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

1,371 papers, page 1 of 28

1. NeurIPS 2026$\text{PartConcepts}$: A Unified Mechanism for Fine-Grained Part Localization and Generation
2. NeurIPS 2026$\texttt{bispectrum}$: Selective $G$-Bispectra Made Practical
3. NeurIPS 2026$\texttt{RNAGenScape}$: property-guided, optimized generation of mRNA sequences with manifold Langevin dynamics
4. NeurIPS 2026$h$-control: Training-Free Camera Control via Block-Conditional Gibbs Refinement
5. NeurIPS 2026$SE(2)$-Aware Conditional Distribution Transport for Vehicle Trajectory Generation
6. NeurIPS 20263D Consistency Tokens
7. NeurIPS 2026A Closer Look at Dynamic Scene Graph Generation in the Era of Multimodal Large Language Models
8. NeurIPS 2026A Favorable Regime Between ODE and SDE for Few-Step Diffusion Sampling
9. NeurIPS 2026A Hierarchical World Model for Driving
10. NeurIPS 2026A Theoretical Analysis of Test-Driven Code Generation
11. NeurIPS 2026A Theory of Time-Sensitive Language Generation: Sparse Hallucination Beats Mode Collapse
12. NeurIPS 2026A Unified Image and Video Encoder for Multimodal LLMs
13. NeurIPS 2026A World Model of Radiologist Reading for Medical Image Representation Learning
14. NeurIPS 2026A2I: Adjacency-to-Image Structural Encodings for Graph Learning
15. NeurIPS 2026AbSpecAlign: Specificity Reward Alignment for Antigen-Conditioned Antibody Generation
16. NeurIPS 2026Accelerated Image Editing via Consistency-Aware Source Token Pruning
17. NeurIPS 2026Accelerating Rectified Flow Models via Trajectory-Aware Caching
18. NeurIPS 2026AdaPCLA: Curriculum Prior Internalization For Long-Tailed Longitudinal EHR Generation
19. NeurIPS 2026Addressable Memory for Video World Models
20. NeurIPS 2026Advancing Narrative Long Video Generation via Training-Free Identity-Aware Memory
21. NeurIPS 2026AegisFlow: Training-free Non-myopic Path-safe Guided Flow Matching
22. NeurIPS 2026Affine-Image Propagation for Tight and Scalable $\ell_{2}$ Neural Network Verification
23. NeurIPS 2026AgenticOCR: Parsing Only What You Need for Efficient Retrieval-Augmented Generation
24. NeurIPS 2026AgentOdyssey: Open-Ended Long-Horizon Text Game Generation for Test-Time Continual Learning Agents
25. NeurIPS 2026AHPA: Adaptive Hierarchical Prior Alignment for Diffusion Transformers
26. NeurIPS 2026AIR: Rethinking Image-Text Offset Alignment in Multimodal Contrastive Representation Space
27. NeurIPS 2026Amortized Guidance for Image Inpainting with Pretrained Diffusion Models
28. NeurIPS 2026AnaDiffusion: Anatomically Compositional Latent Diffusion for Controllable 3D Brain MRI Generation
29. NeurIPS 2026AnalogToBi: Device-Level Analog Circuit Topology Generation via Bipartite Graph and Grammar Guided Decoding
30. NeurIPS 2026Anchoring LLM-based Chest X-ray Report Generation via Diffusion Language Planning
31. NeurIPS 2026Antibody Generation via Redistributed Latent Diffusion
32. NeurIPS 2026Are Text-to-Image Models Inductivist Turkeys? A Counterfactual Benchmark for Causal Reasoning
33. NeurIPS 2026Are we really tilting? The mechanics of reward guidance in flow and diffusion models
34. NeurIPS 2026ASAP: Attention Sink Anchored Pruning
35. NeurIPS 2026Ask-E: An Environment for Calibrated Question Generation
36. NeurIPS 2026Assessing Sample Quality in Conditional Generation under Compositional Shift
37. NeurIPS 2026AsymPipe: Accelerating Large-scale DiTs Image Editing via Asymmetry-Aware Pipeline Parallelism
38. NeurIPS 2026Auteur: Language-Driven Cinematographic Framing for Human-Centric Video Generation
39. NeurIPS 2026BalCapRL : A Balanced Framework for RL-Based MLLM Image Captioning
40. NeurIPS 2026Barycentric Guidance: Turning Foundation Image Editors into Continuous Affective Controllers
41. NeurIPS 2026Beckmann Transport Models: From Autonomous Flows to One-Step Maps
42. NeurIPS 2026Better Source, Better Flow: Learning Condition-Dependent Source Distribution for Flow Matching
43. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Bit Matching: Orthogonal Watermarks for Collusion-Resistant Image Fingerprinting
44. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Empirical Support: Structured Outlier Generation via Sinkhorn Optimal Transport
45. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Flat Walks: Compositional Abstraction for Autoregressive Graph Generation
46. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Generation: Unlocking Discriminative Representations from Diffusion Models
47. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Single-Shot Conditioning: Test-Time Condition Refinement for Diffusion-Based Image Restoration
48. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Stabilization: Dual-EMA Teachers for Global–Local Semantic Learning in Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
49. NeurIPS 2026Beyond the Dirac Delta: Mitigating Diversity Collapse in Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Image Generation
50. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Unidirectional: Unsupervised Trajectory Learning for Omnidirectional Controllable Underwater Image Enhancement

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.