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
6,899 papers, page 105 of 138
- CVPR 2024TextCraftor: Your Text Encoder Can be Image Quality Controller
- CVPR 2024Texture-Preserving Diffusion Models for High-Fidelity Virtual Try-On
- CVPR 2024TextureDreamer: Image-Guided Texture Synthesis Through Geometry-Aware Diffusion
- CVPR 2024TFMQ-DM: Temporal Feature Maintenance Quantization for Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024The Mirrored Influence Hypothesis: Efficient Data Influence Estimation by Harnessing Forward Passes
- CVPR 2024The More You See in 2D the More You Perceive in 3D
- CVPR 2024TI2V-Zero: Zero-Shot Image Conditioning for Text-to-Video Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024TIGER: Time-Varying Denoising Model for 3D Point Cloud Generation with Diffusion Process
- CVPR 2024TokenCompose: Text-to-Image Diffusion with Token-level Supervision
- CVPR 2024Total Selfie: Generating Full-Body Selfies
- CVPR 2024Towards Accurate Post-training Quantization for Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Towards Effective Usage of Human-Centric Priors in Diffusion Models for Text-based Human Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Towards Generalizable Tumor Synthesis
- CVPR 2024Towards Memorization-Free Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Towards More Accurate Diffusion Model Acceleration with A Timestep Tuner
- CVPR 2024Towards Realistic Scene Generation with LiDAR Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Towards Text-guided 3D Scene Composition
- CVPR 2024Towards Understanding Cross and Self-Attention in Stable Diffusion for Text-Guided Image Editing
- CVPR 2024Training Diffusion Models Towards Diverse Image Generation with Reinforcement Learning
- CVPR 2024Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Segmentation with Offline Diffusion-Augmented Prototype Generation
- CVPR 2024TRIP: Temporal Residual Learning with Image Noise Prior for Image-to-Video Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Triplane Meets Gaussian Splatting: Fast and Generalizable Single-View 3D Reconstruction with Transformers
- CVPR 2024UDiFF: Generating Conditional Unsigned Distance Fields with Optimal Wavelet Diffusion
- CVPR 2024UFOGen: You Forward Once Large Scale Text-to-Image Generation via Diffusion GANs
- CVPR 2024UltrAvatar: A Realistic Animatable 3D Avatar Diffusion Model with Authenticity Guided Textures
- CVPR 2024UniGS: Unified Representation for Image Generation and Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Unknown Prompt the only Lacuna: Unveiling CLIP's Potential for Open Domain Generalization
- CVPR 2024Unlocking Pre-trained Image Backbones for Semantic Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2024Unmixing Diffusion for Self-Supervised Hyperspectral Image Denoising
- CVPR 2024UnSAMFlow: Unsupervised Optical Flow Guided by Segment Anything Model
- CVPR 2024Unsupervised Keypoints from Pretrained Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Upscale-A-Video: Temporal-Consistent Diffusion Model for Real-World Video Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2024Using Human Feedback to Fine-tune Diffusion Models without Any Reward Model
- CVPR 2024UV-IDM: Identity-Conditioned Latent Diffusion Model for Face UV-Texture Generation
- CVPR 2024VecFusion: Vector Font Generation with Diffusion
- CVPR 2024Vector Graphics Generation via Mutually Impulsed Dual-domain Diffusion
- CVPR 2024Versatile Navigation Under Partial Observability via Value-guided Diffusion Policy
- CVPR 2024Video Interpolation with Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Video Prediction by Modeling Videos as Continuous Multi-Dimensional Processes
- CVPR 2024Video-P2P: Video Editing with Cross-attention Control
- CVPR 2024VideoCrafter2: Overcoming Data Limitations for High-Quality Video Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024VidToMe: Video Token Merging for Zero-Shot Video Editing
- CVPR 2024ViewDiff: 3D-Consistent Image Generation with Text-to-Image Models
- CVPR 2024ViewFusion: Towards Multi-View Consistency via Interpolated Denoising
- CVPR 2024Visual Anagrams: Generating Multi-View Optical Illusions with Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Visual Layout Composer: Image-Vector Dual Diffusion Model for Design Layout Generation
- CVPR 2024ViVid-1-to-3: Novel View Synthesis with Video Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Vlogger: Make Your Dream A Vlog
- CVPR 2024VMC: Video Motion Customization using Temporal Attention Adaption for Text-to-Video Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024VP3D: Unleashing 2D Visual Prompt for Text-to-3D Generation
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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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