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

86 papers, page 2 of 2

51. ICLR 2023Images as Weight Matrices: Sequential Image Generation Through Synaptic Learning Rules
52. ICLR 2023Imitating Human Behaviour with Diffusion Models
53. ICLR 2023Information-Theoretic Diffusion
54. ICLR 2023Is Conditional Generative Modeling all you need for Decision Making?
55. ICLR 2023kNN-Diffusion: Image Generation via Large-Scale Retrieval
56. ICLR 2023Learning Diffusion Bridges on Constrained Domains
57. ICLR 2023Learning to Estimate Single-View Volumetric Flow Motions without 3D Supervision
58. ICLR 2023Markup-to-Image Diffusion Models with Scheduled Sampling
59. ICLR 2023MARS: Meta-learning as Score Matching in the Function Space
60. ICLR 2023MeshDiffusion: Score-based Generative 3D Mesh Modeling
61. ICLR 2023Molecular Geometry Pretraining with SE(3)-Invariant Denoising Distance Matching
62. ICLR 2023Neural Lagrangian Schr\"{o}dinger Bridge: Diffusion Modeling for Population Dynamics
63. ICLR 2023Novel View Synthesis with Diffusion Models
64. ICLR 2023Offline Reinforcement Learning via High-Fidelity Generative Behavior Modeling
65. ICLR 2023Particle-based Variational Inference with Preconditioned Functional Gradient Flow
66. ICLR 2023Prompt-to-Prompt Image Editing with Cross-Attention Control
67. ICLR 2023Protein Sequence and Structure Co-Design with Equivariant Translation
68. ICLR 2023Pseudoinverse-Guided Diffusion Models for Inverse Problems
69. ICLR 2023Quantized Compressed Sensing with Score-Based Generative Models
70. ICLR 2023Rarity Score : A New Metric to Evaluate the Uncommonness of Synthesized Images
71. ICLR 2023Re-Imagen: Retrieval-Augmented Text-to-Image Generator
72. ICLR 2023Sampling is as easy as learning the score: theory for diffusion models with minimal data assumptions
73. ICLR 2023Score-based Continuous-time Discrete Diffusion Models
74. ICLR 2023Semi-Implicit Variational Inference via Score Matching
75. ICLR 2023SketchKnitter: Vectorized Sketch Generation with Diffusion Models
76. ICLR 2023Stable Target Field for Reduced Variance Score Estimation in Diffusion Models
77. ICLR 2023STaSy: Score-based Tabular data Synthesis
78. ICLR 2023Statistical Efficiency of Score Matching: The View from Isoperimetry
79. ICLR 2023Stochastic Multi-Person 3D Motion Forecasting
80. ICLR 2023Structure by Architecture: Structured Representations without Regularization
81. ICLR 2023Training-Free Structured Diffusion Guidance for Compositional Text-to-Image Synthesis
82. ICLR 2023Truncated Diffusion Probabilistic Models and Diffusion-based Adversarial Auto-Encoders
83. ICLR 2023Understanding DDPM Latent Codes Through Optimal Transport
84. ICLR 2023Unified Discrete Diffusion for Simultaneous Vision-Language Generation
85. ICLR 2023Where to Diffuse, How to Diffuse, and How to Get Back: Automated Learning for Multivariate Diffusions
86. ICLR 2023Zero-Shot Image Restoration Using Denoising Diffusion Null-Space Model

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.