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 135 of 138
- NeurIPS 2023Extraction and Recovery of Spatio-Temporal Structure in Latent Dynamics Alignment with Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023FaceComposer: A Unified Model for Versatile Facial Content Creation
- NeurIPS 2023FaceDNeRF: Semantics-Driven Face Reconstruction, Prompt Editing and Relighting with Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023Fast Scalable and Accurate Discovery of DAGs Using the Best Order Score Search and Grow Shrink Trees
- NeurIPS 2023Feature Likelihood Divergence: Evaluating the Generalization of Generative Models Using Samples
- NeurIPS 2023FineMoGen: Fine-Grained Spatio-Temporal Motion Generation and Editing
- NeurIPS 2023Flow Matching for Scalable Simulation-Based Inference
- NeurIPS 2023Formulating Discrete Probability Flow Through Optimal Transport
- NeurIPS 2023Free-Bloom: Zero-Shot Text-to-Video Generator with LLM Director and LDM Animator
- NeurIPS 2023From Discrete Tokens to High-Fidelity Audio Using Multi-Band Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2023Functional Renyi Differential Privacy for Generative Modeling
- NeurIPS 2023Functional-Group-Based Diffusion for Pocket-Specific Molecule Generation and Elaboration
- NeurIPS 2023Gaussian Mixture Solvers for Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023Generate What You Prefer: Reshaping Sequential Recommendation via Guided Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2023Generating Behaviorally Diverse Policies with Latent Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023Generative Category-level Object Pose Estimation via Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023Generative Modeling through the Semi-dual Formulation of Unbalanced Optimal Transport
- NeurIPS 2023Generative Neural Fields by Mixtures of Neural Implicit Functions
- NeurIPS 2023GenImage: A Million-Scale Benchmark for Detecting AI-Generated Image
- NeurIPS 2023Geometric Neural Diffusion Processes
- NeurIPS 2023Global Structure-Aware Diffusion Process for Low-light Image Enhancement
- NeurIPS 2023GLOBER: Coherent Non-autoregressive Video Generation via GLOBal Guided Video DecodER
- NeurIPS 2023GlyphControl: Glyph Conditional Control for Visual Text Generation
- NeurIPS 2023GMSF: Global Matching Scene Flow
- NeurIPS 2023GRAND-SLAMIN’ Interpretable Additive Modeling with Structural Constraints
- NeurIPS 2023Graph Denoising Diffusion for Inverse Protein Folding
- NeurIPS 2023Hard Prompts Made Easy: Gradient-Based Discrete Optimization for Prompt Tuning and Discovery
- NeurIPS 2023HeadSculpt: Crafting 3D Head Avatars with Text
- NeurIPS 2023Hierarchical Integration Diffusion Model for Realistic Image Deblurring
- NeurIPS 2023Hierarchical Semi-Implicit Variational Inference with Application to Diffusion Model Acceleration
- NeurIPS 2023ImageReward: Learning and Evaluating Human Preferences for Text-to-Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2023Imagine That! Abstract-to-Intricate Text-to-Image Synthesis with Scene Graph Hallucination Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2023Implicit Transfer Operator Learning: Multiple Time-Resolution Models for Molecular Dynamics
- NeurIPS 2023IMPRESS: Evaluating the Resilience of Imperceptible Perturbations Against Unauthorized Data Usage in Diffusion-Based Generative AI
- NeurIPS 2023Improving Diffusion-Based Image Synthesis with Context Prediction
- NeurIPS 2023In-Context Learning Unlocked for Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023Incomplete Multimodality-Diffused Emotion Recognition
- NeurIPS 2023InsActor: Instruction-driven Physics-based Characters
- NeurIPS 2023Inserting Anybody in Diffusion Models via Celeb Basis
- NeurIPS 2023Intervention Generalization: A View from Factor Graph Models
- NeurIPS 2023Is This Loss Informative? Faster Text-to-Image Customization by Tracking Objective Dynamics
- NeurIPS 2023Joint Bayesian Inference of Graphical Structure and Parameters with a Single Generative Flow Network
- NeurIPS 2023Knowledge Diffusion for Distillation
- NeurIPS 2023L-CAD: Language-based Colorization with Any-level Descriptions using Diffusion Priors
- NeurIPS 2023Label-Only Model Inversion Attacks via Knowledge Transfer
- NeurIPS 2023Label-Retrieval-Augmented Diffusion Models for Learning from Noisy Labels
- NeurIPS 2023LANCE: Stress-testing Visual Models by Generating Language-guided Counterfactual Images
- NeurIPS 2023Language-driven Scene Synthesis using Multi-conditional Diffusion Model
- NeurIPS 2023Latent Diffusion for Language Generation
- NeurIPS 2023Learning a 1-layer conditional generative model in total variation
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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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