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 88 of 104
- NeurIPS 2024Soft Superpixel Neighborhood Attention
- NeurIPS 2024Spatio-Temporal Interactive Learning for Efficient Image Reconstruction of Spiking Cameras
- NeurIPS 2024SR-CACO-2: A Dataset for Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy Image Super-Resolution
- NeurIPS 2024Stabilize the Latent Space for Image Autoregressive Modeling: A Unified Perspective
- NeurIPS 2024Stable-Pose: Leveraging Transformers for Pose-Guided Text-to-Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2024STimage-1K4M: A histopathology image-gene expression dataset for spatial transcriptomics
- NeurIPS 2024StoryDiffusion: Consistent Self-Attention for Long-Range Image and Video Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Stylebreeder: Exploring and Democratizing Artistic Styles through Text-to-Image Models
- NeurIPS 2024Subject-driven Text-to-Image Generation via Preference-based Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2024SuperVLAD: Compact and Robust Image Descriptors for Visual Place Recognition
- NeurIPS 2024Suppress Content Shift: Better Diffusion Features via Off-the-Shelf Generation Techniques
- NeurIPS 2024Synergistic Dual Spatial-aware Generation of Image-to-text and Text-to-image
- NeurIPS 2024T2V-Turbo: Breaking the Quality Bottleneck of Video Consistency Model with Mixed Reward Feedback
- NeurIPS 2024T2VSafetyBench: Evaluating the Safety of Text-to-Video Generative Models
- NeurIPS 2024Tactile DreamFusion: Exploiting Tactile Sensing for 3D Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Taming Diffusion Prior for Image Super-Resolution with Domain Shift SDEs
- NeurIPS 2024Taming Generative Diffusion Prior for Universal Blind Image Restoration
- NeurIPS 2024Task Me Anything
- NeurIPS 2024Test-Time Dynamic Image Fusion
- NeurIPS 2024Tetrahedron Splatting for 3D Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Text-DiFuse: An Interactive Multi-Modal Image Fusion Framework based on Text-modulated Diffusion Model
- NeurIPS 2024TextCtrl: Diffusion-based Scene Text Editing with Prior Guidance Control
- NeurIPS 2024Textual Training for the Hassle-Free Removal of Unwanted Visual Data: Case Studies on OOD and Hateful Image Detection
- NeurIPS 2024TFG: Unified Training-Free Guidance for Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024TinyLUT: Tiny Look-Up Table for Efficient Image Restoration at the Edge
- NeurIPS 2024Token Merging for Training-Free Semantic Binding in Text-to-Image Synthesis
- NeurIPS 2024TorchSpatial: A Location Encoding Framework and Benchmark for Spatial Representation Learning
- NeurIPS 2024Towards Next-Generation Logic Synthesis: A Scalable Neural Circuit Generation Framework
- NeurIPS 2024Towards Safe Concept Transfer of Multi-Modal Diffusion via Causal Representation Editing
- NeurIPS 2024Towards Understanding the Working Mechanism of Text-to-Image Diffusion Model
- NeurIPS 2024Towards Visual Text Design Transfer Across Languages
- NeurIPS 2024TPC: Test-time Procrustes Calibration for Diffusion-based Human Image Animation
- NeurIPS 2024Tracing Hyperparameter Dependencies for Model Parsing via Learnable Graph Pooling Network
- NeurIPS 2024U-DiTs: Downsample Tokens in U-Shaped Diffusion Transformers
- NeurIPS 2024UDON: Universal Dynamic Online distillatioN for generic image representations
- NeurIPS 2024UltraEdit: Instruction-based Fine-Grained Image Editing at Scale
- NeurIPS 2024UltraPixel: Advancing Ultra High-Resolution Image Synthesis to New Peaks
- NeurIPS 2024Unchosen Experts Can Contribute Too: Unleashing MoE Models’ Power by Self-Contrast
- NeurIPS 2024Unique3D: High-Quality and Efficient 3D Mesh Generation from a Single Image
- NeurIPS 2024UNIT: Unifying Image and Text Recognition in One Vision Encoder
- NeurIPS 2024UnlearnCanvas: Stylized Image Dataset for Enhanced Machine Unlearning Evaluation in Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Unlocking the Capabilities of Masked Generative Models for Image Synthesis via Self-Guidance
- NeurIPS 2024Unsupervised Modality Adaptation with Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024UPS: Unified Projection Sharing for Lightweight Single-Image Super-resolution and Beyond
- NeurIPS 2024Variational Flow Matching for Graph Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Vision Model Pre-training on Interleaved Image-Text Data via Latent Compression Learning
- NeurIPS 2024Visual Autoregressive Modeling: Scalable Image Generation via Next-Scale Prediction
- NeurIPS 2024Warped Diffusion: Solving Video Inverse Problems with Image Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024What Variables Affect Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Pretrained Models?
- NeurIPS 2024Who Evaluates the Evaluations? Objectively Scoring Text-to-Image Prompt Coherence Metrics with T2IScoreScore (TS2)
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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.