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 2024A Dense Reward View on Aligning Text-to-Image Diffusion with Preference
2. ICML 2024A Tale of Tails: Model Collapse as a Change of Scaling Laws
3. ICML 2024Accelerating Parallel Sampling of Diffusion Models
4. ICML 2024Accelerating PDE Data Generation via Differential Operator Action in Solution Space
5. ICML 2024ACM-MILP: Adaptive Constraint Modification via Grouping and Selection for Hardness-Preserving MILP Instance Generation
6. ICML 2024Adaptive Feature Selection for No-Reference Image Quality Assessment by Mitigating Semantic Noise Sensitivity
7. ICML 2024Adaptive Stabilization Based on Machine Learning for Column Generation
8. ICML 2024Aligned Objective for Soft-Pseudo-Label Generation in Supervised Learning
9. ICML 2024Amortizing Pragmatic Program Synthesis with Rankings
10. ICML 2024An Image is Worth Multiple Words: Discovering Object Level Concepts using Multi-Concept Prompt Learning
11. ICML 2024An Independence-promoting Loss for Music Generation with Language Models
12. ICML 2024AST-T5: Structure-Aware Pretraining for Code Generation and Understanding
13. ICML 2024Auto-Regressive Next-Token Predictors are Universal Learners
14. ICML 2024Bagged Deep Image Prior for Recovering Images in the Presence of Speckle Noise
15. ICML 2024Behavior Generation with Latent Actions
16. ICML 2024BetterV: Controlled Verilog Generation with Discriminative Guidance
17. ICML 2024Boximator: Generating Rich and Controllable Motions for Video Synthesis
18. ICML 2024BRAIn: Bayesian Reward-conditioned Amortized Inference for natural language generation from feedback
19. ICML 2024CaPS: Collaborative and Private Synthetic Data Generation from Distributed Sources
20. ICML 2024CaRiNG: Learning Temporal Causal Representation under Non-Invertible Generation Process
21. ICML 2024Causal-IQA: Towards the Generalization of Image Quality Assessment Based on Causal Inference
22. ICML 2024CCM: Real-Time Controllable Visual Content Creation Using Text-to-Image Consistency Models
23. ICML 2024Cell2Sentence: Teaching Large Language Models the Language of Biology
24. ICML 2024Characteristic Guidance: Non-linear Correction for Diffusion Model at Large Guidance Scale
25. ICML 2024Collapse-Aware Triplet Decoupling for Adversarially Robust Image Retrieval
26. ICML 2024Completing Visual Objects via Bridging Generation and Segmentation
27. ICML 2024Compositional Image Decomposition with Diffusion Models
28. ICML 2024Compositional Text-to-Image Generation with Dense Blob Representations
29. ICML 2024Compress Clean Signal from Noisy Raw Image: A Self-Supervised Approach
30. ICML 2024Correcting Diffusion-Based Perceptual Image Compression with Privileged End-to-End Decoder
31. ICML 2024Counterfactual Image Editing
32. ICML 2024Creative Text-to-Audio Generation via Synthesizer Programming
33. ICML 2024Cross-view Masked Diffusion Transformers for Person Image Synthesis
34. ICML 2024CuTS: Customizable Tabular Synthetic Data Generation
35. ICML 2024CW Complex Hypothesis for Image Data
36. ICML 2024D-Flow: Differentiating through Flows for Controlled Generation
37. ICML 2024DAG-Based Column Generation for Adversarial Team Games
38. ICML 2024Data-Efficient Molecular Generation with Hierarchical Textual Inversion
39. ICML 2024Data-free Distillation of Diffusion Models with Bootstrapping
40. ICML 2024Denoising Autoregressive Representation Learning
41. ICML 2024DIDI: Diffusion-Guided Diversity for Offline Behavioral Generation
42. ICML 2024Differentially Private Representation Learning via Image Captioning
43. ICML 2024Diffuse, Sample, Project: Plug-And-Play Controllable Graph Generation
44. ICML 2024Diffusion Models Encode the Intrinsic Dimension of Data Manifolds
45. ICML 2024Diffusion Rejection Sampling
46. ICML 2024Diffusion-based Missing-view Generation With the Application on Incomplete Multi-view Clustering
47. ICML 2024Directly Denoising Diffusion Models
48. ICML 2024DisCo-Diff: Enhancing Continuous Diffusion Models with Discrete Latents
49. ICML 2024DISCRET: Synthesizing Faithful Explanations For Treatment Effect Estimation
50. ICML 2024Disentangled 3D Scene Generation with Layout Learning

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.