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 120 of 138
- NeurIPS 2024Generalized Protein Pocket Generation with Prior-Informed Flow Matching
- NeurIPS 2024Generalizing Consistency Policy to Visual RL with Prioritized Proximal Experience Regularization
- NeurIPS 2024Generating compositional scenes via Text-to-image RGBA Instance Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Generating Highly Designable Proteins with Geometric Algebra Flow Matching
- NeurIPS 2024Generative Fractional Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Generative Hierarchical Materials Search
- NeurIPS 2024Generative Modelling of Structurally Constrained Graphs
- NeurIPS 2024GENOT: Entropic (Gromov) Wasserstein Flow Matching with Applications to Single-Cell Genomics
- NeurIPS 2024GenRec: Unifying Video Generation and Recognition with Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024GenWarp: Single Image to Novel Views with Semantic-Preserving Generative Warping
- NeurIPS 2024Geometric Trajectory Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Gradient Guidance for Diffusion Models: An Optimization Perspective
- NeurIPS 2024Gradient-free Decoder Inversion in Latent Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Graph Diffusion Policy Optimization
- NeurIPS 2024Graph Diffusion Transformers for Multi-Conditional Molecular Generation
- NeurIPS 2024GrounDiT: Grounding Diffusion Transformers via Noisy Patch Transplantation
- NeurIPS 2024Group and Shuffle: Efficient Structured Orthogonal Parametrization
- NeurIPS 2024GTA: Generative Trajectory Augmentation with Guidance for Offline Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2024Guided Trajectory Generation with Diffusion Models for Offline Model-based Optimization
- NeurIPS 2024Guiding a Diffusion Model with a Bad Version of Itself
- NeurIPS 2024HairDiffusion: Vivid Multi-Colored Hair Editing via Latent Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2024Hallo3D: Multi-Modal Hallucination Detection and Mitigation for Consistent 3D Content Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Hamiltonian Score Matching and Generative Flows
- NeurIPS 2024HiCo: Hierarchical Controllable Diffusion Model for Layout-to-image Generation
- NeurIPS 2024HOI-Swap: Swapping Objects in Videos with Hand-Object Interaction Awareness
- NeurIPS 2024Hollowed Net for On-Device Personalization of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024How Control Information Influences Multilingual Text Image Generation and Editing?
- NeurIPS 2024How Diffusion Models Learn to Factorize and Compose
- NeurIPS 2024How to Continually Adapt Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Flexible Customization?
- NeurIPS 2024How to Use Diffusion Priors under Sparse Views?
- NeurIPS 2024Human-3Diffusion: Realistic Avatar Creation via Explicit 3D Consistent Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Human-Object Interaction Detection Collaborated with Large Relation-driven Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024HumanSplat: Generalizable Single-Image Human Gaussian Splatting with Structure Priors
- NeurIPS 2024Hyper-SD: Trajectory Segmented Consistency Model for Efficient Image Synthesis
- NeurIPS 2024ID-to-3D: Expressive ID-guided 3D Heads via Score Distillation Sampling
- NeurIPS 2024Identifying and Solving Conditional Image Leakage in Image-to-Video Diffusion Model
- NeurIPS 2024Identity Decoupling for Multi-Subject Personalization of Text-to-Image Models
- NeurIPS 2024IllumiNeRF: 3D Relighting Without Inverse Rendering
- NeurIPS 2024Image Copy Detection for Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Image Reconstruction Via Autoencoding Sequential Deep Image Prior
- NeurIPS 2024Images that Sound: Composing Images and Sounds on a Single Canvas
- NeurIPS 2024IMAGPose: A Unified Conditional Framework for Pose-Guided Person Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Immiscible Diffusion: Accelerating Diffusion Training with Noise Assignment
- NeurIPS 2024Improved Distribution Matching Distillation for Fast Image Synthesis
- NeurIPS 2024Improved off-policy training of diffusion samplers
- NeurIPS 2024Improved Sample Complexity Bounds for Diffusion Model Training
- NeurIPS 2024Improving the Training of Rectified Flows
- NeurIPS 2024In-N-Out: Lifting 2D Diffusion Prior for 3D Object Removal via Tuning-Free Latents Alignment
- NeurIPS 2024Inflationary Flows: Calibrated Bayesian Inference with Diffusion-Based Models
- NeurIPS 2024InstructG2I: Synthesizing Images from Multimodal Attributed Graphs
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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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