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

5,184 papers, page 82 of 104

4051. ICML 2024Rejuvenating image-GPT as Strong Visual Representation Learners
4052. ICML 2024Residual-Conditioned Optimal Transport: Towards Structure-Preserving Unpaired and Paired Image Restoration
4053. ICML 2024Retrieval-Augmented Score Distillation for Text-to-3D Generation
4054. ICML 2024Revisiting Context Aggregation for Image Matting
4055. ICML 2024RoboCodeX: Multimodal Code Generation for Robotic Behavior Synthesis
4056. ICML 2024Robust Universal Adversarial Perturbations
4057. ICML 2024Scalable High-Resolution Pixel-Space Image Synthesis with Hourglass Diffusion Transformers
4058. ICML 2024Scalable Pre-training of Large Autoregressive Image Models
4059. ICML 2024Scale-Free Image Keypoints Using Differentiable Persistent Homology
4060. ICML 2024Scaling Rectified Flow Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis
4061. ICML 2024Scene Graph Generation Strategy with Co-occurrence Knowledge and Learnable Term Frequency
4062. ICML 2024Score identity Distillation: Exponentially Fast Distillation of Pretrained Diffusion Models for One-Step Generation
4063. ICML 2024See More Details: Efficient Image Super-Resolution by Experts Mining
4064. ICML 2024Self-Infilling Code Generation
4065. ICML 2024Semantic-Aware Human Object Interaction Image Generation
4066. ICML 2024Sharpness-Aware Data Generation for Zero-shot Quantization
4067. ICML 2024Sparse Cocktail: Every Sparse Pattern Every Sparse Ratio All At Once
4068. ICML 2024Stochastic Conditional Diffusion Models for Robust Semantic Image Synthesis
4069. ICML 2024Stochastic positional embeddings improve masked image modeling
4070. ICML 2024StrokeNUWA—Tokenizing Strokes for Vector Graphic Synthesis
4071. ICML 2024Successor Features for Efficient Multi-Subject Controlled Text Generation
4072. ICML 2024Superposition Prompting: Improving and Accelerating Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4073. ICML 2024Swallowing the Bitter Pill: Simplified Scalable Conformer Generation
4074. ICML 2024Switchable Decision: Dynamic Neural Generation Networks
4075. ICML 2024Test-Time Degradation Adaptation for Open-Set Image Restoration
4076. ICML 2024The Perception-Robustness Tradeoff in Deterministic Image Restoration
4077. ICML 2024The Surprising Effectiveness of Skip-Tuning in Diffusion Sampling
4078. ICML 2024Time Weaver: A Conditional Time Series Generation Model
4079. ICML 2024To Each (Textual Sequence) Its Own: Improving Memorized-Data Unlearning in Large Language Models
4080. ICML 2024Unified Generation, Reconstruction, and Representation: Generalized Diffusion with Adaptive Latent Encoding-Decoding
4081. ICML 2024Unifying Image Processing as Visual Prompting Question Answering
4082. ICML 2024Unsupervised Episode Generation for Graph Meta-learning
4083. ICML 2024UPAM: Unified Prompt Attack in Text-to-Image Generation Models Against Both Textual Filters and Visual Checkers
4084. ICML 2024UPOCR: Towards Unified Pixel-Level OCR Interface
4085. ICML 2024WAVES: Benchmarking the Robustness of Image Watermarks
4086. ICML 2024X-Oscar: A Progressive Framework for High-quality Text-guided 3D Animatable Avatar Generation
4087. NeurIPS 2024$\textit{Bifr\"ost}$: 3D-Aware Image Compositing with Language Instructions
4088. NeurIPS 20242DQuant: Low-bit Post-Training Quantization for Image Super-Resolution
4089. NeurIPS 2024A Cat Is A Cat (Not A Dog!): Unraveling Information Mix-ups in Text-to-Image Encoders through Causal Analysis and Embedding Optimization
4090. NeurIPS 2024A Modular Conditional Diffusion Framework for Image Reconstruction
4091. NeurIPS 2024A Simple Image Segmentation Framework via In-Context Examples
4092. NeurIPS 2024A Versatile Diffusion Transformer with Mixture of Noise Levels for Audiovisual Generation
4093. NeurIPS 2024ActAnywhere: Subject-Aware Video Background Generation
4094. NeurIPS 2024Action Imitation in Common Action Space for Customized Action Image Synthesis
4095. NeurIPS 2024Adaptable Logical Control for Large Language Models
4096. NeurIPS 2024Adapting Diffusion Models for Improved Prompt Compliance and Controllable Image Synthesis
4097. NeurIPS 2024Adaptive Domain Learning for Cross-domain Image Denoising
4098. NeurIPS 2024Adaptive Image Quality Assessment via Teaching Large Multimodal Model to Compare
4099. NeurIPS 2024Adaptive Visual Scene Understanding: Incremental Scene Graph Generation
4100. NeurIPS 2024AdaptiveISP: Learning an Adaptive Image Signal Processor for Object Detection

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.