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

1,721 papers, page 1 of 35

1. CVPR 20262-Shots in the Dark Low-Light Denoising with Minimal Data Acquisition
2. CVPR 20263D-Aware Implicit Motion Control for View-Adaptive Human Video Generation
3. CVPR 20263D-LATTE Latent Space 3D Editing from Textual Instructions
4. CVPR 20264DWorldBench A Comprehensive Evaluation Framework for 3D4D World Generation Models
5. CVPR 2026A More Word-like Image Tokenization for MLLMs
6. CVPR 2026A Style is Worth One Code Unlocking Code-to-Style Image Generation
7. CVPR 2026A Temporal and Content Co-Awareness Latent Diffusion for Controllable Hand
8. CVPR 2026A Training-Free Style-Personalization via SVD-Based Feature Decomposition
9. CVPR 2026Accelerating Diffusion via Hybrid Data-Pipeline Parallelism Based on Conditional Guidance
10. CVPR 2026AceTone Bridging Words and Colors for Conditional Image Grading
11. CVPR 2026ACPV-Net All-Class Polygonal Vectorization for Seamless Vector Map Generation from
12. CVPR 2026Act Like a Pathologist Tissue-Aware Whole Slide Image Reasoning
13. CVPR 2026ActionMesh Animated 3D Mesh Generation with Temporal 3D Diffusion
14. CVPR 2026Adapter Shield A Unified Framework with Built-in Authentication for Preventing
15. CVPR 2026Adapting In-context Generation for Enhanced Composed Image Retrieval
16. CVPR 2026Adapting Lightweight Image-based Counting Models for Video Crowd Counting
17. CVPR 2026Adaptive Auxiliary Prompt Blending for Target-Faithful Diffusion Generation
18. CVPR 2026Adaptive Learned Image Compression with Graph Neural Networks
19. CVPR 2026Advancing Image Classification with Discrete Diffusion Classification Modeling
20. CVPR 2026AIMDepth Asymmetric Image-Event Mamba for Monocular Depth Estimation
21. CVPR 2026Air-Know Arbiter-Calibrated Knowledge-Internalizing Robust Network for Composed Image Retrieval
22. CVPR 2026AlcheMinT Fine-grained Temporal Control for Multi-Reference Consistent Video Generation
23. CVPR 2026Align Images Before You Generate
24. CVPR 2026Aligning Multi-Character Narrative Image Generation with Multi-Aspect Human Preferences
25. CVPR 2026Aligning Text Images and 3D Structure Token-by-Token
26. CVPR 2026Animator-Centric Skeleton Generation on Objects with Fine-Grained Details
27. CVPR 2026Anti-I2V Safeguarding your Photos from Malicious Image-to-video Generation
28. CVPR 2026AnyDoc Enhancing Document Generation via Large-Scale HTMLCSS Data Synthesis and
29. CVPR 2026Are We Ready for RL in Text-to-3D Generation A Progressive
30. CVPR 2026ARMFlow AutoRegressive MeanFlow for Online 3D Human Reaction Generation
31. CVPR 2026ArtiMuse Fine-Grained Image Aesthetics Assessment with Joint Scoring and Expert-Level
32. CVPR 2026Attribution as Retrieval Model-Agnostic AI-Generated Image Attribution
33. CVPR 2026AutoRegressive Generation with B-rep Holistic Token Sequence Representation
34. CVPR 2026AvatarPointillist AutoRegressive 4D Gaussian Avatarization
35. CVPR 2026Benchmarking Endoscopic Surgical Image Restoration and Beyond
36. CVPR 2026Best Segmentation Buddies for Image-Shape Correspondence
37. CVPR 2026Better Stronger Faster Tackling the Trilemma in MLLM-based Segmentation with
38. CVPR 2026Beyond Fixed Formulas Data-Driven Linear Predictor for Efficient Diffusion Models
39. CVPR 2026Beyond Ground-Truth Leveraging Image Quality Priors for Real-World Image Restoration
40. CVPR 2026Beyond Heuristic Prompting A Concept-Guided Bayesian Framework for Zero-Shot Image
41. CVPR 2026Beyond Objects Contextual Synthetic Data Generation for Fine-Grained Classification
42. CVPR 2026Beyond Patches Global-aware Autoregressive Model for Multimodal Few-Shot Font Generation
43. CVPR 2026Beyond Pixel Simulation Pathology Image Generation via Diagnostic Semantic Tokens
44. CVPR 2026Beyond Semantic Search Towards Referential Anchoring in Composed Image Retrieval
45. CVPR 2026Beyond Single Solution Multi-Hypothesis Deep Unfolding Network for Image Compressive
46. CVPR 2026Beyond Text Prompts Precise Concept Erasure through Text-Image Collaboration
47. CVPR 2026Beyond the Ground Truth Enhanced Supervision for Image Restoration
48. CVPR 2026Beyond Tie Points Satellite Image Block Adjustment based on Dense
49. CVPR 2026Bi-Bridge Bidirectional Diffusion Bridges for Low-Light Image Enhancement
50. CVPR 2026Bias Is a Subspace Not a Coordinate A Geometric Rethinking

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.