Diffusion Models papers, 2023–2026

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.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• 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

694 papers, page 10 of 14

451. ICLR 2026One2Scene: Geometric Consistent Explorable 3D Scene Generation from a Single Image
452. ICLR 2026Overshoot and Shrinkage in Classifier-Free Guidance: From Theory to Practice
453. ICLR 2026OXtal: An All-Atom Diffusion Model for Organic Crystal Structure Prediction
454. ICLR 2026P3D: Highly Scalable 3D Neural Surrogates for Physics Simulations with Global Context
455. ICLR 2026PairFlow: Closed-Form Source-Target Coupling for Few-Step Generation in Discrete Flow Models
456. ICLR 2026Pallatom-Ligand: an All-Atom Diffusion Model for Designing Ligand-Binding Proteins
457. ICLR 2026Parallel Multimodal Diffusion Language Models for Thinking-Aware Editing and Generation
458. ICLR 2026Parallel Sampling from Masked Diffusion Models via Conditional Independence Testing
459. ICLR 2026ParallelBench: Understanding the Trade-offs of Parallel Decoding in Diffusion LLMs
460. ICLR 2026Pareto-Conditioned Diffusion Models for Offline Multi-Objective Optimization
461. ICLR 2026Partition Generative Modeling: Masked Modeling Without Masks
462. ICLR 2026Patronus: Interpretable Diffusion Models with Prototypes
463. ICLR 2026PepTri: Tri-Guided All-Atom Diffusion for Peptide Design via Physics, Evolution, and Mutual Information
464. ICLR 2026Physically Valid Biomolecular Interaction Modeling with Gauss-Seidel Projection
465. ICLR 2026Physics vs Distributions: Pareto Optimal Flow Matching with Physics Constraints
466. ICLR 2026Physics-Constrained Fine-Tuning of Flow-Matching Models for Generation and Inverse Problems
467. ICLR 2026pi-Flow: Policy-Based Few-Step Generation via Imitation Distillation
468. ICLR 2026PI-Light: Physics-Inspired Diffusion for Full-Image Relighting
469. ICLR 2026PICS: Pairwise Image Compositing with Spatial Interactions
470. ICLR 2026PINFDiT: Energy-Based Physics-Informed Diffusion Transformers for General-purpose Time Series Tasks
471. ICLR 2026Pixel-Level Residual Diffusion Transformer: Scalable 3D CT Volume Generation
472. ICLR 2026Pixel-Perfect Puppetry: Precision-Guided Enhancement for Face Image and Video Editing
473. ICLR 2026PixNerd: Pixel Neural Field Diffusion
474. ICLR 2026Planned Diffusion
475. ICLR 2026Planner Aware Path Learning in Diffusion Language Models Training
476. ICLR 2026Plug-and-Play Fidelity Optimization for Diffusion Transformer Acceleration via Cumulative Error Minimization
477. ICLR 2026Point Prompting: Counterfactual Tracking with Video Diffusion Models
478. ICLR 2026PolicyFlow: Policy Optimization with Continuous Normalizing Flow in Reinforcement Learning
479. ICLR 2026Polynomial Convergence of Riemannian Diffusion Models
480. ICLR 2026PreciseCache: Precise Feature Caching for Efficient and High-fidelity Video Generation
481. ICLR 2026Preserve and Personalize: Personalized Text-to-Image Diffusion Models without Distributional Drift
482. ICLR 2026Principled RL for Diffusion LLMs Emerges from a Sequence-Level Perspective
483. ICLR 2026PriorGuide: Test-Time Prior Adaptation for Simulation-Based Inference
484. ICLR 2026PRISM: Controllable Diffusion for Compound Image Restoration with Scientific Fidelity
485. ICLR 2026PRO-MOF: Policy Optimization with Universal Atomistic Models for Controllable MOF Generation
486. ICLR 2026Product-Quantised Image Representation for High-Quality Image Synthesis
487. ICLR 2026Projected Coupled Diffusion for Test-Time Constrained Joint Generation
488. ICLR 2026ProteinAE: Protein Diffusion Autoencoders for Structure Encoding
489. ICLR 2026Provable Separations between Memorization and Generalization in Diffusion Models
490. ICLR 2026Proximal Diffusion Neural Sampler
491. ICLR 2026Purrception: Variational Flow Matching for Vector-Quantized Image Generation
492. ICLR 2026Pusa V1.0: Unlocking Temporal Control in Pretrained Video Diffusion Models via Vectorized Timestep Adaptation
493. ICLR 2026Pyramid Patchification Flow for Visual Generation
494. ICLR 2026Q-Learning with Adjoint Matching
495. ICLR 2026Q&C: When Quantization Meets Cache in Efficient Generation
496. ICLR 2026Quantization-Aware Diffusion Models For Maximum Likelihood Training
497. ICLR 2026Quartet of Diffusions: Structure-Aware Point Cloud Generation through Part and Symmetry Guidance
498. ICLR 2026Quotient-Space Diffusion Model
499. ICLR 2026QVGen: Pushing the Limit of Quantized Video Generative Models
500. ICLR 2026Rainbow Padding: Mitigating Early Termination in Instruction-Tuned Diffusion LLMs

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.