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

118 papers, page 1 of 3

1. ICLR 20233D Equivariant Diffusion for Target-Aware Molecule Generation and Affinity Prediction
2. ICLR 20233D generation on ImageNet
3. ICLR 2023A Kernel Perspective of Skip Connections in Convolutional Networks
4. ICLR 2023Accelerating Guided Diffusion Sampling with Splitting Numerical Methods
5. ICLR 2023Accurate Image Restoration with Attention Retractable Transformer
6. ICLR 2023Active Image Indexing
7. ICLR 2023An Equal-Size Hard EM Algorithm for Diverse Dialogue Generation
8. ICLR 2023An Image is Worth One Word: Personalizing Text-to-Image Generation using Textual Inversion
9. ICLR 2023AudioGen: Textually Guided Audio Generation
10. ICLR 2023Autoencoders as Cross-Modal Teachers: Can Pretrained 2D Image Transformers Help 3D Representation Learning?
11. ICLR 2023Basic Binary Convolution Unit for Binarized Image Restoration Network
12. ICLR 2023Calibrating Sequence likelihood Improves Conditional Language Generation
13. ICLR 2023CASR: Generating Complex Sequences with Autoregressive Self-Boost Refinement
14. ICLR 2023CLIP-ViP: Adapting Pre-trained Image-Text Model to Video-Language Alignment
15. ICLR 2023CLIPSep: Learning Text-queried Sound Separation with Noisy Unlabeled Videos
16. ICLR 2023CodeGen: An Open Large Language Model for Code with Multi-Turn Program Synthesis
17. ICLR 2023CodeT: Code Generation with Generated Tests
18. ICLR 2023CogVideo: Large-scale Pretraining for Text-to-Video Generation via Transformers
19. ICLR 2023Contextual Image Masking Modeling via Synergized Contrasting without View Augmentation for Faster and Better Visual Pretraining
20. ICLR 2023Copy is All You Need
21. ICLR 2023De Novo Molecular Generation via Connection-aware Motif Mining
22. ICLR 2023DeCap: Decoding CLIP Latents for Zero-Shot Captioning via Text-Only Training
23. ICLR 2023Decompositional Generation Process for Instance-Dependent Partial Label Learning
24. ICLR 2023DiffEdit: Diffusion-based semantic image editing with mask guidance
25. ICLR 2023DiffuSeq: Sequence to Sequence Text Generation with Diffusion Models
26. ICLR 2023DiffusER: Diffusion via Edit-based Reconstruction
27. ICLR 2023Diffusion-based Image Translation using disentangled style and content representation
28. ICLR 2023DiGress: Discrete Denoising diffusion for graph generation
29. ICLR 2023Discrete Contrastive Diffusion for Cross-Modal Music and Image Generation
30. ICLR 2023Discrete Predictor-Corrector Diffusion Models for Image Synthesis
31. ICLR 2023Distilling Cognitive Backdoor Patterns within an Image
32. ICLR 2023DocPrompting: Generating Code by Retrieving the Docs
33. ICLR 2023DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusion
34. ICLR 2023Dual Diffusion Implicit Bridges for Image-to-Image Translation
35. ICLR 2023Edge Guided GANs with Contrastive Learning for Semantic Image Synthesis
36. ICLR 2023Embedding Fourier for Ultra-High-Definition Low-Light Image Enhancement
37. ICLR 2023Equivariant Shape-Conditioned Generation of 3D Molecules for Ligand-Based Drug Design
38. ICLR 2023EVA3D: Compositional 3D Human Generation from 2D Image Collections
39. ICLR 2023EVC: Towards Real-Time Neural Image Compression with Mask Decay
40. ICLR 2023Evidential Uncertainty and Diversity Guided Active Learning for Scene Graph Generation
41. ICLR 2023Exploring Low-Rank Property in Multiple Instance Learning for Whole Slide Image Classification
42. ICLR 2023FastFill: Efficient Compatible Model Update
43. ICLR 2023Few-shot Cross-domain Image Generation via Inference-time Latent-code Learning
44. ICLR 2023From Play to Policy: Conditional Behavior Generation from Uncurated Robot Data
45. ICLR 2023Fundamental limits on the robustness of image classifiers
46. ICLR 2023FunkNN: Neural Interpolation for Functional Generation
47. ICLR 2023Generating Sequences by Learning to Self-Correct
48. ICLR 2023HiCLIP: Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining with Hierarchy-aware Attention
49. ICLR 2023How Much Space Has Been Explored? Measuring the Chemical Space Covered by Databases and Machine-Generated Molecules
50. ICLR 2023Image as Set of Points

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.