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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1151. ICML 2025Expressive Score-Based Priors for Distribution Matching with Geometry-Preserving Regularization
1152. ICML 2025Falcon: Fast Visuomotor Policies via Partial Denoising
1153. ICML 2025Fast Video Generation with Sliding Tile Attention
1154. ICML 2025Fast, Accurate Manifold Denoising by Tunneling Riemannian Optimization
1155. ICML 2025Feynman-Kac Correctors in Diffusion: Annealing, Guidance, and Product of Experts
1156. ICML 2025Finite-Time Analysis of Discrete-Time Stochastic Interpolants
1157. ICML 2025Flex3D: Feed-Forward 3D Generation with Flexible Reconstruction Model and Input View Curation
1158. ICML 2025FlexControl: Computation-Aware Conditional Control with Differentiable Router for Text-to-Image Generation
1159. ICML 2025Flexibility-conditioned protein structure design with flow matching
1160. ICML 2025FlexiClip: Locality-Preserving Free-Form Character Animation
1161. ICML 2025Flow Matching for Denoised Social Recommendation
1162. ICML 2025Flow Matching for Few-Trial Neural Adaptation with Stable Latent Dynamics
1163. ICML 2025Flow Q-Learning
1164. ICML 2025FlowAR: Scale-wise Autoregressive Image Generation Meets Flow Matching
1165. ICML 2025FlowDrag: 3D-aware Drag-based Image Editing with Mesh-guided Deformation Vector Flow Fields
1166. ICML 2025FrameBridge: Improving Image-to-Video Generation with Bridge Models
1167. ICML 2025From Uncertain to Safe: Conformal Adaptation of Diffusion Models for Safe PDE Control
1168. ICML 2025Gaussian Mixture Flow Matching Models
1169. ICML 2025GaussMarker: Robust Dual-Domain Watermark for Diffusion Models
1170. ICML 2025Generalized Interpolating Discrete Diffusion
1171. ICML 2025Generative Audio Language Modeling with Continuous-valued Tokens and Masked Next-Token Prediction
1172. ICML 2025Generative Data Mining with Longtail-Guided Diffusion
1173. ICML 2025Generative Human Trajectory Recovery via Embedding-Space Conditional Diffusion
1174. ICML 2025Generative Intervention Models for Causal Perturbation Modeling
1175. ICML 2025GenMol: A Drug Discovery Generalist with Discrete Diffusion
1176. ICML 2025Geometric Generative Modeling with Noise-Conditioned Graph Networks
1177. ICML 2025Geometric Representation Condition Improves Equivariant Molecule Generation
1178. ICML 2025GMAIL: Generative Modality Alignment for generated Image Learning
1179. ICML 2025Graph Diffusion for Robust Multi-Agent Coordination
1180. ICML 2025Habitizing Diffusion Planning for Efficient and Effective Decision Making
1181. ICML 2025HarmoniCa: Harmonizing Training and Inference for Better Feature Caching in Diffusion Transformer Acceleration
1182. ICML 2025Harmonizing Geometry and Uncertainty: Diffusion with Hyperspheres
1183. ICML 2025Hessian Geometry of Latent Space in Generative Models
1184. ICML 2025Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning with Uncertainty-Guided Diffusional Subgoals
1185. ICML 2025History-Guided Video Diffusion
1186. ICML 2025How Compositional Generalization and Creativity Improve as Diffusion Models are Trained
1187. ICML 2025How Distributed Collaboration Influences the Diffusion Model Training? A Theoretical Perspective
1188. ICML 2025How Far Is Video Generation from World Model: A Physical Law Perspective
1189. ICML 2025How to Evaluate and Mitigate IP Infringement in Visual Generative AI?
1190. ICML 2025How to Move Your Dragon: Text-to-Motion Synthesis for Large-Vocabulary Objects
1191. ICML 2025Human Body Restoration with One-Step Diffusion Model and A New Benchmark
1192. ICML 2025Hyper-Transforming Latent Diffusion Models
1193. ICML 2025I Think, Therefore I Diffuse: Enabling Multimodal In-Context Reasoning in Diffusion Models
1194. ICML 2025IMPACT: Iterative Mask-based Parallel Decoding for Text-to-Audio Generation with Diffusion Modeling
1195. ICML 2025Improved Discretization Complexity Analysis of Consistency Models: Variance Exploding Forward Process and Decay Discretization Scheme
1196. ICML 2025Improving Compositional Generation with Diffusion Models Using Lift Scores
1197. ICML 2025Improving Flow Matching by Aligning Flow Divergence
1198. ICML 2025Improving the Diffusability of Autoencoders
1199. ICML 2025Improving the Scaling Laws of Synthetic Data with Deliberate Practice
1200. ICML 2025Inductive Moment Matching

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.