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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101. CVPR 2026DABO Difficulty-Aware Bayesian Optimization with Diffusion-Learned Priors
102. CVPR 2026DBMSolver A Training-free Diffusion Bridge Sampler for High-Quality Image-to-Image Translation
103. CVPR 2026DDiT Dynamic Patch Scheduling for Efficient Diffusion Transformers
104. CVPR 2026DDT Decoupled Diffusion Transformer
105. CVPR 2026DeCo Frequency-Decoupled Pixel Diffusion for End-to-End Image Generation
106. CVPR 2026Decoupled Generative Modeling for Human-Object Interaction Synthesis
107. CVPR 2026Decoupled Residual Denoising Diffusion Models for Unified and Data Efficient
108. CVPR 2026Degradation-Robust Fusion An Efficient Degradation-Aware Diffusion Framework for Multimodal Image
109. CVPR 2026DeltaQuant 4-bit Video Diffusion Models with Spatiotemporal Delta Smoothing
110. CVPR 2026Denoising as Path Planning Training-Free Acceleration of Diffusion Models with
111. CVPR 2026Detecting AI-Generated Forgeries via Iterative Manifold Deviation Amplification
112. CVPR 2026DeX-Portrait Disentangled and Expressive Portrait Animation via Explicit and Latent
113. CVPR 2026Dexterous World Models
114. CVPR 2026DICArt Advancing Category-level Articulated Object Pose Estimation in Discrete State-Spaces
115. CVPR 2026Diff-SemiER Transparency-Aware Adaptive Fusion Diffusion Model with Generative Prior for
116. CVPR 2026Diff4Splat Repurposing Video Diffusion Models for Dynamic Scene Generation
117. CVPR 2026DiffDecompose Layer-Wise Decomposition of Alpha-Composited Images via Diffusion Transformers
118. CVPR 2026DiffGraph An Automated Agent-driven Model Merging Framework for In-the-Wild Text-to-Image
119. CVPR 2026Diffusion Guided Chain-of-Vision for Large Autoregressive Vision Models
120. CVPR 2026Diffusion Mental Averages
121. CVPR 2026Diffusion MRI Transformer with a Diffusion Space Rotary Positional Embedding
122. CVPR 2026Diffusion Probe Generated Image Result Prediction Using CNN Probes
123. CVPR 2026Diffusion Sampling Path Tells More An Efficient Plug-and-Play Strategy for
124. CVPR 2026Diffusion with a Linguistic Compass Steering the Generation of Clinically
125. CVPR 2026Diffusion-Based Makeup Transfer with Facial Region-Aware Makeup Features
126. CVPR 2026Diffusion-Based Native Adversarial Synthesis for Enhanced Medical Segmentation Generalization
127. CVPR 2026Diffusion-Based sRGB Real Noise Generation via Prompt-Driven Noise Representation Learning
128. CVPR 2026DiffusionFF A Diffusion-based Framework for Joint Face Forgery Detection and
129. CVPR 2026DiffusionHarmonizer Bridging Neural Reconstruction and Photorealistic Simulation with Online Diffusion
130. CVPR 2026DiffuView Multi-View Diffusion Pretraining for 3D Aware Robotic Manipulation
131. CVPR 2026DiP Taming Diffusion Models in Pixel Space
132. CVPR 2026DisCa Accelerating Video Diffusion Transformers with Distillation-Compatible Learnable Feature Caching
133. CVPR 2026Disentangled Textual Priors for Diffusion-based Image Super-Resolution
134. CVPR 2026DiT-IC Aligned Diffusion Transformer for Efficient Image Compression
135. CVPR 2026Diverse Video Generation with Determinantal Point Process-Guided Policy Optimization
136. CVPR 2026DiverseDiT Towards Diverse Representation Learning in Diffusion Transformers
137. CVPR 2026DMAligner Enhancing Image Alignment via Diffusion Model Based View Synthesis
138. CVPR 2026DMGD Train-Free Dataset Distillation with Semantic-Distribution Matching in Diffusion Models
139. CVPR 2026dMLLM-TTS Self-Verified and Efficient Test-Time Scaling for Diffusion Multi-Modal Large
140. CVPR 2026DNF-SR Dual-Input and Negative-Aware Feature Fine-Tuning for Real-World Image Super-Resolution
141. CVPR 2026Do Less Achieve More Do We Need Every-Step Optimization for
142. CVPR 2026DreamShot Personalized Storyboard Synthesis with Video Diffusion Prior
143. CVPR 2026DreamSR Towards Ultra-High-Resolution Image Super-Resolution via a Receptive-Field Enhanced Diffusion
144. CVPR 2026DRiffusion Draft-and-Refine Process Parallelizes Diffusion Models with Ease
145. CVPR 2026DrivePTS A Progressive Learning Framework with Textual and Structural Enhancement
146. CVPR 2026DRM Diffusion-based Reward Model With Step-wise Guidance
147. CVPR 2026DTG-Restore Training-Free Diffusion Refinement for Generative Video Super-Resolution
148. CVPR 2026Dual Ascent Diffusion for Inverse Problems
149. CVPR 2026DUO-VSR Dual-Stream Distillation for One-Step Video Super-Resolution
150. CVPR 2026DuoMo Dual Motion Diffusion for World-Space 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.