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
1,216 papers, page 1 of 25
- CVPR 2024360DVD: Controllable Panorama Video Generation with 360-Degree Video Diffusion Model
- CVPR 20243D Face Tracking from 2D Video through Iterative Dense UV to Image Flow
- CVPR 20243D Facial Expressions through Analysis-by-Neural-Synthesis
- CVPR 20243D-SceneDreamer: Text-Driven 3D-Consistent Scene Generation
- CVPR 20243DFIRES: Few Image 3D REconstruction for Scenes with Hidden Surfaces
- CVPR 20243DGS-Avatar: Animatable Avatars via Deformable 3D Gaussian Splatting
- CVPR 20244D-fy: Text-to-4D Generation Using Hybrid Score Distillation Sampling
- CVPR 2024A Bayesian Approach to OOD Robustness in Image Classification
- CVPR 2024A Dynamic Kernel Prior Model for Unsupervised Blind Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2024A Picture is Worth More Than 77 Text Tokens: Evaluating CLIP-Style Models on Dense Captions
- CVPR 2024A Recipe for Scaling up Text-to-Video Generation with Text-free Videos
- CVPR 2024A Unified and Interpretable Emotion Representation and Expression Generation
- CVPR 2024A Unified Approach for Text- and Image-guided 4D Scene Generation
- CVPR 2024AAMDM: Accelerated Auto-regressive Motion Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024Accept the Modality Gap: An Exploration in the Hyperbolic Space
- CVPR 2024Action Detection via an Image Diffusion Process
- CVPR 2024AdaBM: On-the-Fly Adaptive Bit Mapping for Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2024Adapt or Perish: Adaptive Sparse Transformer with Attentive Feature Refinement for Image Restoration
- CVPR 2024Adaptive Bidirectional Displacement for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024AdaRevD: Adaptive Patch Exiting Reversible Decoder Pushes the Limit of Image Deblurring
- CVPR 2024Adversarial Text to Continuous Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Align Your Gaussians: Text-to-4D with Dynamic 3D Gaussians and Composed Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024ANIM: Accurate Neural Implicit Model for Human Reconstruction from a single RGB-D Image
- CVPR 2024Animate Anyone: Consistent and Controllable Image-to-Video Synthesis for Character Animation
- CVPR 2024Animating General Image with Large Visual Motion Model
- CVPR 2024AnyScene: Customized Image Synthesis with Composited Foreground
- CVPR 2024Arbitrary-Scale Image Generation and Upsampling using Latent Diffusion Model and Implicit Neural Decoder
- CVPR 2024ArtAdapter: Text-to-Image Style Transfer using Multi-Level Style Encoder and Explicit Adaptation
- CVPR 2024Atlantis: Enabling Underwater Depth Estimation with Stable Diffusion
- CVPR 2024Attention Calibration for Disentangled Text-to-Image Personalization
- CVPR 2024Attention-Driven Training-Free Efficiency Enhancement of Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024AttriHuman-3D: Editable 3D Human Avatar Generation with Attribute Decomposition and Indexing
- CVPR 2024Automatic Controllable Colorization via Imagination
- CVPR 2024AvatarGPT: All-in-One Framework for Motion Understanding Planning Generation and Beyond
- CVPR 2024Balancing Act: Distribution-Guided Debiasing in Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Batch Normalization Alleviates the Spectral Bias in Coordinate Networks
- CVPR 2024BerfScene: Bev-conditioned Equivariant Radiance Fields for Infinite 3D Scene Generation
- CVPR 2024Beyond First-Order Tweedie: Solving Inverse Problems using Latent Diffusion
- CVPR 2024Beyond Image Super-Resolution for Image Recognition with Task-Driven Perceptual Loss
- CVPR 2024Bi-level Learning of Task-Specific Decoders for Joint Registration and One-Shot Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Bidirectional Autoregessive Diffusion Model for Dance Generation
- CVPR 2024BiTT: Bi-directional Texture Reconstruction of Interacting Two Hands from a Single Image
- CVPR 2024BIVDiff: A Training-Free Framework for General-Purpose Video Synthesis via Bridging Image and Video Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Blind Image Quality Assessment Based on Geometric Order Learning
- CVPR 2024Blur2Blur: Blur Conversion for Unsupervised Image Deblurring on Unknown Domains
- CVPR 2024Boosting Image Restoration via Priors from Pre-trained Models
- CVPR 2024Boosting Spike Camera Image Reconstruction from a Perspective of Dealing with Spike Fluctuations
- CVPR 2024Bootstrapping Chest CT Image Understanding by Distilling Knowledge from X-ray Expert Models
- CVPR 2024BOTH2Hands: Inferring 3D Hands from Both Text Prompts and Body Dynamics
- CVPR 2024C3: High-Performance and Low-Complexity Neural Compression from a Single Image or Video
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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.