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

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651. ICLR 2026UniCalli: A Unified Diffusion Framework for Column-Level Generation and Recognition of Chinese Calligraphy
652. ICLR 2026UniEdit-Flow: Unleashing Inversion and Editing in the Era of Flow Models
653. ICLR 2026Unified Diffusion VLA: Vision-Language-Action Model via Joint Discrete Diffusion Diffusion Process
654. ICLR 2026Unified In-Context Video Editing
655. ICLR 2026Uniform Discrete Diffusion with Metric Path for Video Generation
656. ICLR 2026UniHand: A Unified Model for Diverse Controlled 4D Hand Motion Modeling
657. ICLR 2026UniUGG: Unified 3D Understanding and Generation via Geometric-Semantic Encoding
658. ICLR 2026Universal Inverse Distillation for Matching Models with Real-Data Supervision (No GANs)
659. ICLR 2026Universal Multi-Domain Translation via Diffusion Routers
660. ICLR 2026Unveiling the Potential of Diffusion Large Language Model in Controllable Generation
661. ICLR 2026UP2You: Fast Reconstruction of Yourself from Unconstrained Photo Collections
662. ICLR 2026Value Flows
663. ICLR 2026Value Matching: Scalable and Gradient-Free Reward-Guided Flow Adaptation
664. ICLR 2026Variational Autoencoding Discrete Diffusion with Enhanced Dimensional Correlations Modeling
665. ICLR 2026VFScale: Intrinsic Reasoning through Verifier-Free Test-time Scalable Diffusion Model
666. ICLR 2026Vid2World: Crafting Video Diffusion Models to Interactive World Models
667. ICLR 2026Video Unlearning via Low-Rank Refusal Vector
668. ICLR 2026Video-GPT via Next Clip Diffusion
669. ICLR 2026VINCIE: Unlocking In-context Image Editing from Video
670. ICLR 2026ViPO: Visual Preference Optimization at Scale
671. ICLR 2026Visual Autoregressive Modeling for Instruction-Guided Image Editing
672. ICLR 2026VisualPrompter: Semantic-Aware Prompt Optimization with Visual Feedback for Text-to-Image Synthesis
673. ICLR 2026VITA: Vision-to-Action Flow Matching Policy
674. ICLR 2026Vivid-VR: Distilling Concepts from Text-to-Video Diffusion Transformer for Photorealistic Video Restoration
675. ICLR 2026VLM-Guided Adaptive Negative Prompting for Creative Generation
676. ICLR 2026VMDiff: Visual Mixing Diffusion for Limitless Cross-Object Synthesis
677. ICLR 2026VMoBA: Mixture-of-Block Attention for Video Diffusion Models
678. ICLR 2026VSF: Simple, Efficient, and Effective Negative Guidance in Few-Step Image Generation Models By Value Sign Flip
679. ICLR 2026W-EDIT: A Wavelet-Based Frequency-Aware Framework for Text-Driven Image Editing
680. ICLR 2026Watermarking Diffusion Language Models
681. ICLR 2026WavefrontDiffusion: Dynamic Decoding Schedule for Improved Reasoning
682. ICLR 2026wd1: Weighted Policy Optimization for Reasoning in Diffusion Language Models
683. ICLR 2026Weak-to-Strong Diffusion
684. ICLR 2026WFR-FM: Simulation-Free Dynamic Unbalanced Optimal Transport
685. ICLR 2026What Exactly Does Guidance Do in Masked Discrete Diffusion Models
686. ICLR 2026What Happens Next? Anticipating Future Motion by Generating Point Trajectories
687. ICLR 2026When Scores Learn Geometry: Rate Separations under the Manifold Hypothesis
688. ICLR 2026Why Adversarially Train Diffusion Models?
689. ICLR 2026Why We Need New Benchmarks for Local Intrinsic Dimension Estimation
690. ICLR 2026Wide-In, Narrow-Out: Revokable Decoding for Efficient and Effective DLLMs
691. ICLR 2026WILD-Diffusion: A WDRO Inspired Training Method for Diffusion Models under Limited Data
692. ICLR 2026WorldSplat: Gaussian-Centric Feed-Forward 4D Scene Generation for Autonomous Driving
693. ICLR 2026Your VAR Model is Secretly an Efficient and Explainable Generative Classifier
694. ICLR 2026Zero-shot Human Pose Estimation using Diffusion-based Inverse solvers

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.