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

1,527 papers, page 20 of 31

951. ICLR 2025LayerDAG: A Layerwise Autoregressive Diffusion Model for Directed Acyclic Graph Generation
952. ICLR 2025Learned Reference-based Diffusion Sampler for multi-modal distributions
953. ICLR 2025Learning Distributions of Complex Fluid Simulations with Diffusion Graph Networks
954. ICLR 2025Learning to Discretize Denoising Diffusion ODEs
955. ICLR 2025LeFusion: Controllable Pathology Synthesis via Lesion-Focused Diffusion Models
956. ICLR 2025Less is More: Masking Elements in Image Condition Features Avoids Content Leakages in Style Transfer Diffusion Models
957. ICLR 2025Lift Your Molecules: Molecular Graph Generation in Latent Euclidean Space
958. ICLR 2025Lightning-Fast Image Inversion and Editing for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
959. ICLR 2025Linear Combination of Saved Checkpoints Makes Consistency and Diffusion Models Better
960. ICLR 2025Linear combinations of latents in generative models: subspaces and beyond
961. ICLR 2025Linear Multistep Solver Distillation for Fast Sampling of Diffusion Models
962. ICLR 2025Looking Backward: Streaming Video-to-Video Translation with Feature Banks
963. ICLR 2025Loopy: Taming Audio-Driven Portrait Avatar with Long-Term Motion Dependency
964. ICLR 2025Lossy Compression with Pretrained Diffusion Models
965. ICLR 2025Lotus: Diffusion-based Visual Foundation Model for High-quality Dense Prediction
966. ICLR 2025Lumina-T2X: Scalable Flow-based Large Diffusion Transformer for Flexible Resolution Generation
967. ICLR 2025Manifold Constraint Reduces Exposure Bias in Accelerated Diffusion Sampling
968. ICLR 2025Manifold Induced Biases for Zero-shot and Few-shot Detection of Generated Images
969. ICLR 2025Manifolds, Random Matrices and Spectral Gaps: The geometric phases of generative diffusion
970. ICLR 2025MaRS: A Fast Sampler for Mean Reverting Diffusion based on ODE and SDE Solvers
971. ICLR 2025Masked Diffusion Models are Secretly Time-Agnostic Masked Models and Exploit Inaccurate Categorical Sampling
972. ICLR 2025Masked Temporal Interpolation Diffusion for Procedure Planning in Instructional Videos
973. ICLR 2025MDSGen: Fast and Efficient Masked Diffusion Temporal-Aware Transformers for Open-Domain Sound Generation
974. ICLR 2025Meissonic: Revitalizing Masked Generative Transformers for Efficient High-Resolution Text-to-Image Synthesis
975. ICLR 2025Meta Flow Matching: Integrating Vector Fields on the Wasserstein Manifold
976. ICLR 2025Minimal Impact ControlNet: Advancing Multi-ControlNet Integration
977. ICLR 2025Mining your own secrets: Diffusion Classifier Scores for Continual Personalization of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
978. ICLR 2025MMDisCo: Multi-Modal Discriminator-Guided Cooperative Diffusion for Joint Audio and Video Generation
979. ICLR 2025Modeling Complex System Dynamics with Flow Matching Across Time and Conditions
980. ICLR 2025MOFFlow: Flow Matching for Structure Prediction of Metal-Organic Frameworks
981. ICLR 2025MorphoDiff: Cellular Morphology Painting with Diffusion Models
982. ICLR 2025Motion-Agent: A Conversational Framework for Human Motion Generation with LLMs
983. ICLR 2025MotionAura: Generating High-Quality and Motion Consistent Videos using Discrete Diffusion
984. ICLR 2025MovieDreamer: Hierarchical Generation for Coherent Long Visual Sequences
985. ICLR 2025MS-Diffusion: Multi-subject Zero-shot Image Personalization with Layout Guidance
986. ICLR 2025Multi-domain Distribution Learning for De Novo Drug Design
987. ICLR 2025Multi-Modal and Multi-Attribute Generation of Single Cells with CFGen
988. ICLR 2025Multi-objective antibody design with constrained preference optimization
989. ICLR 2025Multi-Perspective Data Augmentation for Few-shot Object Detection
990. ICLR 2025Multi-Resolution Decomposable Diffusion Model for Non-Stationary Time Series Anomaly Detection
991. ICLR 2025Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Diffusion Models
992. ICLR 2025Multi-Task Dense Predictions via Unleashing the Power of Diffusion
993. ICLR 2025Multimodal Large Language Models for Inverse Molecular Design with Retrosynthetic Planning
994. ICLR 2025MVTokenFlow: High-quality 4D Content Generation using Multiview Token Flow
995. ICLR 2025Neural Approximate Mirror Maps for Constrained Diffusion Models
996. ICLR 2025Neural Sampling from Boltzmann Densities: Fisher-Rao Curves in the Wasserstein Geometry
997. ICLR 2025NExT-Mol: 3D Diffusion Meets 1D Language Modeling for 3D Molecule Generation
998. ICLR 2025No Training, No Problem: Rethinking Classifier-Free Guidance for Diffusion Models
999. ICLR 2025Not All Prompts Are Made Equal: Prompt-based Pruning of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
1000. ICLR 2025Not-So-Optimal Transport Flows for 3D Point Cloud Generation

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.