Diffusion Models papers, 2023–2026
Diffusion, flow matching, and score-based generative modeling
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 6,900 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 327 | 86 | 109 | 138 | 660 |
| 2024 | 520 | 260 | 195 | 496 | 1,471 |
| 2025 | 694 | 487 | 346 | 551 | 2,078 |
| 2026 | 661 | 694 | 728 | 608 | 2,691 |
Representative papers
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- 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
1,792 papers, page 21 of 36
- CVPR 2025Reanimating Images using Neural Representations of Dynamic Stimuli
- CVPR 2025ReCapture: Generative Video Camera Controls for User-Provided Videos using Masked Video Fine-Tuning
- CVPR 2025Reconciling Stochastic and Deterministic Strategies for Zero-shot Image Restoration using Diffusion Model in Dual
- CVPR 2025Reconstructing Close Human Interaction with Appearance and Proxemics Reasoning
- CVPR 2025Reconstruction vs. Generation: Taming Optimization Dilemma in Latent Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Rectified Diffusion Guidance for Conditional Generation
- CVPR 2025Redefining <Creative> in Dictionary: Towards an Enhanced Semantic Understanding of Creative Generation
- CVPR 2025ReDiffDet: Rotation-equivariant Diffusion Model for Oriented Object Detection
- CVPR 2025Repurposing Pre-trained Video Diffusion Models for Event-based Video Interpolation
- CVPR 2025Rethinking Diffusion for Text-Driven Human Motion Generation: Redundant Representations, Evaluation, and Masked Autoregression
- CVPR 2025Reversing Flow for Image Restoration
- CVPR 2025Revisiting Generative Replay for Class Incremental Object Detection
- CVPR 2025Reward Fine-Tuning Two-Step Diffusion Models via Learning Differentiable Latent-Space Surrogate Reward
- CVPR 2025REWIND: Real-Time Egocentric Whole-Body Motion Diffusion with Exemplar-Based Identity Conditioning
- CVPR 2025Robust Message Embedding via Attention Flow-Based Steganography
- CVPR 2025Robust Multi-Object 4D Generation for In-the-wild Videos
- CVPR 2025Robust-MVTON: Learning Cross-Pose Feature Alignment and Fusion for Robust Multi-View Virtual Try-On
- CVPR 2025ROICtrl: Boosting Instance Control for Visual Generation
- CVPR 2025RoomPainter: View-Integrated Diffusion for Consistent Indoor Scene Texturing
- CVPR 2025RORem: Training a Robust Object Remover with Human-in-the-Loop
- CVPR 2025S^3-Face: SSS-Compliant Facial Reflectance Estimation via Diffusion Priors
- CVPR 2025SALAD: Skeleton-aware Latent Diffusion for Text-driven Motion Generation and Editing
- CVPR 2025Satellite Observations Guided Diffusion Model for Accurate Meteorological States at Arbitrary Resolution
- CVPR 2025Satellite to GroundScape - Large-scale Consistent Ground View Generation from Satellite Views
- CVPR 2025Scaling Down Text Encoders of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Scaling Inference Time Compute for Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Scaling Properties of Diffusion Models For Perceptual Tasks
- CVPR 2025Scenario Dreamer: Vectorized Latent Diffusion for Generating Driving Simulation Environments
- CVPR 2025Scene Splatter: Momentum 3D Scene Generation from Single Image with Video Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025Scene4U: Hierarchical Layered 3D Scene Reconstruction from Single Panoramic Image for Your Immerse Exploration
- CVPR 2025SceneCrafter: Controllable Multi-View Driving Scene Editing
- CVPR 2025Schedule On the Fly: Diffusion Time Prediction for Faster and Better Image Generation
- CVPR 2025ScribbleLight: Single Image Indoor Relighting with Scribbles
- CVPR 2025SeaLion: Semantic Part-Aware Latent Point Diffusion Models for 3D Generation
- CVPR 2025Secret Lies in Color: Enhancing AI-Generated Images Detection with Color Distribution Analysis
- CVPR 2025See Further When Clear: Curriculum Consistency Model
- CVPR 2025SeedVR: Seeding Infinity in Diffusion Transformer Towards Generic Video Restoration
- CVPR 2025Segment Any-Quality Images with Generative Latent Space Enhancement
- CVPR 2025Self-Cross Diffusion Guidance for Text-to-Image Synthesis of Similar Subjects
- CVPR 2025Self-Learning Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Fusion via Adaptive Residual Guided Subspace Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025Self-supervised ControlNet with Spatio-Temporal Mamba for Real-world Video Super-resolution
- CVPR 2025SemanticDraw: Towards Real-Time Interactive Content Creation from Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Shadow Generation Using Diffusion Model with Geometry Prior
- CVPR 2025ShapeShifter: 3D Variations Using Multiscale and Sparse Point-Voxel Diffusion
- CVPR 2025Sharp-It: A Multi-view to Multi-view Diffusion Model for 3D Synthesis and Manipulation
- CVPR 2025SharpDepth: Sharpening Metric Depth Predictions Using Diffusion Distillation
- CVPR 2025Shift the Lens: Environment-Aware Unsupervised Camouflaged Object Detection
- CVPR 2025Shining Yourself: High-Fidelity Ornaments Virtual Try-on with Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025ShotAdapter: Text-to-Multi-Shot Video Generation with Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025ShowHowTo: Generating Scene-Conditioned Step-by-Step Visual Instructions
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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.
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