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

2,078 papers, page 20 of 42

951. ICLR 2025Solving New Tasks by Adapting Internet Video Knowledge
952. ICLR 2025Solving Video Inverse Problems Using Image Diffusion Models
953. ICLR 2025SoundCTM: Unifying Score-based and Consistency Models for Full-band Text-to-Sound Generation
954. ICLR 2025Spectral Compressive Imaging via Unmixing-driven Subspace Diffusion Refinement
955. ICLR 2025Steering Masked Discrete Diffusion Models via Discrete Denoising Posterior Prediction
956. ICLR 2025Stem-OB: Generalizable Visual Imitation Learning with Stem-Like Convergent Observation through Diffusion Inversion
957. ICLR 2025Stiefel Flow Matching for Moment-Constrained Structure Elucidation
958. ICLR 2025StochSync: Stochastic Diffusion Synchronization for Image Generation in Arbitrary Spaces
959. ICLR 2025Storybooth: Training-Free Multi-Subject Consistency for Improved Visual Storytelling
960. ICLR 2025Structure Language Models for Protein Conformation Generation
961. ICLR 2025Supervised and Semi-Supervised Diffusion Maps with Label-Driven Diffusion
962. ICLR 2025SV4D: Dynamic 3D Content Generation with Multi-Frame and Multi-View Consistency
963. ICLR 2025SVDQuant: Absorbing Outliers by Low-Rank Component for 4-Bit Diffusion Models
964. ICLR 2025SVG: 3D Stereoscopic Video Generation via Denoising Frame Matrix
965. ICLR 2025Swing-by Dynamics in Concept Learning and Compositional Generalization
966. ICLR 2025SymDiff: Equivariant Diffusion via Stochastic Symmetrisation
967. ICLR 2025SymmCD: Symmetry-Preserving Crystal Generation with Diffusion Models
968. ICLR 2025SymmetricDiffusers: Learning Discrete Diffusion on Finite Symmetric Groups
969. ICLR 2025SynCamMaster: Synchronizing Multi-Camera Video Generation from Diverse Viewpoints
970. ICLR 2025Synthesizing Realistic fMRI: A Physiological Dynamics-Driven Hierarchical Diffusion Model for Efficient fMRI Acquisition
971. ICLR 2025Synthio: Augmenting Small-Scale Audio Classification Datasets with Synthetic Data
972. ICLR 2025T-Stitch: Accelerating Sampling in Pre-Trained Diffusion Models with Trajectory Stitching
973. ICLR 2025T2V-Turbo-v2: Enhancing Video Model Post-Training through Data, Reward, and Conditional Guidance Design
974. ICLR 2025TabDiff: a Mixed-type Diffusion Model for Tabular Data Generation
975. ICLR 2025TabWak: A Watermark for Tabular Diffusion Models
976. ICLR 2025TANGO: Co-Speech Gesture Video Reenactment with Hierarchical Audio Motion Embedding and Diffusion Interpolation
977. ICLR 2025Targeted Attack Improves Protection against Unauthorized Diffusion Customization
978. ICLR 2025TD-Paint: Faster Diffusion Inpainting Through Time-Aware Pixel Conditioning
979. ICLR 2025Test-time Alignment of Diffusion Models without Reward Over-optimization
980. ICLR 2025Text-to-Image Rectified Flow as Plug-and-Play Priors
981. ICLR 2025Text2PDE: Latent Diffusion Models for Accessible Physics Simulation
982. ICLR 2025TexTailor: Customized Text-aligned Texturing via Effective Resampling
983. ICLR 2025TFG-Flow: Training-free Guidance in Multimodal Generative Flow
984. ICLR 2025The Crystal Ball Hypothesis in diffusion models: Anticipating object positions from initial noise
985. ICLR 2025The Superposition of Diffusion Models Using the Itô Density Estimator
986. ICLR 2025Theory on Score-Mismatched Diffusion Models and Zero-Shot Conditional Samplers
987. ICLR 2025Think while You Generate: Discrete Diffusion with Planned Denoising
988. ICLR 2025ToddlerDiffusion: Interactive Structured Image Generation with Cascaded Schrödinger Bridge
989. ICLR 2025TopoDiffusionNet: A Topology-aware Diffusion Model
990. ICLR 2025Topological Schrödinger Bridge Matching
991. ICLR 2025Topological Zigzag Spaghetti for Diffusion-based Generation and Prediction on Graphs
992. ICLR 2025Toward Exploratory Inverse Constraint Inference with Generative Diffusion Verifiers
993. ICLR 2025Towards Hierarchical Rectified Flow
994. ICLR 2025Towards Multiple Character Image Animation Through Enhancing Implicit Decoupling
995. ICLR 2025Towards Realistic Data Generation for Real-World Super-Resolution
996. ICLR 2025Towards Scalable Topological Regularizers
997. ICLR 2025Towards Understanding Text Hallucination of Diffusion Models via Local Generation Bias
998. ICLR 2025Towards Understanding the Robustness of Diffusion-Based Purification: A Stochastic Perspective
999. ICLR 2025Training Free Guided Flow-Matching with Optimal Control
1000. ICLR 2025Training-free Camera Control for Video 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.