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

278 papers, page 1 of 6

1. ICLR 2025$\text{I}^2\text{AM}$: Interpreting Image-to-Image Latent Diffusion Models via Bi-Attribution Maps
2. ICLR 20253DIS: Depth-Driven Decoupled Image Synthesis for Universal Multi-Instance Generation
3. ICLR 20253DTrajMaster: Mastering 3D Trajectory for Multi-Entity Motion in Video Generation
4. ICLR 20254K4DGen: Panoramic 4D Generation at 4K Resolution
5. ICLR 2025A General Framework for Producing Interpretable Semantic Text Embeddings
6. ICLR 2025A Non-Contrastive Learning Framework for Sequential Recommendation with Preference-Preserving Profile Generation
7. ICLR 2025A Periodic Bayesian Flow for Material Generation
8. ICLR 2025A Simple Approach to Unifying Diffusion-based Conditional Generation
9. ICLR 2025A Spark of Vision-Language Intelligence: 2-Dimensional Autoregressive Transformer for Efficient Finegrained Image Generation
10. ICLR 2025A Transfer Attack to Image Watermarks
11. ICLR 2025A-Bench: Are LMMs Masters at Evaluating AI-generated Images?
12. ICLR 2025A3D: Does Diffusion Dream about 3D Alignment?
13. ICLR 2025Accelerating 3D Molecule Generation via Jointly Geometric Optimal Transport
14. ICLR 2025Accelerating Auto-regressive Text-to-Image Generation with Training-free Speculative Jacobi Decoding
15. ICLR 2025Accelerating Diffusion Transformers with Token-wise Feature Caching
16. ICLR 2025ACE: All-round Creator and Editor Following Instructions via Diffusion Transformer
17. ICLR 2025AdaIR: Adaptive All-in-One Image Restoration via Frequency Mining and Modulation
18. ICLR 2025Adaptive Length Image Tokenization via Recurrent Allocation
19. ICLR 2025Advancing Graph Generation through Beta Diffusion
20. ICLR 2025AdvPaint: Protecting Images from Inpainting Manipulation via Adversarial Attention Disruption
21. ICLR 2025AFlow: Automating Agentic Workflow Generation
22. ICLR 2025Aligning Human Motion Generation with Human Perceptions
23. ICLR 2025An Image is Worth More Than 16x16 Patches: Exploring Transformers on Individual Pixels
24. ICLR 2025Animate-X: Universal Character Image Animation with Enhanced Motion Representation
25. ICLR 2025Anyprefer: An Agentic Framework for Preference Data Synthesis
26. ICLR 2025Atlas Gaussians Diffusion for 3D Generation
27. ICLR 2025Atomas: Hierarchical Adaptive Alignment on Molecule-Text for Unified Molecule Understanding and Generation
28. ICLR 2025Attribute-based Visual Reprogramming for Vision-Language Models
29. ICLR 2025AugKD: Ingenious Augmentations Empower Knowledge Distillation for Image Super-Resolution
30. ICLR 2025Automated Filtering of Human Feedback Data for Aligning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
31. ICLR 2025Autoregressive Video Generation without Vector Quantization
32. ICLR 2025Backdooring Vision-Language Models with Out-Of-Distribution Data
33. ICLR 2025Backtracking Improves Generation Safety
34. ICLR 2025Bayesian Image Regression with Soft-thresholded Conditional Autoregressive Prior
35. ICLR 2025Bayesian WeakS-to-Strong from Text Classification to Generation
36. ICLR 2025Be More Diverse than the Most Diverse: Optimal Mixtures of Generative Models via Mixture-UCB Bandit Algorithms
37. ICLR 2025BigCodeBench: Benchmarking Code Generation with Diverse Function Calls and Complex Instructions
38. ICLR 2025BiGR: Harnessing Binary Latent Codes for Image Generation and Improved Visual Representation Capabilities
39. ICLR 2025Boosting Latent Diffusion with Perceptual Objectives
40. ICLR 2025BrainACTIV: Identifying visuo-semantic properties driving cortical selectivity using diffusion-based image manipulation
41. ICLR 2025Bridging Compressed Image Latents and Multimodal Large Language Models
42. ICLR 2025Build-A-Scene: Interactive 3D Layout Control for Diffusion-Based Image Generation
43. ICLR 2025Cached Multi-Lora Composition for Multi-Concept Image Generation
44. ICLR 2025ClassDiffusion: More Aligned Personalization Tuning with Explicit Class Guidance
45. ICLR 2025CLIPDrag: Combining Text-based and Drag-based Instructions for Image Editing
46. ICLR 2025CogVideoX: Text-to-Video Diffusion Models with An Expert Transformer
47. ICLR 2025Commit0: Library Generation from Scratch
48. ICLR 2025Concept Pinpoint Eraser for Text-to-image Diffusion Models via Residual Attention Gate
49. ICLR 2025Conformal Structured Prediction
50. ICLR 2025Consistent Flow Distillation for Text-to-3D Generation

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.