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. ICML 2026A Flat Vocabulary or a Rich Hierarchy? Re-introducing Intrinsic Structure Transforms the Autoregressive Image Generation
2. ICML 2026AAD-1: Asymmetric Adversarial Distillation for One-Step Autoregressive Video Generation
3. ICML 2026ACTG-ARL: Differentially Private Conditional Text Generation with RL-Boosted Control
4. ICML 2026Addressing Semantic Blind Spots in Text-to-SQL via Component Pre-generation and AST Matching Rewards
5. ICML 2026AlgoVeri: An Aligned Benchmark for Verified Code Generation on Classical Algorithms
6. ICML 2026AlignVid: Taming Visual Dominance via Training-Free Attention Modulation in Text-guided Image-to-Video Generation
7. ICML 2026Anomaly-Preference Image Generation
8. ICML 2026AnyBand-Diff: A Unified Remote Sensing Image Generation and Band Repair Framework with Spectral Priors
9. ICML 2026AnyCanvas: Potential Field Guidance for Training-Free Spatial Control in Text-to-Image Diffusion
10. ICML 2026Are First-Order Diffusion Samplers Really Slower? A Fast Forward-Value Approach
11. ICML 2026AtelierEval: Agentic Evaluation of Humans & LLMs as Text-to-Image Prompters
12. ICML 2026Autoregressive Image Generation with Masked Bit Modeling
13. ICML 2026Autoregressive, Yet Revisable: In Decoding Revision for Secure Code Generation
14. ICML 2026Backward SDE–Based Diffusion for Physics-Constrained Generation
15. ICML 2026Balancing Understanding and Generation in Discrete Diffusion Models
16. ICML 2026Beyond Looking Up, Try Looking Around: Harmonizing Global Structure and Local Consistency in Optimal Transport for Short Text Clustering
17. ICML 2026Beyond Problem Solving: UOJ-Bench for Evaluating Code Generation, Hacking, and Repair in Competitive Programming
18. ICML 2026Boost the Identity-Preserving Embedding for Consistent Visual Generation
19. ICML 2026Both Semantics and Reconstruction Matter: Making Representation Encoders Ready for Text-to-Image Generation and Editing
20. ICML 2026BrainJanus: A Unified Model for Understanding and Generation across Brain, Vision, and Language
21. ICML 2026Breaking the Lock-in: Diversifying Text-to-Image Generation via Representation Modulation
22. ICML 2026Bridging Tokens and Geometry: Token-wise 3D Supervision for CAD Generation
23. ICML 2026Bridging Your Imagination with Audio-Video Generation via a Unified Director
24. ICML 2026CADFit: Precise Mesh-to-CAD Program Generation with Hybrid Optimization
25. ICML 2026CamGeo: Sparse Camera-Conditioned Image-to-Video Generation with 3D Geometry Priors
26. ICML 2026Categorical Flow Maps
27. ICML 2026Causal-Adapter: Taming Text-to-Image Diffusion for Faithful Counterfactual Generation
28. ICML 2026Cert-LAS: Toward Certified Model Ownership Verification for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Layer-Adaptive Smoothing
29. ICML 2026Characterizing the Effect of Noise in Language Generation in the Limit
30. ICML 2026CoD-Lite: Real-Time Diffusion-Based Generative Image Compression
31. ICML 2026CoF-T2I: Video Models as Pure Visual Reasoners for Text-to-Image Generation
32. ICML 2026CoFrGeNet: Continued Fraction Architectures for Language Generation
33. ICML 2026Comp-Attn: Present-and-Align Attention for Compositional Video Generation
34. ICML 2026Concept Removal for Frontier Image Generative Models
35. ICML 2026Concept-Guided Tokenization: Closing the Gap Between Reconstruction and Generation
36. ICML 2026Conformal Reliability: A New Evaluation Metric for Conditional Generation
37. ICML 2026ConTSG-Bench: A Unified Benchmark for Conditional Time Series Generation
38. ICML 2026CorrSteer: Generation-Time LLM Steering via Correlated Sparse Autoencoder Features
39. ICML 2026CountsDiff: A diffusion model on the natural numbers for generation and imputation of count-based data
40. ICML 2026Cross-Modal Semantic Decoupling and Transfer for Text-to-Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification
41. ICML 2026CSD: Content-aware Speculative Decoding for Efficient Image Generation
42. ICML 2026DEER: A Benchmark for Evaluating Deep Research Agents on Expert Report Generation
43. ICML 2026Degradation-Aware Metric Prompting for Hyperspectral Image Restoration
44. ICML 2026DetailMaster: Can Your Text-to-Image Model Handle Long Prompts?
45. ICML 2026Deterministic Component Mining for Multi-Framework UI2Code Generation
46. ICML 2026DGS-Net: Distillation-Guided Gradient Surgery for CLIP Fine-Tuning in AI-Generated Image Detection
47. ICML 2026Difference-Aware Decision Learning for Multimodal Image Fusion
48. ICML 2026Direct 3D-Aware Object Insertion via Decomposed Visual Proxies
49. ICML 2026Diversity-Preserved Distribution Matching Distillation for Fast Visual Synthesis
50. ICML 2026Do Text Edits Generalize to Visual Generation? Benchmarking Cross-Modal Knowledge Editing in UMMs

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.