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

487 papers, page 2 of 10

51. ICLR 2025CHAMP: Conformalized 3D Human Multi-Hypothesis Pose Estimators
52. ICLR 2025Chemistry-Inspired Diffusion with Non-Differentiable Guidance
53. ICLR 2025CL-DiffPhyCon: Closed-loop Diffusion Control of Complex Physical Systems
54. ICLR 2025ClassDiffusion: More Aligned Personalization Tuning with Explicit Class Guidance
55. ICLR 2025CLIPDrag: Combining Text-based and Drag-based Instructions for Image Editing
56. ICLR 2025CLoSD: Closing the Loop between Simulation and Diffusion for multi-task character control
57. ICLR 2025CogVideoX: Text-to-Video Diffusion Models with An Expert Transformer
58. ICLR 2025CoInD: Enabling Logical Compositions in Diffusion Models
59. ICLR 2025Comparing noisy neural population dynamics using optimal transport distances
60. ICLR 2025ComPC: Completing a 3D Point Cloud with 2D Diffusion Priors
61. ICLR 2025Composing Unbalanced Flows for Flexible Docking and Relaxation
62. ICLR 2025Concept Pinpoint Eraser for Text-to-image Diffusion Models via Residual Attention Gate
63. ICLR 2025ConceptPrune: Concept Editing in Diffusion Models via Skilled Neuron Pruning
64. ICLR 2025Conditional Diffusion Models are Minimax-Optimal and Manifold-Adaptive for Conditional Distribution Estimation
65. ICLR 2025Conditional Diffusion with Ordinal Regression: Longitudinal Data Generation for Neurodegenerative Disease Studies
66. ICLR 2025Consistency Models Made Easy
67. ICLR 2025Consistent Flow Distillation for Text-to-3D Generation
68. ICLR 2025Continuous Diffusion for Mixed-Type Tabular Data
69. ICLR 2025Continuous Ensemble Weather Forecasting with Diffusion models
70. ICLR 2025ContraDiff: Planning Towards High Return States via Contrastive Learning
71. ICLR 2025ControlAR: Controllable Image Generation with Autoregressive Models
72. ICLR 2025Controllable Satellite-to-Street-View Synthesis with Precise Pose Alignment and Zero-Shot Environmental Control
73. ICLR 2025Controlling Language and Diffusion Models by Transporting Activations
74. ICLR 2025Controlling Space and Time with Diffusion Models
75. ICLR 2025Convergence of Score-Based Discrete Diffusion Models: A Discrete-Time Analysis
76. ICLR 2025Counterfactual Generative Modeling with Variational Causal Inference
77. ICLR 2025CPSample: Classifier Protected Sampling for Guarding Training Data During Diffusion
78. ICLR 2025Cross-Attention Head Position Patterns Can Align with Human Visual Concepts in Text-to-Image Generative Models
79. ICLR 2025CryoFM: A Flow-based Foundation Model for Cryo-EM Densities
80. ICLR 2025Ctrl-Adapter: An Efficient and Versatile Framework for Adapting Diverse Controls to Any Diffusion Model
81. ICLR 2025CtrLoRA: An Extensible and Efficient Framework for Controllable Image Generation
82. ICLR 2025CTSyn: A Foundation Model for Cross Tabular Data Generation
83. ICLR 2025CubeDiff: Repurposing Diffusion-Based Image Models for Panorama Generation
84. ICLR 2025CyberHost: A One-stage Diffusion Framework for Audio-driven Talking Body Generation
85. ICLR 2025DartControl: A Diffusion-Based Autoregressive Motion Model for Real-Time Text-Driven Motion Control
86. ICLR 2025Data Unlearning in Diffusion Models
87. ICLR 2025DAWN: Dynamic Frame Avatar with Non-autoregressive Diffusion Framework for Talking head Video Generation
88. ICLR 2025Deconstructing Denoising Diffusion Models for Self-Supervised Learning
89. ICLR 2025Decoupling Layout from Glyph in Online Chinese Handwriting Generation
90. ICLR 2025DEEM: Diffusion models serve as the eyes of large language models for image perception
91. ICLR 2025Deep Compression Autoencoder for Efficient High-Resolution Diffusion Models
92. ICLR 2025Deep MMD Gradient Flow without adversarial training
93. ICLR 2025Denoising as Adaptation: Noise-Space Domain Adaptation for Image Restoration
94. ICLR 2025Denoising Autoregressive Transformers for Scalable Text-to-Image Generation
95. ICLR 2025Denoising Task Difficulty-based Curriculum for Training Diffusion Models
96. ICLR 2025Denoising with a Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture
97. ICLR 2025Depth Any Video with Scalable Synthetic Data
98. ICLR 2025DGQ: Distribution-Aware Group Quantization for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
99. ICLR 2025Diff-2-in-1: Bridging Generation and Dense Perception with Diffusion Models
100. ICLR 2025Diff-PIC: Revolutionizing Particle-In-Cell Nuclear Fusion Simulation with Diffusion Models

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.