Text-to-Video papers, 2023–2026
Video generation
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 1,185 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Text-to-Video went from 170 papers in 2023 to 448 in 2026, roughly 2.6x in three years.
- CVPR publishes the most Text-to-Video work: 574 papers from 2023 to 2026, 48% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Deep learning · generative models and autoencoders: papers tagged with both rose from 2 in 2023 to 26 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Multimodal Generation, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Storytelling Generation, is up 15x versus 2.6x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 52 | 21 | 17 | 80 | 170 |
| 2024 | 55 | 35 | 17 | 140 | 247 |
| 2025 | 91 | 59 | 14 | 156 | 320 |
| 2026 | 101 | 94 | 55 | 198 | 448 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026CausalCine: Real-Time Autoregressive Generation for Multi-Shot Video Narratives
- ICML 2026DFSAttn: Dynamic Fine-grained Sparse Attention for Efficient Video Generation
- ICLR 2026$PhyWorldBench$: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Physical Realism in Text-to-Video Models
- CVPR 20263D-Aware Implicit Motion Control for View-Adaptive Human Video Generation
- NeurIPS 2025Dynamic Shadow Unveils Invisible Semantics for Video Outpainting
- ICML 2025GRADEO: Towards Human-Like Evaluation for Text-to-Video Generation via Multi-Step Reasoning
- ICLR 20253DTrajMaster: Mastering 3D Trajectory for Multi-Entity Motion in Video Generation
- CVPR 20254D-Fly: Fast 4D Reconstruction from a Single Monocular Video
- NeurIPS 2024ChronoMagic-Bench: A Benchmark for Metamorphic Evaluation of Text-to-Time-lapse Video Generation
- ICML 2024Q-Align: Teaching LMMs for Visual Scoring via Discrete Text-Defined Levels
- ICLR 2024Provable Robust Watermarking for AI-Generated Text
- CVPR 2024Enhanced Motion-Text Alignment for Image-to-Video Transfer Learning
- NeurIPS 2023Any-to-Any Generation via Composable Diffusion
- ICML 2023Controlled Text Generation with Natural Language Instructions
- ICLR 2023CogVideo: Large-scale Pretraining for Text-to-Video Generation via Transformers
- CVPR 20231000 FPS HDR Video With a Spike-RGB Hybrid Camera
- NeurIPS 2026Character Mixing for Video Generation
- ICML 2026Noisy-Channel Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding
- ICLR 2026Anchor Frame Bridging for Coherent First-Last Frame Video Generation
- CVPR 2026Building a Precise Video Language with Human-AI Oversight
All Text-to-Video papers
448 papers, page 6 of 9
- ICLR 2026MotionStream: Real-Time Video Generation with Interactive Motion Controls
- ICLR 2026MTVCraft: Tokenizing 4D Motion for Arbitrary Character Animation
- ICLR 2026NarrLV: Towards a Comprehensive Narrative-Centric Evaluation for Long Video Generation
- ICLR 2026Neodragon: Mobile Video Generation Using Diffusion Transformer
- ICLR 2026NeRV-Diffusion: Diffuse Implicit Neural Representation for Video Synthesis
- ICLR 2026NewtonGen: Physics-consistent and Controllable Text-to-Video Generation via Neural Newtonian Dynamics
- ICLR 2026Phantom-Data: Towards a General Subject-Consistent Video Generation Dataset
- ICLR 2026Pusa V1.0: Unlocking Temporal Control in Pretrained Video Diffusion Models via Vectorized Timestep Adaptation
- ICLR 2026ReactID: Synchronizing Realistic Actions and Identity in Personalized Video Generation
- ICLR 2026Real-Time Motion-Controllable Autoregressive Video Diffusion
- ICLR 2026Revisiting Global Text Conditioning in Diffusion Transformers
- ICLR 2026Robust Test-time Video-Text Retrieval: Benchmarking and Adapting for Query Shifts
- ICLR 2026Rolling Forcing: Autoregressive Long Video Diffusion in Real Time
- ICLR 2026SANA-Video: Efficient Video Generation with Block Linear Diffusion Transformer
