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

1,527 papers, page 13 of 31

601. ICLR 2026Synthetic History: Evaluating Visual Representations of the Past in Diffusion Models
602. ICLR 2026Taming Score-Based Denoisers in ADMM: A Convergent Plug-and-Play Framework
603. ICLR 2026TangoFlux: Super Fast and Faithful Text to Audio Generation with Flow Matching and Clap-Ranked Preference Optimization
604. ICLR 2026Target-Aware Video Diffusion Models
605. ICLR 2026TEDM: Time Series Forecasting with Elucidated Diffusion Models
606. ICLR 2026TEMPFLOW-GRPO: WHEN TIMING MATTERS FOR GRPO IN FLOW MODELS
607. ICLR 2026Temporal Concept Dynamics in Diffusion Models via Prompt-Conditioned Interventions
608. ICLR 2026TEN-DM: Topology-Enhanced Diffusion Model for Spatio-Temporal Event Prediction
609. ICLR 2026Terminal Velocity Matching
610. ICLR 2026Test-Time Iterative Error Correction for Efficient Diffusion Models
611. ICLR 2026TEST-TIME SCALING IN DIFFUSION LLMS VIA HIDDEN SEMI-AUTOREGRESSIVE EXPERTS
612. ICLR 2026Test-Time Training Done Right
613. ICLR 2026Text-Aware Image Restoration with Diffusion Models
614. ICLR 2026Text-to-3D by Stitching a Multi-view Reconstruction Network to a Video Generator
615. ICLR 2026The Devil behind the mask: An emergent safety vulnerability of Diffusion LLMs
616. ICLR 2026The Diffusion Duality, Chapter II: $\Psi$-Samplers and Efficient Curriculum
617. ICLR 2026The Intricate Dance of Prompt Complexity, Quality, Diversity and Consistency in T2I Models
618. ICLR 2026The Quest for Generalizable Motion Generation: Data, Model, and Evaluation
619. ICLR 2026The Serial Scaling Hypothesis
620. ICLR 2026The Spacetime of Diffusion Models: An Information Geometry Perspective
621. ICLR 2026There and Back Again: On the relation between Noise and Image Inversions in Diffusion Models
622. ICLR 2026Time Is a Feature: Exploiting Temporal Dynamics in Diffusion Language Models
623. ICLR 2026Time-Gated Multi-Scale Flow Matching for Time-Series Imputation
624. ICLR 2026Time-to-Move: Training-Free Motion-Controlled Video Generation via Dual-Clock Denoising
625. ICLR 2026TINKER: Diffusion's Gift to 3D--Multi-View Consistent Editing From Sparse Inputs without Per-Scene Optimization
626. ICLR 2026Token-Based Audio Inpainting via Discrete Diffusion
627. ICLR 2026Topological Flow Matching
628. ICLR 2026TOUCH: Text-guided Controllable Generation of Free-Form Hand-Object Interactions
629. ICLR 2026Toward Safer Diffusion Language Models: Discovery and Mitigation of Priming Vulnerability
630. ICLR 2026Towards a Certificate of Trust: Task-Aware OOD Detection for Scientific AI
631. ICLR 2026Towards Better Optimization For Listwise Preference in Diffusion Models
632. ICLR 2026Towards Interpretable Visual Decoding with Attention to Brain Representations
633. ICLR 2026Towards One-step Causal Video Generation via Adversarial Self-Distillation
634. ICLR 2026TPDiff: Temporal Pyramid Video Diffusion Model
635. ICLR 2026TRACE: Your Diffusion Model is Secretly an Instance Edge Detector
636. ICLR 2026TRACEDET: HALLUCINATION DETECTION FROM THE DECODING TRACE OF DIFFUSION LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS
637. ICLR 2026Training-Free Reward-Guided Image Editing via Trajectory Optimal Control
638. ICLR 2026Training-Free Text-Guided Color Editing with Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformer
639. ICLR 2026TrajFlow: Nation-wide Pseudo GPS Trajectory Generation with Flow Matching Models
640. ICLR 2026Translate Policy to Language: Flow Matching Generated Rewards for LLM Explanations
641. ICLR 2026TreeGRPO: Tree-Advantage GRPO for Online RL Post-Training of Diffusion Models
642. ICLR 2026Trust but Verify: Adaptive Conditioning for Reference-Based Diffusion Super-Resolution via Implicit Reference Correlation Modeling
643. ICLR 2026TS-Attn: Temporal-wise Separable Attention for Multi-Event Video Generation
644. ICLR 2026TS-DDAE: A novel Temporal-Spectral Denoising Diffusion AutoEncoder for Wireless Signal Recognition Model Pre-training
645. ICLR 2026Turbo-DDCM: Fast and Flexible Zero-Shot Diffusion-Based Image Compression
646. ICLR 2026TwinFlow: Realizing One-step Generation on Large Models with Self-adversarial Flows
647. ICLR 2026Ultra-Fast Language Generation via Discrete Diffusion Divergence Instruct
648. ICLR 2026UltraLLaDA: Scaling the Context Length to 128K for Diffusion Large Language Models
649. ICLR 2026UltraViCo: Breaking Extrapolation Limits in Video Diffusion Transformers
650. ICLR 2026Uncovering Semantic Selectivity of Latent Groups in Higher Visual Cortex with Mutual Information-Guided Diffusion

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.