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

2,262 papers, page 9 of 46

401. CVPR 2026No Hard Negatives Required Concept Centric Learning Leads to Compositionality
402. CVPR 2026No Way To Steal My Face Proactive Defense Against Identity-Preserving
403. CVPR 2026Not All Birds Look The Same Identity-Preserving Generation For Birds
404. CVPR 2026NTK-Guided Implicit Neural Teaching
405. CVPR 2026ObjectMorpher 3D-Aware Image Editing via Deformable 3DGS
406. CVPR 2026OctoT2I A Self-Evolving Agentic Text-to-Image Router
407. CVPR 2026OlmoEarth Stable Latent Image Modeling for Multimodal Earth Observation
408. CVPR 2026Omni IIE Bench Benchmarking the Practical Capabilities of Image Editing
409. CVPR 2026OmniDocLayout Towards Diverse Document Layout Generation via Coarse-to-Fine LLM Learning
410. CVPR 2026OmniFood8K Single-Image Nutrition Estimation via Hierarchical Frequency-Aligned Fusion
411. CVPR 2026OmniGen2 Towards Instruction-Aligned Multimodal Generation
412. CVPR 2026One Algorithm to Align Them All
413. CVPR 2026One-Step Diffusion Transformer for Controllable Real-World Image Super-Resolution
414. CVPR 2026One-to-All Animation Alignment-Free Character Animation and Image Pose Transfer
415. CVPR 2026One-to-More High-Fidelity Training-Free Anomaly Generation with Attention Control
416. CVPR 2026OneCAT Decoder-Only Auto-Regressive Model for Unified Understanding and Generation
417. CVPR 2026OneHOI Unifying Human-Object Interaction Generation and Editing
418. CVPR 2026OneStory Coherent Multi-Shot Video Generation with Adaptive Memory
419. CVPR 2026Open-world Hand-Object Interaction Video Generation Based on Structure and Contact-aware
420. CVPR 2026OpenDance Multimodal Controllable 3D Dance Generation with Large-scale Internet Data
421. CVPR 2026OpenT2M No-frill Motion Generation with Open-source Large-scale High-quality Data
422. CVPR 2026OPRO Orthogonal Panel-Relative Operators for Panel-Aware In-Context Image Generation
423. CVPR 2026Order Matters 3D Shape Generation from Sequential VR Sketches
424. CVPR 2026OrienPose Orientation-Guided Novel View Synthesis for Single-Image Unseen Object Pose
425. CVPR 2026OrionEdit Bridging Reference and Source Images for Generalized Cross-Image Editing
426. CVPR 2026OS-Fed One Snapshot Is All You Need
427. CVPR 2026OSPO Object-Centric Self-Improving Preference Optimization for Text-to-Image Generation
428. CVPR 2026P-Flow Prompting Visual Effects Generation
429. CVPR 2026PaCo-RL Advancing Reinforcement Learning for Consistent Image Generation with Pairwise
430. CVPR 2026PAM A Pose-Appearance-Motion Engine for Sim-to-Real HOI Video Generation
431. CVPR 2026PAMotion Physics-Aware Motion Generation for Full-Body Interaction with Multiple Objects
432. CVPR 2026Pano3DComposer Feed-Forward Compositional 3D Scene Generation from Single Panoramic Image
433. CVPR 2026Paper2Figure A Multi-Agent Collaborative System for Figure Generation Towards Academic
434. CVPR 2026Parallel Jacobi Decoding for Fast Autoregressive Image Generation
435. CVPR 2026PartDiffuser Part-wise 3D Mesh Generation via Discrete Diffusion
436. CVPR 2026Particulate Feed-Forward 3D Object Articulation
437. CVPR 2026ParTY Part-Guidance for Expressive Text-to-Motion Synthesis
438. CVPR 2026PECCVAI Overcoming the Brittleness of AI Image Watermarking Under Visual
439. CVPR 2026PercHead Perceptual Head Model for Single-Image 3D Head Reconstruction
440. CVPR 2026PerpetualWonder Long-horizon Action-conditioned 4D Scene Generation
441. CVPR 2026PersonaLive Expressive Portrait Image Animation for Live Streaming
442. CVPR 2026Personalized Image Descriptions from Attention Sequences
443. CVPR 2026PETAR Localized Findings Generation with Mask-Aware Vision-Language Modeling for PET
444. CVPR 2026PhaSR Generalized Image Shadow Removal with Physically Aligned Priors
445. CVPR 2026Photo3D Advancing Photorealistic 3D Generation through Structure-Aligned Detail Enhancement
446. CVPR 2026PhotoFramer Multi-modal Image Composition Instruction
447. CVPR 2026Phrase-grounded APO for Improving Chest X-ray Report Generation
448. CVPR 2026Physical Simulator In-the-Loop Video Generation
449. CVPR 2026PhysX-Anything Simulation-Ready Physical 3D Assets from Single Image
450. CVPR 2026Pico-Banana-400K A Large-Scale Dataset for Text-Guided Image Editing

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.