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
1,471 papers, page 23 of 30
- NeurIPS 2024Diffusion4D: Fast Spatial-temporal Consistent 4D generation via Video Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024DiffusionBlend: Learning 3D Image Prior through Position-aware Diffusion Score Blending for 3D Computed Tomography Reconstruction
- NeurIPS 2024DiffusionFake: Enhancing Generalization in Deepfake Detection via Guided Stable Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2024DiffusionPDE: Generative PDE-Solving under Partial Observation
- NeurIPS 2024DiMSUM: Diffusion Mamba - A Scalable and Unified Spatial-Frequency Method for Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2024DINTR: Tracking via Diffusion-based Interpolation
- NeurIPS 2024DiP-GO: A Diffusion Pruner via Few-step Gradient Optimization
- NeurIPS 2024Direct Consistency Optimization for Robust Customization of Text-to-Image Diffusion models
- NeurIPS 2024Direct Unlearning Optimization for Robust and Safe Text-to-Image Models
- NeurIPS 2024Direct3D: Scalable Image-to-3D Generation via 3D Latent Diffusion Transformer
- NeurIPS 2024Director3D: Real-world Camera Trajectory and 3D Scene Generation from Text
- NeurIPS 2024Discrete Flow Matching
- NeurIPS 2024Discrete Modeling via Boundary Conditional Diffusion Processes
- NeurIPS 2024Discrete-state Continuous-time Diffusion for Graph Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Disentangled Style Domain for Implicit $z$-Watermark Towards Copyright Protection
- NeurIPS 2024Distribution-Aware Data Expansion with Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Distributional Successor Features Enable Zero-Shot Policy Optimization
- NeurIPS 2024DiTFastAttn: Attention Compression for Diffusion Transformer Models
- NeurIPS 2024Divide-and-Conquer Posterior Sampling for Denoising Diffusion priors
- NeurIPS 2024DMPlug: A Plug-in Method for Solving Inverse Problems with Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024DomainGallery: Few-shot Domain-driven Image Generation by Attribute-centric Finetuning
- NeurIPS 2024DreamClear: High-Capacity Real-World Image Restoration with Privacy-Safe Dataset Curation
- NeurIPS 2024DreamMesh4D: Video-to-4D Generation with Sparse-Controlled Gaussian-Mesh Hybrid Representation
- NeurIPS 2024DreamSteerer: Enhancing Source Image Conditioned Editability using Personalized Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024DRIP: Unleashing Diffusion Priors for Joint Foreground and Alpha Prediction in Image Matting
- NeurIPS 2024Dual-Diffusion for Binocular 3D Human Pose Estimation
- NeurIPS 2024Dynamic Conditional Optimal Transport through Simulation-Free Flows
- NeurIPS 2024e-COP : Episodic Constrained Optimization of Policies
- NeurIPS 2024E-Motion: Future Motion Simulation via Event Sequence Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2024EDT: An Efficient Diffusion Transformer Framework Inspired by Human-like Sketching
- NeurIPS 2024EEG2Video: Towards Decoding Dynamic Visual Perception from EEG Signals
- NeurIPS 2024EM Distillation for One-step Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Emergence of heavy tails in homogenized stochastic gradient descent
- NeurIPS 2024Emergence of Hidden Capabilities: Exploring Learning Dynamics in Concept Space
- NeurIPS 2024Enhancing Consistency-Based Image Generation via Adversarialy-Trained Classification and Energy-Based Discrimination
- NeurIPS 2024Enhancing Motion in Text-to-Video Generation with Decomposed Encoding and Conditioning
- NeurIPS 2024Enhancing Preference-based Linear Bandits via Human Response Time
- NeurIPS 2024Entropy-regularized Diffusion Policy with Q-Ensembles for Offline Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2024Equivariant Blurring Diffusion for Hierarchical Molecular Conformer Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Equivariant Neural Diffusion for Molecule Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Equivariant spatio-hemispherical networks for diffusion MRI deconvolution
- NeurIPS 2024Erasing Undesirable Concepts in Diffusion Models with Adversarial Preservation
- NeurIPS 2024Estimating Ego-Body Pose from Doubly Sparse Egocentric Video Data
- NeurIPS 2024Estimating Epistemic and Aleatoric Uncertainty with a Single Model
- NeurIPS 2024ET-Flow: Equivariant Flow-Matching for Molecular Conformer Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Evaluating the design space of diffusion-based generative models
- NeurIPS 2024EvolveDirector: Approaching Advanced Text-to-Image Generation with Large Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024Exocentric-to-Egocentric Video Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Exploring Behavior-Relevant and Disentangled Neural Dynamics with Generative Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Exploring Fixed Point in Image Editing: Theoretical Support and Convergence Optimization
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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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