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 17 of 30

801. ICML 2024DFlow: A Generative Model Combining Denoising AutoEncoder and Normalizing Flow for High Fidelity Waveform Generation
802. ICML 2024DIDI: Diffusion-Guided Diversity for Offline Behavioral Generation
803. ICML 2024DiffAug: Enhance Unsupervised Contrastive Learning with Domain-Knowledge-Free Diffusion-based Data Augmentation
804. ICML 2024DiffDA: a Diffusion model for weather-scale Data Assimilation
805. ICML 2024Differentially Private Synthetic Data via Foundation Model APIs 2: Text
806. ICML 2024DiffFPR: Diffusion Prior for Oversampled Fourier Phase Retrieval
807. ICML 2024Diffuse, Sample, Project: Plug-And-Play Controllable Graph Generation
808. ICML 2024Diffusion Language Models Are Versatile Protein Learners
809. ICML 2024Diffusion Model-Augmented Behavioral Cloning
810. ICML 2024Diffusion Models Demand Contrastive Guidance for Adversarial Purification to Advance
811. ICML 2024Diffusion Models Encode the Intrinsic Dimension of Data Manifolds
812. ICML 2024Diffusion Posterior Sampling is Computationally Intractable
813. ICML 2024Diffusion Rejection Sampling
814. ICML 2024Diffusion Tempering Improves Parameter Estimation with Probabilistic Integrators for Ordinary Differential Equations
815. ICML 2024Diffusion-based Missing-view Generation With the Application on Incomplete Multi-view Clustering
816. ICML 2024Diffusive Gibbs Sampling
817. ICML 2024DiracDiffusion: Denoising and Incremental Reconstruction with Assured Data-Consistency
818. ICML 2024Directly Denoising Diffusion Models
819. ICML 2024Dirichlet Flow Matching with Applications to DNA Sequence Design
820. ICML 2024DisCo-Diff: Enhancing Continuous Diffusion Models with Discrete Latents
821. ICML 2024Discrete Diffusion Modeling by Estimating the Ratios of the Data Distribution
822. ICML 2024Disguised Copyright Infringement of Latent Diffusion Models
823. ICML 2024DITTO: Diffusion Inference-Time T-Optimization for Music Generation
824. ICML 2024Don't be so Negative! Score-based Generative Modeling with Oracle-assisted Guidance
825. ICML 2024DRCT: Diffusion Reconstruction Contrastive Training towards Universal Detection of Diffusion Generated Images
826. ICML 2024E$^2$GAN: Efficient Training of Efficient GANs for Image-to-Image Translation
827. ICML 2024Easing Concept Bleeding in Diffusion via Entity Localization and Anchoring
828. ICML 2024Editing Partially Observable Networks via Graph Diffusion Models
829. ICML 2024Efficient Denoising Diffusion via Probabilistic Masking
830. ICML 2024Energy-Guided Diffusion Sampling for Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning
831. ICML 2024Equivariant Diffusion for Crystal Structure Prediction
832. ICML 2024Fast Timing-Conditioned Latent Audio Diffusion
833. ICML 2024Feedback Efficient Online Fine-Tuning of Diffusion Models
834. ICML 2024FiT: Flexible Vision Transformer for Diffusion Model
835. ICML 2024Floating Anchor Diffusion Model for Multi-motif Scaffolding
836. ICML 2024FlowMM: Generating Materials with Riemannian Flow Matching
837. ICML 2024FRAG: Frequency Adapting Group for Diffusion Video Editing
838. ICML 2024From Fourier to Neural ODEs: Flow Matching for Modeling Complex Systems
839. ICML 2024Full-Atom Peptide Design based on Multi-modal Flow Matching
840. ICML 2024Generative Conditional Distributions by Neural (Entropic) Optimal Transport
841. ICML 2024Generative Flows on Discrete State-Spaces: Enabling Multimodal Flows with Applications to Protein Co-Design
842. ICML 2024Generative Marginalization Models
843. ICML 2024Generative Modeling on Manifolds Through Mixture of Riemannian Diffusion Processes
844. ICML 2024GiLOT: Interpreting Generative Language Models via Optimal Transport
845. ICML 2024Going beyond Compositions, DDPMs Can Produce Zero-Shot Interpolations
846. ICML 2024Graph Adversarial Diffusion Convolution
847. ICML 2024Graph Generation with Diffusion Mixture
848. ICML 2024Guidance with Spherical Gaussian Constraint for Conditional Diffusion
849. ICML 2024Harmonic Self-Conditioned Flow Matching for joint Multi-Ligand Docking and Binding Site Design
850. ICML 2024How to Trace Latent Generative Model Generated Images without Artificial Watermark?

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.