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

660 papers, page 10 of 14

451. NeurIPS 2023Energy Guided Diffusion for Generating Neurally Exciting Images
452. NeurIPS 2023Energy Transformer
453. NeurIPS 2023Energy-Based Cross Attention for Bayesian Context Update in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
454. NeurIPS 2023Energy-Based Models for Anomaly Detection: A Manifold Diffusion Recovery Approach
455. NeurIPS 2023Enhancing Adversarial Robustness via Score-Based Optimization
456. NeurIPS 2023Entropic Neural Optimal Transport via Diffusion Processes
457. NeurIPS 2023Equivariant flow matching
458. NeurIPS 2023Equivariant Flow Matching with Hybrid Probability Transport for 3D Molecule Generation
459. NeurIPS 2023Exploring the Optimal Choice for Generative Processes in Diffusion Models: Ordinary vs Stochastic Differential Equations
460. NeurIPS 2023Exposing flaws of generative model evaluation metrics and their unfair treatment of diffusion models
461. NeurIPS 2023Extracting Reward Functions from Diffusion Models
462. NeurIPS 2023Extraction and Recovery of Spatio-Temporal Structure in Latent Dynamics Alignment with Diffusion Models
463. NeurIPS 2023FaceComposer: A Unified Model for Versatile Facial Content Creation
464. NeurIPS 2023FaceDNeRF: Semantics-Driven Face Reconstruction, Prompt Editing and Relighting with Diffusion Models
465. NeurIPS 2023Fast Scalable and Accurate Discovery of DAGs Using the Best Order Score Search and Grow Shrink Trees
466. NeurIPS 2023Feature Likelihood Divergence: Evaluating the Generalization of Generative Models Using Samples
467. NeurIPS 2023FineMoGen: Fine-Grained Spatio-Temporal Motion Generation and Editing
468. NeurIPS 2023Flow Matching for Scalable Simulation-Based Inference
469. NeurIPS 2023Formulating Discrete Probability Flow Through Optimal Transport
470. NeurIPS 2023Free-Bloom: Zero-Shot Text-to-Video Generator with LLM Director and LDM Animator
471. NeurIPS 2023From Discrete Tokens to High-Fidelity Audio Using Multi-Band Diffusion
472. NeurIPS 2023Functional Renyi Differential Privacy for Generative Modeling
473. NeurIPS 2023Functional-Group-Based Diffusion for Pocket-Specific Molecule Generation and Elaboration
474. NeurIPS 2023Gaussian Mixture Solvers for Diffusion Models
475. NeurIPS 2023Generate What You Prefer: Reshaping Sequential Recommendation via Guided Diffusion
476. NeurIPS 2023Generating Behaviorally Diverse Policies with Latent Diffusion Models
477. NeurIPS 2023Generative Category-level Object Pose Estimation via Diffusion Models
478. NeurIPS 2023Generative Modeling through the Semi-dual Formulation of Unbalanced Optimal Transport
479. NeurIPS 2023Generative Neural Fields by Mixtures of Neural Implicit Functions
480. NeurIPS 2023GenImage: A Million-Scale Benchmark for Detecting AI-Generated Image
481. NeurIPS 2023Geometric Neural Diffusion Processes
482. NeurIPS 2023Global Structure-Aware Diffusion Process for Low-light Image Enhancement
483. NeurIPS 2023GLOBER: Coherent Non-autoregressive Video Generation via GLOBal Guided Video DecodER
484. NeurIPS 2023GlyphControl: Glyph Conditional Control for Visual Text Generation
485. NeurIPS 2023GMSF: Global Matching Scene Flow
486. NeurIPS 2023GRAND-SLAMIN’ Interpretable Additive Modeling with Structural Constraints
487. NeurIPS 2023Graph Denoising Diffusion for Inverse Protein Folding
488. NeurIPS 2023Hard Prompts Made Easy: Gradient-Based Discrete Optimization for Prompt Tuning and Discovery
489. NeurIPS 2023HeadSculpt: Crafting 3D Head Avatars with Text
490. NeurIPS 2023Hierarchical Integration Diffusion Model for Realistic Image Deblurring
491. NeurIPS 2023Hierarchical Semi-Implicit Variational Inference with Application to Diffusion Model Acceleration
492. NeurIPS 2023ImageReward: Learning and Evaluating Human Preferences for Text-to-Image Generation
493. NeurIPS 2023Imagine That! Abstract-to-Intricate Text-to-Image Synthesis with Scene Graph Hallucination Diffusion
494. NeurIPS 2023Implicit Transfer Operator Learning: Multiple Time-Resolution Models for Molecular Dynamics
495. NeurIPS 2023IMPRESS: Evaluating the Resilience of Imperceptible Perturbations Against Unauthorized Data Usage in Diffusion-Based Generative AI
496. NeurIPS 2023Improving Diffusion-Based Image Synthesis with Context Prediction
497. NeurIPS 2023In-Context Learning Unlocked for Diffusion Models
498. NeurIPS 2023Incomplete Multimodality-Diffused Emotion Recognition
499. NeurIPS 2023InsActor: Instruction-driven Physics-based Characters
500. NeurIPS 2023Inserting Anybody in Diffusion Models via Celeb Basis

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.