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
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- 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 98 of 104
- ICLR 2023Discrete Contrastive Diffusion for Cross-Modal Music and Image Generation
- ICLR 2023Discrete Predictor-Corrector Diffusion Models for Image Synthesis
- ICLR 2023Distilling Cognitive Backdoor Patterns within an Image
- ICLR 2023DocPrompting: Generating Code by Retrieving the Docs
- ICLR 2023DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusion
- ICLR 2023Dual Diffusion Implicit Bridges for Image-to-Image Translation
- ICLR 2023Edge Guided GANs with Contrastive Learning for Semantic Image Synthesis
- ICLR 2023Embedding Fourier for Ultra-High-Definition Low-Light Image Enhancement
- ICLR 2023Equivariant Shape-Conditioned Generation of 3D Molecules for Ligand-Based Drug Design
- ICLR 2023EVA3D: Compositional 3D Human Generation from 2D Image Collections
- ICLR 2023EVC: Towards Real-Time Neural Image Compression with Mask Decay
- ICLR 2023Evidential Uncertainty and Diversity Guided Active Learning for Scene Graph Generation
- ICLR 2023Exploring Low-Rank Property in Multiple Instance Learning for Whole Slide Image Classification
- ICLR 2023FastFill: Efficient Compatible Model Update
- ICLR 2023Few-shot Cross-domain Image Generation via Inference-time Latent-code Learning
- ICLR 2023From Play to Policy: Conditional Behavior Generation from Uncurated Robot Data
- ICLR 2023Fundamental limits on the robustness of image classifiers
- ICLR 2023FunkNN: Neural Interpolation for Functional Generation
- ICLR 2023Generating Sequences by Learning to Self-Correct
- ICLR 2023HiCLIP: Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining with Hierarchy-aware Attention
- ICLR 2023How Much Space Has Been Explored? Measuring the Chemical Space Covered by Databases and Machine-Generated Molecules
- ICLR 2023Image as Set of Points
- ICLR 2023Images as Weight Matrices: Sequential Image Generation Through Synaptic Learning Rules
- ICLR 2023InCoder: A Generative Model for Code Infilling and Synthesis
- ICLR 2023Information-Theoretic Diffusion
- ICLR 2023IS SYNTHETIC DATA FROM GENERATIVE MODELS READY FOR IMAGE RECOGNITION?
- ICLR 2023ISS: Image as Stepping Stone for Text-Guided 3D Shape Generation
- ICLR 2023Iterative Circuit Repair Against Formal Specifications
- ICLR 2023Kernel Neural Optimal Transport
- ICLR 2023kNN-Diffusion: Image Generation via Large-Scale Retrieval
- ICLR 2023Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Program Better
- ICLR 2023Layer Grafted Pre-training: Bridging Contrastive Learning And Masked Image Modeling For Label-Efficient Representations
- ICLR 2023LDMIC: Learning-based Distributed Multi-view Image Coding
- ICLR 2023Learning Input-agnostic Manipulation Directions in StyleGAN with Text Guidance
- ICLR 2023Learning Iterative Neural Optimizers for Image Steganography
- ICLR 2023Learning multi-scale local conditional probability models of images
- ICLR 2023Learning Sparse and Low-Rank Priors for Image Recovery via Iterative Reweighted Least Squares Minimization
- ICLR 2023Learning to Generate Columns with Application to Vertex Coloring
- ICLR 2023Learning with Stochastic Orders
- ICLR 2023Linearly Mapping from Image to Text Space
- ICLR 2023LPT: Long-tailed Prompt Tuning for Image Classification
- ICLR 2023Make-A-Video: Text-to-Video Generation without Text-Video Data
- ICLR 2023Markup-to-Image Diffusion Models with Scheduled Sampling
- ICLR 2023Masked Image Modeling with Denoising Contrast
- ICLR 2023Measuring axiomatic soundness of counterfactual image models
- ICLR 2023Molecule Generation For Target Protein Binding with Structural Motifs
- ICLR 2023Multi-domain image generation and translation with identifiability guarantees
- ICLR 2023NERDS: A General Framework to Train Camera Denoisers from Raw-RGB Noisy Image Pairs
- ICLR 2023Neural Groundplans: Persistent Neural Scene Representations from a Single Image
- ICLR 2023Neural Image-based Avatars: Generalizable Radiance Fields for Human Avatar Modeling
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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.