Research map / Image generation
GANs: research map
515 accepted papers on GANs in Image generation, from ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR and AAAI (2016–2026), grouped into 2 clusters and 8 approaches. The busiest year so far is 2019.
Within Image generation, its share shrank from 2.8% in 2023–24 to 0.6% in 2025–26 (58 → 25 papers at ICML, NeurIPS, CVPR and AAAI, the venues with data for all four years).
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Approaches and key papers
gans · mode · samples · 279 papers
Approaches in this cluster:
- Stabilized GAN training (144 papers)
Improve GAN stability, convergence, and limited-data training with new objectives and discriminators. - GAN latent optimization and evaluation (52 papers)
Improve generators via latent optimization, pretrained GANs, optimal transport, and divergence-based evaluation. - GANs for text generation (21 papers)
Train discrete text generators adversarially with feature matching and imitation objectives. - Generative adversarial network theory (62 papers)
Analyzes and stabilizes GAN training through kernels, Langevin dynamics and structure preservation.
Most cited and most cited since 2024:
- Spectral Normalization for Generative Adversarial Networks (ICLR 2018 · 3,438 citations)
- Self-Attention Generative Adversarial Networks (ICML 2019 · 2,555 citations)
- RG-GAN: Dynamic Regenerative Pruning for Data-Efficient Generative Adversarial Networks (AAAI 2024 · 14 citations)
- Generative Model Perception Rectification Algorithm for Trade-Off between Diversity and Quality (AAAI 2024 · 12 citations)
synthesis · latent · face · 236 papers
Approaches in this cluster:
- Large-scale GAN latent analysis (108 papers)
Train high-fidelity GANs and analyze their latent semantics. - GAN-based image manipulation (90 papers)
Apply GANs to editing, translation, and domain-specific image synthesis. - Conditional GANs (25 papers)
Improve conditional image synthesis with diversity and contrastive objectives. - GAN vocoders and audio synthesis (13 papers)
Synthesize speech and audio waveforms with adversarial networks.
Most cited and most cited since 2024:
- A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks (CVPR 2019 · 11,298 citations)
- Analyzing and Improving the Image Quality of StyleGAN (CVPR 2020 · 6,132 citations)
- Virtual Immunohistochemistry Staining for Histological Images Assisted by Weakly-supervised Learning (CVPR 2024 · 20 citations)
- Procedural Level Generation with Diffusion Models from a Single Example (AAAI 2024 · 9 citations)
Related topics in Image generation
- Autoregressive and latent generation (1,747)
- Super-resolution (429)
- Editing and style transfer (988)
- Fast diffusion sampling (1,866)
- Image restoration (1,184)
- Text-to-image diffusion (1,310)