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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751. ICML 2025ArrayDPS: Unsupervised Blind Speech Separation with a Diffusion Prior
752. ICML 2025AsymRnR: Video Diffusion Transformers Acceleration with Asymmetric Reduction and Restoration
753. ICML 2025Behavior-Regularized Diffusion Policy Optimization for Offline Reinforcement Learning
754. ICML 2025Better to Teach than to Give: Domain Generalized Semantic Segmentation via Agent Queries with Diffusion Model Guidance
755. ICML 2025Beyond One-Hot Labels: Semantic Mixing for Model Calibration
756. ICML 2025BiMaCoSR: Binary One-Step Diffusion Model Leveraging Flexible Matrix Compression for Real Super-Resolution
757. ICML 2025BinauralFlow: A Causal and Streamable Approach for High-Quality Binaural Speech Synthesis with Flow Matching Models
758. ICML 2025Blink of an eye: a simple theory for feature localization in generative models
759. ICML 2025BOOD: Boundary-based Out-Of-Distribution Data Generation
760. ICML 2025Boost-and-Skip: A Simple Guidance-Free Diffusion for Minority Generation
761. ICML 2025Bridging Protein Sequences and Microscopy Images with Unified Diffusion Models
762. ICML 2025Broadband Ground Motion Synthesis by Diffusion Model with Minimal Condition
763. ICML 2025Ca2-VDM: Efficient Autoregressive Video Diffusion Model with Causal Generation and Cache Sharing
764. ICML 2025Can Diffusion Models Learn Hidden Inter-Feature Rules Behind Images?
765. ICML 2025CAT: Contrastive Adversarial Training for Evaluating the Robustness of Protective Perturbations in Latent Diffusion Models
766. ICML 2025CellFlux: Simulating Cellular Morphology Changes via Flow Matching
767. ICML 2025CFP-Gen: Combinatorial Functional Protein Generation via Diffusion Language Models
768. ICML 2025CHATS: Combining Human-Aligned Optimization and Test-Time Sampling for Text-to-Image Generation
769. ICML 2025Chip Placement with Diffusion Models
770. ICML 2025Clustering via Self-Supervised Diffusion
771. ICML 2025Competing Bandits in Matching Markets via Super Stability
772. ICML 2025Compositional Flows for 3D Molecule and Synthesis Pathway Co-design
773. ICML 2025Compositional Scene Understanding through Inverse Generative Modeling
774. ICML 2025Compressed Image Generation with Denoising Diffusion Codebook Models
775. ICML 2025Concept Reachability in Diffusion Models: Beyond Dataset Constraints
776. ICML 2025ConceptAttention: Diffusion Transformers Learn Highly Interpretable Features
777. ICML 2025Conditional Diffusion Model with Nonlinear Data Transformation for Time Series Forecasting
778. ICML 2025Conditioning Diffusions Using Malliavin Calculus
779. ICML 2025Continuous Semi-Implicit Models
780. ICML 2025Control and Realism: Best of Both Worlds in Layout-to-Image without Training
781. ICML 2025Controllable Data Generation with Hierarchical Neural Representations
782. ICML 2025Controlled Generation with Equivariant Variational Flow Matching
783. ICML 2025Convergence of Consistency Model with Multistep Sampling under General Data Assumptions
784. ICML 2025CtrlSynth: Controllable Image Text Synthesis for Data-Efficient Multimodal Learning
785. ICML 2025D-Fusion: Direct Preference Optimization for Aligning Diffusion Models with Visually Consistent Samples
786. ICML 2025David and Goliath: Small One-step Model Beats Large Diffusion with Score Post-training
787. ICML 2025DCTdiff: Intriguing Properties of Image Generative Modeling in the DCT Space
788. ICML 2025De-AntiFake: Rethinking the Protective Perturbations Against Voice Cloning Attacks
789. ICML 2025DeFoG: Discrete Flow Matching for Graph Generation
790. ICML 2025Dequantified Diffusion-Schrödinger Bridge for Density Ratio Estimation
791. ICML 2025Devil is in the Details: Density Guidance for Detail-Aware Generation with Flow Models
792. ICML 2025Diff-MoE: Diffusion Transformer with Time-Aware and Space-Adaptive Experts
793. ICML 2025DiffAdvMAP: Flexible Diffusion-Based Framework for Generating Natural Unrestricted Adversarial Examples
794. ICML 2025Differentiable Solver Search for Fast Diffusion Sampling
795. ICML 2025DiffMS: Diffusion Generation of Molecules Conditioned on Mass Spectra
796. ICML 2025Diffuse Everything: Multimodal Diffusion Models on Arbitrary State Spaces
797. ICML 2025Diffusion Adversarial Post-Training for One-Step Video Generation
798. ICML 2025Diffusion Counterfactual Generation with Semantic Abduction
799. ICML 2025Diffusion Instruction Tuning
800. ICML 2025Diffusion Models are Secretly Exchangeable: Parallelizing DDPMs via Auto Speculation

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.