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
1,527 papers, page 22 of 31
- ICLR 2025Relation-Aware Diffusion for Heterogeneous Graphs with Partially Observed Features
- ICLR 2025Representation Alignment for Generation: Training Diffusion Transformers Is Easier Than You Think
- ICLR 2025Representative Guidance: Diffusion Model Sampling with Coherence
- ICLR 2025Repulsive Latent Score Distillation for Solving Inverse Problems
- ICLR 2025Resolution Attack: Exploiting Image Compression to Deceive Deep Neural Networks
- ICLR 2025Rethinking Diffusion Posterior Sampling: From Conditional Score Estimator to Maximizing a Posterior
- ICLR 2025Rethinking Visual Counterfactual Explanations Through Region Constraint
- ICLR 2025Reti-Diff: Illumination Degradation Image Restoration with Retinex-based Latent Diffusion Model
- ICLR 2025Retrieval Augmented Diffusion Model for Structure-informed Antibody Design and Optimization
- ICLR 2025Revisit Large-Scale Image-Caption Data in Pre-training Multimodal Foundation Models
- ICLR 2025RFWave: Multi-band Rectified Flow for Audio Waveform Reconstruction
- ICLR 2025Risk-Sensitive Diffusion: Robustly Optimizing Diffusion Models with Noisy Samples
- ICLR 2025Robust Barycenter Estimation using Semi-Unbalanced Neural Optimal Transport
- ICLR 2025Robust Representation Consistency Model via Contrastive Denoising
- ICLR 2025Robust Watermarking Using Generative Priors Against Image Editing: From Benchmarking to Advances
- ICLR 2025Robust-PIFu: Robust Pixel-aligned Implicit Function for 3D Human Digitalization from a Single Image
- ICLR 2025RTDiff: Reverse Trajectory Synthesis via Diffusion for Offline Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2025SafeDiffuser: Safe Planning with Diffusion Probabilistic Models
- ICLR 2025SAFREE: Training-Free and Adaptive Guard for Safe Text-to-Image And Video Generation
- ICLR 2025SANA: Efficient High-Resolution Text-to-Image Synthesis with Linear Diffusion Transformers
- ICLR 2025SaRA: High-Efficient Diffusion Model Fine-tuning with Progressive Sparse Low-Rank Adaptation
- ICLR 2025Scalable Discrete Diffusion Samplers: Combinatorial Optimization and Statistical Physics
- ICLR 2025Scaling Diffusion Language Models via Adaptation from Autoregressive Models
- ICLR 2025Scaling In-the-Wild Training for Diffusion-based Illumination Harmonization and Editing by Imposing Consistent Light Transport
- ICLR 2025Scaling up Masked Diffusion Models on Text
- ICLR 2025Score Forgetting Distillation: A Swift, Data-Free Method for Machine Unlearning in Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Score-based Self-supervised MRI Denoising
- ICLR 2025Self-Supervised Diffusion Models for Electron-Aware Molecular Representation Learning
- ICLR 2025Self-Supervised Diffusion MRI Denoising via Iterative and Stable Refinement
- ICLR 2025Semantic Image Inversion and Editing using Rectified Stochastic Differential Equations
- ICLR 2025Semantix: An Energy-guided Sampler for Semantic Style Transfer
- ICLR 2025Sequential Controlled Langevin Diffusions
- ICLR 2025SG-I2V: Self-Guided Trajectory Control in Image-to-Video Generation
- ICLR 2025Shallow diffusion networks provably learn hidden low-dimensional structure
- ICLR 2025ShEPhERD: Diffusing shape, electrostatics, and pharmacophores for bioisosteric drug design
- ICLR 2025SigDiffusions: Score-Based Diffusion Models for Time Series via Log-Signature Embeddings
- ICLR 2025Simple Guidance Mechanisms for Discrete Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Simple ReFlow: Improved Techniques for Fast Flow Models
- ICLR 2025Simplifying, Stabilizing and Scaling Continuous-time Consistency Models
- ICLR 2025SINGAPO: Single Image Controlled Generation of Articulated Parts in Objects
- ICLR 2025Slot-Guided Adaptation of Pre-trained Diffusion Models for Object-Centric Learning and Compositional Generation
- ICLR 2025SlowFast-VGen: Slow-Fast Learning for Action-Driven Long Video Generation
- ICLR 2025SMITE: Segment Me In TimE
- ICLR 2025Solving New Tasks by Adapting Internet Video Knowledge
- ICLR 2025Solving Video Inverse Problems Using Image Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025SoundCTM: Unifying Score-based and Consistency Models for Full-band Text-to-Sound Generation
- ICLR 2025Spectral Compressive Imaging via Unmixing-driven Subspace Diffusion Refinement
- ICLR 2025Steering Masked Discrete Diffusion Models via Discrete Denoising Posterior Prediction
- ICLR 2025Stem-OB: Generalizable Visual Imitation Learning with Stem-Like Convergent Observation through Diffusion Inversion
- ICLR 2025Stiefel Flow Matching for Moment-Constrained Structure Elucidation
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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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