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

1,527 papers, page 26 of 31

1251. ICLR 2024DragonDiffusion: Enabling Drag-style Manipulation on Diffusion Models
1252. ICLR 2024DreamClean: Restoring Clean Image Using Deep Diffusion Prior
1253. ICLR 2024DreamCraft3D: Hierarchical 3D Generation with Bootstrapped Diffusion Prior
1254. ICLR 2024DreamFlow: High-quality text-to-3D generation by Approximating Probability Flow
1255. ICLR 2024DreamTime: An Improved Optimization Strategy for Diffusion-Guided 3D Generation
1256. ICLR 2024Dynamics-Informed Protein Design with Structure Conditioning
1257. ICLR 2024ED-NeRF: Efficient Text-Guided Editing of 3D Scene With Latent Space NeRF
1258. ICLR 2024Effective Data Augmentation With Diffusion Models
1259. ICLR 2024Efficient and Scalable Graph Generation through Iterative Local Expansion
1260. ICLR 2024Efficient Integrators for Diffusion Generative Models
1261. ICLR 2024Efficient Planning with Latent Diffusion
1262. ICLR 2024Efficient Score Matching with Deep Equilibrium Layers
1263. ICLR 2024Efficient Video Diffusion Models via Content-Frame Motion-Latent Decomposition
1264. ICLR 2024Efficient-3Dim: Learning a Generalizable Single-image Novel-view Synthesizer in One Day
1265. ICLR 2024EfficientDM: Efficient Quantization-Aware Fine-Tuning of Low-Bit Diffusion Models
1266. ICLR 2024Elucidating the design space of classifier-guided diffusion generation
1267. ICLR 2024Elucidating the Exposure Bias in Diffusion Models
1268. ICLR 2024EmerDiff: Emerging Pixel-level Semantic Knowledge in Diffusion Models
1269. ICLR 2024Enhancing High-Resolution 3D Generation through Pixel-wise Gradient Clipping
1270. ICLR 2024Exploring Diffusion Time-steps for Unsupervised Representation Learning
1271. ICLR 2024Exposing Text-Image Inconsistency Using Diffusion Models
1272. ICLR 2024Fast Ensembling with Diffusion Schrödinger Bridge
1273. ICLR 2024Fast, Expressive $\mathrm{SE}(n)$ Equivariant Networks through Weight-Sharing in Position-Orientation Space
1274. ICLR 2024Fine-Tuned Language Models Generate Stable Inorganic Materials as Text
1275. ICLR 2024Finetuning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Fairness
1276. ICLR 2024FLATTEN: optical FLow-guided ATTENtion for consistent text-to-video editing
1277. ICLR 2024Flow Matching on General Geometries
1278. ICLR 2024Flow to Better: Offline Preference-based Reinforcement Learning via Preferred Trajectory Generation
1279. ICLR 2024FreeNoise: Tuning-Free Longer Video Diffusion via Noise Rescheduling
1280. ICLR 2024FreeReg: Image-to-Point Cloud Registration Leveraging Pretrained Diffusion Models and Monocular Depth Estimators
1281. ICLR 2024From Zero to Turbulence: Generative Modeling for 3D Flow Simulation
1282. ICLR 2024GAIA: Zero-shot Talking Avatar Generation
1283. ICLR 2024GenCorres: Consistent Shape Matching via Coupled Implicit-Explicit Shape Generative Models
1284. ICLR 2024GeneOH Diffusion: Towards Generalizable Hand-Object Interaction Denoising via Denoising Diffusion
1285. ICLR 2024Generalization in diffusion models arises from geometry-adaptive harmonic representations
1286. ICLR 2024Generalized Schrödinger Bridge Matching
1287. ICLR 2024Generating Images with 3D Annotations Using Diffusion Models
1288. ICLR 2024Generative Learning for Financial Time Series with Irregular and Scale-Invariant Patterns
1289. ICLR 2024Generative Learning for Solving Non-Convex Problem with Multi-Valued Input-Solution Mapping
1290. ICLR 2024Generative Modeling with Phase Stochastic Bridge
1291. ICLR 2024Generative Pre-training for Speech with Flow Matching
1292. ICLR 2024GeoDiffusion: Text-Prompted Geometric Control for Object Detection Data Generation
1293. ICLR 2024Get What You Want, Not What You Don't: Image Content Suppression for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
1294. ICLR 2024GRAPH-CONSTRAINED DIFFUSION FOR END-TO-END PATH PLANNING
1295. ICLR 2024Ground-A-Video: Zero-shot Grounded Video Editing using Text-to-image Diffusion Models
1296. ICLR 2024HIFA: High-fidelity Text-to-3D Generation with Advanced Diffusion Guidance
1297. ICLR 2024How I Warped Your Noise: a Temporally-Correlated Noise Prior for Diffusion Models
1298. ICLR 2024Human Motion Diffusion as a Generative Prior
1299. ICLR 2024HyperHuman: Hyper-Realistic Human Generation with Latent Structural Diffusion
1300. ICLR 2024Idempotent Generative Network

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.