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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1201. NeurIPS 2025Self-Supervised Selective-Guided Diffusion Model for Old-Photo Face Restoration
1202. NeurIPS 2025Semantic and Visual Crop-Guided Diffusion Models for Heterogeneous Tissue Synthesis in Histopathology
1203. NeurIPS 2025Semantic Surgery: Zero-Shot Concept Erasure in Diffusion Models
1204. NeurIPS 2025Sequence Modeling with Spectral Mean Flows
1205. NeurIPS 2025SGCD: Stain-Guided CycleDiffusion for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation of Histopathology Image Classification
1206. NeurIPS 2025Shallow Diffuse: Robust and Invisible Watermarking through Low-Dim Subspaces in Diffusion Models
1207. NeurIPS 2025Shallow Flow Matching for Coarse-to-Fine Text-to-Speech Synthesis
1208. NeurIPS 2025ShoeFit: A New Dataset and Dual-image-stream DiT Framework for Virtual Footwear Try-On
1209. NeurIPS 2025Shortcutting Pre-trained Flow Matching Diffusion Models is Almost Free Lunch
1210. NeurIPS 2025ShortListing Model: A Streamlined Simplex Diffusion for Discrete Variable Generation
1211. NeurIPS 2025Show-o2: Improved Native Unified Multimodal Models
1212. NeurIPS 2025Sign-In to the Lottery: Reparameterizing Sparse Training
1213. NeurIPS 2025Simple Distillation for One-Step Diffusion Models
1214. NeurIPS 2025Simultaneous Modeling of Protein Conformation and Dynamics via Autoregression
1215. NeurIPS 2025Single-Step Operator Learning for Conditioned Time-Series Diffusion Models
1216. NeurIPS 2025Solving Inverse Problems with FLAIR
1217. NeurIPS 2025SongBloom: Coherent Song Generation via Interleaved Autoregressive Sketching and Diffusion Refinement
1218. NeurIPS 2025Space Group Equivariant Crystal Diffusion
1219. NeurIPS 2025Sparc3D: Sparse Representation and Construction for High-Resolution 3D Shapes Modeling
1220. NeurIPS 2025SPARKE: Scalable Prompt-Aware Diversity and Novelty Guidance in Diffusion Models via RKE Score
1221. NeurIPS 2025Sparse Diffusion Autoencoder for Test-time Adapting Prediction of Complex Systems
1222. NeurIPS 2025Sparse Image Synthesis via Joint Latent and RoI Flow
1223. NeurIPS 2025Sparse VideoGen2: Accelerate Video Generation with Sparse Attention via Semantic-Aware Permutation
1224. NeurIPS 2025SparseDiT: Token Sparsification for Efficient Diffusion Transformer
1225. NeurIPS 2025Spectral Analysis of Diffusion Models with Application to Schedule Design
1226. NeurIPS 2025Spiral: Semantic-Aware Progressive LiDAR Scene Generation and Understanding
1227. NeurIPS 2025Split Gibbs Discrete Diffusion Posterior Sampling
1228. NeurIPS 2025SplitFlow: Flow Decomposition for Inversion-Free Text-to-Image Editing
1229. NeurIPS 2025SPMDM: Enhancing Masked Diffusion Models through Simplifing Sampling Path
1230. NeurIPS 2025SPRO: Improving Image Generation via Self-Play
1231. NeurIPS 2025SRSR: Enhancing Semantic Accuracy in Real-World Image Super-Resolution with Spatially Re-Focused Text-Conditioning
1232. NeurIPS 2025SSIMBaD: Sigma Scaling with SSIM-Guided Balanced Diffusion for AnimeFace Colorization
1233. NeurIPS 2025Stable Matching with Ties: Approximation Ratios and Learning
1234. NeurIPS 2025Stable Part Diffusion 4D: Multi-View RGB and Kinematic Parts Video Generation
1235. NeurIPS 2025StableGuard: Towards Unified Copyright Protection and Tamper Localization in Latent Diffusion Models
1236. NeurIPS 2025STARFlow: Scaling Latent Normalizing Flows for High-resolution Image Synthesis
1237. NeurIPS 2025State Size Independent Statistical Error Bound for Discrete Diffusion Models
1238. NeurIPS 2025State-Covering Trajectory Stitching for Diffusion Planners
1239. NeurIPS 2025StateSpaceDiffuser: Bringing Long Context to Diffusion World Models
1240. NeurIPS 2025STEAD: Robust Provably Secure Linguistic Steganography with Diffusion Language Model
1241. NeurIPS 2025Steering Generative Models with Experimental Data for Protein Fitness Optimization
1242. NeurIPS 2025STITCH-OPE: Trajectory Stitching with Guided Diffusion for Off-Policy Evaluation
1243. NeurIPS 2025Stochastic Process Learning via Operator Flow Matching
1244. NeurIPS 2025Straight-Line Diffusion Model for Efficient 3D Molecular Generation
1245. NeurIPS 2025Streaming Audio Generation from Discrete Tokens via Streaming Flow Matching
1246. NeurIPS 2025Structural Information-based Hierarchical Diffusion for Offline Reinforcement Learning
1247. NeurIPS 2025StruDiCO: Structured Denoising Diffusion with Gradient-free Inference-stage Boosting for Memory and Time Efficient Combinatorial Optimization
1248. NeurIPS 2025StyleGuard: Preventing Text-to-Image-Model-based Style Mimicry Attacks by Style Perturbations
1249. NeurIPS 2025SViMo: Synchronized Diffusion for Video and Motion Generation in Hand-object Interaction Scenarios
1250. NeurIPS 2025SyncHuman: Synchronizing 2D and 3D Generative Models for Single-view Human Reconstruction

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.