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

2,078 papers, page 15 of 42

701. ICLR 2025EC-DIT: Scaling Diffusion Transformers with Adaptive Expert-Choice Routing
702. ICLR 2025EdgeRunner: Auto-regressive Auto-encoder for Artistic Mesh Generation
703. ICLR 2025EditRoom: LLM-parameterized Graph Diffusion for Composable 3D Room Layout Editing
704. ICLR 2025Efficient Diversity-Preserving Diffusion Alignment via Gradient-Informed GFlowNets
705. ICLR 2025Efficient Multi-agent Offline Coordination via Diffusion-based Trajectory Stitching
706. ICLR 2025Efficient Perplexity Bound and Ratio Matching in Discrete Diffusion Language Models
707. ICLR 2025EG4D: Explicit Generation of 4D Object without Score Distillation
708. ICLR 2025EgoExo-Gen: Ego-centric Video Prediction by Watching Exo-centric Videos
709. ICLR 2025EgoSim: Egocentric Exploration in Virtual Worlds with Multi-modal Conditioning
710. ICLR 2025Eliminating Oversaturation and Artifacts of High Guidance Scales in Diffusion Models
711. ICLR 2025Elliptic Loss Regularization
712. ICLR 2025Elucidating the Preconditioning in Consistency Distillation
713. ICLR 2025End-to-end Learning of Gaussian Mixture Priors for Diffusion Sampler
714. ICLR 2025Energy-Based Diffusion Language Models for Text Generation
715. ICLR 2025Energy-Weighted Flow Matching for Offline Reinforcement Learning
716. ICLR 2025Enhanced Diffusion Sampling via Extrapolation with Multiple ODE Solutions
717. ICLR 2025Enhancing Compositional Text-to-Image Generation with Reliable Random Seeds
718. ICLR 2025Ensembling Diffusion Models via Adaptive Feature Aggregation
719. ICLR 2025Equivariant Denoisers Cannot Copy Graphs: Align Your Graph Diffusion Models
720. ICLR 2025Erasing Concept Combination from Text-to-Image Diffusion Model
721. ICLR 2025ET-SEED: EFFICIENT TRAJECTORY-LEVEL SE(3) EQUIVARIANT DIFFUSION POLICY
722. ICLR 2025Exploring Local Memorization in Diffusion Models via Bright Ending Attention
723. ICLR 2025FaceShot: Bring Any Character into Life
724. ICLR 2025Fantastic Targets for Concept Erasure in Diffusion Models and Where To Find Them
725. ICLR 2025Fast Direct: Query-Efficient Online Black-box Guidance for Diffusion-model Target Generation
726. ICLR 2025Faster Diffusion Sampling with Randomized Midpoints: Sequential and Parallel
727. ICLR 2025Faster Inference of Flow-Based Generative Models via Improved Data-Noise Coupling
728. ICLR 2025FasterCache: Training-Free Video Diffusion Model Acceleration with High Quality
729. ICLR 2025Feedback Schrödinger Bridge Matching
730. ICLR 2025Field-DiT: Diffusion Transformer on Unified Video, 3D, and Game Field Generation
731. ICLR 2025FIG: Flow with Interpolant Guidance for Linear Inverse Problems
732. ICLR 2025Fine-Tuning Discrete Diffusion Models via Reward Optimization with Applications to DNA and Protein Design
733. ICLR 2025Flow matching achieves almost minimax optimal convergence
734. ICLR 2025Flow Matching with Gaussian Process Priors for Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting
735. ICLR 2025Flow Matching with General Discrete Paths: A Kinetic-Optimal Perspective
736. ICLR 2025FlowDec: A flow-based full-band general audio codec with high perceptual quality
737. ICLR 2025Framer: Interactive Frame Interpolation
738. ICLR 2025FreCaS: Efficient Higher-Resolution Image Generation via Frequency-aware Cascaded Sampling
739. ICLR 2025Fréchet Wavelet Distance: A Domain-Agnostic Metric for Image Generation
740. ICLR 2025Free Hunch: Denoiser Covariance Estimation for Diffusion Models Without Extra Costs
741. ICLR 2025FreqPrior: Improving Video Diffusion Models with Frequency Filtering Gaussian Noise
742. ICLR 2025GameGen-X: Interactive Open-world Game Video Generation
743. ICLR 2025GANDALF: Generative AttentioN based Data Augmentation and predictive modeLing Framework for personalized cancer treatment
744. ICLR 2025GaussianAnything: Interactive Point Cloud Flow Matching for 3D Generation
745. ICLR 2025GDrag:Towards General-Purpose Interactive Editing with Anti-ambiguity Point Diffusion
746. ICLR 2025Generalization in VAE and Diffusion Models: A Unified Information-Theoretic Analysis
747. ICLR 2025Generalization through variance: how noise shapes inductive biases in diffusion models
748. ICLR 2025Generalized Consistency Trajectory Models for Image Manipulation
749. ICLR 2025Generating Graphs via Spectral Diffusion
750. ICLR 2025Generating Physical Dynamics under Priors

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.