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

1,471 papers, page 16 of 30

751. ICLR 2024VDT: General-purpose Video Diffusion Transformers via Mask Modeling
752. ICLR 2024VersVideo: Leveraging Enhanced Temporal Diffusion Models for Versatile Video Generation
753. ICLR 2024Whole-Song Hierarchical Generation of Symbolic Music Using Cascaded Diffusion Models
754. ICLR 2024WildFusion: Learning 3D-Aware Latent Diffusion Models in View Space
755. ICLR 2024Würstchen: An Efficient Architecture for Large-Scale Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
756. ICLR 2024Zero-Shot Robotic Manipulation with Pre-Trained Image-Editing Diffusion Models
757. ICML 20243D-VLA: A 3D Vision-Language-Action Generative World Model
758. ICML 2024A Dense Reward View on Aligning Text-to-Image Diffusion with Preference
759. ICML 2024A Diffusion Model Framework for Unsupervised Neural Combinatorial Optimization
760. ICML 2024A Fixed-Point Approach for Causal Generative Modeling
761. ICML 2024A Geometric Explanation of the Likelihood OOD Detection Paradox
762. ICML 2024A Simple Early Exiting Framework for Accelerated Sampling in Diffusion Models
763. ICML 2024Accelerating Convergence of Score-Based Diffusion Models, Provably
764. ICML 2024Accelerating Parallel Sampling of Diffusion Models
765. ICML 2024Adapt and Diffuse: Sample-adaptive Reconstruction via Latent Diffusion Models
766. ICML 2024AdsorbDiff: Adsorbate Placement via Conditional Denoising Diffusion
767. ICML 2024Align Your Steps: Optimizing Sampling Schedules in Diffusion Models
768. ICML 2024All-in-one simulation-based inference
769. ICML 2024AlphaFold Meets Flow Matching for Generating Protein Ensembles
770. ICML 2024Antibody Design Using a Score-based Diffusion Model Guided by Evolutionary, Physical and Geometric Constraints
771. ICML 2024AquaLoRA: Toward White-box Protection for Customized Stable Diffusion Models via Watermark LoRA
772. ICML 2024ATraDiff: Accelerating Online Reinforcement Learning with Imaginary Trajectories
773. ICML 2024Attribute Based Interpretable Evaluation Metrics for Generative Models
774. ICML 2024Batch and match: black-box variational inference with a score-based divergence
775. ICML 2024Bayesian Power Steering: An Effective Approach for Domain Adaptation of Diffusion Models
776. ICML 2024Bespoke Non-Stationary Solvers for Fast Sampling of Diffusion and Flow Models
777. ICML 2024Beyond Point Prediction: Score Matching-based Pseudolikelihood Estimation of Neural Marked Spatio-Temporal Point Process
778. ICML 2024Bipartite Matching in Massive Graphs: A Tight Analysis of EDCS
779. ICML 2024Boximator: Generating Rich and Controllable Motions for Video Synthesis
780. ICML 2024Bridging Data Gaps in Diffusion Models with Adversarial Noise-Based Transfer Learning
781. ICML 2024Bridging discrete and continuous state spaces: Exploring the Ehrenfest process in time-continuous diffusion models
782. ICML 2024CasCast: Skillful High-resolution Precipitation Nowcasting via Cascaded Modelling
783. ICML 2024CCM: Real-Time Controllable Visual Content Creation Using Text-to-Image Consistency Models
784. ICML 2024Characteristic Guidance: Non-linear Correction for Diffusion Model at Large Guidance Scale
785. ICML 2024Cluster-Aware Similarity Diffusion for Instance Retrieval
786. ICML 2024CogDPM: Diffusion Probabilistic Models via Cognitive Predictive Coding
787. ICML 2024Compositional Image Decomposition with Diffusion Models
788. ICML 2024Compositional Text-to-Image Generation with Dense Blob Representations
789. ICML 2024Confronting Reward Overoptimization for Diffusion Models: A Perspective of Inductive and Primacy Biases
790. ICML 2024Consistent Diffusion Meets Tweedie: Training Exact Ambient Diffusion Models with Noisy Data
791. ICML 2024Context-Guided Diffusion for Out-of-Distribution Molecular and Protein Design
792. ICML 2024Correcting Diffusion-Based Perceptual Image Compression with Privileged End-to-End Decoder
793. ICML 2024Critical windows: non-asymptotic theory for feature emergence in diffusion models
794. ICML 2024Cross-view Masked Diffusion Transformers for Person Image Synthesis
795. ICML 2024CW Complex Hypothesis for Image Data
796. ICML 2024D-Flow: Differentiating through Flows for Controlled Generation
797. ICML 2024Data-free Distillation of Diffusion Models with Bootstrapping
798. ICML 2024Deep Stochastic Mechanics
799. ICML 2024Demystifying SGD with Doubly Stochastic Gradients
800. ICML 2024Denoising Autoregressive Representation Learning

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.