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

694 papers, page 14 of 14

651. NeurIPS 2025Unlocking Dataset Distillation with Diffusion Models
652. NeurIPS 2025Unlocking hidden biomolecular conformational landscapes in diffusion models at inference time
653. NeurIPS 2025Unraveling Metameric Dilemma for Spectral Reconstruction: A High-Fidelity Approach via Semi-Supervised Learning
654. NeurIPS 2025Unveiling Concept Attribution in Diffusion Models
655. NeurIPS 2025UtilGen: Utility-Centric Generative Data Augmentation with Dual-Level Task Adaptation
656. NeurIPS 2025V-CECE: Visual Counterfactual Explanations via Conceptual Edits
657. NeurIPS 2025Value Diffusion Reinforcement Learning
658. NeurIPS 2025Value Gradient Guidance for Flow Matching Alignment
659. NeurIPS 2025VarFlow: Proper Scoring-Rule Diffusion Distillation via Energy Matching
660. NeurIPS 2025VETA-DiT: Variance-Equalized and Temporally Adaptive Quantization for Efficient 4-bit Diffusion Transformers
661. NeurIPS 2025VFRTok: Variable Frame Rates Video Tokenizer with Duration-Proportional Information Assumption
662. NeurIPS 2025Vicinity-Guided Discriminative Latent Diffusion for Privacy-Preserving Domain Adaptation
663. NeurIPS 2025ViDAR: Video Diffusion-Aware 4D Reconstruction From Monocular Inputs
664. NeurIPS 2025Video Diffusion Models Excel at Tracking Similar-Looking Objects Without Supervision
665. NeurIPS 2025Video World Models with Long-term Spatial Memory
666. NeurIPS 2025VideoHallu: Evaluating and Mitigating Multi-modal Hallucinations on Synthetic Video Understanding
667. NeurIPS 2025VideoREPA: Learning Physics for Video Generation through Relational Alignment with Foundation Models
668. NeurIPS 2025ViewCraft3D: High-fidelity and View-Consistent 3D Vector Graphics Synthesis
669. NeurIPS 2025ViewPoint: Panoramic Video Generation with Pretrained Diffusion Models
670. NeurIPS 2025Virtual Fitting Room: Generating Arbitrarily Long Videos of Virtual Try-On from a Single Image
671. NeurIPS 2025Vision‑Language‑Vision Auto‑Encoder: Scalable Knowledge Distillation from Diffusion Models
672. NeurIPS 2025VividFace: A Robost and High-Fidelity Video Face Swapping Framework
673. NeurIPS 2025VLForgery Face Triad: Detection, Localization and Attribution via Multimodal Large Language Models
674. NeurIPS 2025VORTA: Efficient Video Diffusion via Routing Sparse Attention
675. NeurIPS 2025VTON-VLLM: Aligning Virtual Try-On Models with Human Preferences
676. NeurIPS 2025Walking the Schrödinger Bridge: A Direct Trajectory for Text-to-3D Generation
677. NeurIPS 2025Wan-Move: Motion-controllable Video Generation via Latent Trajectory Guidance
678. NeurIPS 2025Wasserstein Convergence of Critically Damped Langevin Diffusions
679. NeurIPS 2025WaveAR: Wavelet-Aware Continuous Autoregressive Diffusion for Accurate Human Motion Prediction
680. NeurIPS 2025When Additive Noise Meets Unobserved Mediators: Bivariate Denoising Diffusion for Causal Discovery
681. NeurIPS 2025When and how can inexact generative models still sample from the data manifold?
682. NeurIPS 2025When Are Concepts Erased From Diffusion Models?
683. NeurIPS 2025Where and How to Perturb: On the Design of Perturbation Guidance in Diffusion and Flow Models
684. NeurIPS 2025Whitened Score Diffusion: A Structured Prior for Imaging Inverse Problems
685. NeurIPS 2025Why Diffusion Models Don’t Memorize: The Role of Implicit Dynamical Regularization in Training
686. NeurIPS 2025Why Masking Diffusion Works: Condition on the Jump Schedule for Improved Discrete Diffusion
687. NeurIPS 2025WildCAT3D: Appearance-Aware Multi-View Diffusion in the Wild
688. NeurIPS 2025WISA: World simulator assistant for physics-aware text-to-video generation
689. NeurIPS 2025WMCopier: Forging Invisible Watermarks on Arbitrary Images
690. NeurIPS 2025Wukong's 72 Transformations: High-fidelity Textured 3D Morphing via Flow Models
691. NeurIPS 2025X-Scene: Large-Scale Driving Scene Generation with High Fidelity and Flexible Controllability
692. NeurIPS 2025Zero-Shot Trajectory Planning for Signal Temporal Logic Tasks
693. NeurIPS 2025ZeroPatcher: Training-free Sampler for Video Inpainting and Editing
694. NeurIPS 2025ZeroSep: Separate Anything in Audio with Zero Training

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.