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

138 papers, page 3 of 3

101. CVPR 2023PyramidFlow: High-Resolution Defect Contrastive Localization Using Pyramid Normalizing Flow
102. CVPR 2023Regularized Vector Quantization for Tokenized Image Synthesis
103. CVPR 2023RenderDiffusion: Image Diffusion for 3D Reconstruction, Inpainting and Generation
104. CVPR 2023Rethinking Optical Flow From Geometric Matching Consistent Perspective
105. CVPR 2023RGBD2: Generative Scene Synthesis via Incremental View Inpainting Using RGBD Diffusion Models
106. CVPR 2023RODIN: A Generative Model for Sculpting 3D Digital Avatars Using Diffusion
107. CVPR 2023Safe Latent Diffusion: Mitigating Inappropriate Degeneration in Diffusion Models
108. CVPR 2023Scaling Up GANs for Text-to-Image Synthesis
109. CVPR 2023SceneComposer: Any-Level Semantic Image Synthesis
110. CVPR 2023Score Jacobian Chaining: Lifting Pretrained 2D Diffusion Models for 3D Generation
111. CVPR 2023SDFusion: Multimodal 3D Shape Completion, Reconstruction, and Generation
112. CVPR 2023Seeing Beyond the Brain: Conditional Diffusion Model With Sparse Masked Modeling for Vision Decoding
113. CVPR 2023Self-Guided Diffusion Models
114. CVPR 2023Semantic-Conditional Diffusion Networks for Image Captioning
115. CVPR 2023ShadowDiffusion: When Degradation Prior Meets Diffusion Model for Shadow Removal
116. CVPR 2023Shape-Aware Text-Driven Layered Video Editing
117. CVPR 2023Shifted Diffusion for Text-to-Image Generation
118. CVPR 2023SINE: SINgle Image Editing With Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
119. CVPR 2023SmartBrush: Text and Shape Guided Object Inpainting With Diffusion Model
120. CVPR 2023Solving 3D Inverse Problems Using Pre-Trained 2D Diffusion Models
121. CVPR 2023SparseFusion: Distilling View-Conditioned Diffusion for 3D Reconstruction
122. CVPR 2023SpaText: Spatio-Textual Representation for Controllable Image Generation
123. CVPR 2023Specialist Diffusion: Plug-and-Play Sample-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models To Learn Any Unseen Style
124. CVPR 2023Taming Diffusion Models for Audio-Driven Co-Speech Gesture Generation
125. CVPR 2023Towards Practical Plug-and-Play Diffusion Models
126. CVPR 2023Trace and Pace: Controllable Pedestrian Animation via Guided Trajectory Diffusion
127. CVPR 2023TransFlow: Transformer As Flow Learner
128. CVPR 2023TrojDiff: Trojan Attacks on Diffusion Models With Diverse Targets
129. CVPR 2023TryOnDiffusion: A Tale of Two UNets
130. CVPR 2023Uncovering the Disentanglement Capability in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
131. CVPR 2023Understanding Deep Generative Models With Generalized Empirical Likelihoods
132. CVPR 2023Unifying Layout Generation With a Decoupled Diffusion Model
133. CVPR 2023Unite and Conquer: Plug & Play Multi-Modal Synthesis Using Diffusion Models
134. CVPR 2023VectorFusion: Text-to-SVG by Abstracting Pixel-Based Diffusion Models
135. CVPR 2023Video Probabilistic Diffusion Models in Projected Latent Space
136. CVPR 2023VideoFusion: Decomposed Diffusion Models for High-Quality Video Generation
137. CVPR 2023Wavelet Diffusion Models Are Fast and Scalable Image Generators
138. CVPR 2023Zero-Shot Generative Model Adaptation via Image-Specific Prompt Learning

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.