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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951. ICML 2025OmiAD: One-Step Adaptive Masked Diffusion Model for Multi-class Anomaly Detection via Adversarial Distillation
952. ICML 2025On the Guidance of Flow Matching
953. ICML 2025One Diffusion Step to Real-World Super-Resolution via Flow Trajectory Distillation
954. ICML 2025One Image is Worth a Thousand Words: A Usability Preservable Text-Image Collaborative Erasing Framework
955. ICML 2025One-Shot Heterogeneous Federated Learning with Local Model-Guided Diffusion Models
956. ICML 2025One-Step Diffusion Policy: Fast Visuomotor Policies via Diffusion Distillation
957. ICML 2025Open Materials Generation with Stochastic Interpolants
958. ICML 2025Origin Identification for Text-Guided Image-to-Image Diffusion Models
959. ICML 2025Outlier-Aware Post-Training Quantization for Discrete Graph Diffusion Models
960. ICML 2025Outsourced Diffusion Sampling: Efficient Posterior Inference in Latent Spaces of Generative Models
961. ICML 2025Parallel Simulation for Log-concave Sampling and Score-based Diffusion Models
962. ICML 2025PCEvolve: Private Contrastive Evolution for Synthetic Dataset Generation via Few-Shot Private Data and Generative APIs
963. ICML 2025PepTune: De Novo Generation of Therapeutic Peptides with Multi-Objective-Guided Discrete Diffusion
964. ICML 2025Physics-Informed DeepONets for drift-diffusion on metric graphs: simulation and parameter identification
965. ICML 2025PISA Experiments: Exploring Physics Post-Training for Video Diffusion Models by Watching Stuff Drop
966. ICML 2025Playmate: Flexible Control of Portrait Animation via 3D-Implicit Space Guided Diffusion
967. ICML 2025PolyConf: Unlocking Polymer Conformation Generation through Hierarchical Generative Models
968. ICML 2025Posterior Inference with Diffusion Models for High-dimensional Black-box Optimization
969. ICML 2025PPDiff: Diffusing in Hybrid Sequence-Structure Space for Protein-Protein Complex Design
970. ICML 2025Preference Adaptive and Sequential Text-to-Image Generation
971. ICML 2025Prior Knowledge Guided Neural Architecture Generation
972. ICML 2025Privacy Attacks on Image AutoRegressive Models
973. ICML 2025ProDiff: Prototype-Guided Diffusion for Minimal Information Trajectory Imputation
974. ICML 2025Progressive Tempering Sampler with Diffusion
975. ICML 2025Provable Efficiency of Guidance in Diffusion Models for General Data Distribution
976. ICML 2025Provable Maximum Entropy Manifold Exploration via Diffusion Models
977. ICML 2025Q-VDiT: Towards Accurate Quantization and Distillation of Video-Generation Diffusion Transformers
978. ICML 2025Random Policy Evaluation Uncovers Policies of Generative Flow Networks
979. ICML 2025ReFrame: Layer Caching for Accelerated Inference in Real-Time Rendering
980. ICML 2025REG: Rectified Gradient Guidance for Conditional Diffusion Models
981. ICML 2025ReQFlow: Rectified Quaternion Flow for Efficient and High-Quality Protein Backbone Generation
982. ICML 2025RestoreGrad: Signal Restoration Using Conditional Denoising Diffusion Models with Jointly Learned Prior
983. ICML 2025Rethinking Score Distilling Sampling for 3D Editing and Generation
984. ICML 2025Retrieval Augmented Zero-Shot Enzyme Generation for Specified Substrate
985. ICML 2025Revisiting Diffusion Models: From Generative Pre-training to One-Step Generation
986. ICML 2025Reward-Guided Iterative Refinement in Diffusion Models at Test-Time with Applications to Protein and DNA Design
987. ICML 2025Riemannian Diffusion Adaptation for Distributed Optimization on Manifolds
988. ICML 2025RIFLEx: A Free Lunch for Length Extrapolation in Video Diffusion Transformers
989. ICML 2025RobustLight: Improving Robustness via Diffusion Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Signal Control
990. ICML 2025Roll the dice & look before you leap: Going beyond the creative limits of next-token prediction
991. ICML 2025S4S: Solving for a Fast Diffusion Model Solver
992. ICML 2025SADA: Stability-guided Adaptive Diffusion Acceleration
993. ICML 2025SAeUron: Interpretable Concept Unlearning in Diffusion Models with Sparse Autoencoders
994. ICML 2025SAH-Drive: A Scenario-Aware Hybrid Planner for Closed-Loop Vehicle Trajectory Generation
995. ICML 2025Sample-specific Noise Injection for Diffusion-based Adversarial Purification
996. ICML 2025SANA 1.5: Efficient Scaling of Training-Time and Inference-Time Compute in Linear Diffusion Transformer
997. ICML 2025SBGD: Improving Graph Diffusion Generative Model via Stochastic Block Diffusion
998. ICML 2025Scalable Generation of Spatial Transcriptomics from Histology Images via Whole-Slide Flow Matching
999. ICML 2025Scalable Non-Equivariant 3D Molecule Generation via Rotational Alignment
1000. ICML 2025Score as Action: Fine Tuning Diffusion Generative Models by Continuous-time Reinforcement Learning

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.