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 18 of 30

851. ICML 2024Hyperbolic Geometric Latent Diffusion Model for Graph Generation
852. ICML 2024Image Restoration Through Generalized Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Bridge
853. ICML 2024Imitation Learning from Purified Demonstrations
854. ICML 2024Improving Adversarial Energy-Based Model via Diffusion Process
855. ICML 2024Improving Diffusion Models for Inverse Problems Using Optimal Posterior Covariance
856. ICML 2024Interacting Diffusion Processes for Event Sequence Forecasting
857. ICML 2024Interaction-based Retrieval-augmented Diffusion Models for Protein-specific 3D Molecule Generation
858. ICML 2024Interpreting and Improving Diffusion Models from an Optimization Perspective
859. ICML 2024Isometric Representation Learning for Disentangled Latent Space of Diffusion Models
860. ICML 2024Iterated Denoising Energy Matching for Sampling from Boltzmann Densities
861. ICML 2024Iterative Search Attribution for Deep Neural Networks
862. ICML 2024Learning a Diffusion Model Policy from Rewards via Q-Score Matching
863. ICML 2024Learning Divergence Fields for Shift-Robust Graph Representations
864. ICML 2024Learning Iterative Reasoning through Energy Diffusion
865. ICML 2024Learning Latent Space Hierarchical EBM Diffusion Models
866. ICML 2024Learning to Reach Goals via Diffusion
867. ICML 2024Light and Optimal Schrödinger Bridge Matching
868. ICML 2024Listening to the noise: Blind Denoising with Gibbs Diffusion
869. ICML 2024MagicPose: Realistic Human Poses and Facial Expressions Retargeting with Identity-aware Diffusion
870. ICML 2024Make-A-Shape: a Ten-Million-scale 3D Shape Model
871. ICML 2024Mastering Text-to-Image Diffusion: Recaptioning, Planning, and Generating with Multimodal LLMs
872. ICML 2024Mean-field Chaos Diffusion Models
873. ICML 2024Membership Inference Attacks on Diffusion Models via Quantile Regression
874. ICML 2024Mimicking Better by Matching the Approximate Action Distribution
875. ICML 2024Minimax Optimality of Score-based Diffusion Models: Beyond the Density Lower Bound Assumptions
876. ICML 2024MoMo: Momentum Models for Adaptive Learning Rates
877. ICML 2024MS$^3$D: A RG Flow-Based Regularization for GAN Training with Limited Data
878. ICML 2024MusicFlow: Cascaded Flow Matching for Text Guided Music Generation
879. ICML 2024NaturalSpeech 3: Zero-Shot Speech Synthesis with Factorized Codec and Diffusion Models
880. ICML 2024Nearest Neighbour Score Estimators for Diffusion Generative Models
881. ICML 2024Neural Diffusion Models
882. ICML 2024Neural Jump-Diffusion Temporal Point Processes
883. ICML 2024Neurodegenerative Brain Network Classification via Adaptive Diffusion with Temporal Regularization
884. ICML 2024Neuroexplicit Diffusion Models for Inpainting of Optical Flow Fields
885. ICML 2024Non-confusing Generation of Customized Concepts in Diffusion Models
886. ICML 2024On Discrete Prompt Optimization for Diffusion Models
887. ICML 2024On the Trajectory Regularity of ODE-based Diffusion Sampling
888. ICML 2024Online bipartite matching with imperfect advice
889. ICML 2024Particle Denoising Diffusion Sampler
890. ICML 2024PID: Prompt-Independent Data Protection Against Latent Diffusion Models
891. ICML 2024Plug-and-Play image restoration with Stochastic deNOising REgularization
892. ICML 2024Position: Compositional Generative Modeling: A Single Model is Not All You Need
893. ICML 2024Potential Based Diffusion Motion Planning
894. ICML 2024PPFLOW: Target-Aware Peptide Design with Torsional Flow Matching
895. ICML 2024Probabilistic Time Series Modeling with Decomposable Denoising Diffusion Model
896. ICML 2024Promises and Pitfalls of Generative Masked Language Modeling: Theoretical Framework and Practical Guidelines
897. ICML 2024Prompt-guided Precise Audio Editing with Diffusion Models
898. ICML 2024Prompt-tuning Latent Diffusion Models for Inverse Problems
899. ICML 2024Prompting4Debugging: Red-Teaming Text-to-Image Diffusion Models by Finding Problematic Prompts
900. ICML 2024Protein Conformation Generation via Force-Guided SE(3) Diffusion Models

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.