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 115 of 138
- ICML 2024Switched Flow Matching: Eliminating Singularities via Switching ODEs
- ICML 2024Symbolic Music Generation with Non-Differentiable Rule Guided Diffusion
- ICML 2024TERD: A Unified Framework for Safeguarding Diffusion Models Against Backdoors
- ICML 2024Test-Time Degradation Adaptation for Open-Set Image Restoration
- ICML 2024The Emergence of Reproducibility and Consistency in Diffusion Models
- ICML 2024The Stronger the Diffusion Model, the Easier the Backdoor: Data Poisoning to Induce Copyright BreachesWithout Adjusting Finetuning Pipeline
- ICML 2024The Surprising Effectiveness of Skip-Tuning in Diffusion Sampling
- ICML 2024Theoretical insights for diffusion guidance: A case study for Gaussian mixture models
- ICML 2024Theory of Consistency Diffusion Models: Distribution Estimation Meets Fast Sampling
- ICML 2024Time Series Diffusion in the Frequency Domain
- ICML 2024Towards Neural Architecture Search through Hierarchical Generative Modeling
- ICML 2024Towards Theoretical Understandings of Self-Consuming Generative Models
- ICML 2024Understanding Diffusion Models by Feynman's Path Integral
- ICML 2024Unified Generation, Reconstruction, and Representation: Generalized Diffusion with Adaptive Latent Encoding-Decoding
- ICML 2024Unifying Bayesian Flow Networks and Diffusion Models through Stochastic Differential Equations
- ICML 2024Vague Prototype-Oriented Diffusion Model for Multi-Class Anomaly Detection
- ICML 2024Variational Schrödinger Diffusion Models
- ICML 2024What’s the score? Automated Denoising Score Matching for Nonlinear Diffusions
- ICML 2024Zero-Shot Unsupervised and Text-Based Audio Editing Using DDPM Inversion
- NeurIPS 2024$\text{Di}^2\text{Pose}$: Discrete Diffusion Model for Occluded 3D Human Pose Estimation
- NeurIPS 2024$\text{ID}^3$: Identity-Preserving-yet-Diversified Diffusion Models for Synthetic Face Recognition
- NeurIPS 2024$\textit{Bifr\"ost}$: 3D-Aware Image Compositing with Language Instructions
- NeurIPS 20243D Structure Prediction of Atomic Systems with Flow-based Direct Preference Optimization
- NeurIPS 20243DGS-Enhancer: Enhancing Unbounded 3D Gaussian Splatting with View-consistent 2D Diffusion Priors
- NeurIPS 20244D Gaussian Splatting in the Wild with Uncertainty-Aware Regularization
- NeurIPS 20244Diffusion: Multi-view Video Diffusion Model for 4D Generation
- NeurIPS 20244Real: Towards Photorealistic 4D Scene Generation via Video Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024A Cat Is A Cat (Not A Dog!): Unraveling Information Mix-ups in Text-to-Image Encoders through Causal Analysis and Embedding Optimization
- NeurIPS 2024A Geometric View of Data Complexity: Efficient Local Intrinsic Dimension Estimation with Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024A Modular Conditional Diffusion Framework for Image Reconstruction
- NeurIPS 2024A Versatile Diffusion Transformer with Mixture of Noise Levels for Audiovisual Generation
- NeurIPS 2024A versatile informative diffusion model for single-cell ATAC-seq data generation and analysis
- NeurIPS 2024Absorb & Escape: Overcoming Single Model Limitations in Generating Heterogeneous Genomic Sequences
- NeurIPS 2024Accelerating Diffusion Models with Parallel Sampling: Inference at Sub-Linear Time Complexity
- NeurIPS 2024ACFun: Abstract-Concrete Fusion Facial Stylization
- NeurIPS 2024ActAnywhere: Subject-Aware Video Background Generation
- NeurIPS 2024ActFusion: a Unified Diffusion Model for Action Segmentation and Anticipation
- NeurIPS 2024Action Imitation in Common Action Space for Customized Action Image Synthesis
- NeurIPS 2024AdaFlow: Imitation Learning with Variance-Adaptive Flow-Based Policies
- NeurIPS 2024Adapting Diffusion Models for Improved Prompt Compliance and Controllable Image Synthesis
- NeurIPS 2024Adapting to Unknown Low-Dimensional Structures in Score-Based Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Addressing Asynchronicity in Clinical Multimodal Fusion via Individualized Chest X-ray Generation
- NeurIPS 2024AdjointDEIS: Efficient Gradients for Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024AdvAD: Exploring Non-Parametric Diffusion for Imperceptible Adversarial Attacks
- NeurIPS 2024Advancing Fine-Grained Classification by Structure and Subject Preserving Augmentation
- NeurIPS 2024Advection Augmented Convolutional Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2024Adversarial Environment Design via Regret-Guided Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Adversarial Schrödinger Bridge Matching
- NeurIPS 2024AID: Attention Interpolation of Text-to-Image Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2024AirSketch: Generative Motion to Sketch
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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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