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

2,078 papers, page 23 of 42

1101. ICML 2025Devil is in the Details: Density Guidance for Detail-Aware Generation with Flow Models
1102. ICML 2025Diff-MoE: Diffusion Transformer with Time-Aware and Space-Adaptive Experts
1103. ICML 2025DiffAdvMAP: Flexible Diffusion-Based Framework for Generating Natural Unrestricted Adversarial Examples
1104. ICML 2025Differentiable Solver Search for Fast Diffusion Sampling
1105. ICML 2025DiffMS: Diffusion Generation of Molecules Conditioned on Mass Spectra
1106. ICML 2025Diffuse Everything: Multimodal Diffusion Models on Arbitrary State Spaces
1107. ICML 2025Diffusion Adversarial Post-Training for One-Step Video Generation
1108. ICML 2025Diffusion Counterfactual Generation with Semantic Abduction
1109. ICML 2025Diffusion Instruction Tuning
1110. ICML 2025Diffusion Models are Secretly Exchangeable: Parallelizing DDPMs via Auto Speculation
1111. ICML 2025Diffusion models for Gaussian distributions: Exact solutions and Wasserstein errors
1112. ICML 2025Diffusion on Language Model Encodings for Protein Sequence Generation
1113. ICML 2025Diffusion Sampling Correction via Approximately 10 Parameters
1114. ICML 2025Diffusion-based Adversarial Purification from the Perspective of the Frequency Domain
1115. ICML 2025DiMa: Understanding the Hardness of Online Matching Problems via Diffusion Models
1116. ICML 2025DIME: Diffusion-Based Maximum Entropy Reinforcement Learning
1117. ICML 2025Direct Discriminative Optimization: Your Likelihood-Based Visual Generative Model is Secretly a GAN Discriminator
1118. ICML 2025Distillation of Discrete Diffusion through Dimensional Correlations
1119. ICML 2025Distributional Diffusion Models with Scoring Rules
1120. ICML 2025DiTAR: Diffusion Transformer Autoregressive Modeling for Speech Generation
1121. ICML 2025Diversified Flow Matching with Translation Identifiability
1122. ICML 2025DMOSpeech: Direct Metric Optimization via Distilled Diffusion Model in Zero-Shot Speech Synthesis
1123. ICML 2025Does Generation Require Memorization? Creative Diffusion Models using Ambient Diffusion
1124. ICML 2025Domain-Adapted Diffusion Model for PROTAC Linker Design Through the Lens of Density Ratio in Chemical Space
1125. ICML 2025DRAG: Data Reconstruction Attack using Guided Diffusion
1126. ICML 2025DragLoRA: Online Optimization of LoRA Adapters for Drag-based Image Editing in Diffusion Model
1127. ICML 2025DS-VLM: Diffusion Supervision Vision Language Model
1128. ICML 2025DSBRouter: End-to-end Global Routing via Diffusion Schr\"{o}dinger Bridge
1129. ICML 2025EasyInv: Toward Fast and Better DDIM Inversion
1130. ICML 2025EasyRef: Omni-Generalized Group Image Reference for Diffusion Models via Multimodal LLM
1131. ICML 2025EcoMapper: Generative Modeling for Climate-Aware Satellite Imagery
1132. ICML 2025Editable Noise Map Inversion: Encoding Target-image into Noise For High-Fidelity Image Manipulation
1133. ICML 2025Effective and Efficient Masked Image Generation Models
1134. ICML 2025Efficient Diffusion Models for Symmetric Manifolds
1135. ICML 2025Efficient Fine-Grained Guidance for Diffusion Model Based Symbolic Music Generation
1136. ICML 2025Efficient Generative Modeling with Residual Vector Quantization-Based Tokens
1137. ICML 2025Efficient Molecular Conformer Generation with SO(3)-Averaged Flow Matching and Reflow
1138. ICML 2025Efficient Online Reinforcement Learning for Diffusion Policy
1139. ICML 2025Efficiently Access Diffusion Fisher: Within the Outer Product Span Space
1140. ICML 2025Elucidating Flow Matching ODE Dynamics via Data Geometry and Denoisers
1141. ICML 2025Emotional Face-to-Speech
1142. ICML 2025Energy-Based Flow Matching for Generating 3D Molecular Structure
1143. ICML 2025Ensemble Distribution Distillation via Flow Matching
1144. ICML 2025Epsilon-VAE: Denoising as Visual Decoding
1145. ICML 2025EraseAnything: Enabling Concept Erasure in Rectified Flow Transformers
1146. ICML 2025Ergodic Generative Flows
1147. ICML 2025ETTA: Elucidating the Design Space of Text-to-Audio Models
1148. ICML 2025Event-Customized Image Generation
1149. ICML 2025Expert Race: A Flexible Routing Strategy for Scaling Diffusion Transformer with Mixture of Experts
1150. ICML 2025Exponential Family Variational Flow Matching for Tabular Data Generation

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.