation with Language Models
389. ICML 2024AST-T5: Structure-Aware Pretraining for Code Generation and Understanding
390. ICML 2024Auto-Regressive Next-Token Predictors are Universal Learners
391. ICML 2024Bagged Deep Image Prior for Recovering Images in the Presence of Speckle Noise
392. ICML 2024Behavior Generation with Latent Actions
393. ICML 2024BetterV: Controlled Verilog Generation with Discriminative Guidance
394. ICML 2024Boximator: Generating Rich and Controllable Motions for Video Synthesis
395. ICML 2024BRAIn: Bayesian Reward-conditioned Amortized Inference for natural language generation from feedback
396. ICML 2024CaPS: Collaborative and Private Synthetic Data Generation from Distributed Sources
397. ICML 2024CaRiNG: Learning Temporal Causal Representation under Non-Invertible Generation Process
398. ICML 2024Causal-IQA: Towards the Generalization of Image Quality Assessment Based on Causal Inference
399. ICML 2024CCM: Real-Time Controllable Visual Content Creation Using Text-to-Image Consistency Models
400. ICML 2024Cell2Sentence: Teaching Large Language Models the Language of Biology

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.