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

1,371 papers, page 9 of 28

401. NeurIPS 2026The road reaches every place, the short cut only one: Self-Adversarial Shortcut Mitigation for AI-Generated Image Detection
402. NeurIPS 2026The Sharp Directions Are Against You: Curvature Analysis of Activation Steering
403. NeurIPS 2026Thinking in Boxes: 3D Editing in Real Images Made Easy
404. NeurIPS 2026Thinking in Pictures: A Systematic Benchmark for Reasoning-driven Image Generation
405. NeurIPS 2026TIDE: Trajectory-Aware Watermark Propagation for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
406. NeurIPS 2026TimeTok: Granularity-Controllable Time-Series Generation via Hierarchical Tokenization
407. NeurIPS 2026TKCAM: Text and Keyframe to Camera Trajectory Generation
408. NeurIPS 2026Token by Token, Compromised: Backdoor Vulnerabilities in Unified Autoregressive Models
409. NeurIPS 2026Tokenizer-Generator Coupling in Medical Image Generation
410. NeurIPS 2026TokenRepel: Generating Diverse Image Sets Without Sacrificing Quality
411. NeurIPS 2026Tool-IQA: Augmenting Image Quality Assessment with Simple Tools
412. NeurIPS 2026Topology-Reinforced Swin Transformer for Medical Image Analysis
413. NeurIPS 2026Transforming Image Editors into Video Editors
414. NeurIPS 2026TransitLM: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Map-Free Transit Route Generation
415. NeurIPS 2026TreemapMix: Dirichlet-Controlled Multi-Image Augmentation for Probability and Ordinal Supervision
416. NeurIPS 2026Trellis4D: Complex 4D Mesh Generation
417. NeurIPS 2026Tri-Prompting: Controllable Video Generation with Scene, Subject, and Motion Prompts
418. NeurIPS 2026TRIAD: Benchmarking Omni-Modal Ambiguity in Multimodal Large Language Models
419. NeurIPS 2026TrioPose: Native Triple-Stream Diffusion Transformers for Pose-Guided Text-to-Image Generation
420. NeurIPS 2026TriTD: Tri-Partite Trajectory–Distribution Distillation for Real-Time Autoregressive Video Generation
421. NeurIPS 2026Tuna-2: Pixel Embeddings Beat Vision Encoders for Multimodal Understanding and Generation
422. NeurIPS 2026Unaligned Image Guided Denoising via Cross-modal Conditional Flow Matching
423. NeurIPS 2026Uncertainty Estimation for Pretrained Medical Image Registration Models via Transformation Equivariance
424. NeurIPS 2026UniCustom: Unified Visual Conditioning for Multi-reference Image Generation
425. NeurIPS 2026Unified Forensic Preference Learning for Generalizable Synthetic Image Detection
426. NeurIPS 2026Unify-Agent: A Unified Multimodal Agent for World-Grounded Image Synthesis
427. NeurIPS 2026UniSHARP: Universal Sharp Monocular View Synthesis
428. NeurIPS 2026Universal Time Series Generation with Neural Controlled Differential Equations
429. NeurIPS 2026VAR-Q: Tuning-free KV Cache Quantization for Visual Autoregressive Image and Video Generation
430. NeurIPS 2026Variational Wasserstein Model on Riemannian Manifolds for Image Segmentation
431. NeurIPS 2026VeriContest: A Competitive-Programming Benchmark for Verifiable Code Generation
432. NeurIPS 2026Verifier Choice is a Benchmark Design Variable: Auditing Structural Counting Evaluation in Text-to-Image Models
433. NeurIPS 2026Video Generation Research Needs a Legally Sustainable Data Infrastructure
434. NeurIPS 2026VideoMDM: Towards 3D Human Motion Generation From 2D Supervision
435. NeurIPS 2026VisionCreator-S1: Evolving Visual-Generation Agents via Skill-GRPO Optimization
436. NeurIPS 2026VolCo: Volumetric Contact for High-Fidelity Human Grasp Generation
437. NeurIPS 2026VolFill: Single-View Amodal 3D Scene Reconstruction with Volumetric Flow Matching
438. NeurIPS 2026VUM: Visual Unified Models for Image Generation and Perception
439. NeurIPS 2026WaveGen: Truly End-to-End Waveform Generation via Internal Spectral Trajectory Learning
440. NeurIPS 2026What Matters for Diffusion-Friendly Latent Manifold? Prior-Aligned Autoencoders for Latent Diffusion
441. NeurIPS 2026When Do Cosine Prototypes Mislead? A Whitening-Aware Benchmark for Frozen-Feature Image Classification
442. NeurIPS 2026When Should LLMs Be Less Specific? Selective Abstraction for Reliable Long-Form Text Generation
443. NeurIPS 2026When Think-with-Image Meets Safety: What Determines Multimodal Jailbreak Robustness?
444. NeurIPS 2026Where Do Long Captions Fail? Position-Aware Diagnosis and Reinforcement Learning for Detailed Image Captioning
445. NeurIPS 2026Where to Look Is Not How to Fix: Pre-Denoising Diagnostics and Modality-Dependent Control in Diffusion Composition
446. NeurIPS 2026Which Tokens to Merge? Diffusion Dynamics for Efficient Image Generation
447. NeurIPS 2026Why Do DiT Editors Drift? Plug-and-Play Low Frequency Alignment in VAE Latent Space
448. NeurIPS 2026World Tracing: Pixel-Aligned Geometry Beyond the Visible
449. NeurIPS 2026WorldSR: Harnessing World Knowledge Search for Grounded Image Super-Resolution
450. NeurIPS 2026WovenAnchor Matcher: Specialized Intra- and Inter-Image Context Modeling for Feature Matching

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.