Diffusion Models papers, 2023–2026

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.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• 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

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551. CVPR 2026Training-free Mixed-Resolution Latent Upsampling for Spatially Accelerated Diffusion Transformers
552. CVPR 2026Training-free Motion Factorization for Compositional Video Generation
553. CVPR 2026Training-free Perceptually Consistent Low-Resolution Previews with High-Resolution Image for Efficient
554. CVPR 2026Transition Matching Distillation for Fast Video Generation
555. CVPR 2026Transition Models Rethinking the Generative Learning Objective
556. CVPR 2026TUDSR Twice Upsampling-Diffusion for Higher Super-Resolution
557. CVPR 2026TV2TV A Unified Framework for Interleaved Language and Video Generation
558. CVPR 2026Ultra Diffusion Poser Diffusion-Based Human Motion Tracking from Sparse Inertial
559. CVPR 2026Uni-DAD Unified Distillation and Adaptation of Diffusion Models for Few-step
560. CVPR 2026UniDef Universal Defense Against Unauthorized Image Manipulation
561. CVPR 2026UniEdit-I Training-free Image Editing for Unified VLM via Iterative Understanding
562. CVPR 2026Unified Latent Space for Understanding and Generation via Semantic Auto-encoder
563. CVPR 2026Unified Number-Free Text-to-Motion Generation Via Flow Matching
564. CVPR 2026Unifying Precise Keyframes and Semantic Control via Multi-level Diffusion
565. CVPR 2026UniLDiff Unlocking the Power of Diffusion Priors for All-in-One Image
566. CVPR 2026UniPercept A Unified Diffusion Model for Generalizable Visual Perception
567. CVPR 2026UniPixie Unified and Probabilistic 3D Physics Learning via Flow Matching
568. CVPR 2026Universal 3D Shape Matching via Coarse-to-Fine Language Guidance
569. CVPR 2026Unsupervised Monocular 3D Keypoint Discovery from Multi-View Diffusion Priors
570. CVPR 2026Unsupervised Multi-Scale Segmentation of 3D Subcellular World with Stable Diffusion
571. CVPR 2026UPLiFT Efficient Pixel-Dense Feature Upsampling with Local Attenders
572. CVPR 2026VDE Training-Free Accelerating Rectified Flow Model via Velocity Decomposition and
573. CVPR 2026VerseCrafter Dynamic Realistic Video World Model with 4D Geometric Control
574. CVPR 2026VibeToken Scaling 1D Image Tokenizers and Autoregressive Models for Dynamic
575. CVPR 2026Video-as-Answer Predict and Generate Next Video Event with Joint-GRPO
576. CVPR 2026VideoCoF Unified Video Editing with Temporal Reasoner
577. CVPR 2026VideoMaMa Mask-Guided Video Matting via Generative Prior
578. CVPR 2026VideoWorld 2 Learning Transferable Knowledge from Real-world Videos
579. CVPR 2026ViHOI Human-Object Interaction Synthesis with Visual Priors
580. CVPR 2026ViLearn Accelerating Training Convergence of Image-to-3D Generation via Visibility Learning
581. CVPR 2026Vision Foundation Models Can Be Good Tokenizers for Latent Diffusion
582. CVPR 2026Visual Diffusion Models are Geometric Solvers
583. CVPR 2026Visual Prototype Conditioned Focal Region Generation for UAV-Based Object Detection
584. CVPR 2026VLIC Vision-Language Models As Perceptual Judges for Human-Aligned Image Compression
585. CVPR 2026VMonarch Efficient Video Diffusion Transformers with Structured Attention
586. CVPR 2026VOSR A Vision-Only Generative Model for Image Super-Resolution
587. CVPR 2026WaDi Weight Direction-aware Distillation for One-step Image Synthesis
588. CVPR 2026WAM-Flow Parallel Coarse-to-Fine Motion Planning via Discrete Flow Matching for
589. CVPR 2026WaTeRFlow Watermark Temporal Robustness via Flow Consistency
590. CVPR 2026Weight Space Representation Learning via Neural Field Adaptation
591. CVPR 2026WeMMU Enhanced Bridging of Vision-Language Models and Diffusion Models via
592. CVPR 2026What Is the Optimal Ranking Score Between Precision and Recall
593. CVPR 2026What Your Features Reveal Data-Efficient Black-Box Feature Inversion Attack for
594. CVPR 2026When Lines Meet Textures Spatial-Frequency Aligned Diffusion Features for Cross-Sparsity
595. CVPR 2026When Local Rules Create Global Order Self-Organized Representation Learning for
596. CVPR 2026When LoRA Betrays Backdooring Text-to-Image Models by Masquerading as Benign
597. CVPR 2026When Numbers Speak Aligning Textual Numerals and Visual Instances in
598. CVPR 2026When Pretty Isnt Useful Investigating Why Modern Text-to-Image Models Fail
599. CVPR 2026When Safety Collides Resolving Multi-Category Harmful Conflicts in Text-to-Image Diffusion
600. CVPR 2026When Understanding Becomes a Risk Authenticity and Safety Risks in

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.