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
5,184 papers, page 84 of 104
- NeurIPS 2024DDR: Exploiting Deep Degradation Response as Flexible Image Descriptor
- NeurIPS 2024Dealing with Synthetic Data Contamination in Online Continual Learning
- NeurIPS 2024DeBaRA: Denoising-Based 3D Room Arrangement Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Decomposing and Interpreting Image Representations via Text in ViTs Beyond CLIP
- NeurIPS 2024DeTikZify: Synthesizing Graphics Programs for Scientific Figures and Sketches with TikZ
- NeurIPS 2024DF40: Toward Next-Generation Deepfake Detection
- NeurIPS 2024DiffPano: Scalable and Consistent Text to Panorama Generation with Spherical Epipolar-Aware Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2024DiffuPac: Contextual Mimicry in Adversarial Packets Generation via Diffusion Model
- NeurIPS 2024Diffusion Priors for Variational Likelihood Estimation and Image Denoising
- NeurIPS 2024DiffusionBlend: Learning 3D Image Prior through Position-aware Diffusion Score Blending for 3D Computed Tomography Reconstruction
- NeurIPS 2024DiMSUM: Diffusion Mamba - A Scalable and Unified Spatial-Frequency Method for Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Direct Consistency Optimization for Robust Customization of Text-to-Image Diffusion models
- NeurIPS 2024Direct Unlearning Optimization for Robust and Safe Text-to-Image Models
- NeurIPS 2024Direct3D: Scalable Image-to-3D Generation via 3D Latent Diffusion Transformer
- NeurIPS 2024Director3D: Real-world Camera Trajectory and 3D Scene Generation from Text
- NeurIPS 2024Discrete Modeling via Boundary Conditional Diffusion Processes
- NeurIPS 2024Discrete-state Continuous-time Diffusion for Graph Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Disentangled Style Domain for Implicit $z$-Watermark Towards Copyright Protection
- NeurIPS 2024Diversify, Contextualize, and Adapt: Efficient Entropy Modeling for Neural Image Codec
- NeurIPS 2024DomainGallery: Few-shot Domain-driven Image Generation by Attribute-centric Finetuning
- NeurIPS 2024Doubly Hierarchical Geometric Representations for Strand-based Human Hairstyle Generation
- NeurIPS 2024DRACO: A Denoising-Reconstruction Autoencoder for Cryo-EM
- NeurIPS 2024DreamClear: High-Capacity Real-World Image Restoration with Privacy-Safe Dataset Curation
- NeurIPS 2024DRIP: Unleashing Diffusion Priors for Joint Foreground and Alpha Prediction in Image Matting
- NeurIPS 2024EffiBench: Benchmarking the Efficiency of Automatically Generated Code
- NeurIPS 2024Einsum Benchmark: Enabling the Development of Next-Generation Tensor Execution Engines
- NeurIPS 2024ENAT: Rethinking Spatial-temporal Interactions in Token-based Image Synthesis
- NeurIPS 2024Enhancing Consistency-Based Image Generation via Adversarialy-Trained Classification and Energy-Based Discrimination
- NeurIPS 2024Enhancing Motion in Text-to-Video Generation with Decomposed Encoding and Conditioning
- NeurIPS 2024EnsIR: An Ensemble Algorithm for Image Restoration via Gaussian Mixture Models
- NeurIPS 2024Equivariant Neural Diffusion for Molecule Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Era3D: High-Resolution Multiview Diffusion using Efficient Row-wise Attention
- NeurIPS 2024Evaluating alignment between humans and neural network representations in image-based learning tasks
- NeurIPS 2024Evaluating Multiview Object Consistency in Humans and Image Models
- NeurIPS 2024Evaluating Numerical Reasoning in Text-to-Image Models
- NeurIPS 2024Evaluation of Text-to-Video Generation Models: A Dynamics Perspective
- NeurIPS 2024EvoCodeBench: An Evolving Code Generation Benchmark with Domain-Specific Evaluations
- NeurIPS 2024EvolveDirector: Approaching Advanced Text-to-Image Generation with Large Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024Exploring DCN-like architecture for fast image generation with arbitrary resolution
- NeurIPS 2024Exploring the Role of Large Language Models in Prompt Encoding for Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Face2QR: A Unified Framework for Aesthetic, Face-Preserving, and Scannable QR Code Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Factorized Diffusion Architectures for Unsupervised Image Generation and Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024FairQueue: Rethinking Prompt Learning for Fair Text-to-Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2024FashionR2R: Texture-preserving Rendered-to-Real Image Translation with Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Fast Sampling via Discrete Non-Markov Diffusion Models with Predetermined Transition Time
- NeurIPS 2024FastDrag: Manipulate Anything in One Step
- NeurIPS 2024FIFO-Diffusion: Generating Infinite Videos from Text without Training
- NeurIPS 2024FineStyle: Fine-grained Controllable Style Personalization for Text-to-image Models
- NeurIPS 2024FiVA: Fine-grained Visual Attribute Dataset for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024FlowLLM: Flow Matching for Material Generation with Large Language Models as Base Distributions
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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.