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

2,202 papers, page 26 of 45

1251. NeurIPS 2025Synthetic-powered predictive inference
1252. NeurIPS 2025System-Embedded Diffusion Bridge Models
1253. NeurIPS 2025T2SMark: Balancing Robustness and Diversity in Noise-as-Watermark for Diffusion Models
1254. NeurIPS 2025T2V-OptJail: Discrete Prompt Optimization for Text-to-Video Jailbreak Attacks
1255. NeurIPS 2025Tackling Continual Offline RL through Selective Weights Activation on Aligned Spaces
1256. NeurIPS 2025TADA: Improved Diffusion Sampling with Training-free Augmented DynAmics
1257. NeurIPS 2025TaDiCodec: Text-aware Diffusion Speech Tokenizer for Speech Language Modeling
1258. NeurIPS 2025TC-Light: Temporally Coherent Generative Rendering for Realistic World Transfer
1259. NeurIPS 2025Template-Guided 3D Molecular Pose Generation via Flow Matching and Differentiable Optimization
1260. NeurIPS 2025Temporal In‑Context Fine‑Tuning for Versatile Control of Video Diffusion Models
1261. NeurIPS 2025Test-Time Scaling of Diffusion Models via Noise Trajectory Search
1262. NeurIPS 2025Text to Sketch Generation with Multi-Styles
1263. NeurIPS 2025Text-Aware Real-World Image Super-Resolution via Diffusion Model with Joint Segmentation Decoders
1264. NeurIPS 2025Theoretical Benefit and Limitation of Diffusion Language Model
1265. NeurIPS 2025ThermalGen: Style-Disentangled Flow-Based Generative Models for RGB-to-Thermal Image Translation
1266. NeurIPS 2025Time-Embedded Algorithm Unrolling for Computational MRI
1267. NeurIPS 2025TimeWak: Temporal Chained-Hashing Watermark for Time Series Data
1268. NeurIPS 2025Token Perturbation Guidance for Diffusion Models
1269. NeurIPS 2025Topology-aware Graph Diffusion Model with Persistent Homology
1270. NeurIPS 2025Tortoise and Hare Guidance: Accelerating Diffusion Model Inference with Multirate Integration
1271. NeurIPS 2025Toward a Unified Geometry Understanding : Riemannian Diffusion Framework for Graph Generation and Prediction
1272. NeurIPS 2025Towards a Golden Classifier-Free Guidance Path via Foresight Fixed Point Iterations
1273. NeurIPS 2025Towards foundational LiDAR world models with efficient latent flow matching
1274. NeurIPS 2025Towards General Modality Translation with Contrastive and Predictive Latent Diffusion Bridge
1275. NeurIPS 2025Towards Physical Understanding in Video Generation: A 3D Point Regularization Approach
1276. NeurIPS 2025Towards Reliable Identification of Diffusion-based Image Manipulations
1277. NeurIPS 2025Towards Resilient Safety-driven Unlearning for Diffusion Models against Downstream Fine-tuning
1278. NeurIPS 2025Towards Robust Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning
1279. NeurIPS 2025Towards Understanding the Mechanisms of Classifier-Free Guidance
1280. NeurIPS 2025Towards Unified and Lossless Latent Space for 3D Molecular Latent Diffusion Modeling
1281. NeurIPS 2025Towards Unsupervised Training of Matching-based Graph Edit Distance Solver via Preference-aware GAN
1282. NeurIPS 2025Tracing the Roots: Leveraging Temporal Dynamics in Diffusion Trajectories for Origin Attribution
1283. NeurIPS 2025TractoTransformer: Diffusion MRI Streamline Tractography using CNN and Transformer Networks
1284. NeurIPS 2025Training-Free Constrained Generation With Stable Diffusion Models
1285. NeurIPS 2025Training-Free Efficient Video Generation via Dynamic Token Carving
1286. NeurIPS 2025Training-Free Guidance Beyond Differentiability: Scalable Path Steering with Tree Search in Diffusion and Flow Models
1287. NeurIPS 2025Training-Free Safe Denoisers for Safe Use of Diffusion Models
1288. NeurIPS 2025Training-Free Safe Text Embedding Guidance for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
1289. NeurIPS 2025Transformers for Mixed-type Event Sequences
1290. NeurIPS 2025Transition Matching: Scalable and Flexible Generative Modeling
1291. NeurIPS 2025Tree-Guided Diffusion Planner
1292. NeurIPS 2025TreeGen: A Bayesian Generative Model for Hierarchies
1293. NeurIPS 2025TRIM: Scalable 3D Gaussian Diffusion Inference with Temporal and Spatial Trimming
1294. NeurIPS 2025Trust Region Constrained Measure Transport in Path Space for Stochastic Optimal Control and Inference
1295. NeurIPS 2025Two-Steps Diffusion Policy for Robotic Manipulation via Genetic Denoising
1296. NeurIPS 2025U-REPA: Aligning Diffusion U-Nets to ViTs
1297. NeurIPS 2025UFM: A Simple Path towards Unified Dense Correspondence with Flow
1298. NeurIPS 2025UGoDIT: Unsupervised Group Deep Image Prior Via Transferable Weights
1299. NeurIPS 2025UltraHR-100K: Enhancing UHR Image Synthesis with A Large-Scale High-Quality Dataset
1300. NeurIPS 2025UMAMI: Unifying Masked Autoregressive Models and Deterministic Rendering for View Synthesis

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.