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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1101. ICLR 2025StochSync: Stochastic Diffusion Synchronization for Image Generation in Arbitrary Spaces
1102. ICLR 2025Storybooth: Training-Free Multi-Subject Consistency for Improved Visual Storytelling
1103. ICLR 2025Structure Language Models for Protein Conformation Generation
1104. ICLR 2025Supervised and Semi-Supervised Diffusion Maps with Label-Driven Diffusion
1105. ICLR 2025SV4D: Dynamic 3D Content Generation with Multi-Frame and Multi-View Consistency
1106. ICLR 2025SVDQuant: Absorbing Outliers by Low-Rank Component for 4-Bit Diffusion Models
1107. ICLR 2025SVG: 3D Stereoscopic Video Generation via Denoising Frame Matrix
1108. ICLR 2025Swing-by Dynamics in Concept Learning and Compositional Generalization
1109. ICLR 2025SymDiff: Equivariant Diffusion via Stochastic Symmetrisation
1110. ICLR 2025SymmCD: Symmetry-Preserving Crystal Generation with Diffusion Models
1111. ICLR 2025SymmetricDiffusers: Learning Discrete Diffusion on Finite Symmetric Groups
1112. ICLR 2025SynCamMaster: Synchronizing Multi-Camera Video Generation from Diverse Viewpoints
1113. ICLR 2025Synthesizing Realistic fMRI: A Physiological Dynamics-Driven Hierarchical Diffusion Model for Efficient fMRI Acquisition
1114. ICLR 2025Synthio: Augmenting Small-Scale Audio Classification Datasets with Synthetic Data
1115. ICLR 2025T-Stitch: Accelerating Sampling in Pre-Trained Diffusion Models with Trajectory Stitching
1116. ICLR 2025T2V-Turbo-v2: Enhancing Video Model Post-Training through Data, Reward, and Conditional Guidance Design
1117. ICLR 2025TabDiff: a Mixed-type Diffusion Model for Tabular Data Generation
1118. ICLR 2025TabWak: A Watermark for Tabular Diffusion Models
1119. ICLR 2025TANGO: Co-Speech Gesture Video Reenactment with Hierarchical Audio Motion Embedding and Diffusion Interpolation
1120. ICLR 2025Targeted Attack Improves Protection against Unauthorized Diffusion Customization
1121. ICLR 2025TD-Paint: Faster Diffusion Inpainting Through Time-Aware Pixel Conditioning
1122. ICLR 2025Test-time Alignment of Diffusion Models without Reward Over-optimization
1123. ICLR 2025Text-to-Image Rectified Flow as Plug-and-Play Priors
1124. ICLR 2025Text2PDE: Latent Diffusion Models for Accessible Physics Simulation
1125. ICLR 2025TexTailor: Customized Text-aligned Texturing via Effective Resampling
1126. ICLR 2025TFG-Flow: Training-free Guidance in Multimodal Generative Flow
1127. ICLR 2025The Crystal Ball Hypothesis in diffusion models: Anticipating object positions from initial noise
1128. ICLR 2025The Superposition of Diffusion Models Using the Itô Density Estimator
1129. ICLR 2025Theory on Score-Mismatched Diffusion Models and Zero-Shot Conditional Samplers
1130. ICLR 2025Think while You Generate: Discrete Diffusion with Planned Denoising
1131. ICLR 2025ToddlerDiffusion: Interactive Structured Image Generation with Cascaded Schrödinger Bridge
1132. ICLR 2025TopoDiffusionNet: A Topology-aware Diffusion Model
1133. ICLR 2025Topological Schrödinger Bridge Matching
1134. ICLR 2025Topological Zigzag Spaghetti for Diffusion-based Generation and Prediction on Graphs
1135. ICLR 2025Toward Exploratory Inverse Constraint Inference with Generative Diffusion Verifiers
1136. ICLR 2025Towards Hierarchical Rectified Flow
1137. ICLR 2025Towards Multiple Character Image Animation Through Enhancing Implicit Decoupling
1138. ICLR 2025Towards Realistic Data Generation for Real-World Super-Resolution
1139. ICLR 2025Towards Scalable Topological Regularizers
1140. ICLR 2025Towards Understanding Text Hallucination of Diffusion Models via Local Generation Bias
1141. ICLR 2025Towards Understanding the Robustness of Diffusion-Based Purification: A Stochastic Perspective
1142. ICLR 2025Training Free Guided Flow-Matching with Optimal Control
1143. ICLR 2025Training-free Camera Control for Video Generation
1144. ICLR 2025Training-Free Diffusion Model Alignment with Sampling Demons
1145. ICLR 2025Trajectory attention for fine-grained video motion control
1146. ICLR 2025Transfusion: Predict the Next Token and Diffuse Images with One Multi-Modal Model
1147. ICLR 2025Transition Path Sampling with Improved Off-Policy Training of Diffusion Path Samplers
1148. ICLR 2025Tree-Wasserstein Distance for High Dimensional Data with a Latent Feature Hierarchy
1149. ICLR 2025Trivialized Momentum Facilitates Diffusion Generative Modeling on Lie Groups
1150. ICLR 2025Truncated Consistency Models

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.