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 116 of 138
- NeurIPS 2024Aligning Diffusion Behaviors with Q-functions for Efficient Continuous Control
- NeurIPS 2024Aligning Diffusion Models by Optimizing Human Utility
- NeurIPS 2024Aligning Target-Aware Molecule Diffusion Models with Exact Energy Optimization
- NeurIPS 2024Alleviating Distortion in Image Generation via Multi-Resolution Diffusion Models and Time-Dependent Layer Normalization
- NeurIPS 2024Amortizing intractable inference in diffusion models for vision, language, and control
- NeurIPS 2024An Expectation-Maximization Algorithm for Training Clean Diffusion Models from Corrupted Observations
- NeurIPS 2024An Image is Worth 32 Tokens for Reconstruction and Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Animate3D: Animating Any 3D Model with Multi-view Video Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2024ANT: Adaptive Noise Schedule for Time Series Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Antigen-Specific Antibody Design via Direct Energy-based Preference Optimization
- NeurIPS 2024AnyFit: Controllable Virtual Try-on for Any Combination of Attire Across Any Scenario
- NeurIPS 2024AP-Adapter: Improving Generalization of Automatic Prompts on Unseen Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Applying Guidance in a Limited Interval Improves Sample and Distribution Quality in Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024AR-Pro: Counterfactual Explanations for Anomaly Repair with Formal Properties
- NeurIPS 2024Architect: Generating Vivid and Interactive 3D Scenes with Hierarchical 2D Inpainting
- NeurIPS 2024AROMA: Preserving Spatial Structure for Latent PDE Modeling with Local Neural Fields
- NeurIPS 2024AsCAN: Asymmetric Convolution-Attention Networks for Efficient Recognition and Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Association of Objects May Engender Stereotypes: Mitigating Association-Engendered Stereotypes in Text-to-Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2024AsyncDiff: Parallelizing Diffusion Models by Asynchronous Denoising
- NeurIPS 2024Attack-Resilient Image Watermarking Using Stable Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2024AttnDreamBooth: Towards Text-Aligned Personalized Text-to-Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Autoregressive Image Diffusion: Generation of Image Sequence and Application in MRI
- NeurIPS 2024Autoregressive Image Generation without Vector Quantization
- NeurIPS 2024BELM: Bidirectional Explicit Linear Multi-step Sampler for Exact Inversion in Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024BetterDepth: Plug-and-Play Diffusion Refiner for Zero-Shot Monocular Depth Estimation
- NeurIPS 2024BiDM: Pushing the Limit of Quantization for Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Binarized Diffusion Model for Image Super-Resolution
- NeurIPS 2024BitsFusion: 1.99 bits Weight Quantization of Diffusion Model
- NeurIPS 2024BLAST: Block-Level Adaptive Structured Matrices for Efficient Deep Neural Network Inference
- NeurIPS 2024Blind Image Restoration via Fast Diffusion Inversion
- NeurIPS 2024BLURD: Benchmarking and Learning using a Unified Rendering and Diffusion Model
- NeurIPS 2024Boosting Alignment for Post-Unlearning Text-to-Image Generative Models
- NeurIPS 2024Boosting Text-to-Video Generative Model with MLLMs Feedback
- NeurIPS 2024BrainBits: How Much of the Brain are Generative Reconstruction Methods Using?
- NeurIPS 2024Breaking Determinism: Fuzzy Modeling of Sequential Recommendation Using Discrete State Space Diffusion Model
- NeurIPS 2024Breaking Semantic Artifacts for Generalized AI-generated Image Detection
- NeurIPS 2024Bridging Geometric States via Geometric Diffusion Bridge
- NeurIPS 2024Bridging Model-Based Optimization and Generative Modeling via Conservative Fine-Tuning of Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024CAT3D: Create Anything in 3D with Multi-View Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Categorical Flow Matching on Statistical Manifolds
- NeurIPS 2024Causal Deciphering and Inpainting in Spatio-Temporal Dynamics via Diffusion Model
- NeurIPS 2024CausalDiff: Causality-Inspired Disentanglement via Diffusion Model for Adversarial Defense
- NeurIPS 2024CemiFace: Center-based Semi-hard Synthetic Face Generation for Face Recognition
- NeurIPS 2024ChronoMagic-Bench: A Benchmark for Metamorphic Evaluation of Text-to-Time-lapse Video Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Classification Diffusion Models: Revitalizing Density Ratio Estimation
- NeurIPS 2024ClavaDDPM: Multi-relational Data Synthesis with Cluster-guided Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024CleanDiffuser: An Easy-to-use Modularized Library for Diffusion Models in Decision Making
- NeurIPS 2024CLIP in Mirror: Disentangling text from visual images through reflection
- NeurIPS 2024CLIPAway: Harmonizing focused embeddings for removing objects via diffusion models
- NeurIPS 2024Closed-Loop Visuomotor Control with Generative Expectation for Robotic Manipulation
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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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