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 136 of 138
- NeurIPS 2023Learning Energy-Based Prior Model with Diffusion-Amortized MCMC
- NeurIPS 2023Learning Mixtures of Gaussians Using the DDPM Objective
- NeurIPS 2023Learning Score-based Grasping Primitive for Human-assisting Dexterous Grasping
- NeurIPS 2023Leveraging Early-Stage Robustness in Diffusion Models for Efficient and High-Quality Image Synthesis
- NeurIPS 2023Likelihood-Based Diffusion Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023Linguistic Binding in Diffusion Models: Enhancing Attribute Correspondence through Attention Map Alignment
- NeurIPS 2023LinkerNet: Fragment Poses and Linker Co-Design with 3D Equivariant Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2023Look Ma, No Hands! Agent-Environment Factorization of Egocentric Videos
- NeurIPS 2023Lossy Image Compression with Conditional Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023MagicBrush: A Manually Annotated Dataset for Instruction-Guided Image Editing
- NeurIPS 2023Markovian Sliced Wasserstein Distances: Beyond Independent Projections
- NeurIPS 2023Metropolis Sampling for Constrained Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023Michelangelo: Conditional 3D Shape Generation based on Shape-Image-Text Aligned Latent Representation
- NeurIPS 2023Mirror Diffusion Models for Constrained and Watermarked Generation
- NeurIPS 2023Mix-of-Show: Decentralized Low-Rank Adaptation for Multi-Concept Customization of Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023Modelling Cellular Perturbations with the Sparse Additive Mechanism Shift Variational Autoencoder
- NeurIPS 2023Molecule Joint Auto-Encoding: Trajectory Pretraining with 2D and 3D Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2023Moment Matching Denoising Gibbs Sampling
- NeurIPS 2023MomentDiff: Generative Video Moment Retrieval from Random to Real
- NeurIPS 2023Monarch Mixer: A Simple Sub-Quadratic GEMM-Based Architecture
- NeurIPS 2023Multi-resolution Spectral Coherence for Graph Generation with Score-based Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2023Multi-scale Diffusion Denoised Smoothing
- NeurIPS 2023MultiFusion: Fusing Pre-Trained Models for Multi-Lingual, Multi-Modal Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2023MVDiffusion: Enabling Holistic Multi-view Image Generation with Correspondence-Aware Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2023NAP: Neural 3D Articulated Object Prior
- NeurIPS 2023Neural Sampling in Hierarchical Exponential-family Energy-based Models
- NeurIPS 2023Norm-guided latent space exploration for text-to-image generation
- NeurIPS 2023Normalizing flow neural networks by JKO scheme
- NeurIPS 2023OBJECT 3DIT: Language-guided 3D-aware Image Editing
- NeurIPS 2023Object-Centric Slot Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2023On Calibrating Diffusion Probabilistic Models
- NeurIPS 2023On Measuring Fairness in Generative Models
- NeurIPS 2023On the Constrained Time-Series Generation Problem
- NeurIPS 2023On the Generalization Properties of Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023One-2-3-45: Any Single Image to 3D Mesh in 45 Seconds without Per-Shape Optimization
- NeurIPS 2023One-Line-of-Code Data Mollification Improves Optimization of Likelihood-based Generative Models
- NeurIPS 2023One-Step Diffusion Distillation via Deep Equilibrium Models
- NeurIPS 2023Optimal Preconditioning and Fisher Adaptive Langevin Sampling
- NeurIPS 2023Optimal Transport-Guided Conditional Score-Based Diffusion Model
- NeurIPS 2023P-Flow: A Fast and Data-Efficient Zero-Shot TTS through Speech Prompting
- NeurIPS 2023PanoGen: Text-Conditioned Panoramic Environment Generation for Vision-and-Language Navigation
- NeurIPS 2023Parallel Sampling of Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023Particle-based Variational Inference with Generalized Wasserstein Gradient Flow
- NeurIPS 2023Patch Diffusion: Faster and More Data-Efficient Training of Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023PDE-Refiner: Achieving Accurate Long Rollouts with Neural PDE Solvers
- NeurIPS 2023PDF: Point Diffusion Implicit Function for Large-scale Scene Neural Representation
- NeurIPS 2023Perturbation Towards Easy Samples Improves Targeted Adversarial Transferability
- NeurIPS 2023PGDiff: Guiding Diffusion Models for Versatile Face Restoration via Partial Guidance
- NeurIPS 2023PHOTOSWAP: Personalized Subject Swapping in Images
- NeurIPS 2023PLANNER: Generating Diversified Paragraph via Latent Language Diffusion Model
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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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