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
607 papers, page 11 of 13
- CVPR 2026Stability-Driven Motion Generation for Object-Guided Human-Human Co-Manipulation
- CVPR 2026Stable Mean Flow Lyapunov-Inspired One-Step Flow Matching
- CVPR 2026StableMaterials Enhancing Diversity in Material Generation via Semi-Supervised Learning
- CVPR 2026StableMTL Repurposing Latent Diffusion Models for Multi-Task Learning from Partially
- CVPR 2026STARFlow-V End-to-End Video Generative Modeling with Autoregressive Normalizing Flows
- CVPR 2026STCDiT Spatio-Temporally Consistent Diffusion Transformer for High-Quality Video Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2026Steering Where to Diffuse Generative Modeling of Phenotypic Response Simulation
- CVPR 2026Stepwise Credit Assignment for GRPO on Flow-Matching Models
- CVPR 2026StreamAvatar Streaming Diffusion Models for Real-Time Interactive Human Avatars
- CVPR 2026StreamDiT Real-Time Streaming Text-to-Video Generation
- CVPR 2026Streaming Diffusion Model for Fast Infrared and Visible Video Fusion
- CVPR 2026Structural Action Transformer for 3D Dexterous Manipulation
- CVPR 2026StyleDoctor Towards Specialist Reward Model for Style-centric Generation Tasks
- CVPR 2026SwitchCraft Training-Free Multi-Event Video Generation with Attention Controls
- CVPR 2026SynthRGB-T Language-Vision Guided Image Translation for Diversity Synthesis
- CVPR 2026Taming Generative Diffusion Model for Task-Oriented Infrared Imaging
- CVPR 2026Taming Preference Mode Collapse via Directional Decoupling Alignment in Diffusion
- CVPR 2026Taming Sampling Perturbations with Variance Expansion Loss for Latent Diffusion
- CVPR 2026Taming Video Models for 3D and 4D Generation via Zero-Shot
- CVPR 2026TAP A Token-Adaptive Predictor Framework for Training-Free Diffusion Acceleration
- CVPR 2026Task-Oriented Data Synthesis and Control-Rectify Sampling for Remote Sensing Semantic
- CVPR 2026TC-Pade Trajectory-Consistent Pade Approximation for Diffusion Acceleration
- CVPR 2026Tea-Adapter Teacher Adapter for Efficient Conditional Generation
- CVPR 2026TempoControl Temporal Attention Guidance for Text-to-Video Models
- CVPR 2026Test-Time Alignment of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Null-Text Embedding Optimisation
- CVPR 2026Test-time Sparsity for Extreme Fast Action Diffusion
- CVPR 2026Text-Driven 3D Hand Motion Generation from Sign Language Data
- CVPR 2026Text-Printed Image Bridging the Image-Text Modality Gap for Text-centric Training
- CVPR 2026The Devil is in Attention Sharing Improving Complex Non-rigid Image
- CVPR 2026The Drift Kernel Why Diffusion Models Change Even When Told
- CVPR 2026The Missing GAP From Solving Square Jigsaw Puzzles to Handling
- CVPR 2026The Universal Normal Embedding
- CVPR 2026TherA Thermal-Aware Visual-Language Prompting for Controllable RGB-to-Thermal Infrared Translation
- CVPR 2026Thermal Diffusion Matters Infrared Spatial-Temporal Video Super-Resolution through Heat Conduction
- CVPR 2026Think-Then-Generate Structural Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Consistent 3D Generation
- CVPR 2026Time-Aware One Step Diffusion Network for Real-World Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2026TINA Text-Free Inversion Attack for Unlearned Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026TokenTrace Multi-Concept Attribution through Watermarked Token Recovery
- CVPR 2026TopoMesh High-Fidelity Mesh Autoencoding via Topological Unification
- CVPR 2026TouchDream 3D Object Completion through Imagined Touch
- CVPR 2026Toward Diffusible High-Dimensional Latent Spaces A Frequency Perspective
- CVPR 2026Toward Early Quality Assessment of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026Towards Decompositional Human Motion Generation with Energy-Based Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026Towards Fine-Grained Attribution Instance-Aware Preference Optimization for Aligning Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026Towards GUI Agents Vision-Language Diffusion Models for GUI Grounding
- CVPR 2026Towards Holistic Modeling for Video Frame Interpolation with Auto-regressive Diffusion
- CVPR 2026Towards Human-Imperceptible Backdoor Attacks on Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026Towards Photorealistic and Efficient Bokeh Rendering via Diffusion Framework
- CVPR 2026Tracking-Guided 4D Generation Foundation-Tracker Motion Priors for 3D Model Animation
- CVPR 2026Trainable Log-linear Sparse Attention for Efficient Diffusion Transformers
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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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