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
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
1,467 papers, page 8 of 30
- CVPR 2025MIDI: Multi-Instance Diffusion for Single Image to 3D Scene Generation
- CVPR 2025Mind the Time: Temporally-Controlled Multi-Event Video Generation
- CVPR 2025Mind the Trojan Horse: Image Prompt Adapter Enabling Scalable and Deceptive Jailbreaking
- CVPR 2025MINIMA: Modality Invariant Image Matching
- CVPR 2025Minority-Focused Text-to-Image Generation via Prompt Optimization
- CVPR 2025MIRE: Matched Implicit Neural Representations
- CVPR 2025MirrorVerse: Pushing Diffusion Models to Realistically Reflect the World
- CVPR 2025Missing Target-Relevant Information Prediction with World Model for Accurate Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2025MLLM-as-a-Judge for Image Safety without Human Labeling
- CVPR 2025Modeling Thousands of Human Annotators for Generalizable Text-to-Image Person Re-identification
- CVPR 2025MoEdit: On Learning Quantity Perception for Multi-object Image Editing
- CVPR 2025MotiF: Making Text Count in Image Animation with Motion Focal Loss
- CVPR 2025Motion Modes: What Could Happen Next?
- CVPR 2025Motion Prompting: Controlling Video Generation with Motion Trajectories
- CVPR 2025MotionPro: A Precise Motion Controller for Image-to-Video Generation
- CVPR 2025MotionStone: Decoupled Motion Intensity Modulation with Diffusion Transformer for Image-to-Video Generation
- CVPR 2025Move-in-2D: 2D-Conditioned Human Motion Generation
- CVPR 2025Multi-focal Conditioned Latent Diffusion for Person Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2025Multi-Group Proportional Representations for Text-to-Image Models
- CVPR 2025Multi-party Collaborative Attention Control for Image Customization
- CVPR 2025Multi-subject Open-set Personalization in Video Generation
- CVPR 2025Multirate Neural Image Compression with Adaptive Lattice Vector Quantization
- CVPR 2025MuTri: Multi-view Tri-alignment for OCT to OCTA 3D Image Translation
- CVPR 2025MVGenMaster: Scaling Multi-View Generation from Any Image via 3D Priors Enhanced Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025MVPortrait: Text-Guided Motion and Emotion Control for Multi-view Vivid Portrait Animation
- CVPR 2025Navigating Image Restoration with VAR's Distribution Alignment Prior
- CVPR 2025Navigation World Models
- CVPR 2025Nearly Zero-Cost Protection Against Mimicry by Personalized Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Nested Diffusion Models Using Hierarchical Latent Priors
- CVPR 2025Neural Hierarchical Decomposition for Single Image Plant Modeling
- CVPR 2025No Pains, More Gains: Recycling Sub-Salient Patches for Efficient High-Resolution Image Recognition
- CVPR 2025Noise Calibration and Spatial-Frequency Interactive Network for STEM Image Enhancement
- CVPR 2025Noise Diffusion for Enhancing Semantic Faithfulness in Text-to-Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2025Noise Modeling in One Hour: Minimizing Preparation Efforts for Self-supervised Low-Light RAW Image Denoising
- CVPR 2025Noise-Consistent Siamese-Diffusion for Medical Image Synthesis and Segmentation
- CVPR 2025NoiseCtrl: A Sampling-Algorithm-Agnostic Conditional Generation Method for Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Non-Natural Image Understanding with Advancing Frequency-based Vision Encoders
- CVPR 2025Not All Parameters Matter: Masking Diffusion Models for Enhancing Generation Ability
- CVPR 2025Not Just Text: Uncovering Vision Modality Typographic Threats in Image Generation Models
- CVPR 2025Occlusion-aware Text-Image-Point Cloud Pretraining for Open-World 3D Object Recognition
- CVPR 2025Omni-RGPT: Unifying Image and Video Region-level Understanding via Token Marks
- CVPR 2025OmniFlow: Any-to-Any Generation with Multi-Modal Rectified Flows
- CVPR 2025OmniGen: Unified Image Generation
- CVPR 2025OmniGuard: Hybrid Manipulation Localization via Augmented Versatile Deep Image Watermarking
- CVPR 2025One Diffusion to Generate Them All
- CVPR 2025One-Minute Video Generation with Test-Time Training
- CVPR 2025One-Way Ticket: Time-Independent Unified Encoder for Distilling Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025OpenING: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Judging Open-ended Interleaved Image-Text Generation
- CVPR 2025Optical-Flow Guided Prompt Optimization for Coherent Video Generation
- CVPR 2025Order-One Rolling Shutter Cameras
Ask about this trend from Claude or Cursor
Connect the Paperlist MCP and your assistant can pull the numbers on this page while you draft a survey, pick a direction or plan a submission: papers per year and venue, growth, the fastest-rising sub-themes and representative papers, shaped around your question.
Copy this prompt into your assistant
Use paperlist to show how Image Generation papers grew at CVPR from 2023 to 2026, and which year jumped the most.
Tool the assistant calls: get_topic_stats {"topic": "image-generation"}
Set up Paperlist MCP in two minutes (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT)
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.