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
780 papers, page 8 of 16
- CVPR 2023SmartBrush: Text and Shape Guided Object Inpainting With Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2023Soft Augmentation for Image Classification
- CVPR 2023SpaText: Spatio-Textual Representation for Controllable Image Generation
- CVPR 2023Spatio-Focal Bidirectional Disparity Estimation From a Dual-Pixel Image
- CVPR 2023Specialist Diffusion: Plug-and-Play Sample-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models To Learn Any Unseen Style
- CVPR 2023Spectral Bayesian Uncertainty for Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2023Spectral Enhanced Rectangle Transformer for Hyperspectral Image Denoising
- CVPR 2023sRGB Real Noise Synthesizing With Neighboring Correlation-Aware Noise Model
- CVPR 2023Stare at What You See: Masked Image Modeling Without Reconstruction
- CVPR 2023SteerNeRF: Accelerating NeRF Rendering via Smooth Viewpoint Trajectory
- CVPR 2023Structural Multiplane Image: Bridging Neural View Synthesis and 3D Reconstruction
- CVPR 2023Structure Aggregation for Cross-Spectral Stereo Image Guided Denoising
- CVPR 2023Structured 3D Features for Reconstructing Controllable Avatars
- CVPR 2023StyleGene: Crossover and Mutation of Region-Level Facial Genes for Kinship Face Synthesis
- CVPR 2023StyleRes: Transforming the Residuals for Real Image Editing With StyleGAN
- CVPR 2023Super-Resolution Neural Operator
- CVPR 2023Synthesizing Photorealistic Virtual Humans Through Cross-Modal Disentanglement
- CVPR 2023TAPS3D: Text-Guided 3D Textured Shape Generation From Pseudo Supervision
- CVPR 2023Task-Specific Fine-Tuning via Variational Information Bottleneck for Weakly-Supervised Pathology Whole Slide Image Classification
- CVPR 2023Tell Me What Happened: Unifying Text-Guided Video Completion via Multimodal Masked Video Generation
- CVPR 2023Text-Guided Unsupervised Latent Transformation for Multi-Attribute Image Manipulation
- CVPR 2023Texts as Images in Prompt Tuning for Multi-Label Image Recognition
- CVPR 2023TopNet: Transformer-Based Object Placement Network for Image Compositing
- CVPR 2023Topology-Guided Multi-Class Cell Context Generation for Digital Pathology
- CVPR 2023Toward Accurate Post-Training Quantization for Image Super Resolution
- CVPR 2023Toward Verifiable and Reproducible Human Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2023Towards a Smaller Student: Capacity Dynamic Distillation for Efficient Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2023Towards Accurate Image Coding: Improved Autoregressive Image Generation With Dynamic Vector Quantization
- CVPR 2023Towards Artistic Image Aesthetics Assessment: A Large-Scale Dataset and a New Method
- CVPR 2023Towards Bridging the Performance Gaps of Joint Energy-Based Models
- CVPR 2023Towards Generalisable Video Moment Retrieval: Visual-Dynamic Injection to Image-Text Pre-Training
- CVPR 2023Towards Modality-Agnostic Person Re-Identification With Descriptive Query
- CVPR 2023Towards Robust Tampered Text Detection in Document Image: New Dataset and New Solution
- CVPR 2023Towards Unified Scene Text Spotting Based on Sequence Generation
- CVPR 2023Towards Universal Fake Image Detectors That Generalize Across Generative Models
- CVPR 2023TruFor: Leveraging All-Round Clues for Trustworthy Image Forgery Detection and Localization
- CVPR 2023Turning a CLIP Model Into a Scene Text Detector
- CVPR 2023Ultrahigh Resolution Image/Video Matting With Spatio-Temporal Sparsity
- CVPR 2023UMat: Uncertainty-Aware Single Image High Resolution Material Capture
- CVPR 2023Unbiased Scene Graph Generation in Videos
- CVPR 2023Uncertainty-Aware Unsupervised Image Deblurring With Deep Residual Prior
- CVPR 2023Uncovering the Disentanglement Capability in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023Uncurated Image-Text Datasets: Shedding Light on Demographic Bias
- CVPR 2023Understanding Masked Image Modeling via Learning Occlusion Invariant Feature
- CVPR 2023UniDexGrasp: Universal Robotic Dexterous Grasping via Learning Diverse Proposal Generation and Goal-Conditioned Policy
- CVPR 2023Unifying Layout Generation With a Decoupled Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2023Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation With Shortest Path Regularization
- CVPR 2023Unsupervised Domain Adaption With Pixel-Level Discriminator for Image-Aware Layout Generation
- CVPR 2023Unsupervised Intrinsic Image Decomposition With LiDAR Intensity
- CVPR 2023Variational Distribution Learning for Unsupervised Text-to-Image 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.