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
2,078 papers, page 25 of 42
- ICML 2025Inference-Time Alignment of Diffusion Models with Direct Noise Optimization
- ICML 2025INRFlow: Flow Matching for INRs in Ambient Space
- ICML 2025Integrating Intermediate Layer Optimization and Projected Gradient Descent for Solving Inverse Problems with Diffusion Models
- ICML 2025IntLoRA: Integral Low-rank Adaptation of Quantized Diffusion Models
- ICML 2025Introducing 3D Representation for Dense Volume-to-Volume Translation via Score Fusion
- ICML 2025Inverse Bridge Matching Distillation
- ICML 2025Inverse Flow and Consistency Models
- ICML 2025Inverse Problem Sampling in Latent Space Using Sequential Monte Carlo
- ICML 2025IRBridge: Solving Image Restoration Bridge with Pre-trained Generative Diffusion Models
- ICML 2025Is Noise Conditioning Necessary for Denoising Generative Models?
- ICML 2025KGMark: A Diffusion Watermark for Knowledge Graphs
- ICML 2025KIND: Knowledge Integration and Diversion for Training Decomposable Models
- ICML 2025Kinetic Langevin Diffusion for Crystalline Materials Generation
- ICML 2025L-Diffusion: Laplace Diffusion for Efficient Pathology Image Segmentation
- ICML 2025Large Language Models to Diffusion Finetuning
- ICML 2025Latent Diffusion Planning for Imitation Learning
- ICML 2025Latent Thought Models with Variational Bayes Inference-Time Computation
- ICML 2025LDMol: A Text-to-Molecule Diffusion Model with Structurally Informative Latent Space Surpasses AR Models
- ICML 2025Learning Distances from Data with Normalizing Flows and Score Matching
- ICML 2025Learning Single Index Models with Diffusion Priors
- ICML 2025Learning to Match Unpaired Data with Minimum Entropy Coupling
- ICML 2025Learnings from Scaling Visual Tokenizers for Reconstruction and Generation
- ICML 2025Leveraging Diffusion Model as Pseudo-Anomalous Graph Generator for Graph-Level Anomaly Detection
- ICML 2025Leveraging Model Guidance to Extract Training Data from Personalized Diffusion Models
- ICML 2025LGDM: Latent Guidance in Diffusion Models for Perceptual Evaluations
- ICML 2025LightningDrag: Lightning Fast and Accurate Drag-based Image Editing Emerging from Videos
- ICML 2025LIVS: A Pluralistic Alignment Dataset for Inclusive Public Spaces
- ICML 2025Local Manifold Approximation and Projection for Manifold-Aware Diffusion Planning
- ICML 2025Locality Preserving Markovian Transition for Instance Retrieval
- ICML 2025Long-Term TalkingFace Generation via Motion-Prior Conditional Diffusion Model
- ICML 2025LSCD: Lomb--Scargle Conditioned Diffusion for Time series Imputation
- ICML 2025M2PDE: Compositional Generative Multiphysics and Multi-component PDE Simulation
- ICML 2025Masked Autoencoders Are Effective Tokenizers for Diffusion Models
- ICML 2025Maximum Entropy Reinforcement Learning with Diffusion Policy
- ICML 2025MDDM: Practical Message-Driven Generative Image Steganography Based on Diffusion Models
- ICML 2025Mechanisms of Projective Composition of Diffusion Models
- ICML 2025MGD$^3$ : Mode-Guided Dataset Distillation using Diffusion Models
- ICML 2025MindCustomer: Multi-Context Image Generation Blended with Brain Signal
- ICML 2025Minimalist Concept Erasure in Generative Models
- ICML 2025MIRROR: Make Your Object-Level Multi-View Generation More Consistent with Training-Free Rectification
- ICML 2025MissScore: High-Order Score Estimation in the Presence of Missing Data
- ICML 2025MixBridge: Heterogeneous Image-to-Image Backdoor Attack through Mixture of Schrödinger Bridges
- ICML 2025Modulated Diffusion: Accelerating Generative Modeling with Modulated Quantization
- ICML 2025MODULI: Unlocking Preference Generalization via Diffusion Models for Offline Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2025Monte Carlo Tree Diffusion for System 2 Planning
- ICML 2025Morse: Dual-Sampling for Lossless Acceleration of Diffusion Models
- ICML 2025MuLan: Adapting Multilingual Diffusion Models for Hundreds of Languages with Negligible Cost
- ICML 2025Multi-Marginal Stochastic Flow Matching for High-Dimensional Snapshot Data at Irregular Time Points
- ICML 2025Multidimensional Adaptive Coefficient for Inference Trajectory Optimization in Flow and Diffusion
- ICML 2025Multilayer Matrix Factorization via Dimension-Reducing Diffusion Variational Inference
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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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