Diffusion Models papers, 2023–2026
Diffusion, flow matching, and score-based generative modeling
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 6,900 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Diffusion Models went from 660 papers in 2023 to 2,691 in 2026, roughly 4.1x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Diffusion Models work: 2,202 papers from 2023 to 2026, 32% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Applications · chemistry physics and earth sciences: papers tagged with both rose from 14 in 2023 to 163 in 2026.
- Among the 11 topics under Deep Learning, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Deep learning · foundation models, is up 2.5x versus 4.1x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 327 | 86 | 109 | 138 | 660 |
| 2024 | 520 | 260 | 195 | 496 | 1,471 |
| 2025 | 694 | 487 | 346 | 551 | 2,078 |
| 2026 | 661 | 694 | 728 | 608 | 2,691 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026$\mathbf{D^{3}S^{2}}$: Diffusion-Guided Dataset Distillation for Semantic Segmentation
- ICML 2026“Do Diffusion Models Dream of Electric Planes?” Discrete and Continuous Simulation-Based Inference for Aircraft Design
- ICLR 2026$\alpha$-DPO: Robust Preference Alignment for Diffusion Models via $\alpha$ Divergence
- CVPR 20262ndMatch Finetuning Pruned Diffusion Models via Second-Order Jacobian Matching
- NeurIPS 2025$\text{S}^2$Q-VDiT: Accurate Quantized Video Diffusion Transformer with Salient Data and Sparse Token Distillation
- ICML 2025A First-order Generative Bilevel Optimization Framework for Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025$\text{I}^2\text{AM}$: Interpreting Image-to-Image Latent Diffusion Models via Bi-Attribution Maps
- CVPR 20253DEnhancer: Consistent Multi-View Diffusion for 3D Enhancement
- NeurIPS 2024$\text{Di}^2\text{Pose}$: Discrete Diffusion Model for Occluded 3D Human Pose Estimation
- ICML 2024A Dense Reward View on Aligning Text-to-Image Diffusion with Preference
- ICLR 2024$\infty$-Diff: Infinite Resolution Diffusion with Subsampled Mollified States
- CVPR 2024D^4: Dataset Distillation via Disentangled Diffusion Model
- NeurIPS 20233D molecule generation by denoising voxel grids
- ICML 2023A Critical Revisit of Adversarial Robustness in 3D Point Cloud Recognition with Diffusion-Driven Purification
- ICLR 2023(Certified!!) Adversarial Robustness for Free!
- CVPR 20233D Neural Field Generation Using Triplane Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2026$\text{PartConcepts}$: A Unified Mechanism for Fine-Grained Part Localization and Generation
- ICML 2026$\sigma$: Sigmoid Modulation for Ultra High Resolution Diffusion
- ICLR 2026$\textit{MADFormer}$: Mixed Autoregressive and Diffusion Transformers for Continuous Image Generation
- CVPR 20263D-LATTE Latent Space 3D Editing from Textual Instructions
All Diffusion Models papers
1,792 papers, page 10 of 36
- CVPR 2026Residual Connections Harm Generative Representation Learning
- CVPR 2026Residual Diffusion Bridge Model for Image Restoration
- CVPR 2026Resolving Endpoint Underfitting in Diffusion Bridges via Noise Alignment
- CVPR 2026Rethinking Diffusion Model-Based Video Super-Resolution Leveraging Dense Guidance from Aligned
- CVPR 2026Reviving ConvNeXt for Efficient Convolutional Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026Reward Forcing Efficient Streaming Video Generation with Rewarded Distribution Matching
- CVPR 2026Reward Sharpness-Aware Fine-Tuning for Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026RewardFlow Generate Images by Optimizing What You Reward
- CVPR 2026RFDM Residual Flow Diffusion Models for Video Editing
- CVPR 2026Roots Beneath the Cut Uncovering the Risk of Concept Revival
- CVPR 2026S2D Sparse to Dense Lifting for 3D Reconstruction with Minimal
- CVPR 2026SafeRoPE Risk-specific Head-wise Embedding Rotation for Safe Generation in Rectified
- CVPR 2026Sampling-Aware Quantization for Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026Scalable Feature Matching via State Space Modeling and Sparse Correlation
- CVPR 2026Scale Space Diffusion
