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

2,690 papers, page 10 of 54

451. CVPR 2026Residual Connections Harm Generative Representation Learning
452. CVPR 2026Residual Diffusion Bridge Model for Image Restoration
453. CVPR 2026Resolving Endpoint Underfitting in Diffusion Bridges via Noise Alignment
454. CVPR 2026Rethinking Diffusion Model-Based Video Super-Resolution Leveraging Dense Guidance from Aligned
455. CVPR 2026Reviving ConvNeXt for Efficient Convolutional Diffusion Models
456. CVPR 2026Reward Forcing Efficient Streaming Video Generation with Rewarded Distribution Matching
457. CVPR 2026Reward Sharpness-Aware Fine-Tuning for Diffusion Models
458. CVPR 2026RewardFlow Generate Images by Optimizing What You Reward
459. CVPR 2026RFDM Residual Flow Diffusion Models for Video Editing
460. CVPR 2026Roots Beneath the Cut Uncovering the Risk of Concept Revival
461. CVPR 2026S2D Sparse to Dense Lifting for 3D Reconstruction with Minimal
462. CVPR 2026SafeRoPE Risk-specific Head-wise Embedding Rotation for Safe Generation in Rectified
463. CVPR 2026Sampling-Aware Quantization for Diffusion Models
464. CVPR 2026Scalable Feature Matching via State Space Modeling and Sparse Correlation
465. CVPR 2026Scale Space Diffusion
466. CVPR 2026ScenDi 3D-to-2D Scene Diffusion Cascades for Urban Generation
467. CVPR 2026Sculpt4D Generating 4D Shapes via Sparse-Attention Diffusion Transformers
468. CVPR 2026SD-FSMIS Adapting Stable Diffusion for Few-Shot Medical Image Segmentation
469. CVPR 2026SDUIE Semi-Supervised Diffusion for Underwater Image Enhancement with Quant-Text Dual
470. CVPR 2026SeaCache Spectral-Evolution-Aware Cache for Accelerating Diffusion Models
471. CVPR 2026See and Fix the Flaws Enabling VLMs and Diffusion Models
472. CVPR 2026SegQuant A Semantics-Aware and Generalizable Quantization Framework for Diffusion Models
473. CVPR 2026Self-Diffusion Driven Blind Imaging
474. CVPR 2026Self-Evaluation Unlocks Any-Step Text-to-Image Generation
475. CVPR 2026Semantic Alignment for Pose-Invariant Identity Preserving Diffusion
476. CVPR 2026Semantic Derivative Flow Graph-Guided Diffusion for Controllable Instance Interactions
477. CVPR 2026Semantic-Adaptive Diffusion for Dynamic Spatiotemporal Fusion
478. CVPR 2026Semantics Lead the Way Harmonizing Semantic and Texture Modeling with
479. CVPR 2026SenCache Accelerating Diffusion Model Inference via Sensitivity-Aware Caching
480. CVPR 2026ShapeAR Generating Editable Shape Layers via Autoregressive Diffusion
481. CVPR 2026ShowTable Unlocking Creative Table Visualization with Collaborative Reflection and Refinement
482. CVPR 2026ShowUI-p Flow-based Generative Models as GUI Dexterous Hands
483. CVPR 2026SignPR A Progressive Vector-Quantized Diffusion Framework for Sign Language Production
484. CVPR 2026Similarity-Consistent Likelihood Diffusion enables Hidden Person Detection from Wall Reflections
485. CVPR 2026Single-step Diffusion-based Video Coding with Semantic-Temporal Guidance
486. CVPR 2026Sketch2CT Multimodal Diffusion for Structure-Aware 3D Medical Volume Generation
487. CVPR 2026SketchRevive Fine-Grained Pixel-to-Vector Sketch Completion with Diffusion-Prior-Guided Multimodal LLMs
488. CVPR 2026SmokeSVD Smoke Reconstruction from A Single View via Progressive Novel
489. CVPR 2026Smoothing the Score Function to Enhance Generalization in Diffusion Models
490. CVPR 2026SODA Sensitivity-Oriented Dynamic Acceleration for Diffusion Transformer
491. CVPR 2026SpaceTimePilot Generative Rendering of Dynamic Scenes Across Space and Time
492. CVPR 2026Sparse-LaViDa Sparse Multimodal Discrete Diffusion Language Models
493. CVPR 2026Spatial-Spectral Residuals Informed Diffusion Neural Operator for Pan-sharpening
494. CVPR 2026Spatiotemporal Pyramid Flow Matching for Climate Emulation
495. CVPR 2026SPDMark Selective Parameter Displacement for Robust Video Watermarking
496. CVPR 2026SpeeDiff Scalable Pixel-Anchored End-to-End Latent Diffusion Model
497. CVPR 2026SpiralDiff Spiral Diffusion with LoRA for RGB-to-RAW Conversion Across Cameras
498. CVPR 2026Splatent Splatting Diffusion Latents for Novel View Synthesis
499. CVPR 2026SpotEdit Selective Region Editing in Diffusion Transformers
500. CVPR 2026SRA 2 Variational Autoencoder Self-Representation Alignment for Efficient Diffusion

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.