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

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1. ICLR 2026$\textit{MADFormer}$: Mixed Autoregressive and Diffusion Transformers for Continuous Image Generation
2. ICLR 2026$PhyWorldBench$: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Physical Realism in Text-to-Video Models
3. ICLR 20263D Scene Prompting for Scene-Consistent Camera-Controllable Video Generation
4. ICLR 2026A Bayesian Nonparametric Framework for Private, Fair, and Balanced Tabular Data Synthesis
5. ICLR 2026A High Quality Dataset and Reliable Evaluation for Interleaved Image-Text Generation
6. ICLR 2026A Noise is Worth Diffusion Guidance
7. ICLR 2026A Scalable Distributed Framework for Multimodal GigaVoxel Image Registration
8. ICLR 2026Accelerating Eigenvalue Dataset Generation via Chebyshev Subspace Filter
9. ICLR 2026ACCORD: Alleviating Concept Coupling through Dependence Regularization for Text-to-Image Diffusion Personalization
10. ICLR 2026AdaCache: Adaptive Caching and Context Augmentation for Efficient LLM Serving
11. ICLR 2026Adapting Self-Supervised Representations as a Latent Space for Efficient Generation
12. ICLR 2026Adaptive Logit Adjustment for Debiasing Multimodal Language Models
13. ICLR 2026Addressing Pitfalls in the Evaluation of Uncertainty Estimation Methods for Natural Language Generation
14. ICLR 2026Advancing End-to-End Pixel-Space Generative Modeling via Self-Supervised Pre-Training
15. ICLR 2026Algorithm Generation via Creative Ideation
16. ICLR 2026Aligned Novel View Image and Geometry Synthesis via Cross-modal Attention Instillation
17. ICLR 2026Alignment through Meta-Weighted Online Sampling: Bridging the Gap between Data Generation and Preference Optimization
18. ICLR 2026All Patches Matter, More Patches Better: Enhance AI-Generated Image Detection via Panoptic Patch Learning
19. ICLR 2026Anchor Frame Bridging for Coherent First-Last Frame Video Generation
20. ICLR 2026Animating the Uncaptured: Humanoid Mesh Animation with Video Diffusion Models
21. ICLR 2026Anime-Ready: Controllable 3D Anime Character Generation with Body-Aligned Component-Wise Garment Modeling
22. ICLR 2026Any-step Generation via N-th Order Recursive Consistent Velocity Field Estimation
23. ICLR 2026APT: Towards Universal Scene Graph Generation via Plug-in Adaptive Prompt Tuning
24. ICLR 2026Arbitrary-Shaped Image Generation via Spherical Neural Field Diffusion
25. ICLR 2026AssetFormer: Modular 3D Assets Generation with Autoregressive Transformer
26. ICLR 2026Asynchronous Denoising Diffusion Models for Aligning Text-to-Image Generation
27. ICLR 2026ATGen: Adversarial Reinforcement Learning for Test Case Generation
28. ICLR 2026Attack-Resistant Watermarking for AIGC Image Forensics via Diffusion-based Semantic Deflection
29. ICLR 2026Aurelius: Relation Aware Text-to-Audio Generation At Scale
30. ICLR 2026AutoFigure: Generating and Refining Publication-Ready Scientific Illustrations
31. ICLR 2026Automatic Image-Level Morphological Trait Annotation for Organismal Images
32. ICLR 2026Autoregressive Image Generation with Randomized Parallel Decoding
33. ICLR 2026Autoregressive-based Progressive Coding for Ultra-Low Bitrate Image Compression
34. ICLR 2026Avoid Catastrophic Forgetting with Rank-1 Fisher from Diffusion Models
35. ICLR 2026BAR: Refactor the Basis of Autoregressive Visual Generation
36. ICLR 2026Beyond Frequency: Scoring-Driven Debiasing for Object Detection via Blueprint-Prompted Image Synthesis
37. ICLR 2026Beyond Text-to-Image: Liberating Generation with a Unified Discrete Diffusion Model
38. ICLR 2026BézierFlow: Learning Bézier Stochastic Interpolant Schedulers for Few-Step Generation
39. ICLR 2026BideDPO: Conditional Image Generation with Simultaneous Text and Condition Alignment
40. ICLR 2026BindWeave: Subject-Consistent Video Generation via Cross-Modal Integration
41. ICLR 2026BLADE: Block-Sparse Attention Meets Step Distillation for Efficient Video Generation
42. ICLR 2026Bridging Degradation Discrimination and Generation for Universal Image Restoration
43. ICLR 2026Bures-Wasserstein Flow Matching for Graph Generation
44. ICLR 2026CAGE: A Framework for Culturally Adaptive Red-Teaming Benchmark Generation
45. ICLR 2026CARL: Camera-Agnostic Representation Learning for Spectral Image Analysis
46. ICLR 2026ChainMPQ: Interleaved Text-Image Reasoning Chains for Mitigating Relation Hallucinations
47. ICLR 2026CIAR: Interval-based Collaborative Decoding for Image Generation Acceleration
48. ICLR 2026CineTrans: Learning to Generate Videos with Cinematic Transitions via Masked Diffusion Models
49. ICLR 2026CO3: CONTRASTING CONCEPTS COMPOSE BETTER
50. ICLR 2026CoDi: Subject-Consistent and Pose-Diverse Text-to-Image 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.