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 106 of 138
- CVPR 2024Watermark-embedded Adversarial Examples for Copyright Protection against Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024WaveFace: Authentic Face Restoration with Efficient Frequency Recovery
- CVPR 2024Wavelet-based Fourier Information Interaction with Frequency Diffusion Adjustment for Underwater Image Restoration
- CVPR 2024When StyleGAN Meets Stable Diffusion: a W+ Adapter for Personalized Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Wired Perspectives: Multi-View Wire Art Embraces Generative AI
- CVPR 2024Wonder3D: Single Image to 3D using Cross-Domain Diffusion
- CVPR 2024WOUAF: Weight Modulation for User Attribution and Fingerprinting in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024X-Adapter: Adding Universal Compatibility of Plugins for Upgraded Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024XCube: Large-Scale 3D Generative Modeling using Sparse Voxel Hierarchies
- CVPR 2024Your Student is Better Than Expected: Adaptive Teacher-Student Collaboration for Text-Conditional Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Z*: Zero-shot Style Transfer via Attention Reweighting
- CVPR 2024Zero-Reference Low-Light Enhancement via Physical Quadruple Priors
- CVPR 2024Zero-Shot Structure-Preserving Diffusion Model for High Dynamic Range Tone Mapping
- CVPR 2024ZeroNVS: Zero-Shot 360-Degree View Synthesis from a Single Image
- ICLR 2024$\infty$-Diff: Infinite Resolution Diffusion with Subsampled Mollified States
- ICLR 2024A Flexible Generative Model for Heterogeneous Tabular EHR with Missing Modality
- ICLR 2024A Unified Sampling Framework for Solver Searching of Diffusion Probabilistic Models
- ICLR 2024A Variational Perspective on Solving Inverse Problems with Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2024ADDP: Learning General Representations for Image Recognition and Generation with Alternating Denoising Diffusion Process
- ICLR 2024AdjointDPM: Adjoint Sensitivity Method for Gradient Backpropagation of Diffusion Probabilistic Models
- ICLR 2024Advancing Pose-Guided Image Synthesis with Progressive Conditional Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2024Adversarial Supervision Makes Layout-to-Image Diffusion Models Thrive
- ICLR 2024AlignDiff: Aligning Diverse Human Preferences via Behavior-Customisable Diffusion Model
- ICLR 2024Alleviating Exposure Bias in Diffusion Models through Sampling with Shifted Time Steps
- ICLR 2024An Efficient Membership Inference Attack for the Diffusion Model by Proximal Initialization
- ICLR 2024Analyzing and Improving Optimal-Transport-based Adversarial Networks
- ICLR 2024AnimateDiff: Animate Your Personalized Text-to-Image Diffusion Models without Specific Tuning
- ICLR 2024AnyText: Multilingual Visual Text Generation and Editing
- ICLR 2024BayesDiff: Estimating Pixel-wise Uncertainty in Diffusion via Bayesian Inference
- ICLR 2024Bellman Optimal Stepsize Straightening of Flow-Matching Models
- ICLR 2024Bespoke Solvers for Generative Flow Models
- ICLR 2024Bidirectional Temporal Diffusion Model for Temporally Consistent Human Animation
- ICLR 2024Bridging Neural and Symbolic Representations with Transitional Dictionary Learning
- ICLR 2024CADS: Unleashing the Diversity of Diffusion Models through Condition-Annealed Sampling
- ICLR 2024Cameras as Rays: Pose Estimation via Ray Diffusion
- ICLR 2024CAS: A Probability-Based Approach for Universal Condition Alignment Score
- ICLR 2024CIFAR-10-Warehouse: Broad and More Realistic Testbeds in Model Generalization Analysis
- ICLR 2024Circumventing Concept Erasure Methods For Text-To-Image Generative Models
- ICLR 2024Complex priors and flexible inference in recurrent circuits with dendritic nonlinearities
- ICLR 2024Compose and Conquer: Diffusion-Based 3D Depth Aware Composable Image Synthesis
- ICLR 2024Compositional Generative Inverse Design
- ICLR 2024Concept Bottleneck Generative Models
- ICLR 2024Conditional Variational Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2024Consistency Models as a Rich and Efficient Policy Class for Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2024Consistency Trajectory Models: Learning Probability Flow ODE Trajectory of Diffusion
- ICLR 2024Consistent Video-to-Video Transfer Using Synthetic Dataset
- ICLR 2024Consistent4D: Consistent 360° Dynamic Object Generation from Monocular Video
- ICLR 2024Continuous-Multiple Image Outpainting in One-Step via Positional Query and A Diffusion-based Approach
- ICLR 2024ControlVideo: Training-free Controllable Text-to-video Generation
- ICLR 2024Cross-Modal Contextualized Diffusion Models for Text-Guided Visual Generation and Editing
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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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