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 97 of 104
- CVPR 2023Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation With Shortest Path Regularization
- CVPR 2023Unsupervised Domain Adaption With Pixel-Level Discriminator for Image-Aware Layout Generation
- CVPR 2023Unsupervised Intrinsic Image Decomposition With LiDAR Intensity
- CVPR 2023Variational Distribution Learning for Unsupervised Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2023VecFontSDF: Learning To Reconstruct and Synthesize High-Quality Vector Fonts via Signed Distance Functions
- CVPR 2023VectorFusion: Text-to-SVG by Abstracting Pixel-Based Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023VILA: Learning Image Aesthetics From User Comments With Vision-Language Pretraining
- CVPR 2023ViLEM: Visual-Language Error Modeling for Image-Text Retrieval
- CVPR 2023Visual Recognition-Driven Image Restoration for Multiple Degradation With Intrinsic Semantics Recovery
- CVPR 2023ViTs for SITS: Vision Transformers for Satellite Image Time Series
- CVPR 2023Wavelet Diffusion Models Are Fast and Scalable Image Generators
- CVPR 2023Weakly-Supervised Single-View Image Relighting
- CVPR 2023WeatherStream: Light Transport Automation of Single Image Deweathering
- CVPR 2023Where Is My Spot? Few-Shot Image Generation via Latent Subspace Optimization
- CVPR 2023Where We Are and What We're Looking At: Query Based Worldwide Image Geo-Localization Using Hierarchies and Scenes
- CVPR 2023Wide-Angle Rectification via Content-Aware Conformal Mapping
- CVPR 2023WildLight: In-the-Wild Inverse Rendering With a Flashlight
- CVPR 2023WIRE: Wavelet Implicit Neural Representations
- CVPR 2023You Do Not Need Additional Priors or Regularizers in Retinex-Based Low-Light Image Enhancement
- CVPR 2023Zero-Shot Everything Sketch-Based Image Retrieval, and in Explainable Style
- CVPR 2023Zero-Shot Noise2Noise: Efficient Image Denoising Without Any Data
- CVPR 2023Zero-Shot Text-to-Parameter Translation for Game Character Auto-Creation
- ICLR 20233D Equivariant Diffusion for Target-Aware Molecule Generation and Affinity Prediction
- ICLR 20233D generation on ImageNet
- ICLR 2023A Kernel Perspective of Skip Connections in Convolutional Networks
- ICLR 2023Accelerating Guided Diffusion Sampling with Splitting Numerical Methods
- ICLR 2023Accurate Image Restoration with Attention Retractable Transformer
- ICLR 2023Active Image Indexing
- ICLR 2023An Equal-Size Hard EM Algorithm for Diverse Dialogue Generation
- ICLR 2023An Image is Worth One Word: Personalizing Text-to-Image Generation using Textual Inversion
- ICLR 2023AudioGen: Textually Guided Audio Generation
- ICLR 2023Autoencoders as Cross-Modal Teachers: Can Pretrained 2D Image Transformers Help 3D Representation Learning?
- ICLR 2023Basic Binary Convolution Unit for Binarized Image Restoration Network
- ICLR 2023Calibrating Sequence likelihood Improves Conditional Language Generation
- ICLR 2023CASR: Generating Complex Sequences with Autoregressive Self-Boost Refinement
- ICLR 2023CLIP-ViP: Adapting Pre-trained Image-Text Model to Video-Language Alignment
- ICLR 2023CLIPSep: Learning Text-queried Sound Separation with Noisy Unlabeled Videos
- ICLR 2023CodeGen: An Open Large Language Model for Code with Multi-Turn Program Synthesis
- ICLR 2023CodeT: Code Generation with Generated Tests
- ICLR 2023CogVideo: Large-scale Pretraining for Text-to-Video Generation via Transformers
- ICLR 2023Contextual Image Masking Modeling via Synergized Contrasting without View Augmentation for Faster and Better Visual Pretraining
- ICLR 2023Copy is All You Need
- ICLR 2023De Novo Molecular Generation via Connection-aware Motif Mining
- ICLR 2023DeCap: Decoding CLIP Latents for Zero-Shot Captioning via Text-Only Training
- ICLR 2023Decompositional Generation Process for Instance-Dependent Partial Label Learning
- ICLR 2023DiffEdit: Diffusion-based semantic image editing with mask guidance
- ICLR 2023DiffuSeq: Sequence to Sequence Text Generation with Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2023DiffusER: Diffusion via Edit-based Reconstruction
- ICLR 2023Diffusion-based Image Translation using disentangled style and content representation
- ICLR 2023DiGress: Discrete Denoising diffusion for graph generation
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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.