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

780 papers, page 9 of 16

401. CVPR 2023VecFontSDF: Learning To Reconstruct and Synthesize High-Quality Vector Fonts via Signed Distance Functions
402. CVPR 2023VectorFusion: Text-to-SVG by Abstracting Pixel-Based Diffusion Models
403. CVPR 2023VILA: Learning Image Aesthetics From User Comments With Vision-Language Pretraining
404. CVPR 2023ViLEM: Visual-Language Error Modeling for Image-Text Retrieval
405. CVPR 2023Visual Recognition-Driven Image Restoration for Multiple Degradation With Intrinsic Semantics Recovery
406. CVPR 2023ViTs for SITS: Vision Transformers for Satellite Image Time Series
407. CVPR 2023Wavelet Diffusion Models Are Fast and Scalable Image Generators
408. CVPR 2023Weakly-Supervised Single-View Image Relighting
409. CVPR 2023WeatherStream: Light Transport Automation of Single Image Deweathering
410. CVPR 2023Where Is My Spot? Few-Shot Image Generation via Latent Subspace Optimization
411. CVPR 2023Where We Are and What We're Looking At: Query Based Worldwide Image Geo-Localization Using Hierarchies and Scenes
412. CVPR 2023Wide-Angle Rectification via Content-Aware Conformal Mapping
413. CVPR 2023WildLight: In-the-Wild Inverse Rendering With a Flashlight
414. CVPR 2023WIRE: Wavelet Implicit Neural Representations
415. CVPR 2023You Do Not Need Additional Priors or Regularizers in Retinex-Based Low-Light Image Enhancement
416. CVPR 2023Zero-Shot Everything Sketch-Based Image Retrieval, and in Explainable Style
417. CVPR 2023Zero-Shot Noise2Noise: Efficient Image Denoising Without Any Data
418. CVPR 2023Zero-Shot Text-to-Parameter Translation for Game Character Auto-Creation
419. ICLR 20233D Equivariant Diffusion for Target-Aware Molecule Generation and Affinity Prediction
420. ICLR 20233D generation on ImageNet
421. ICLR 2023A Kernel Perspective of Skip Connections in Convolutional Networks
422. ICLR 2023Accelerating Guided Diffusion Sampling with Splitting Numerical Methods
423. ICLR 2023Accurate Image Restoration with Attention Retractable Transformer
424. ICLR 2023Active Image Indexing
425. ICLR 2023An Equal-Size Hard EM Algorithm for Diverse Dialogue Generation
426. ICLR 2023An Image is Worth One Word: Personalizing Text-to-Image Generation using Textual Inversion
427. ICLR 2023AudioGen: Textually Guided Audio Generation
428. ICLR 2023Autoencoders as Cross-Modal Teachers: Can Pretrained 2D Image Transformers Help 3D Representation Learning?
429. ICLR 2023Basic Binary Convolution Unit for Binarized Image Restoration Network
430. ICLR 2023Calibrating Sequence likelihood Improves Conditional Language Generation
431. ICLR 2023CASR: Generating Complex Sequences with Autoregressive Self-Boost Refinement
432. ICLR 2023CLIP-ViP: Adapting Pre-trained Image-Text Model to Video-Language Alignment
433. ICLR 2023CLIPSep: Learning Text-queried Sound Separation with Noisy Unlabeled Videos
434. ICLR 2023CodeGen: An Open Large Language Model for Code with Multi-Turn Program Synthesis
435. ICLR 2023CodeT: Code Generation with Generated Tests
436. ICLR 2023CogVideo: Large-scale Pretraining for Text-to-Video Generation via Transformers
437. ICLR 2023Contextual Image Masking Modeling via Synergized Contrasting without View Augmentation for Faster and Better Visual Pretraining
438. ICLR 2023Copy is All You Need
439. ICLR 2023De Novo Molecular Generation via Connection-aware Motif Mining
440. ICLR 2023DeCap: Decoding CLIP Latents for Zero-Shot Captioning via Text-Only Training
441. ICLR 2023Decompositional Generation Process for Instance-Dependent Partial Label Learning
442. ICLR 2023DiffEdit: Diffusion-based semantic image editing with mask guidance
443. ICLR 2023DiffuSeq: Sequence to Sequence Text Generation with Diffusion Models
444. ICLR 2023DiffusER: Diffusion via Edit-based Reconstruction
445. ICLR 2023Diffusion-based Image Translation using disentangled style and content representation
446. ICLR 2023DiGress: Discrete Denoising diffusion for graph generation
447. ICLR 2023Discrete Contrastive Diffusion for Cross-Modal Music and Image Generation
448. ICLR 2023Discrete Predictor-Corrector Diffusion Models for Image Synthesis
449. ICLR 2023Distilling Cognitive Backdoor Patterns within an Image
450. ICLR 2023DocPrompting: Generating Code by Retrieving the Docs

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.