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
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
5,184 papers, page 90 of 104
- CVPR 2023CLIP Is Also an Efficient Segmenter: A Text-Driven Approach for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2023CLIP-Sculptor: Zero-Shot Generation of High-Fidelity and Diverse Shapes From Natural Language
- CVPR 2023CLIP2Protect: Protecting Facial Privacy Using Text-Guided Makeup via Adversarial Latent Search
- CVPR 2023CLIPPO: Image-and-Language Understanding From Pixels Only
- CVPR 2023Collaborative Diffusion for Multi-Modal Face Generation and Editing
- CVPR 2023Complete 3D Human Reconstruction From a Single Incomplete Image
- CVPR 2023Comprehensive and Delicate: An Efficient Transformer for Image Restoration
- CVPR 2023Computational Flash Photography Through Intrinsics
- CVPR 2023Conditional Image-to-Video Generation With Latent Flow Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023Conditional Text Image Generation With Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023Context-Aware Pretraining for Efficient Blind Image Decomposition
- CVPR 2023Context-Based Trit-Plane Coding for Progressive Image Compression
- CVPR 2023Contrastive Semi-Supervised Learning for Underwater Image Restoration via Reliable Bank
- CVPR 2023Controllable Mesh Generation Through Sparse Latent Point Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023ConZIC: Controllable Zero-Shot Image Captioning by Sampling-Based Polishing
- CVPR 2023CoralStyleCLIP: Co-Optimized Region and Layer Selection for Image Editing
- CVPR 2023CR-FIQA: Face Image Quality Assessment by Learning Sample Relative Classifiability
- CVPR 2023Cross-Domain Image Captioning With Discriminative Finetuning
- CVPR 2023Cross-Guided Optimization of Radiance Fields With Multi-View Image Super-Resolution for High-Resolution Novel View Synthesis
- CVPR 2023Cross-Image-Attention for Conditional Embeddings in Deep Metric Learning
- CVPR 2023Cross-Modal Implicit Relation Reasoning and Aligning for Text-to-Image Person Retrieval
- CVPR 2023Crossing the Gap: Domain Generalization for Image Captioning
- CVPR 2023Crowd3D: Towards Hundreds of People Reconstruction From a Single Image
- CVPR 2023CUDA: Convolution-Based Unlearnable Datasets
- CVPR 2023Curricular Contrastive Regularization for Physics-Aware Single Image Dehazing
- CVPR 2023CutMIB: Boosting Light Field Super-Resolution via Multi-View Image Blending
- CVPR 2023Data-Free Sketch-Based Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2023DCFace: Synthetic Face Generation With Dual Condition Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2023Decoupling-and-Aggregating for Image Exposure Correction
- CVPR 2023Deep Arbitrary-Scale Image Super-Resolution via Scale-Equivariance Pursuit
- CVPR 2023Deep Depth Estimation From Thermal Image
- CVPR 2023Deep Random Projector: Accelerated Deep Image Prior
- CVPR 2023DeepLSD: Line Segment Detection and Refinement With Deep Image Gradients
- CVPR 2023DeepVecFont-v2: Exploiting Transformers To Synthesize Vector Fonts With Higher Quality
- CVPR 2023DeltaEdit: Exploring Text-Free Training for Text-Driven Image Manipulation
- CVPR 2023Depth Estimation From Camera Image and mmWave Radar Point Cloud
- CVPR 2023Devil's on the Edges: Selective Quad Attention for Scene Graph Generation
- CVPR 2023DiffCollage: Parallel Generation of Large Content With Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023DiffRF: Rendering-Guided 3D Radiance Field Diffusion
- CVPR 2023Diffusion Probabilistic Model Made Slim
- CVPR 2023Diffusion-Based Generation, Optimization, and Planning in 3D Scenes
- CVPR 2023Diffusion-Based Signed Distance Fields for 3D Shape Generation
- CVPR 2023Dimensionality-Varying Diffusion Process
- CVPR 2023DINER: Depth-Aware Image-Based NEural Radiance Fields
- CVPR 2023DINN360: Deformable Invertible Neural Network for Latitude-Aware 360deg Image Rescaling
- CVPR 2023DisCoScene: Spatially Disentangled Generative Radiance Fields for Controllable 3D-Aware Scene Synthesis
- CVPR 2023Disentangling Writer and Character Styles for Handwriting Generation
- CVPR 2023Document Image Shadow Removal Guided by Color-Aware Background
- CVPR 2023Domain Expansion of Image Generators
- CVPR 2023DP-NeRF: Deblurred Neural Radiance Field With Physical Scene Priors
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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.