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
612 papers, page 9 of 13
- CVPR 2025OSV: One Step is Enough for High-Quality Image to Video Generation
- CVPR 2025Ouroboros3D: Image-to-3D Generation via 3D-aware Recursive Diffusion
- CVPR 2025Paint by Inpaint: Learning to Add Image Objects by Removing Them First
- CVPR 2025Panorama Generation From NFoV Image Done Right
- CVPR 2025Parallelized Autoregressive Visual Generation
- CVPR 2025PartGen: Part-level 3D Generation and Reconstruction with Multi-view Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025PassionSR: Post-Training Quantization with Adaptive Scale in One-Step Diffusion based Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2025Patch Matters: Training-free Fine-grained Image Caption Enhancement via Local Perception
- CVPR 2025PatchDPO: Patch-level DPO for Finetuning-free Personalized Image Generation
- CVPR 2025Pathways on the Image Manifold: Image Editing via Video Generation
- CVPR 2025Pattern Analogies: Learning to Perform Programmatic Image Edits by Analogy
- CVPR 2025Perceptually Accurate 3D Talking Head Generation: New Definitions, Speech-Mesh Representation, and Evaluation Metrics
- CVPR 2025PersonaBooth: Personalized Text-to-Motion Generation
- CVPR 2025PersonaHOI: Effortlessly Improving Face Personalization in Human-Object Interaction Generation
- CVPR 2025PhyS-EdiT: Physics-aware Semantic Image Editing with Text Description
- CVPR 2025PhysGen3D: Crafting a Miniature Interactive World from a Single Image
- CVPR 2025PICD: Versatile Perceptual Image Compression with Diffusion Rendering
- CVPR 2025PIDSR: Complementary Polarized Image Demosaicing and Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2025Pippo: High-Resolution Multi-View Humans from a Single Image
- CVPR 2025Plug-and-Play Interpretable Responsible Text-to-Image Generation via Dual-Space Multi-facet Concept Control
- CVPR 2025Positive2Negative: Breaking the Information-Lossy Barrier in Self-Supervised Single Image Denoising
- CVPR 2025POSTA: A Go-to Framework for Customized Artistic Poster Generation
- CVPR 2025PosterMaker: Towards High-Quality Product Poster Generation with Accurate Text Rendering
- CVPR 2025PosterO: Structuring Layout Trees to Enable Language Models in Generalized Content-Aware Layout Generation
- CVPR 2025PQPP: A Joint Benchmark for Text-to-Image Prompt and Query Performance Prediction
- CVPR 2025PreciseCam: Precise Camera Control for Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2025Preserve or Modify? Context-Aware Evaluation for Balancing Preservation and Modification in Text-Guided Image Editing
- CVPR 2025Probability Density Geodesics in Image Diffusion Latent Space
- CVPR 2025Progressive Focused Transformer for Single Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2025Progressive Rendering Distillation: Adapting Stable Diffusion for Instant Text-to-Mesh Generation without 3D Data
- CVPR 2025Prometheus: 3D-Aware Latent Diffusion Models for Feed-Forward Text-to-3D Scene Generation
- CVPR 2025ProReflow: Progressive Reflow with Decomposed Velocity
- CVPR 2025Prototype-Based Image Prompting for Weakly Supervised Histopathological Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2025PS-Diffusion: Photorealistic Subject-Driven Image Editing with Disentangled Control and Attention
- CVPR 2025PSHuman: Photorealistic Single-image 3D Human Reconstruction using Cross-Scale Multiview Diffusion and Explicit Remeshing
- CVPR 2025Q-DiT: Accurate Post-Training Quantization for Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2025QMambaBSR: Burst Image Super-Resolution with Query State Space Model
- CVPR 2025Quad-Pixel Image Defocus Deblurring: A New Benchmark and Model
- CVPR 2025RAD: Region-Aware Diffusion Models for Image Inpainting
- CVPR 2025RandAR: Decoder-only Autoregressive Visual Generation in Random Orders
- CVPR 2025Reanimating Images using Neural Representations of Dynamic Stimuli
- CVPR 2025Reconciling Stochastic and Deterministic Strategies for Zero-shot Image Restoration using Diffusion Model in Dual
- CVPR 2025Reconstructing Humans with a Biomechanically Accurate Skeleton
- CVPR 2025Rectified Diffusion Guidance for Conditional Generation
- CVPR 2025Redefining <Creative> in Dictionary: Towards an Enhanced Semantic Understanding of Creative Generation
- CVPR 2025Reference-Based 3D-Aware Image Editing with Triplanes
- CVPR 2025ReNeg: Learning Negative Embedding with Reward Guidance
- CVPR 2025ReRAW: RGB-to-RAW Image Reconstruction via Stratified Sampling for Efficient Object Detection on the Edge
- CVPR 2025Rethinking Diffusion for Text-Driven Human Motion Generation: Redundant Representations, Evaluation, and Masked Autoregression
- CVPR 2025Rethinking Query-based Transformer for Continual Image Segmentation
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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.