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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1051. ICML 2025TruthFlow: Truthful LLM Generation via Representation Flow Correction
1052. ICML 2025Ultra Lowrate Image Compression with Semantic Residual Coding and Compression-aware Diffusion
1053. ICML 2025Ultra-Resolution Adaptation with Ease
1054. ICML 2025Understanding and Mitigating Memorization in Diffusion Models for Tabular Data
1055. ICML 2025Understanding and Mitigating Memorization in Generative Models via Sharpness of Probability Landscapes
1056. ICML 2025UniDB: A Unified Diffusion Bridge Framework via Stochastic Optimal Control
1057. ICML 2025UniMC: Taming Diffusion Transformer for Unified Keypoint-Guided Multi-Class Image Generation
1058. ICML 2025UniMoMo: Unified Generative Modeling of 3D Molecules for De Novo Binder Design
1059. ICML 2025Unsupervised Learning for Class Distribution Mismatch
1060. ICML 2025Upcycling Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Multi-Task Capabilities
1061. ICML 2025Variance as a Catalyst: Efficient and Transferable Semantic Erasure Adversarial Attack for Customized Diffusion Models
1062. ICML 2025Variational Control for Guidance in Diffusion Models
1063. ICML 2025Variational Rectified Flow Matching
1064. ICML 2025VCT: Training Consistency Models with Variational Noise Coupling
1065. ICML 2025VerbalTS: Generating Time Series from Texts
1066. ICML 2025Video Prediction Policy: A Generalist Robot Policy with Predictive Visual Representations
1067. ICML 2025VideoJAM: Joint Appearance-Motion Representations for Enhanced Motion Generation in Video Models
1068. ICML 2025Wasserstein Flow Matching: Generative Modeling Over Families of Distributions
1069. ICML 2025When Diffusion Models Memorize: Inductive Biases in Probability Flow of Minimum-Norm Shallow Neural Nets
1070. ICML 2025When Model Knowledge meets Diffusion Model: Diffusion-assisted Data-free Image Synthesis with Alignment of Domain and Class
1071. ICML 2025WMAdapter: Adding WaterMark Control to Latent Diffusion Models
1072. ICML 2025WyckoffDiff -- A Generative Diffusion Model for Crystal Symmetry
1073. ICML 2025Zero-Shot Adaptation of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning in Diffusion Models
1074. ICML 2025Zero-Shot Cyclic Peptide Design via Composable Geometric Constraints
1075. ICML 20243D-VLA: A 3D Vision-Language-Action Generative World Model
1076. ICML 2024A Dense Reward View on Aligning Text-to-Image Diffusion with Preference
1077. ICML 2024A Diffusion Model Framework for Unsupervised Neural Combinatorial Optimization
1078. ICML 2024A Fixed-Point Approach for Causal Generative Modeling
1079. ICML 2024A Geometric Explanation of the Likelihood OOD Detection Paradox
1080. ICML 2024A Simple Early Exiting Framework for Accelerated Sampling in Diffusion Models
1081. ICML 2024Accelerating Convergence of Score-Based Diffusion Models, Provably
1082. ICML 2024Accelerating Parallel Sampling of Diffusion Models
1083. ICML 2024Adapt and Diffuse: Sample-adaptive Reconstruction via Latent Diffusion Models
1084. ICML 2024AdsorbDiff: Adsorbate Placement via Conditional Denoising Diffusion
1085. ICML 2024Align Your Steps: Optimizing Sampling Schedules in Diffusion Models
1086. ICML 2024All-in-one simulation-based inference
1087. ICML 2024AlphaFold Meets Flow Matching for Generating Protein Ensembles
1088. ICML 2024Antibody Design Using a Score-based Diffusion Model Guided by Evolutionary, Physical and Geometric Constraints
1089. ICML 2024AquaLoRA: Toward White-box Protection for Customized Stable Diffusion Models via Watermark LoRA
1090. ICML 2024ATraDiff: Accelerating Online Reinforcement Learning with Imaginary Trajectories
1091. ICML 2024Attribute Based Interpretable Evaluation Metrics for Generative Models
1092. ICML 2024Batch and match: black-box variational inference with a score-based divergence
1093. ICML 2024Bayesian Power Steering: An Effective Approach for Domain Adaptation of Diffusion Models
1094. ICML 2024Bespoke Non-Stationary Solvers for Fast Sampling of Diffusion and Flow Models
1095. ICML 2024Beyond Point Prediction: Score Matching-based Pseudolikelihood Estimation of Neural Marked Spatio-Temporal Point Process
1096. ICML 2024Bipartite Matching in Massive Graphs: A Tight Analysis of EDCS
1097. ICML 2024Boximator: Generating Rich and Controllable Motions for Video Synthesis
1098. ICML 2024Bridging Data Gaps in Diffusion Models with Adversarial Noise-Based Transfer Learning
1099. ICML 2024Bridging discrete and continuous state spaces: Exploring the Ehrenfest process in time-continuous diffusion models
1100. ICML 2024CasCast: Skillful High-resolution Precipitation Nowcasting via Cascaded Modelling

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.