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

1,378 papers, page 17 of 28

801. ICML 2025Diffusion models for Gaussian distributions: Exact solutions and Wasserstein errors
802. ICML 2025Diffusion on Language Model Encodings for Protein Sequence Generation
803. ICML 2025Diffusion Sampling Correction via Approximately 10 Parameters
804. ICML 2025Diffusion-based Adversarial Purification from the Perspective of the Frequency Domain
805. ICML 2025DiMa: Understanding the Hardness of Online Matching Problems via Diffusion Models
806. ICML 2025DIME: Diffusion-Based Maximum Entropy Reinforcement Learning
807. ICML 2025Direct Discriminative Optimization: Your Likelihood-Based Visual Generative Model is Secretly a GAN Discriminator
808. ICML 2025Distillation of Discrete Diffusion through Dimensional Correlations
809. ICML 2025Distributional Diffusion Models with Scoring Rules
810. ICML 2025DiTAR: Diffusion Transformer Autoregressive Modeling for Speech Generation
811. ICML 2025Diversified Flow Matching with Translation Identifiability
812. ICML 2025DMOSpeech: Direct Metric Optimization via Distilled Diffusion Model in Zero-Shot Speech Synthesis
813. ICML 2025Does Generation Require Memorization? Creative Diffusion Models using Ambient Diffusion
814. ICML 2025Domain-Adapted Diffusion Model for PROTAC Linker Design Through the Lens of Density Ratio in Chemical Space
815. ICML 2025DRAG: Data Reconstruction Attack using Guided Diffusion
816. ICML 2025DragLoRA: Online Optimization of LoRA Adapters for Drag-based Image Editing in Diffusion Model
817. ICML 2025DS-VLM: Diffusion Supervision Vision Language Model
818. ICML 2025DSBRouter: End-to-end Global Routing via Diffusion Schr\"{o}dinger Bridge
819. ICML 2025EasyInv: Toward Fast and Better DDIM Inversion
820. ICML 2025EasyRef: Omni-Generalized Group Image Reference for Diffusion Models via Multimodal LLM
821. ICML 2025EcoMapper: Generative Modeling for Climate-Aware Satellite Imagery
822. ICML 2025Editable Noise Map Inversion: Encoding Target-image into Noise For High-Fidelity Image Manipulation
823. ICML 2025Effective and Efficient Masked Image Generation Models
824. ICML 2025Efficient Diffusion Models for Symmetric Manifolds
825. ICML 2025Efficient Fine-Grained Guidance for Diffusion Model Based Symbolic Music Generation
826. ICML 2025Efficient Generative Modeling with Residual Vector Quantization-Based Tokens
827. ICML 2025Efficient Molecular Conformer Generation with SO(3)-Averaged Flow Matching and Reflow
828. ICML 2025Efficient Online Reinforcement Learning for Diffusion Policy
829. ICML 2025Efficiently Access Diffusion Fisher: Within the Outer Product Span Space
830. ICML 2025Elucidating Flow Matching ODE Dynamics via Data Geometry and Denoisers
831. ICML 2025Emotional Face-to-Speech
832. ICML 2025Energy-Based Flow Matching for Generating 3D Molecular Structure
833. ICML 2025Ensemble Distribution Distillation via Flow Matching
834. ICML 2025Epsilon-VAE: Denoising as Visual Decoding
835. ICML 2025EraseAnything: Enabling Concept Erasure in Rectified Flow Transformers
836. ICML 2025Ergodic Generative Flows
837. ICML 2025ETTA: Elucidating the Design Space of Text-to-Audio Models
838. ICML 2025Event-Customized Image Generation
839. ICML 2025Expert Race: A Flexible Routing Strategy for Scaling Diffusion Transformer with Mixture of Experts
840. ICML 2025Exponential Family Variational Flow Matching for Tabular Data Generation
841. ICML 2025Expressive Score-Based Priors for Distribution Matching with Geometry-Preserving Regularization
842. ICML 2025Falcon: Fast Visuomotor Policies via Partial Denoising
843. ICML 2025Fast Video Generation with Sliding Tile Attention
844. ICML 2025Fast, Accurate Manifold Denoising by Tunneling Riemannian Optimization
845. ICML 2025Feynman-Kac Correctors in Diffusion: Annealing, Guidance, and Product of Experts
846. ICML 2025Finite-Time Analysis of Discrete-Time Stochastic Interpolants
847. ICML 2025Flex3D: Feed-Forward 3D Generation with Flexible Reconstruction Model and Input View Curation
848. ICML 2025FlexControl: Computation-Aware Conditional Control with Differentiable Router for Text-to-Image Generation
849. ICML 2025Flexibility-conditioned protein structure design with flow matching
850. ICML 2025FlexiClip: Locality-Preserving Free-Form Character Animation

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.