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 95 of 104
- CVPR 2023Real-Time Controllable Denoising for Image and Video
- CVPR 2023RealFusion: 360deg Reconstruction of Any Object From a Single Image
- CVPR 2023Realistic Saliency Guided Image Enhancement
- CVPR 2023ReCo: Region-Controlled Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2023Recovering 3D Hand Mesh Sequence From a Single Blurry Image: A New Dataset and Temporal Unfolding
- CVPR 2023Recurrent Homography Estimation Using Homography-Guided Image Warping and Focus Transformer
- CVPR 2023Referring Image Matting
- CVPR 2023RefSR-NeRF: Towards High Fidelity and Super Resolution View Synthesis
- CVPR 2023Regularization of Polynomial Networks for Image Recognition
- CVPR 2023Regularized Vector Quantization for Tokenized Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2023Removing Objects From Neural Radiance Fields
- CVPR 2023RenderDiffusion: Image Diffusion for 3D Reconstruction, Inpainting and Generation
- CVPR 2023Reproducible Scaling Laws for Contrastive Language-Image Learning
- CVPR 2023Rethinking Image Super Resolution From Long-Tailed Distribution Learning Perspective
- CVPR 2023Rethinking Out-of-Distribution (OOD) Detection: Masked Image Modeling Is All You Need
- CVPR 2023Rethinking Video ViTs: Sparse Video Tubes for Joint Image and Video Learning
- CVPR 2023Revealing the Dark Secrets of Masked Image Modeling
- CVPR 2023Revisiting Self-Similarity: Structural Embedding for Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2023Revisiting Temporal Modeling for CLIP-Based Image-to-Video Knowledge Transferring
- CVPR 2023RIATIG: Reliable and Imperceptible Adversarial Text-to-Image Generation With Natural Prompts
- CVPR 2023RIDCP: Revitalizing Real Image Dehazing via High-Quality Codebook Priors
- CVPR 2023Robot Structure Prior Guided Temporal Attention for Camera-to-Robot Pose Estimation From Image Sequence
- CVPR 2023Robust Single Image Reflection Removal Against Adversarial Attacks
- CVPR 2023Robust Unsupervised StyleGAN Image Restoration
- CVPR 2023RobustNeRF: Ignoring Distractors With Robust Losses
- CVPR 2023Role of Transients in Two-Bounce Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging
- CVPR 2023RWSC-Fusion: Region-Wise Style-Controlled Fusion Network for the Prohibited X-Ray Security Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2023SadTalker: Learning Realistic 3D Motion Coefficients for Stylized Audio-Driven Single Image Talking Face Animation
- CVPR 2023Safe Latent Diffusion: Mitigating Inappropriate Degeneration in Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023Scaling Language-Image Pre-Training via Masking
- CVPR 2023Scaling Up GANs for Text-to-Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2023SceneComposer: Any-Level Semantic Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2023Score Jacobian Chaining: Lifting Pretrained 2D Diffusion Models for 3D Generation
- CVPR 2023SDFusion: Multimodal 3D Shape Completion, Reconstruction, and Generation
- CVPR 2023SeaThru-NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields in Scattering Media
- CVPR 2023Seeing a Rose in Five Thousand Ways
- CVPR 2023Seeing What You Said: Talking Face Generation Guided by a Lip Reading Expert
- CVPR 2023Self-Guided Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023Self-Supervised Image-to-Point Distillation via Semantically Tolerant Contrastive Loss
- CVPR 2023Self-Supervised Non-Uniform Kernel Estimation With Flow-Based Motion Prior for Blind Image Deblurring
- CVPR 2023Semantic-Conditional Diffusion Networks for Image Captioning
- CVPR 2023Semi-Supervised Parametric Real-World Image Harmonization
- CVPR 2023ShadowNeuS: Neural SDF Reconstruction by Shadow Ray Supervision
- CVPR 2023Shape, Pose, and Appearance From a Single Image via Bootstrapped Radiance Field Inversion
- CVPR 2023Shifted Diffusion for Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2023Siamese Image Modeling for Self-Supervised Vision Representation Learning
- CVPR 2023SIEDOB: Semantic Image Editing by Disentangling Object and Background
- CVPR 2023SIM: Semantic-Aware Instance Mask Generation for Box-Supervised Instance Segmentation
- CVPR 2023SimpleNet: A Simple Network for Image Anomaly Detection and Localization
- CVPR 2023SINE: Semantic-Driven Image-Based NeRF Editing With Prior-Guided Editing Field
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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.