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

2,690 papers, page 19 of 54

901. ICLR 2026Generative View Stitching
902. ICLR 2026Genie Envisioner: A Unified World Foundation Platform for Robotic Manipulation
903. ICLR 2026Geometric Graph Neural Diffusion for Stable Molecular Dynamics
904. ICLR 2026Geometric Image Editing via Effects-Sensitive In-Context Inpainting with Diffusion Transformers
905. ICLR 2026Geometry Forcing: Marrying Video Diffusion and 3D Representation for Consistent World Modeling
906. ICLR 2026Geometry-aware Policy Imitation
907. ICLR 2026GGBall: Graph Generative Model on Poincaré Ball
908. ICLR 2026GHOST: Hallucination-Inducing Image Generation for Multimodal LLMs
909. ICLR 2026GLASS Flows: Efficient Inference for Reward Alignment of Flow and Diffusion Models
910. ICLR 2026Global and Local Topology-Aware Graph Generation via Dual Conditioning Diffusion
911. ICLR 2026GlobeDiff: State Diffusion Process for Partial Observability in Multi-Agent System
912. ICLR 2026GoldenStart: Q-Guided Priors and Entropy Control for Distilling Flow Policies
913. ICLR 2026Gradient-Aligned Calibration for Post-Training Quantization of Diffusion Models
914. ICLR 2026Graph Diffusion Transformers are In-Context Molecular Designers
915. ICLR 2026Guidance Matters: Rethinking the Evaluation Pitfall for Text-to-Image Generation
916. ICLR 2026Guidance Watermarking for Diffusion Models
917. ICLR 2026Guided Flow Policy: Learning from High-Value Actions in Offline Reinforcement Learning
918. ICLR 2026H$^3$DP: Triply‑Hierarchical Diffusion Policy for Visuomotor Learning
919. ICLR 2026Half-order Fine-Tuning for Diffusion Model: A Recursive Likelihood Ratio Optimizer
920. ICLR 2026Harpoon: Generalised Manifold Guidance for Conditional Tabular Diffusion
921. ICLR 2026HiCache: A Plug-in Scaled-Hermite Upgrade for Taylor-Style Cache-then-Forecast Diffusion Acceleration
922. ICLR 2026Hierarchical Entity-centric Reinforcement Learning with Factored Subgoal Diffusion
923. ICLR 2026Hierarchical Semantic-Acoustic Modeling via Semi-Discrete Residual Representations for Expressive End-to-End Speech Synthesis
924. ICLR 2026Hierarchy Decoding: A Training-free Parallel Decoding Strategy for Diffusion Large Language Models
925. ICLR 2026High-dimensional Mean-Field Games by Particle-based Flow Matching
926. ICLR 2026HiGS: History-Guided Sampling for Plug-and-Play Enhancement of Diffusion Models
927. ICLR 2026HOG-Diff: Higher-Order Guided Diffusion for Graph Generation
928. ICLR 2026Horizon Imagination: Efficient On-Policy Rollout in Diffusion World Models
929. ICLR 2026Hot Fuzz: Temperature-Tunable Composition of Diffusion models with Fuzzy Logic
930. ICLR 2026HOTA: Hamiltonian framework for Optimal Transport Advection
931. ICLR 2026Hyperspherical Latents Improve Continuous-Token Autoregressive Generation
932. ICLR 2026I-DRUID: Layout to image generation via instance-disentangled representation and unpaired data
933. ICLR 2026IC-Custom: Diverse Image Customization via In-Context Learning
934. ICLR 2026ICDiffAD: Implicit Conditioning Diffusion Model for Time Series Anomaly Detection
935. ICLR 2026iFusion: Integrating Dynamic Interest Streams via Diffusion Model for Click-Through Rate Prediction
936. ICLR 2026Image Can Bring Your Memory Back: A Novel Multi-Modal Guided Attack against Image Generation Model Unlearning
937. ICLR 2026Implicit Regularisation in Diffusion Models: An Algorithm-Dependent Generalisation Analysis
938. ICLR 2026Improved Adversarial Diffusion Compression for Real-World Video Super-Resolution
939. ICLR 2026Improved Object-Centric Diffusion Learning with Registers and Contrastive Alignment
940. ICLR 2026Improving 2D Diffusion Models for 3D Medical Imaging with Inter‑Slice Consistent Stochasticity
941. ICLR 2026Improving Autoregressive Video Modeling with History Understanding
942. ICLR 2026Improving Classifier-Free Guidance in Masked Diffusion: Low-Dim Theoretical Insights with High-Dim Impact
943. ICLR 2026Improving Diffusion Models for Class-imbalanced Training Data via Capacity Manipulation
944. ICLR 2026Improving Discrete Diffusion Unmasking Policies Beyond Explicit Reference Policies
945. ICLR 2026Improving Reasoning for Diffusion Language Models via Group Diffusion Policy Optimization
946. ICLR 2026Incomplete Data, Complete Dynamics: A Diffusion Approach
947. ICLR 2026Inference-time scaling of diffusion models through classical search
948. ICLR 2026Inference-Time Scaling of Discrete Diffusion Models via Importance Weighting and Optimal Proposal Design
949. ICLR 2026InfoBridge: Mutual Information estimation via Bridge Matching
950. ICLR 2026Information Estimation with Discrete Diffusion

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.