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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701. CVPR 2025DeClotH: Decomposable 3D Cloth and Human Body Reconstruction from a Single Image
702. CVPR 2025Decompositional Neural Scene Reconstruction with Generative Diffusion Prior
703. CVPR 2025Decouple Distortion from Perception: Region Adaptive Diffusion for Extreme-low Bitrate Perception Image Compression
704. CVPR 2025Decouple-Then-Merge: Finetune Diffusion Models as Multi-Task Learning
705. CVPR 2025Decoupling Training-Free Guided Diffusion by ADMM
706. CVPR 2025DefectFill: Realistic Defect Generation with Inpainting Diffusion Model for Visual Inspection
707. CVPR 2025Denoising Functional Maps: Diffusion Models for Shape Correspondence
708. CVPR 2025DepthCrafter: Generating Consistent Long Depth Sequences for Open-world Videos
709. CVPR 2025Derivative-Free Diffusion Manifold-Constrained Gradient for Unified XAI
710. CVPR 2025DesignDiffusion: High-Quality Text-to-Design Image Generation with Diffusion Models
711. CVPR 2025Detail-Preserving Latent Diffusion for Stable Shadow Removal
712. CVPR 2025Detect-and-Guide: Self-regulation of Diffusion Models for Safe Text-to-Image Generation via Guideline Token Optimization
713. CVPR 2025Devil is in the Detail: Towards Injecting Fine Details of Image Prompt in Image Generation via Conflict-free Guidance and Stratified Attention
714. CVPR 2025DexHandDiff: Interaction-aware Diffusion Planning for Adaptive Dexterous Manipulation
715. CVPR 2025DI-PCG: Diffusion-based Efficient Inverse Procedural Content Generation for High-quality 3D Asset Creation
716. CVPR 2025DiC: Rethinking Conv3x3 Designs in Diffusion Models
717. CVPR 2025Diff-Palm: Realistic Palmprint Generation with Polynomial Creases and Intra-Class Variation Controllable Diffusion Models
718. CVPR 2025Diff2Flow: Training Flow Matching Models via Diffusion Model Alignment
719. CVPR 2025Difference Inversion: Interpolate and Isolate the Difference with Token Consistency for Image Analogy Generation
720. CVPR 2025DiffFNO: Diffusion Fourier Neural Operator
721. CVPR 2025DiffLocks: Generating 3D Hair from a Single Image using Diffusion Models
722. CVPR 2025DiffPortrait360: Consistent Portrait Diffusion for 360 View Synthesis
723. CVPR 2025DiffSensei: Bridging Multi-Modal LLMs and Diffusion Models for Customized Manga Generation
724. CVPR 2025Diffusion Bridge: Leveraging Diffusion Model to Reduce the Modality Gap Between Text and Vision for Zero-Shot Image Captioning
725. CVPR 2025Diffusion Model is Effectively Its Own Teacher
726. CVPR 2025Diffusion Renderer: Neural Inverse and Forward Rendering with Video Diffusion Models
727. CVPR 2025Diffusion Self-Distillation for Zero-Shot Customized Image Generation
728. CVPR 2025Diffusion-4K: Ultra-High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models
729. CVPR 2025Diffusion-based Event Generation for High-Quality Image Deblurring
730. CVPR 2025Diffusion-based Realistic Listening Head Generation via Hybrid Motion Modeling
731. CVPR 2025DiffusionDrive: Truncated Diffusion Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
732. CVPR 2025DiffusionSfM: Predicting Structure and Motion via Ray Origin and Endpoint Diffusion
733. CVPR 2025DiffVsgg: Diffusion-Driven Online Video Scene Graph Generation
734. CVPR 2025DifIISR: A Diffusion Model with Gradient Guidance for Infrared Image Super-Resolution
735. CVPR 2025DIFIX3D+: Improving 3D Reconstructions with Single-Step Diffusion Models
736. CVPR 2025DiG: Scalable and Efficient Diffusion Models with Gated Linear Attention
737. CVPR 2025DiN: Diffusion Model for Robust Medical VQA with Semantic Noisy Labels
738. CVPR 2025Directional Label Diffusion Model for Learning from Noisy Labels
739. CVPR 2025Disco4D: Disentangled 4D Human Generation and Animation from a Single Image
740. CVPR 2025Discrete to Continuous: Generating Smooth Transition Poses from Sign Language Observations
741. CVPR 2025Disentangled Pose and Appearance Guidance for Multi-Pose Generation
742. CVPR 2025DiSRT-In-Bed: Diffusion-Based Sim-to-Real Transfer Framework for In-Bed Human Mesh Recovery
743. CVPR 2025Dissecting and Mitigating Diffusion Bias via Mechanistic Interpretability
744. CVPR 2025Distribution Prototype Diffusion Learning for Open-set Supervised Anomaly Detection
745. CVPR 2025DiTCtrl: Exploring Attention Control in Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformer for Tuning-Free Multi-Prompt Longer Video Generation
746. CVPR 2025Divide and Conquer: Heterogeneous Noise Integration for Diffusion-based Adversarial Purification
747. CVPR 2025Divot: Diffusion Powers Video Tokenizer for Comprehension and Generation
748. CVPR 2025DKDM: Data-Free Knowledge Distillation for Diffusion Models with Any Architecture
749. CVPR 2025DNF: Unconditional 4D Generation with Dictionary-based Neural Fields
750. CVPR 2025Do Visual Imaginations Improve Vision-and-Language Navigation Agents?

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.