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 28 of 31

1351. ICLR 2024Modulated Phase Diffusor: Content-Oriented Feature Synthesis for Detecting Unknown Objects
1352. ICLR 2024MOFDiff: Coarse-grained Diffusion for Metal-Organic Framework Design
1353. ICLR 2024Monte Carlo guided Denoising Diffusion models for Bayesian linear inverse problems.
1354. ICLR 2024Motion Guidance: Diffusion-Based Image Editing with Differentiable Motion Estimators
1355. ICLR 2024Multi-Resolution Diffusion Models for Time Series Forecasting
1356. ICLR 2024Multi-Source Diffusion Models for Simultaneous Music Generation and Separation
1357. ICLR 2024Multimarginal Generative Modeling with Stochastic Interpolants
1358. ICLR 2024MVDream: Multi-view Diffusion for 3D Generation
1359. ICLR 2024NaturalSpeech 2: Latent Diffusion Models are Natural and Zero-Shot Speech and Singing Synthesizers
1360. ICLR 2024Navigating the Design Space of Equivariant Diffusion-Based Generative Models for De Novo 3D Molecule Generation
1361. ICLR 2024Nearly $d$-Linear Convergence Bounds for Diffusion Models via Stochastic Localization
1362. ICLR 2024NeRM: Learning Neural Representations for High-Framerate Human Motion Synthesis
1363. ICLR 2024Neural Network-Based Score Estimation in Diffusion Models: Optimization and Generalization
1364. ICLR 2024Noise Map Guidance: Inversion with Spatial Context for Real Image Editing
1365. ICLR 2024Noise-free Score Distillation
1366. ICLR 2024NoiseDiffusion: Correcting Noise for Image Interpolation with Diffusion Models beyond Spherical Linear Interpolation
1367. ICLR 2024Object-Aware Inversion and Reassembly for Image Editing
1368. ICLR 2024OmniControl: Control Any Joint at Any Time for Human Motion Generation
1369. ICLR 2024On Accelerating Diffusion-Based Sampling Processes via Improved Integration Approximation
1370. ICLR 2024On Diffusion Modeling for Anomaly Detection
1371. ICLR 2024On Error Propagation of Diffusion Models
1372. ICLR 2024On gauge freedom, conservativity and intrinsic dimensionality estimation in diffusion models
1373. ICLR 2024On the Stability of Iterative Retraining of Generative Models on their own Data
1374. ICLR 2024PanoDiffusion: 360-degree Panorama Outpainting via Diffusion
1375. ICLR 2024Parameter-Efficient Orthogonal Finetuning via Butterfly Factorization
1376. ICLR 2024Particle Guidance: non-I.I.D. Diverse Sampling with Diffusion Models
1377. ICLR 2024Patched Denoising Diffusion Models For High-Resolution Image Synthesis
1378. ICLR 2024PhyloGFN: Phylogenetic inference with generative flow networks
1379. ICLR 2024PixArt-$\alpha$: Fast Training of Diffusion Transformer for Photorealistic Text-to-Image Synthesis
1380. ICLR 2024PnP Inversion: Boosting Diffusion-based Editing with 3 Lines of Code
1381. ICLR 2024Probabilistic Adaptation of Black-Box Text-to-Video Models
1382. ICLR 2024Progressive3D: Progressively Local Editing for Text-to-3D Content Creation with Complex Semantic Prompts
1383. ICLR 2024Protein-Ligand Interaction Prior for Binding-aware 3D Molecule Diffusion Models
1384. ICLR 2024R&B: Region and Boundary Aware Zero-shot Grounded Text-to-image Generation
1385. ICLR 2024Reasoning with Latent Diffusion in Offline Reinforcement Learning
1386. ICLR 2024Relay Diffusion: Unifying diffusion process across resolutions for image synthesis
1387. ICLR 2024Reverse Diffusion Monte Carlo
1388. ICLR 2024Ring-A-Bell! How Reliable are Concept Removal Methods For Diffusion Models?
1389. ICLR 2024Safe Offline Reinforcement Learning with Feasibility-Guided Diffusion Model
1390. ICLR 2024SalUn: Empowering Machine Unlearning via Gradient-based Weight Saliency in Both Image Classification and Generation
1391. ICLR 2024Scalable Diffusion for Materials Generation
1392. ICLR 2024Scale-Adaptive Diffusion Model for Complex Sketch Synthesis
1393. ICLR 2024ScaleCrafter: Tuning-free Higher-Resolution Visual Generation with Diffusion Models
1394. ICLR 2024Score Regularized Policy Optimization through Diffusion Behavior
1395. ICLR 2024Score-based generative models break the curse of dimensionality in learning a family of sub-Gaussian distributions
1396. ICLR 2024SDXL: Improving Latent Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Image Synthesis
1397. ICLR 2024SE(3)-Stochastic Flow Matching for Protein Backbone Generation
1398. ICLR 2024Seer: Language Instructed Video Prediction with Latent Diffusion Models
1399. ICLR 2024SEINE: Short-to-Long Video Diffusion Model for Generative Transition and Prediction
1400. ICLR 2024Self-Consuming Generative Models Go MAD

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.