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

453 papers, page 8 of 10

351. NeurIPS 2026ScrapeGraphAI-100k: Dataset for Schema-Constrained LLM Generation
352. NeurIPS 2026SCULPT: Advancing Masked Discrete Diffusion for High-Resolution Image Synthesis.
353. NeurIPS 2026Search-Augmented Masked Diffusion Models for Constrained Generation
354. NeurIPS 2026Seeing the Unseen: Unified Visible–Invisible Motion for Physically Consistent Video Generation
355. NeurIPS 2026Seeing the World through Any Eyes
356. NeurIPS 2026Seg3DParts: Segmentation-Grounded Controllable Part-Level 3D Generation
357. NeurIPS 2026SEGA: Spectral-Energy Guided Attention for Resolution Extrapolation in Diffusion Transformers
358. NeurIPS 2026Selective Disk Bispectrum: A Complete and Rotation Invariant Image Descriptor
359. NeurIPS 2026Self-Cleaning Diffusion Models
360. NeurIPS 2026SemGeo-Gen: Unsupervised Generation of Approximate Cross-Instance Semantic-Geometric Correspondences
361. NeurIPS 2026SemISP: Semantic-Consistent Diffusion for Cross-Camera RAW-to-sRGB Generation
362. NeurIPS 2026SIGMA: Semantic-Difference Instruction-Grounding Mask Annotator for Text-Driven Image Manipulation Localization
363. NeurIPS 2026SILSA: Sliding-Window Slice Latents for Topology-Preserving High-Resolution 3D Generation
364. NeurIPS 2026Simplified Reversible Residual Networks
365. NeurIPS 2026SimWorld Studio: Automatic Environment Generation with Evolving Coding Agent for Embodied Agent Learning
366. NeurIPS 2026Single Shot HDR Recovery via a Video Diffusion Prior
367. NeurIPS 2026SkillCIR: Intent-Guided Skill Composition for Training-Free Composed Image Retrieval
368. NeurIPS 2026SliceWorld: A Predictive and Controllable World-State Model for CT Report Generation
369. NeurIPS 2026SNACK: A Sequential Notation Framework for Probabilistic Graph Generation
370. NeurIPS 2026SocialDirector: Training-Free Social Interaction Control for Multi-Person Video Generation
371. NeurIPS 2026Source-Causal Control of Historical Context in Longitudinal Radiology Report Generation
372. NeurIPS 2026Sparse Internal Control of Language Models
373. NeurIPS 2026SpatialFlow-GRPO: Where Spatial Credit Drives Image Editing
374. NeurIPS 2026Spatially Feasible 3D Indoor Scene Generation via Interaction-Oriented Human Proxy
375. NeurIPS 2026Spatially-Grounded Long Video Generation with Self Geometry Forcing
376. NeurIPS 2026Spectral Progressive Diffusion for Efficient Image and Video Generation
377. NeurIPS 2026Spherical Boltzmann machines: a solvable theory of learning and generation in energy-based models
378. NeurIPS 2026SPRING: Solver-guided Process Rewards for Novel Logical Reasoning Steps Generation
379. NeurIPS 2026Steering Fields: Adaptive Vector Fields for Safe Image Generation and Beyond
380. NeurIPS 2026SteerVTE: Seamless Video Text Editing with Style and Glyph Control
381. NeurIPS 2026StepCAD: Mesh-to-CAD Code Generation via LLM Policy and Geometry-Guided Search
382. NeurIPS 2026StitchEdit: Stitching Depth Priors into Image Editors via Per-Layer Gradient Probing
383. NeurIPS 2026Stochastic Interpolants via Conditional Dependent Coupling
384. NeurIPS 2026Structural Self-Teaching for Compositional Generation in Unified Multimodal Models
385. NeurIPS 2026Structure-Semantic Co-optimized Latent Diffusion Model for Fast Visual Anagram Synthesis
386. NeurIPS 2026Structured State-Space Regularization for Generation-Friendly Image Tokenization
387. NeurIPS 2026SynBench: A Benchmark for Differentially Private Text Generation
388. NeurIPS 2026SynMQG: Disentanglement and Mutual-Information Optimization for Synergistic Multi-modal Question Generation
389. NeurIPS 2026Synsema: Syntax-Guided Learning of Semantically Valid Programs
390. NeurIPS 2026Synthon Contrastive Learning for Synthesizable 3D Molecule Generation
391. NeurIPS 2026TaxaAdapter: Scaling Fine-grained Species Image Generation To the Tree of Life
392. NeurIPS 2026Temperature-Regulated Stochastic Sampling for Diffusion-Based High-Quality Molecular Generation
393. NeurIPS 2026Tempered Guided Diffusion
394. NeurIPS 2026TerraVis: Towards Evaluation of World-Grounded Visual Consistency in Text-to-Image Generation via MLLM Workflows
395. NeurIPS 2026TESLA: Native 4D Gaussian Splatting Generation with Temporally Structured Latents
396. NeurIPS 2026Tethered Predictive-Inertial Proposals with Objective Verification for Diffusion-Prior Inverse Problems
397. NeurIPS 2026Text-Vision Co-Instructed Image Editing
398. NeurIPS 2026The Fault in Our Metrics: Revisiting Generative Model Evaluation with Chamfer Distance
399. NeurIPS 2026The Future of Facts: Tracing the Factual Generation-Verification Gap
400. NeurIPS 2026The limbic navigation system as a hierarchical RNN

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.