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. ICML 2025KGMark: A Diffusion Watermark for Knowledge Graphs
902. ICML 2025KIND: Knowledge Integration and Diversion for Training Decomposable Models
903. ICML 2025Kinetic Langevin Diffusion for Crystalline Materials Generation
904. ICML 2025L-Diffusion: Laplace Diffusion for Efficient Pathology Image Segmentation
905. ICML 2025Large Language Models to Diffusion Finetuning
906. ICML 2025Latent Diffusion Planning for Imitation Learning
907. ICML 2025Latent Thought Models with Variational Bayes Inference-Time Computation
908. ICML 2025LDMol: A Text-to-Molecule Diffusion Model with Structurally Informative Latent Space Surpasses AR Models
909. ICML 2025Learning Distances from Data with Normalizing Flows and Score Matching
910. ICML 2025Learning Single Index Models with Diffusion Priors
911. ICML 2025Learning to Match Unpaired Data with Minimum Entropy Coupling
912. ICML 2025Learnings from Scaling Visual Tokenizers for Reconstruction and Generation
913. ICML 2025Leveraging Diffusion Model as Pseudo-Anomalous Graph Generator for Graph-Level Anomaly Detection
914. ICML 2025Leveraging Model Guidance to Extract Training Data from Personalized Diffusion Models
915. ICML 2025LGDM: Latent Guidance in Diffusion Models for Perceptual Evaluations
916. ICML 2025LightningDrag: Lightning Fast and Accurate Drag-based Image Editing Emerging from Videos
917. ICML 2025LIVS: A Pluralistic Alignment Dataset for Inclusive Public Spaces
918. ICML 2025Local Manifold Approximation and Projection for Manifold-Aware Diffusion Planning
919. ICML 2025Locality Preserving Markovian Transition for Instance Retrieval
920. ICML 2025Long-Term TalkingFace Generation via Motion-Prior Conditional Diffusion Model
921. ICML 2025LSCD: Lomb--Scargle Conditioned Diffusion for Time series Imputation
922. ICML 2025M2PDE: Compositional Generative Multiphysics and Multi-component PDE Simulation
923. ICML 2025Masked Autoencoders Are Effective Tokenizers for Diffusion Models
924. ICML 2025Maximum Entropy Reinforcement Learning with Diffusion Policy
925. ICML 2025MDDM: Practical Message-Driven Generative Image Steganography Based on Diffusion Models
926. ICML 2025Mechanisms of Projective Composition of Diffusion Models
927. ICML 2025MGD$^3$ : Mode-Guided Dataset Distillation using Diffusion Models
928. ICML 2025MindCustomer: Multi-Context Image Generation Blended with Brain Signal
929. ICML 2025Minimalist Concept Erasure in Generative Models
930. ICML 2025MIRROR: Make Your Object-Level Multi-View Generation More Consistent with Training-Free Rectification
931. ICML 2025MissScore: High-Order Score Estimation in the Presence of Missing Data
932. ICML 2025MixBridge: Heterogeneous Image-to-Image Backdoor Attack through Mixture of Schrödinger Bridges
933. ICML 2025Modulated Diffusion: Accelerating Generative Modeling with Modulated Quantization
934. ICML 2025MODULI: Unlocking Preference Generalization via Diffusion Models for Offline Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning
935. ICML 2025Monte Carlo Tree Diffusion for System 2 Planning
936. ICML 2025Morse: Dual-Sampling for Lossless Acceleration of Diffusion Models
937. ICML 2025MuLan: Adapting Multilingual Diffusion Models for Hundreds of Languages with Negligible Cost
938. ICML 2025Multi-Marginal Stochastic Flow Matching for High-Dimensional Snapshot Data at Irregular Time Points
939. ICML 2025Multidimensional Adaptive Coefficient for Inference Trajectory Optimization in Flow and Diffusion
940. ICML 2025Multilayer Matrix Factorization via Dimension-Reducing Diffusion Variational Inference
941. ICML 2025Multiobjective distribution matching
942. ICML 2025NETS: A Non-equilibrium Transport Sampler
943. ICML 2025Neural Guided Diffusion Bridges
944. ICML 2025NMA-tune: Generating Highly Designable and Dynamics Aware Protein Backbones
945. ICML 2025Noise Conditional Variational Score Distillation
946. ICML 2025Noise-Guided Predicate Representation Extraction and Diffusion-Enhanced Discretization for Scene Graph Generation
947. ICML 2025Non-stationary Diffusion For Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting
948. ICML 2025Normalizing Flows are Capable Generative Models
949. ICML 2025NTPP: Generative Speech Language Modeling for Dual-Channel Spoken Dialogue via Next-Token-Pair Prediction
950. ICML 2025Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning with Classifier-Free Diffusion 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.