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

2,078 papers, page 18 of 42

851. ICLR 2025MVTokenFlow: High-quality 4D Content Generation using Multiview Token Flow
852. ICLR 2025Neural Approximate Mirror Maps for Constrained Diffusion Models
853. ICLR 2025Neural Sampling from Boltzmann Densities: Fisher-Rao Curves in the Wasserstein Geometry
854. ICLR 2025NExT-Mol: 3D Diffusion Meets 1D Language Modeling for 3D Molecule Generation
855. ICLR 2025No Training, No Problem: Rethinking Classifier-Free Guidance for Diffusion Models
856. ICLR 2025Not All Prompts Are Made Equal: Prompt-based Pruning of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
857. ICLR 2025Not-So-Optimal Transport Flows for 3D Point Cloud Generation
858. ICLR 2025NVS-Solver: Video Diffusion Model as Zero-Shot Novel View Synthesizer
859. ICLR 2025O(d/T) Convergence Theory for Diffusion Probabilistic Models under Minimal Assumptions
860. ICLR 2025OmniEdit: Building Image Editing Generalist Models Through Specialist Supervision
861. ICLR 2025OmniPhysGS: 3D Constitutive Gaussians for General Physics-Based Dynamics Generation
862. ICLR 2025On Statistical Rates of Conditional Diffusion Transformers: Approximation, Estimation and Minimax Optimality
863. ICLR 2025On the Crucial Role of Initialization for Matrix Factorization
864. ICLR 2025On the Feature Learning in Diffusion Models
865. ICLR 2025One Step Diffusion via Shortcut Models
866. ICLR 2025One-Prompt-One-Story: Free-Lunch Consistent Text-to-Image Generation Using a Single Prompt
867. ICLR 2025Online Reward-Weighted Fine-Tuning of Flow Matching with Wasserstein Regularization
868. ICLR 2025Overcoming False Illusions in Real-World Face Restoration with Multi-Modal Guided Diffusion Model
869. ICLR 2025PaRa: Personalizing Text-to-Image Diffusion via Parameter Rank Reduction
870. ICLR 2025ParaSolver: A Hierarchical Parallel Integral Solver for Diffusion Models
871. ICLR 2025ParetoFlow: Guided Flows in Multi-Objective Optimization
872. ICLR 2025Periodic Materials Generation using Text-Guided Joint Diffusion Model
873. ICLR 2025PeriodWave: Multi-Period Flow Matching for High-Fidelity Waveform Generation
874. ICLR 2025Personalized Representation from Personalized Generation
875. ICLR 2025PFDiff: Training-Free Acceleration of Diffusion Models Combining Past and Future Scores
876. ICLR 2025PharmacoMatch: Efficient 3D Pharmacophore Screening via Neural Subgraph Matching
877. ICLR 2025Phidias: A Generative Model for Creating 3D Content from Text, Image, and 3D Conditions with Reference-Augmented Diffusion
878. ICLR 2025Physics-aligned field reconstruction with diffusion bridge
879. ICLR 2025Physics-Informed Diffusion Models
880. ICLR 2025PixWizard: Versatile Image-to-Image Visual Assistant with Open-Language Instructions
881. ICLR 2025PnP-Flow: Plug-and-Play Image Restoration with Flow Matching
882. ICLR 2025Positive-Unlabeled Diffusion Models for Preventing Sensitive Data Generation
883. ICLR 2025PostCast: Generalizable Postprocessing for Precipitation Nowcasting via Unsupervised Blurriness Modeling
884. ICLR 2025Posterior-Mean Rectified Flow: Towards Minimum MSE Photo-Realistic Image Restoration
885. ICLR 2025Precise Parameter Localization for Textual Generation in Diffusion Models
886. ICLR 2025Preference Diffusion for Recommendation
887. ICLR 2025Presto! Distilling Steps and Layers for Accelerating Music Generation
888. ICLR 2025Prioritized Generative Replay
889. ICLR 2025Probing the Latent Hierarchical Structure of Data via Diffusion Models
890. ICLR 2025Progressive Compositionality in Text-to-Image Generative Models
891. ICLR 2025Progressive Compression with Universally Quantized Diffusion Models
892. ICLR 2025ProtComposer: Compositional Protein Structure Generation with 3D Ellipsoids
893. ICLR 2025Proteina: Scaling Flow-based Protein Structure Generative Models
894. ICLR 2025ProtPainter: Draw or Drag Protein via Topology-guided Diffusion
895. ICLR 2025Provable Convergence Bounds for Hybrid Dynamical Sampling and Optimization
896. ICLR 2025PT-T2I/V: An Efficient Proxy-Tokenized Diffusion Transformer for Text-to-Image/Video-Task
897. ICLR 2025PuzzleFusion++: Auto-agglomerative 3D Fracture Assembly by Denoise and Verify
898. ICLR 2025Pyramidal Flow Matching for Efficient Video Generative Modeling
899. ICLR 2025QuaDiM: A Conditional Diffusion Model For Quantum State Property Estimation
900. ICLR 2025RAPID: Retrieval Augmented Training of Differentially Private 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.