Generative models· 2021
Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation
On the reading lists
- #237 in the Top 500 (2026 edition)
- #12 in Generative models (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Introduced DALL-E, demonstrating scalable autoregressive generation from natural-language descriptions.
Condensed from the expert lists' notes.
The record
- First released
- 2021 (from arXiv 2102.12092)
- Citations
- 6,799 citations, as counted by Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Named by
- both expert lists
- Also relevant to
- Computer vision & multimodal
- Score
- 0.493 · computed rank 237 · consensus 0.67, must-read 0.5, citations percentile 0.692 (2020s · generative-models), awards 0, existing lists 0. Method
Data sources
Catalogue data from OpenAlex (CC0), Crossref (CC0 metadata; no abstracts are shown), arXiv, and Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0). Each count names its source. See the method.