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

6,899 papers, page 2 of 138

51. CVPR 2026BinaryAttention One-Bit QK-Attention for Vision and Diffusion Transformers
52. CVPR 2026Black-box Membership Inference Attacks on the Pre-training Data of Image-generation
53. CVPR 2026BoostSLT Boosting Sign Language Translation via a Plug-and-Play Diffusion-Based Semantic
54. CVPR 2026Breaking Semantic Boundaries Distribution-Guided Semantic Exploration for Creative Generation
55. CVPR 2026Bridging Fidelity-Reality with Controllable One-Step Diffusion for Image Super-Resolution
56. CVPR 2026BuildAnyPoint 3D Building Structured Abstraction from Diverse Point Clouds
57. CVPR 2026BuildingGPT Auto-Regressive Building Wireframe Reconstruction Model with Reinforcement Learning
58. CVPR 2026BulletTime Decoupled Control of Time and Camera Pose for Video
59. CVPR 2026C-LaV Conditional Latent Velocity Field Denoising for Weather-Robust LiDAR Place
60. CVPR 2026C2FG Control Classifier-Free Guidance via Score Discrepancy Analysis
61. CVPR 2026CADC Content Adaptive Diffusion-Based Generative Image Compression
62. CVPR 2026CamDirector Towards Long-Term Coherent Video Trajectory Editing
63. CVPR 2026Can We Build Scene Graphs Not Classify Them FlowSG Progressive
64. CVPR 2026CARD Correlation Aware Restoration with Diffusion
65. CVPR 2026CaReFlow Cyclic Adaptive Rectified Flow for Multimodal Fusion
66. CVPR 2026CaricHarmony Contrastive Diffusion Paths for Identity-Preserving Caricature Synthesis
67. CVPR 2026Catalyst4D High-Fidelity 3D-to-4D Scene Editing via Dynamic Propagation
68. CVPR 2026Causal Motion Diffusion Models for Autoregressive Motion Generation
69. CVPR 2026Causality in Video Diffusers is Separable from Denoising
70. CVPR 2026CFG-Ctrl Control-Based Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance
71. CVPR 2026CG-Floor Centroid-Guided Diffusion for Large-Scale Floorplan Generation
72. CVPR 2026Chain of Event-Centric Causal Thought for Physically Plausible Video Generation
73. CVPR 2026ChimeraLoRA Multi-Head LoRA-Guided Synthetic Datasets
74. CVPR 2026Cinematic Audio Source Separation Using Visual Cues
75. CVPR 2026Circuit Mechanisms for Spatial Relation Generation in Diffusion Transformers
76. CVPR 2026ClimaOoD Improving Anomaly Segmentation via Physically Realistic Synthetic Data
77. CVPR 2026Closed-Form Concept Erasure via Double Projections
78. CVPR 2026ClusterMark Towards Robust Watermarking for Autoregressive Image Generators with Visual
79. CVPR 2026CoD A Diffusion Foundation Model for Image Compression
80. CVPR 2026CogniEdit Dense Gradient Flow Optimization for Fine-Grained Image Editing
81. CVPR 2026ColorFLUX A Structure-Color Decoupling Framework for Old Photo Colorization
82. CVPR 2026ConceptPrism Concept Disentanglement in Personalized Diffusion Models via Residual Token
83. CVPR 2026Content-Aware Dynamic Patchification for Efficient Video Diffusion
84. CVPR 2026CoopDiff A Diffusion-Guided Approach for Cooperation under Corruptions
85. CVPR 2026CoordSpeaker Exploiting Gesture Captioning for Coordinated Caption-Empowered Co-Speech Gesture Generation
86. CVPR 2026Copy-Transform-Paste Zero-Shot Object-Object Alignment Guided by Vision-Language and Geometric Constraints
87. CVPR 2026Correspondence-Attention Alignment for Multi-View Diffusion Models
88. CVPR 2026COT-FM Cluster-wise Optimal Transport Flow Matching
89. CVPR 2026CRAFT Aligning Diffusion Models with Fine-Tuning Is Easier Than You
90. CVPR 2026Cross-Axis Feature Fusion with Joint-Wise Motion Difference Prediction for Text-Based
91. CVPR 2026Cross-modal Representation Learning for Diffusion-generated Image Detection
92. CVPR 2026CrowdGaussian Reconstructing High-Fidelity 3D Gaussians for Human Crowd from a
93. CVPR 2026cryoSENSE Compressive Sensing Enables High-throughput Microscopy with Sparse and Generative
94. CVPR 2026CTCal Rethinking Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Cross-Timestep Self-Calibration
95. CVPR 2026CubeComposer Spatio-Temporal Autoregressive 4K 360deg Video Generation from Perspective Video
96. CVPR 2026Cubic Discrete Diffusion Discrete Visual Generation on High-Dimensional Representation Tokens
97. CVPR 2026Cycle-Consistent Tuning for Layered Image Decomposition
98. CVPR 2026D2-FOSA Dual-Diffusion Guided EEG-to-Image Reconstruction with Frequency-Oriented Semantic Alignment
99. CVPR 2026D2Cache Second-Order Delta Caching for Higher Video Diffusion Acceleration
100. CVPR 2026DA-VAE Plug-in Latent Compression for Diffusion via Detail Alignment

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.