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 128 of 138
- CVPR 2023Seeing Beyond the Brain: Conditional Diffusion Model With Sparse Masked Modeling for Vision Decoding
- CVPR 2023Self-Guided Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023Semantic-Conditional Diffusion Networks for Image Captioning
- CVPR 2023ShadowDiffusion: When Degradation Prior Meets Diffusion Model for Shadow Removal
- CVPR 2023Shape-Aware Text-Driven Layered Video Editing
- CVPR 2023Shifted Diffusion for Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2023SINE: SINgle Image Editing With Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023SmartBrush: Text and Shape Guided Object Inpainting With Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2023Solving 3D Inverse Problems Using Pre-Trained 2D Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023SparseFusion: Distilling View-Conditioned Diffusion for 3D Reconstruction
- CVPR 2023SpaText: Spatio-Textual Representation for Controllable Image Generation
- CVPR 2023Specialist Diffusion: Plug-and-Play Sample-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models To Learn Any Unseen Style
- CVPR 2023Taming Diffusion Models for Audio-Driven Co-Speech Gesture Generation
- CVPR 2023Towards Practical Plug-and-Play Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023Trace and Pace: Controllable Pedestrian Animation via Guided Trajectory Diffusion
- CVPR 2023TransFlow: Transformer As Flow Learner
- CVPR 2023TrojDiff: Trojan Attacks on Diffusion Models With Diverse Targets
- CVPR 2023TryOnDiffusion: A Tale of Two UNets
- CVPR 2023Uncovering the Disentanglement Capability in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023Understanding Deep Generative Models With Generalized Empirical Likelihoods
- CVPR 2023Unifying Layout Generation With a Decoupled Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2023Unite and Conquer: Plug & Play Multi-Modal Synthesis Using Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023VectorFusion: Text-to-SVG by Abstracting Pixel-Based Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023Video Probabilistic Diffusion Models in Projected Latent Space
- CVPR 2023VideoFusion: Decomposed Diffusion Models for High-Quality Video Generation
- CVPR 2023Wavelet Diffusion Models Are Fast and Scalable Image Generators
- CVPR 2023Zero-Shot Generative Model Adaptation via Image-Specific Prompt Learning
- ICLR 2023(Certified!!) Adversarial Robustness for Free!
- ICLR 20233D Equivariant Diffusion for Target-Aware Molecule Generation and Affinity Prediction
- ICLR 2023Accelerating Guided Diffusion Sampling with Splitting Numerical Methods
- ICLR 2023Analog Bits: Generating Discrete Data using Diffusion Models with Self-Conditioning
- ICLR 2023Blurring Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2023Building Normalizing Flows with Stochastic Interpolants
- ICLR 2023CFlowNets: Continuous Control with Generative Flow Networks
- ICLR 2023ChiroDiff: Modelling chirographic data with Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2023Data Valuation Without Training of a Model
- ICLR 2023DDM$^2$: Self-Supervised Diffusion MRI Denoising with Generative Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2023Deep Generative Modeling on Limited Data with Regularization by Nontransferable Pre-trained Models
- ICLR 2023Defending against Adversarial Audio via Diffusion Model
- ICLR 2023Denoising Diffusion Error Correction Codes
- ICLR 2023Denoising Diffusion Samplers
- ICLR 2023DensePure: Understanding Diffusion Models for Adversarial Robustness
- ICLR 2023DFPC: Data flow driven pruning of coupled channels without data.
- ICLR 2023DiffDock: Diffusion Steps, Twists, and Turns for Molecular Docking
- ICLR 2023DiffEdit: Diffusion-based semantic image editing with mask guidance
- ICLR 2023Differentiable Gaussianization Layers for Inverse Problems Regularized by Deep Generative Models
- ICLR 2023DIFFormer: Scalable (Graph) Transformers Induced by Energy Constrained Diffusion
- ICLR 2023DiffuSeq: Sequence to Sequence Text Generation with Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2023DiffusER: Diffusion via Edit-based Reconstruction
- ICLR 2023Diffusion Adversarial Representation Learning for Self-supervised Vessel Segmentation
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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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