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

2,202 papers, page 22 of 45

1051. NeurIPS 2025NeuralPLexer3: Accurate Biomolecular Complex Structure Prediction with Flow Models
1052. NeurIPS 2025NeuroRenderedFake: A Challenging Benchmark to Detect Fake Images Generated by Advanced Neural Rendering Methods
1053. NeurIPS 2025Neurosymbolic Diffusion Models
1054. NeurIPS 2025Next Semantic Scale Prediction via Hierarchical Diffusion Language Models
1055. NeurIPS 2025No Object Is an Island: Enhancing 3D Semantic Segmentation Generalization with Diffusion Models
1056. NeurIPS 2025Noise Consistency Training: A Native Approach for One-step Generator in Learning Additional Controls
1057. NeurIPS 2025Noise Hypernetworks: Amortizing Test-Time Compute in Diffusion Models
1058. NeurIPS 2025Noise Matters: Optimizing Matching Noise for Diffusion Classifiers
1059. NeurIPS 2025Noisy Multi-Label Learning through Co-Occurrence-Aware Diffusion
1060. NeurIPS 2025Non-equilibrium Annealed Adjoint Sampler
1061. NeurIPS 2025Non-Markovian Discrete Diffusion with Causal Language Models
1062. NeurIPS 2025Normalized Attention Guidance: Universal Negative Guidance for Diffusion Models
1063. NeurIPS 2025Normalizing Flows are Capable Models for Continuous Control
1064. NeurIPS 2025Novel View Synthesis from A Few Glimpses via Test-Time Natural Video Completion
1065. NeurIPS 2025NPN: Non-Linear Projections of the Null-Space for Imaging Inverse Problems
1066. NeurIPS 2025NUTS: Eddy-Robust Reconstruction of Surface Ocean Nutrients via Two-Scale Modeling
1067. NeurIPS 2025ObCLIP: Oblivious CLoud-Device Hybrid Image Generation with Privacy Preservation
1068. NeurIPS 2025OCTDiff: Bridged Diffusion Model for Portable OCT Super-Resolution and Enhancement
1069. NeurIPS 2025OmniCast: A Masked Latent Diffusion Model for Weather Forecasting Across Time Scales
1070. NeurIPS 2025OmniConsistency: Learning Style-Agnostic Consistency from Paired Stylization Data
1071. NeurIPS 2025Omnidirectional 3D Scene Reconstruction from Single Image
1072. NeurIPS 2025OmniSync: Towards Universal Lip Synchronization via Diffusion Transformers
1073. NeurIPS 2025OmniTry: Virtual Try-On Anything without Masks
1074. NeurIPS 2025OmniVCus: Feedforward Subject-driven Video Customization with Multimodal Control Conditions
1075. NeurIPS 2025On Efficiency-Effectiveness Trade-off of Diffusion-based Recommenders
1076. NeurIPS 2025On Inductive Biases That Enable Generalization in Diffusion Transformers
1077. NeurIPS 2025On scalable and efficient training of diffusion samplers
1078. NeurIPS 2025On the Closed-Form of Flow Matching: Generalization Does Not Arise from Target Stochasticity
1079. NeurIPS 2025On the Edge of Memorization in Diffusion Models
1080. NeurIPS 2025On the Relation between Rectified Flows and Optimal Transport
1081. NeurIPS 2025One Stone with Two Birds: A Null-Text-Null Frequency-Aware Diffusion Models for Text-Guided Image Inpainting
1082. NeurIPS 2025One-Step Diffusion for Detail-Rich and Temporally Consistent Video Super-Resolution
1083. NeurIPS 2025One-Step Diffusion-Based Image Compression with Semantic Distillation
1084. NeurIPS 2025One-Step is Enough: Sparse Autoencoders for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
1085. NeurIPS 2025One-Step Offline Distillation of Diffusion-based Models via Koopman Modeling
1086. NeurIPS 2025Online Feedback Efficient Active Target Discovery in Partially Observable Environments
1087. NeurIPS 2025OpenHOI: Open-World Hand-Object Interaction Synthesis with Multimodal Large Language Model
1088. NeurIPS 2025Optimize Any Topology: A Foundation Model for Shape- and Resolution-Free Structural Topology Optimization
1089. NeurIPS 2025OSCAR: One-Step Diffusion Codec Across Multiple Bit-rates
1090. NeurIPS 2025Overcoming Challenges of Long-Horizon Prediction in Driving World Models
1091. NeurIPS 2025OverLayBench: A Benchmark for Layout-to-Image Generation with Dense Overlaps
1092. NeurIPS 2025PairEdit: Learning Semantic Variations for Exemplar-based Image Editing
1093. NeurIPS 2025Pairwise Optimal Transports for Training All-to-All Flow-Based Condition Transfer Model
1094. NeurIPS 2025PanoWan: Lifting Diffusion Video Generation Models to 360$^\circ$ with Latitude/Longitude-aware Mechanisms
1095. NeurIPS 2025Pareto-Optimal Energy Alignment for Designing Nature-Like Antibodies
1096. NeurIPS 2025PAROAttention: Pattern-Aware ReOrdering for Efficient Sparse and Quantized Attention in Visual Generation Models
1097. NeurIPS 2025PartCrafter: Structured 3D Mesh Generation via Compositional Latent Diffusion Transformers
1098. NeurIPS 2025Partial Physics Informed Diffusion Model for Ocean Chlorophyll Concentration Reconstruction
1099. NeurIPS 2025Path Gradients after Flow Matching
1100. NeurIPS 2025Personalized Image Editing in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Collaborative Direct Preference Optimization

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.