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
780 papers, page 1 of 16
- CVPR 20233D Cinemagraphy From a Single Image
- CVPR 20233D GAN Inversion With Facial Symmetry Prior
- CVPR 20233D Highlighter: Localizing Regions on 3D Shapes via Text Descriptions
- CVPR 20233D Neural Field Generation Using Triplane Diffusion
- CVPR 20233D Registration With Maximal Cliques
- CVPR 20233D-Aware Conditional Image Synthesis
- CVPR 20233D-Aware Multi-Class Image-to-Image Translation With NeRFs
- CVPR 2023A New Dataset Based on Images Taken by Blind People for Testing the Robustness of Image Classification Models Trained for ImageNet Categories
- CVPR 2023A Probabilistic Attention Model With Occlusion-Aware Texture Regression for 3D Hand Reconstruction From a Single RGB Image
- CVPR 2023A2J-Transformer: Anchor-to-Joint Transformer Network for 3D Interacting Hand Pose Estimation From a Single RGB Image
- CVPR 2023AccelIR: Task-Aware Image Compression for Accelerating Neural Restoration
- CVPR 2023Activating More Pixels in Image Super-Resolution Transformer
- CVPR 2023AdaptiveMix: Improving GAN Training via Feature Space Shrinkage
- CVPR 2023Affordance Diffusion: Synthesizing Hand-Object Interactions
- CVPR 2023Affordance Grounding From Demonstration Video To Target Image
- CVPR 2023Align Your Latents: High-Resolution Video Synthesis With Latent Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023All Are Worth Words: A ViT Backbone for Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023All-in-One Image Restoration for Unknown Degradations Using Adaptive Discriminative Filters for Specific Degradations
- CVPR 2023An Image Quality Assessment Dataset for Portraits
- CVPR 2023Asymmetric Feature Fusion for Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2023AutoFocusFormer: Image Segmentation off the Grid
- CVPR 2023B-Spline Texture Coefficients Estimator for Screen Content Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2023Backdoor Attacks Against Deep Image Compression via Adaptive Frequency Trigger
- CVPR 2023BAD-NeRF: Bundle Adjusted Deblur Neural Radiance Fields
- CVPR 2023Bayesian Posterior Approximation With Stochastic Ensembles
- CVPR 2023BBDM: Image-to-Image Translation With Brownian Bridge Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023Being Comes From Not-Being: Open-Vocabulary Text-to-Motion Generation With Wordless Training
- CVPR 2023Better "CMOS" Produces Clearer Images: Learning Space-Variant Blur Estimation for Blind Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2023BEVFormer v2: Adapting Modern Image Backbones to Bird's-Eye-View Recognition via Perspective Supervision
- CVPR 2023Bi-Directional Feature Fusion Generative Adversarial Network for Ultra-High Resolution Pathological Image Virtual Re-Staining
- CVPR 2023Bidirectional Copy-Paste for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2023Binary Latent Diffusion
- CVPR 2023Bitstream-Corrupted JPEG Images Are Restorable: Two-Stage Compensation and Alignment Framework for Image Restoration
- CVPR 2023Blind Image Quality Assessment via Vision-Language Correspondence: A Multitask Learning Perspective
- CVPR 2023Boosting Verified Training for Robust Image Classifications via Abstraction
- CVPR 2023Boundary-Aware Backward-Compatible Representation via Adversarial Learning in Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2023Breaching FedMD: Image Recovery via Paired-Logits Inversion Attack
- CVPR 2023BUOL: A Bottom-Up Framework With Occupancy-Aware Lifting for Panoptic 3D Scene Reconstruction From a Single Image
- CVPR 2023Burstormer: Burst Image Restoration and Enhancement Transformer
- CVPR 2023CABM: Content-Aware Bit Mapping for Single Image Super-Resolution Network With Large Input
- CVPR 2023Can't Steal? Cont-Steal! Contrastive Stealing Attacks Against Image Encoders
- CVPR 2023Catch Missing Details: Image Reconstruction With Frequency Augmented Variational Autoencoder
- CVPR 2023CDDFuse: Correlation-Driven Dual-Branch Feature Decomposition for Multi-Modality Image Fusion
- CVPR 2023CF-Font: Content Fusion for Few-Shot Font Generation
- CVPR 2023CiaoSR: Continuous Implicit Attention-in-Attention Network for Arbitrary-Scale Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2023CLIP for All Things Zero-Shot Sketch-Based Image Retrieval, Fine-Grained or Not
- CVPR 2023CLIP Is Also an Efficient Segmenter: A Text-Driven Approach for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2023CLIP-Sculptor: Zero-Shot Generation of High-Fidelity and Diverse Shapes From Natural Language
- CVPR 2023CLIP2Protect: Protecting Facial Privacy Using Text-Guided Makeup via Adversarial Latent Search
- CVPR 2023CLIPPO: Image-and-Language Understanding From Pixels Only
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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.