Image Generation papers, 2023–2026
Text-to-image and synthesis
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 5,184 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 170 | 118 | 74 | 418 | 780 |
| 2024 | 318 | 199 | 156 | 543 | 1,216 |
| 2025 | 430 | 278 | 147 | 612 | 1,467 |
| 2026 | 453 | 349 | 230 | 689 | 1,721 |
Representative papers
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- 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
230 papers, page 1 of 5
- ICML 2026A Flat Vocabulary or a Rich Hierarchy? Re-introducing Intrinsic Structure Transforms the Autoregressive Image Generation
- ICML 2026AAD-1: Asymmetric Adversarial Distillation for One-Step Autoregressive Video Generation
- ICML 2026ACTG-ARL: Differentially Private Conditional Text Generation with RL-Boosted Control
- ICML 2026Addressing Semantic Blind Spots in Text-to-SQL via Component Pre-generation and AST Matching Rewards
- ICML 2026AlgoVeri: An Aligned Benchmark for Verified Code Generation on Classical Algorithms
- ICML 2026AlignVid: Taming Visual Dominance via Training-Free Attention Modulation in Text-guided Image-to-Video Generation
- ICML 2026Anomaly-Preference Image Generation
- ICML 2026AnyBand-Diff: A Unified Remote Sensing Image Generation and Band Repair Framework with Spectral Priors
- ICML 2026AnyCanvas: Potential Field Guidance for Training-Free Spatial Control in Text-to-Image Diffusion
- ICML 2026Are First-Order Diffusion Samplers Really Slower? A Fast Forward-Value Approach
- ICML 2026AtelierEval: Agentic Evaluation of Humans & LLMs as Text-to-Image Prompters
- ICML 2026Autoregressive Image Generation with Masked Bit Modeling
- ICML 2026Autoregressive, Yet Revisable: In Decoding Revision for Secure Code Generation
- ICML 2026Backward SDE–Based Diffusion for Physics-Constrained Generation
- ICML 2026Balancing Understanding and Generation in Discrete Diffusion Models
- ICML 2026Beyond Looking Up, Try Looking Around: Harmonizing Global Structure and Local Consistency in Optimal Transport for Short Text Clustering
- ICML 2026Beyond Problem Solving: UOJ-Bench for Evaluating Code Generation, Hacking, and Repair in Competitive Programming
- ICML 2026Boost the Identity-Preserving Embedding for Consistent Visual Generation
- ICML 2026Both Semantics and Reconstruction Matter: Making Representation Encoders Ready for Text-to-Image Generation and Editing
- ICML 2026BrainJanus: A Unified Model for Understanding and Generation across Brain, Vision, and Language
- ICML 2026Breaking the Lock-in: Diversifying Text-to-Image Generation via Representation Modulation
- ICML 2026Bridging Tokens and Geometry: Token-wise 3D Supervision for CAD Generation
- ICML 2026Bridging Your Imagination with Audio-Video Generation via a Unified Director
- ICML 2026CADFit: Precise Mesh-to-CAD Program Generation with Hybrid Optimization
- ICML 2026CamGeo: Sparse Camera-Conditioned Image-to-Video Generation with 3D Geometry Priors
- ICML 2026Categorical Flow Maps
- ICML 2026Causal-Adapter: Taming Text-to-Image Diffusion for Faithful Counterfactual Generation
- ICML 2026Cert-LAS: Toward Certified Model Ownership Verification for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Layer-Adaptive Smoothing
- ICML 2026Characterizing the Effect of Noise in Language Generation in the Limit
- ICML 2026CoD-Lite: Real-Time Diffusion-Based Generative Image Compression
- ICML 2026CoF-T2I: Video Models as Pure Visual Reasoners for Text-to-Image Generation
- ICML 2026CoFrGeNet: Continued Fraction Architectures for Language Generation
- ICML 2026Comp-Attn: Present-and-Align Attention for Compositional Video Generation
- ICML 2026Concept Removal for Frontier Image Generative Models
- ICML 2026Concept-Guided Tokenization: Closing the Gap Between Reconstruction and Generation
- ICML 2026Conformal Reliability: A New Evaluation Metric for Conditional Generation
- ICML 2026ConTSG-Bench: A Unified Benchmark for Conditional Time Series Generation
- ICML 2026CorrSteer: Generation-Time LLM Steering via Correlated Sparse Autoencoder Features
- ICML 2026CountsDiff: A diffusion model on the natural numbers for generation and imputation of count-based data
- ICML 2026Cross-Modal Semantic Decoupling and Transfer for Text-to-Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification
- ICML 2026CSD: Content-aware Speculative Decoding for Efficient Image Generation
- ICML 2026DEER: A Benchmark for Evaluating Deep Research Agents on Expert Report Generation
- ICML 2026Degradation-Aware Metric Prompting for Hyperspectral Image Restoration
- ICML 2026DetailMaster: Can Your Text-to-Image Model Handle Long Prompts?
- ICML 2026Deterministic Component Mining for Multi-Framework UI2Code Generation
- ICML 2026DGS-Net: Distillation-Guided Gradient Surgery for CLIP Fine-Tuning in AI-Generated Image Detection
- ICML 2026Difference-Aware Decision Learning for Multimodal Image Fusion
- ICML 2026Direct 3D-Aware Object Insertion via Decomposed Visual Proxies
- ICML 2026Diversity-Preserved Distribution Matching Distillation for Fast Visual Synthesis
- ICML 2026Do Text Edits Generalize to Visual Generation? Benchmarking Cross-Modal Knowledge Editing in UMMs
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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.