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
1,185 papers, page 7 of 24
- ICML 2026CLEAR: Context-Aware Learning with End-to-End Mask-Free Inference for Adaptive Video Subtitle Removal
- ICML 2026CoF-T2I: Video Models as Pure Visual Reasoners for Text-to-Image Generation
- ICML 2026Context Forcing: Consistent Autoregressive Video Generation with Long Context
- ICML 2026DFSAttn: Dynamic Fine-grained Sparse Attention for Efficient Video Generation
- ICML 2026DiasR: Dual-Modal Identity-Anchored Sparse Routing for Efficient Multi-Subject Video Generation
- ICML 2026DynaMem: Consistent Long Video Generation via Hierarchical Memory and Motion Priors
- ICML 2026Embedding Trust: Semantic Isotropy Predicts Nonfactuality in Long-Form Text Generation
- ICML 2026GeoLoom: High-quality Geometric Diagram Generation from Textual Input
- ICML 2026HECTOR: Hybrid Editable Compositional Object References for Video Generation
- ICML 2026Infinite-World: Scaling Interactive World Models to 1000-Frame Horizons via Pose-Free Hierarchical Memory
- ICML 2026iTryOn: Mastering Interactive Video Virtual Try-On with Spatial-Semantic Guidance
- ICML 2026LayerT2V: A Unified Multi-Layer Video Generation Framework
- ICML 2026Learning Stochastic Bridges for Video Object Removal via Video-to-Video Translation
- ICML 2026LieWarper: Geometry-Aware Motion Transfer via Lie Algebra
- ICML 2026LIVEditor-14B: Lightning Unified Video Editing via In-Context Sparse Attention
- ICML 2026LoCoT2V-Bench: Benchmarking Long-Form and Complex Text-to-Video Generation
- ICML 2026LOVE: Benchmarking and Evaluating Text-to-Video Generation and Video-to-Text Interpretation
- ICML 2026LUVE : Latent-Cascaded Ultra-High-Resolution Video Generation with Dual Frequency Experts
- ICML 2026Mixture of Distributions Matters: Dynamic Sparse Attention for Efficient Video Diffusion Transformers
- ICML 2026Motion Attribution for Video Generation
- ICML 2026MoVie: Multimodal Video Compression with Text Guidance
- ICML 2026Noisy-Channel Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding
- ICML 2026Olaf-World: Orienting Latent Actions for Video World Modeling
- ICML 2026PanoWorld-X: Generating Explorable Panoramic Worlds via Sphere-Aware Video Diffusion
- ICML 2026Quant VideoGen: Auto-Regressive Long Video Generation via 2-Bit KV-Cache Quantization
- ICML 2026ReaForest: Fostering Generative Video Reasoning for Spatial Planning
- ICML 2026RelaxFlow: Text-Driven Amodal 3D Generation
- ICML 2026Revisiting Uncertainty: On Evidential Learning for Partially Relevant Video Retrieval
- ICML 2026Self-Refining Video Sampling
- ICML 2026Smoothie: Smoothing Diffusion on Token Embeddings for Text Generation
- ICML 2026SpatialJB: How Text Distribution Art Becomes The "Jailbreak Key" for LLM Guardrails
- ICML 2026SpeedVFI: One-step Diffusion for Efficient Video Frame Interpolation
- ICML 2026T2AV-Compass: Towards Unified Evaluation for Text-to-Audio-Video Generation
- ICML 2026TD-VAD: Breaking Visual Dependence in Video Anomaly Detection with Text-Driven Learning
- ICML 2026Temporal-aware Flow Matching for Video Generation with Temporally Coherent Motion
- ICML 2026Text Has Curvature
- ICML 2026TextME: Bridging Unseen Modalities Through Text Descriptions
- ICML 2026TextMesh4D: Zero-shot Text-to-4D Mesh Generation
- ICML 2026Transform Trained Transformer for Accelerating Native 4K Video Generation
- ICML 2026Veda: Scalable Video Diffusion via Distilled Sparse Attention
- ICML 2026VELR: Efficient Video Reward Feedback via Ensemble Latent Reward Models
- ICML 2026VideoFlexTok: Flexible-Length Coarse-to-Fine Video Tokenization
- ICML 2026VideoTrace-R1: Long Video-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2026WEVSR: Video Diffusion Generators for Real-World Video Super‑Resolution with Wavelet-Enhanced VAE Encoder
- ICML 2026Where Concept Erasure Should Occur: Concept–Layer Alignment in Text-to-Video Diffusion Models
- ICML 2026WildActor: Unconstrained Identity-Preserving Video Generation
- ICML 2026Zero-Shot Text-to-Motion Evaluation using Video Language Models
- NeurIPS 20263DSPA: A 3D Semantic Point Autoencoder for Evaluating Video Realism
- NeurIPS 2026Accelerating Video Inverse Problem Solvers with Autoregressive Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2026AdaState: Self-Evolving Anchors for Streaming Video 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.