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
318 papers, page 1 of 7
- NeurIPS 2024$\textit{Bifr\"ost}$: 3D-Aware Image Compositing with Language Instructions
- NeurIPS 20242DQuant: Low-bit Post-Training Quantization for Image Super-Resolution
- NeurIPS 2024A Cat Is A Cat (Not A Dog!): Unraveling Information Mix-ups in Text-to-Image Encoders through Causal Analysis and Embedding Optimization
- NeurIPS 2024A Modular Conditional Diffusion Framework for Image Reconstruction
- NeurIPS 2024A Simple Image Segmentation Framework via In-Context Examples
- NeurIPS 2024A Versatile Diffusion Transformer with Mixture of Noise Levels for Audiovisual Generation
- NeurIPS 2024ActAnywhere: Subject-Aware Video Background Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Action Imitation in Common Action Space for Customized Action Image Synthesis
- NeurIPS 2024Adaptable Logical Control for Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024Adapting Diffusion Models for Improved Prompt Compliance and Controllable Image Synthesis
- NeurIPS 2024Adaptive Domain Learning for Cross-domain Image Denoising
- NeurIPS 2024Adaptive Image Quality Assessment via Teaching Large Multimodal Model to Compare
- NeurIPS 2024Adaptive Visual Scene Understanding: Incremental Scene Graph Generation
- NeurIPS 2024AdaptiveISP: Learning an Adaptive Image Signal Processor for Object Detection
- NeurIPS 2024Addressing Asynchronicity in Clinical Multimodal Fusion via Individualized Chest X-ray Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Advancing Fine-Grained Classification by Structure and Subject Preserving Augmentation
- NeurIPS 2024AID: Attention Interpolation of Text-to-Image Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2024Alleviating Distortion in Image Generation via Multi-Resolution Diffusion Models and Time-Dependent Layer Normalization
- NeurIPS 2024An Image is Worth 32 Tokens for Reconstruction and Generation
- NeurIPS 2024AP-Adapter: Improving Generalization of Automatic Prompts on Unseen Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024APIGen: Automated PIpeline for Generating Verifiable and Diverse Function-Calling Datasets
- NeurIPS 2024Architect: Generating Vivid and Interactive 3D Scenes with Hierarchical 2D Inpainting
- NeurIPS 2024ART: Automatic Red-teaming for Text-to-Image Models to Protect Benign Users
- NeurIPS 2024AsCAN: Asymmetric Convolution-Attention Networks for Efficient Recognition and Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Ask, Attend, Attack: An Effective Decision-Based Black-Box Targeted Attack for Image-to-Text Models
- NeurIPS 2024Association of Objects May Engender Stereotypes: Mitigating Association-Engendered Stereotypes in Text-to-Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Attack-Resilient Image Watermarking Using Stable Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2024AttnDreamBooth: Towards Text-Aligned Personalized Text-to-Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Autoregressive Image Diffusion: Generation of Image Sequence and Application in MRI
- NeurIPS 2024Autoregressive Image Generation without Vector Quantization
- NeurIPS 2024Benchmarking Counterfactual Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Beyond Aesthetics: Cultural Competence in Text-to-Image Models
- NeurIPS 2024Bias and Volatility: A Statistical Framework for Evaluating Large Language Model's Stereotypes and the Associated Generation Inconsistency
- NeurIPS 2024Binarized Diffusion Model for Image Super-Resolution
- NeurIPS 2024BioTrove: A Large Curated Image Dataset Enabling AI for Biodiversity
- NeurIPS 2024BitsFusion: 1.99 bits Weight Quantization of Diffusion Model
- NeurIPS 2024BiVLC: Extending Vision-Language Compositionality Evaluation with Text-to-Image Retrieval
- NeurIPS 2024Blind Image Restoration via Fast Diffusion Inversion
- NeurIPS 2024Boosting Alignment for Post-Unlearning Text-to-Image Generative Models
- NeurIPS 2024Bridging The Gap between Low-rank and Orthogonal Adaptation via Householder Reflection Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2024CAT3D: Create Anything in 3D with Multi-View Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Categorical Flow Matching on Statistical Manifolds
- NeurIPS 2024Causal Context Adjustment Loss for Learned Image Compression
- NeurIPS 2024ChronoMagic-Bench: A Benchmark for Metamorphic Evaluation of Text-to-Time-lapse Video Generation
- NeurIPS 2024CigTime: Corrective Instruction Generation Through Inverse Motion Editing
- NeurIPS 2024CNCA: Toward Customizable and Natural Generation of Adversarial Camouflage for Vehicle Detectors
- NeurIPS 2024ColJailBreak: Collaborative Generation and Editing for Jailbreaking Text-to-Image Deep Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Collaborative Video Diffusion: Consistent Multi-video Generation with Camera Control
- NeurIPS 2024CoMat: Aligning Text-to-Image Diffusion Model with Image-to-Text Concept Matching
- NeurIPS 2024ConceptMix: A Compositional Image Generation Benchmark with Controllable Difficulty
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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.