- CVPR 2026ScenDi 3D-to-2D Scene Diffusion Cascades for Urban Generation
- CVPR 2026Sculpt4D Generating 4D Shapes via Sparse-Attention Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2026SD-FSMIS Adapting Stable Diffusion for Few-Shot Medical Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2026SDUIE Semi-Supervised Diffusion for Underwater Image Enhancement with Quant-Text Dual
- CVPR 2026SeaCache Spectral-Evolution-Aware Cache for Accelerating Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026See and Fix the Flaws Enabling VLMs and Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026SegQuant A Semantics-Aware and Generalizable Quantization Framework for Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026Self-Diffusion Driven Blind Imaging
- CVPR 2026Self-Evaluation Unlocks Any-Step Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2026Semantic Alignment for Pose-Invariant Identity Preserving Diffusion
- CVPR 2026Semantic Derivative Flow Graph-Guided Diffusion for Controllable Instance Interactions
- CVPR 2026Semantic-Adaptive Diffusion for Dynamic Spatiotemporal Fusion
- CVPR 2026Semantics Lead the Way Harmonizing Semantic and Texture Modeling with
- CVPR 2026SenCache Accelerating Diffusion Model Inference via Sensitivity-Aware Caching
- CVPR 2026ShapeAR Generating Editable Shape Layers via Autoregressive Diffusion
- CVPR 2026ShowTable Unlocking Creative Table Visualization with Collaborative Reflection and Refinement
- CVPR 2026ShowUI-p Flow-based Generative Models as GUI Dexterous Hands
- CVPR 2026SignPR A Progressive Vector-Quantized Diffusion Framework for Sign Language Production
- CVPR 2026Similarity-Consistent Likelihood Diffusion enables Hidden Person Detection from Wall Reflections
- CVPR 2026Single-step Diffusion-based Video Coding with Semantic-Temporal Guidance
- CVPR 2026Sketch2CT Multimodal Diffusion for Structure-Aware 3D Medical Volume Generation
- CVPR 2026SketchRevive Fine-Grained Pixel-to-Vector Sketch Completion with Diffusion-Prior-Guided Multimodal LLMs
- CVPR 2026SmokeSVD Smoke Reconstruction from A Single View via Progressive Novel
- CVPR 2026Smoothing the Score Function to Enhance Generalization in Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026SODA Sensitivity-Oriented Dynamic Acceleration for Diffusion Transformer
- CVPR 2026SpaceTimePilot Generative Rendering of Dynamic Scenes Across Space and Time
- CVPR 2026Sparse-LaViDa Sparse Multimodal Discrete Diffusion Language Models
- CVPR 2026Spatial-Spectral Residuals Informed Diffusion Neural Operator for Pan-sharpening
- CVPR 2026Spatiotemporal Pyramid Flow Matching for Climate Emulation
- CVPR 2026SPDMark Selective Parameter Displacement for Robust Video Watermarking
- CVPR 2026SpeeDiff Scalable Pixel-Anchored End-to-End Latent Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2026SpiralDiff Spiral Diffusion with LoRA for RGB-to-RAW Conversion Across Cameras
- CVPR 2026Splatent Splatting Diffusion Latents for Novel View Synthesis
- CVPR 2026SpotEdit Selective Region Editing in Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2026SRA 2 Variational Autoencoder Self-Representation Alignment for Efficient Diffusion
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FAQ
- How many Diffusion Models papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 6,900 in total: 660 in 2023, 1,471 in 2024, 2,078 in 2025, 2,691 in 2026.
- How many Diffusion Models papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 661 Diffusion Models papers, versus 694 the year before.
- How many Diffusion Models papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 694 Diffusion Models papers, versus 487 the year before.
- How many Diffusion Models papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 728 Diffusion Models papers, versus 346 the year before.
- How many Diffusion Models papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 608 Diffusion Models papers, versus 551 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Diffusion Models papers?
- NeurIPS, with 2,202 papers from 2023 to 2026.
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