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

1,527 papers, page 17 of 31

801. ICLR 2025DiffSplat: Repurposing Image Diffusion Models for Scalable Gaussian Splat Generation
802. ICLR 2025Diffusing States and Matching Scores: A New Framework for Imitation Learning
803. ICLR 2025Diffusing to the Top: Boost Graph Neural Networks with Minimal Hyperparameter Tuning
804. ICLR 2025Diffusion Actor-Critic: Formulating Constrained Policy Iteration as Diffusion Noise Regression for Offline Reinforcement Learning
805. ICLR 2025Diffusion Attribution Score: Evaluating Training Data Influence in Diffusion Models
806. ICLR 2025Diffusion Bridge AutoEncoders for Unsupervised Representation Learning
807. ICLR 2025Diffusion Bridge Implicit Models
808. ICLR 2025Diffusion Feedback Helps CLIP See Better
809. ICLR 2025Diffusion Generative Modeling for Spatially Resolved Gene Expression Inference from Histology Images
810. ICLR 2025Diffusion Models are Evolutionary Algorithms
811. ICLR 2025Diffusion Models Are Real-Time Game Engines
812. ICLR 2025Diffusion Models as Cartoonists: The Curious Case of High Density Regions
813. ICLR 2025Diffusion On Syntax Trees For Program Synthesis
814. ICLR 2025Diffusion Policy Policy Optimization
815. ICLR 2025Diffusion State-Guided Projected Gradient for Inverse Problems
816. ICLR 2025Diffusion Transformer Captures Spatial-Temporal Dependencies: A Theory for Gaussian Process Data
817. ICLR 2025Diffusion Transformers for Tabular Data Time Series Generation
818. ICLR 2025Diffusion-based Decoupled Deterministic and Uncertain Framework for Probabilistic Multivariate Time Series Forecasting
819. ICLR 2025Diffusion-based Neural Network Weights Generation
820. ICLR 2025Diffusion-Based Planning for Autonomous Driving with Flexible Guidance
821. ICLR 2025Diffusion-NPO: Negative Preference Optimization for Better Preference Aligned Generation of Diffusion Models
822. ICLR 2025Diffusion$^2$: Dynamic 3D Content Generation via Score Composition of Video and Multi-view Diffusion Models
823. ICLR 2025DiffusionGuard: A Robust Defense Against Malicious Diffusion-based Image Editing
824. ICLR 2025Direct Distributional Optimization for Provable Alignment of Diffusion Models
825. ICLR 2025Discrete Copula Diffusion
826. ICLR 2025Discrete Diffusion Schrödinger Bridge Matching for Graph Transformation
827. ICLR 2025DisPose: Disentangling Pose Guidance for Controllable Human Image Animation
828. ICLR 2025Distilled Decoding 1: One-step Sampling of Image Auto-regressive Models with Flow Matching
829. ICLR 2025Distribution Backtracking Builds A Faster Convergence Trajectory for Diffusion Distillation
830. ICLR 2025DiTTo-TTS: Diffusion Transformers for Scalable Text-to-Speech without Domain-Specific Factors
831. ICLR 2025Does Training with Synthetic Data Truly Protect Privacy?
832. ICLR 2025DoF: A Diffusion Factorization Framework for Offline Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
833. ICLR 2025Domain Guidance: A Simple Transfer Approach for a Pre-trained Diffusion Model
834. ICLR 2025DPLM-2: A Multimodal Diffusion Protein Language Model
835. ICLR 2025DreamCatalyst: Fast and High-Quality 3D Editing via Controlling Editability and Identity Preservation
836. ICLR 2025DreamDistribution: Learning Prompt Distribution for Diverse In-distribution Generation
837. ICLR 2025DSPO: Direct Score Preference Optimization for Diffusion Model Alignment
838. ICLR 2025Dynamic Diffusion Transformer
839. ICLR 2025Dynamic Negative Guidance of Diffusion Models
840. ICLR 2025Dynamical Diffusion: Learning Temporal Dynamics with Diffusion Models
841. ICLR 2025DynamicCity: Large-Scale 4D Occupancy Generation from Dynamic Scenes
842. ICLR 2025Easing Training Process of Rectified Flow Models Via Lengthening Inter-Path Distance
843. ICLR 2025EC-Diffuser: Multi-Object Manipulation via Entity-Centric Behavior Generation
844. ICLR 2025EC-DIT: Scaling Diffusion Transformers with Adaptive Expert-Choice Routing
845. ICLR 2025EdgeRunner: Auto-regressive Auto-encoder for Artistic Mesh Generation
846. ICLR 2025EditRoom: LLM-parameterized Graph Diffusion for Composable 3D Room Layout Editing
847. ICLR 2025Efficient Diversity-Preserving Diffusion Alignment via Gradient-Informed GFlowNets
848. ICLR 2025Efficient Multi-agent Offline Coordination via Diffusion-based Trajectory Stitching
849. ICLR 2025Efficient Perplexity Bound and Ratio Matching in Discrete Diffusion Language Models
850. ICLR 2025EG4D: Explicit Generation of 4D Object without Score Distillation

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.