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

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901. CVPR 2025MagicArticulate: Make Your 3D Models Articulation-Ready
902. CVPR 2025Make It Count: Text-to-Image Generation with an Accurate Number of Objects
903. CVPR 2025MambaVO: Deep Visual Odometry Based on Sequential Matching Refinement and Training Smoothing
904. CVPR 2025MangaNinja: Line Art Colorization with Precise Reference Following
905. CVPR 2025MANTA: Diffusion Mamba for Efficient and Effective Stochastic Long-Term Dense Action Anticipation
906. CVPR 2025MATCHA: Towards Matching Anything
907. CVPR 2025Material Anything: Generating Materials for Any 3D Object via Diffusion
908. CVPR 2025MCCD: Multi-Agent Collaboration-based Compositional Diffusion for Complex Text-to-Image Generation
909. CVPR 2025MEAT: Multiview Diffusion Model for Human Generation on Megapixels with Mesh Attention
910. CVPR 2025Medusa: A Multi-Scale High-order Contrastive Dual-Diffusion Approach for Multi-View Clustering
911. CVPR 2025Memories of Forgotten Concepts
912. CVPR 2025MeshGen: Generating PBR Textured Mesh with Render-Enhanced Auto-Encoder and Generative Data Augmentation
913. CVPR 2025MET3R: Measuring Multi-View Consistency in Generated Images
914. CVPR 2025MExD: An Expert-Infused Diffusion Model for Whole-Slide Image Classification
915. CVPR 2025MIDI: Multi-Instance Diffusion for Single Image to 3D Scene Generation
916. CVPR 2025Mimir: Improving Video Diffusion Models for Precise Text Understanding
917. CVPR 2025MIMO: Controllable Character Video Synthesis with Spatial Decomposed Modeling
918. CVPR 2025Mind the Trojan Horse: Image Prompt Adapter Enabling Scalable and Deceptive Jailbreaking
919. CVPR 2025Minority-Focused Text-to-Image Generation via Prompt Optimization
920. CVPR 2025MirrorVerse: Pushing Diffusion Models to Realistically Reflect the World
921. CVPR 2025MixerMDM: Learnable Composition of Human Motion Diffusion Models
922. CVPR 2025MMAudio: Taming Multimodal Joint Training for High-Quality Video-to-Audio Synthesis
923. CVPR 2025MoFlow: One-Step Flow Matching for Human Trajectory Forecasting via Implicit Maximum Likelihood Estimation based Distillation
924. CVPR 2025Mono2Stereo: A Benchmark and Empirical Study for Stereo Conversion
925. CVPR 2025Morpheus: Text-Driven 3D Gaussian Splat Shape and Color Stylization
926. CVPR 2025Move-in-2D: 2D-Conditioned Human Motion Generation
927. CVPR 2025MOVIS: Enhancing Multi-Object Novel View Synthesis for Indoor Scenes
928. CVPR 2025MTADiffusion: Mask Text Alignment Diffusion Model for Object Inpainting
929. CVPR 2025Multi-focal Conditioned Latent Diffusion for Person Image Synthesis
930. CVPR 2025Multi-Modal Contrastive Masked Autoencoders: A Two-Stage Progressive Pre-training Approach for RGBD Datasets
931. CVPR 2025Multi-party Collaborative Attention Control for Image Customization
932. CVPR 2025Multi-view Reconstruction via SfM-guided Monocular Depth Estimation
933. CVPR 2025MultiGO: Towards Multi-level Geometry Learning for Monocular 3D Textured Human Reconstruction
934. CVPR 2025MVBoost: Boost 3D Reconstruction with Multi-View Refinement
935. CVPR 2025MVGenMaster: Scaling Multi-View Generation from Any Image via 3D Priors Enhanced Diffusion Model
936. CVPR 2025MVPaint: Synchronized Multi-View Diffusion for Painting Anything 3D
937. CVPR 2025MVPortrait: Text-Guided Motion and Emotion Control for Multi-view Vivid Portrait Animation
938. CVPR 2025Nearly Zero-Cost Protection Against Mimicry by Personalized Diffusion Models
939. CVPR 2025Nested Diffusion Models Using Hierarchical Latent Priors
940. CVPR 2025Neural LightRig: Unlocking Accurate Object Normal and Material Estimation with Multi-Light Diffusion
941. CVPR 2025NitroFusion: High-Fidelity Single-Step Diffusion through Dynamic Adversarial Training
942. CVPR 2025Noise Diffusion for Enhancing Semantic Faithfulness in Text-to-Image Synthesis
943. CVPR 2025Noise-Consistent Siamese-Diffusion for Medical Image Synthesis and Segmentation
944. CVPR 2025NoiseCtrl: A Sampling-Algorithm-Agnostic Conditional Generation Method for Diffusion Models
945. CVPR 2025Nonisotropic Gaussian Diffusion for Realistic 3D Human Motion Prediction
946. CVPR 2025Not All Parameters Matter: Masking Diffusion Models for Enhancing Generation Ability
947. CVPR 2025Novel View Synthesis with Pixel-Space Diffusion Models
948. CVPR 2025NVComposer: Boosting Generative Novel View Synthesis with Multiple Sparse and Unposed Images
949. CVPR 2025OFER: Occluded Face Expression Reconstruction
950. CVPR 2025OmniGen: Unified Image Generation

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.