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

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401. ICML 2024Characteristic Guidance: Non-linear Correction for Diffusion Model at Large Guidance Scale
402. ICML 2024Collapse-Aware Triplet Decoupling for Adversarially Robust Image Retrieval
403. ICML 2024Completing Visual Objects via Bridging Generation and Segmentation
404. ICML 2024Compositional Image Decomposition with Diffusion Models
405. ICML 2024Compositional Text-to-Image Generation with Dense Blob Representations
406. ICML 2024Compress Clean Signal from Noisy Raw Image: A Self-Supervised Approach
407. ICML 2024Correcting Diffusion-Based Perceptual Image Compression with Privileged End-to-End Decoder
408. ICML 2024Counterfactual Image Editing
409. ICML 2024Creative Text-to-Audio Generation via Synthesizer Programming
410. ICML 2024Cross-view Masked Diffusion Transformers for Person Image Synthesis
411. ICML 2024CuTS: Customizable Tabular Synthetic Data Generation
412. ICML 2024CW Complex Hypothesis for Image Data
413. ICML 2024D-Flow: Differentiating through Flows for Controlled Generation
414. ICML 2024DAG-Based Column Generation for Adversarial Team Games
415. ICML 2024Data-Efficient Molecular Generation with Hierarchical Textual Inversion
416. ICML 2024Data-free Distillation of Diffusion Models with Bootstrapping
417. ICML 2024Denoising Autoregressive Representation Learning
418. ICML 2024DIDI: Diffusion-Guided Diversity for Offline Behavioral Generation
419. ICML 2024Differentially Private Representation Learning via Image Captioning
420. ICML 2024Diffuse, Sample, Project: Plug-And-Play Controllable Graph Generation
421. ICML 2024Diffusion Models Encode the Intrinsic Dimension of Data Manifolds
422. ICML 2024Diffusion Rejection Sampling
423. ICML 2024Diffusion-based Missing-view Generation With the Application on Incomplete Multi-view Clustering
424. ICML 2024Directly Denoising Diffusion Models
425. ICML 2024DisCo-Diff: Enhancing Continuous Diffusion Models with Discrete Latents
426. ICML 2024DISCRET: Synthesizing Faithful Explanations For Treatment Effect Estimation
427. ICML 2024Disentangled 3D Scene Generation with Layout Learning
428. ICML 2024DITTO: Diffusion Inference-Time T-Optimization for Music Generation
429. ICML 2024E$^2$GAN: Efficient Training of Efficient GANs for Image-to-Image Translation
430. ICML 2024Embarrassingly Parallel GFlowNets
431. ICML 2024Enhancing Cross-Modal Fine-Tuning with Gradually Intermediate Modality Generation
432. ICML 2024Exploring the Low-Pass Filtering Behavior in Image Super-Resolution
433. ICML 2024Fast Text-to-3D-Aware Face Generation and Manipulation via Direct Cross-modal Mapping and Geometric Regularization
434. ICML 2024Flexible Residual Binarization for Image Super-Resolution
435. ICML 2024GALA3D: Towards Text-to-3D Complex Scene Generation via Layout-guided Generative Gaussian Splatting
436. ICML 2024Graph Generation with Diffusion Mixture
437. ICML 2024Guiding LLMs The Right Way: Fast, Non-Invasive Constrained Generation
438. ICML 2024How Flawed Is ECE? An Analysis via Logit Smoothing
439. ICML 2024HumanTOMATO: Text-aligned Whole-body Motion Generation
440. ICML 2024Hyperbolic Geometric Latent Diffusion Model for Graph Generation
441. ICML 2024HyperFields: Towards Zero-Shot Generation of NeRFs from Text
442. ICML 2024IM-3D: Iterative Multiview Diffusion and Reconstruction for High-Quality 3D Generation
443. ICML 2024Image Clustering with External Guidance
444. ICML 2024Image Fusion via Vision-Language Model
445. ICML 2024Image Hijacks: Adversarial Images can Control Generative Models at Runtime
446. ICML 2024Image Restoration Through Generalized Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Bridge
447. ICML 2024Implicit Representations for Constrained Image Segmentation
448. ICML 2024Implicit Representations via Operator Learning
449. ICML 2024Improving Accuracy-robustness Trade-off via Pixel Reweighted Adversarial Training
450. ICML 2024Improving fine-grained understanding in image-text pre-training

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.