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Text-to-image diffusion: research map

1,310 accepted papers on Text-to-image diffusion in Image generation, from ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR and AAAI (2016–2026), grouped into 3 clusters and 12 approaches. The busiest year so far is 2026.

Within Image generation, its share grew from 18.8% in 2023–24 to 20.8% in 2025–26 (391 → 851 papers at ICML, NeurIPS, CVPR and AAAI, the venues with data for all four years).

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