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

1,471 papers, page 13 of 30

601. ICLR 2024Generalized Schrödinger Bridge Matching
602. ICLR 2024Generating Images with 3D Annotations Using Diffusion Models
603. ICLR 2024Generative Learning for Financial Time Series with Irregular and Scale-Invariant Patterns
604. ICLR 2024Generative Learning for Solving Non-Convex Problem with Multi-Valued Input-Solution Mapping
605. ICLR 2024Generative Modeling with Phase Stochastic Bridge
606. ICLR 2024Generative Pre-training for Speech with Flow Matching
607. ICLR 2024GeoDiffusion: Text-Prompted Geometric Control for Object Detection Data Generation
608. ICLR 2024Get What You Want, Not What You Don't: Image Content Suppression for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
609. ICLR 2024GRAPH-CONSTRAINED DIFFUSION FOR END-TO-END PATH PLANNING
610. ICLR 2024Ground-A-Video: Zero-shot Grounded Video Editing using Text-to-image Diffusion Models
611. ICLR 2024HIFA: High-fidelity Text-to-3D Generation with Advanced Diffusion Guidance
612. ICLR 2024How I Warped Your Noise: a Temporally-Correlated Noise Prior for Diffusion Models
613. ICLR 2024Human Motion Diffusion as a Generative Prior
614. ICLR 2024HyperHuman: Hyper-Realistic Human Generation with Latent Structural Diffusion
615. ICLR 2024Idempotent Generative Network
616. ICLR 2024Image Inpainting via Iteratively Decoupled Probabilistic Modeling
617. ICLR 2024Image Inpainting via Tractable Steering of Diffusion Models
618. ICLR 2024Image Translation as Diffusion Visual Programmers
619. ICLR 2024ImagenHub: Standardizing the evaluation of conditional image generation models
620. ICLR 2024Improved Active Learning via Dependent Leverage Score Sampling
621. ICLR 2024Improved sampling via learned diffusions
622. ICLR 2024Improved Techniques for Training Consistency Models
623. ICLR 2024IMPUS: Image Morphing with Perceptually-Uniform Sampling Using Diffusion Models
624. ICLR 2024InfoBatch: Lossless Training Speed Up by Unbiased Dynamic Data Pruning
625. ICLR 2024Inner Classifier-Free Guidance and Its Taylor Expansion for Diffusion Models
626. ICLR 2024InstaFlow: One Step is Enough for High-Quality Diffusion-Based Text-to-Image Generation
627. ICLR 2024Instant3D: Fast Text-to-3D with Sparse-view Generation and Large Reconstruction Model
628. ICLR 2024InstructCV: Instruction-Tuned Text-to-Image Diffusion Models as Vision Generalists
629. ICLR 2024InstructPix2NeRF: Instructed 3D Portrait Editing from a Single Image
630. ICLR 2024InstructScene: Instruction-Driven 3D Indoor Scene Synthesis with Semantic Graph Prior
631. ICLR 2024Interpretable Diffusion via Information Decomposition
632. ICLR 2024Intriguing Properties of Data Attribution on Diffusion Models
633. ICLR 2024Intriguing Properties of Generative Classifiers
634. ICLR 2024Ito Diffusion Approximation of Universal Ito Chains for Sampling, Optimization and Boosting
635. ICLR 2024JointNet: Extending Text-to-Image Diffusion for Dense Distribution Modeling
636. ICLR 2024Kosmos-G: Generating Images in Context with Multimodal Large Language Models
637. ICLR 2024Label-Noise Robust Diffusion Models
638. ICLR 2024Language Control Diffusion: Efficiently Scaling through Space, Time, and Tasks
639. ICLR 2024Language Model Beats Diffusion - Tokenizer is key to visual generation
640. ICLR 2024Large-Vocabulary 3D Diffusion Model with Transformer
641. ICLR 2024Latent 3D Graph Diffusion
642. ICLR 2024Learning Energy-Based Models by Cooperative Diffusion Recovery Likelihood
643. ICLR 2024Learning Stackable and Skippable LEGO Bricks for Efficient, Reconfigurable, and Variable-Resolution Diffusion Modeling
644. ICLR 2024Let 2D Diffusion Model Know 3D-Consistency for Robust Text-to-3D Generation
645. ICLR 2024Leveraging Optimization for Adaptive Attacks on Image Watermarks
646. ICLR 2024Likelihood Training of Cascaded Diffusion Models via Hierarchical Volume-preserving Maps
647. ICLR 2024Lipschitz Singularities in Diffusion Models
648. ICLR 2024LipVoicer: Generating Speech from Silent Videos Guided by Lip Reading
649. ICLR 2024LLM Blueprint: Enabling Text-to-Image Generation with Complex and Detailed Prompts
650. ICLR 2024LLM-grounded Video Diffusion Models

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.