- ICLR 2026Scale-wise Distillation of Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2026Self-Forcing++: Towards Minute-Scale High-Quality Video Generation
- ICLR 2026SenseFlow: Scaling Distribution Matching for Flow-based Text-to-Image Distillation
- ICLR 2026SimpleGVR: A Simple Baseline for Latent-Cascaded Generative Video Super-Resolution
- ICLR 2026Stable Video Infinity: Infinite-Length Video Generation with Error Recycling
- ICLR 2026SteinsGate: Adding Causality to Diffusions for Long Video Generation via Path Integral
- ICLR 2026Target-Aware Video Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2026Text summarization via global structure awareness
- ICLR 2026Text-to-3D by Stitching a Multi-view Reconstruction Network to a Video Generator
- ICLR 2026Time-to-Move: Training-Free Motion-Controlled Video Generation via Dual-Clock Denoising
- ICLR 2026ToonComposer: Streamlining Cartoon Production with Generative Post-Keyframing
- ICLR 2026Towards One-step Causal Video Generation via Adversarial Self-Distillation
- ICLR 2026TPDiff: Temporal Pyramid Video Diffusion Model
- ICLR 2026Training-Free Text-Guided Color Editing with Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformer
- ICLR 2026TriC-Motion: Tri-Domain Causal Modeling Grounded Text-to-Motion Generation
- ICLR 2026TS-Attn: Temporal-wise Separable Attention for Multi-Event Video Generation
- ICLR 2026TTOM: Test-Time Optimization and Memorization for Compositional Video Generation
- ICLR 2026UltraViCo: Breaking Extrapolation Limits in Video Diffusion Transformers
- ICLR 2026Unified In-Context Video Editing
- ICLR 2026Uniform Discrete Diffusion with Metric Path for Video Generation
- ICLR 2026Video Unlearning via Low-Rank Refusal Vector
- ICLR 2026Video-As-Prompt: Unified Semantic Control for Video Generation
- ICLR 2026VideoPhy-2: A Challenging Action-Centric Physical Commonsense Evaluation in Video Generation
- ICLR 2026Vivid-VR: Distilling Concepts from Text-to-Video Diffusion Transformer for Photorealistic Video Restoration
- ICLR 2026VL-JEPA: Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture for Vision-language
- ICLR 2026VMoBA: Mixture-of-Block Attention for Video Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2026Weak-to-Strong Diffusion
- ICLR 2026WoW!: World Models in a Closed-Loop World
- ICML 2026$\text{DT}^\text{2}$: Decision-Targeted Digital Twins
- ICML 2026A Very Big Video Reasoning Suite
- ICML 2026AlignVid: Taming Visual Dominance via Training-Free Attention Modulation in Text-guided Image-to-Video Generation
- ICML 2026AVGen-Bench: A Task-Driven Benchmark for Multi-Granular Evaluation of Text-to-Audio-Video Generation
- ICML 2026Beyond Detection: A Structure-Aware Framework for Scene Text Tracking
- ICML 2026CameraNoise: Enabling Faithful Camera Control in Video Diffusion through Geometry-Flow-Guided Noise Warping
- ICML 2026CamGeo: Sparse Camera-Conditioned Image-to-Video Generation with 3D Geometry Priors
- ICML 2026Clarify Before You Draw: Proactive Agents for Robust Text-to-CAD Generation
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FAQ
- How many Text-to-Video papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 1,185 in total: 170 in 2023, 247 in 2024, 320 in 2025, 448 in 2026.
- How many Text-to-Video papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 101 Text-to-Video papers, versus 91 the year before.
- How many Text-to-Video papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 94 Text-to-Video papers, versus 59 the year before.
- How many Text-to-Video papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 55 Text-to-Video papers, versus 14 the year before.
- How many Text-to-Video papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 198 Text-to-Video papers, versus 156 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Text-to-Video papers?
- CVPR, with 574 papers from 2023 to 2026.