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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51. ICML 2024Diffuse, Sample, Project: Plug-And-Play Controllable Graph Generation
52. ICML 2024Diffusion Language Models Are Versatile Protein Learners
53. ICML 2024Diffusion Model-Augmented Behavioral Cloning
54. ICML 2024Diffusion Models Demand Contrastive Guidance for Adversarial Purification to Advance
55. ICML 2024Diffusion Models Encode the Intrinsic Dimension of Data Manifolds
56. ICML 2024Diffusion Posterior Sampling is Computationally Intractable
57. ICML 2024Diffusion Rejection Sampling
58. ICML 2024Diffusion Tempering Improves Parameter Estimation with Probabilistic Integrators for Ordinary Differential Equations
59. ICML 2024Diffusion-based Missing-view Generation With the Application on Incomplete Multi-view Clustering
60. ICML 2024Diffusive Gibbs Sampling
61. ICML 2024DiracDiffusion: Denoising and Incremental Reconstruction with Assured Data-Consistency
62. ICML 2024Directly Denoising Diffusion Models
63. ICML 2024Dirichlet Flow Matching with Applications to DNA Sequence Design
64. ICML 2024DisCo-Diff: Enhancing Continuous Diffusion Models with Discrete Latents
65. ICML 2024Discrete Diffusion Modeling by Estimating the Ratios of the Data Distribution
66. ICML 2024Disguised Copyright Infringement of Latent Diffusion Models
67. ICML 2024DITTO: Diffusion Inference-Time T-Optimization for Music Generation
68. ICML 2024Don't be so Negative! Score-based Generative Modeling with Oracle-assisted Guidance
69. ICML 2024DRCT: Diffusion Reconstruction Contrastive Training towards Universal Detection of Diffusion Generated Images
70. ICML 2024E$^2$GAN: Efficient Training of Efficient GANs for Image-to-Image Translation
71. ICML 2024Easing Concept Bleeding in Diffusion via Entity Localization and Anchoring
72. ICML 2024Editing Partially Observable Networks via Graph Diffusion Models
73. ICML 2024Efficient Denoising Diffusion via Probabilistic Masking
74. ICML 2024Energy-Guided Diffusion Sampling for Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning
75. ICML 2024Equivariant Diffusion for Crystal Structure Prediction
76. ICML 2024Fast Timing-Conditioned Latent Audio Diffusion
77. ICML 2024Feedback Efficient Online Fine-Tuning of Diffusion Models
78. ICML 2024FiT: Flexible Vision Transformer for Diffusion Model
79. ICML 2024Floating Anchor Diffusion Model for Multi-motif Scaffolding
80. ICML 2024FlowMM: Generating Materials with Riemannian Flow Matching
81. ICML 2024FRAG: Frequency Adapting Group for Diffusion Video Editing
82. ICML 2024From Fourier to Neural ODEs: Flow Matching for Modeling Complex Systems
83. ICML 2024Full-Atom Peptide Design based on Multi-modal Flow Matching
84. ICML 2024Generative Conditional Distributions by Neural (Entropic) Optimal Transport
85. ICML 2024Generative Flows on Discrete State-Spaces: Enabling Multimodal Flows with Applications to Protein Co-Design
86. ICML 2024Generative Marginalization Models
87. ICML 2024Generative Modeling on Manifolds Through Mixture of Riemannian Diffusion Processes
88. ICML 2024GiLOT: Interpreting Generative Language Models via Optimal Transport
89. ICML 2024Going beyond Compositions, DDPMs Can Produce Zero-Shot Interpolations
90. ICML 2024Graph Adversarial Diffusion Convolution
91. ICML 2024Graph Generation with Diffusion Mixture
92. ICML 2024Guidance with Spherical Gaussian Constraint for Conditional Diffusion
93. ICML 2024Harmonic Self-Conditioned Flow Matching for joint Multi-Ligand Docking and Binding Site Design
94. ICML 2024How to Trace Latent Generative Model Generated Images without Artificial Watermark?
95. ICML 2024Hyperbolic Geometric Latent Diffusion Model for Graph Generation
96. ICML 2024Image Restoration Through Generalized Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Bridge
97. ICML 2024Imitation Learning from Purified Demonstrations
98. ICML 2024Improving Adversarial Energy-Based Model via Diffusion Process
99. ICML 2024Improving Diffusion Models for Inverse Problems Using Optimal Posterior Covariance
100. ICML 2024Interacting Diffusion Processes for Event Sequence Forecasting

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.