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

260 papers, page 3 of 6

101. ICLR 2024GAIA: Zero-shot Talking Avatar Generation
102. ICLR 2024GenCorres: Consistent Shape Matching via Coupled Implicit-Explicit Shape Generative Models
103. ICLR 2024GeneOH Diffusion: Towards Generalizable Hand-Object Interaction Denoising via Denoising Diffusion
104. ICLR 2024Generalization in diffusion models arises from geometry-adaptive harmonic representations
105. ICLR 2024Generalized Schrödinger Bridge Matching
106. ICLR 2024Generating Images with 3D Annotations Using Diffusion Models
107. ICLR 2024Generative Learning for Financial Time Series with Irregular and Scale-Invariant Patterns
108. ICLR 2024Generative Learning for Solving Non-Convex Problem with Multi-Valued Input-Solution Mapping
109. ICLR 2024Generative Modeling with Phase Stochastic Bridge
110. ICLR 2024Generative Pre-training for Speech with Flow Matching
111. ICLR 2024GeoDiffusion: Text-Prompted Geometric Control for Object Detection Data Generation
112. ICLR 2024Get What You Want, Not What You Don't: Image Content Suppression for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
113. ICLR 2024GRAPH-CONSTRAINED DIFFUSION FOR END-TO-END PATH PLANNING
114. ICLR 2024Ground-A-Video: Zero-shot Grounded Video Editing using Text-to-image Diffusion Models
115. ICLR 2024HIFA: High-fidelity Text-to-3D Generation with Advanced Diffusion Guidance
116. ICLR 2024How I Warped Your Noise: a Temporally-Correlated Noise Prior for Diffusion Models
117. ICLR 2024Human Motion Diffusion as a Generative Prior
118. ICLR 2024HyperHuman: Hyper-Realistic Human Generation with Latent Structural Diffusion
119. ICLR 2024Idempotent Generative Network
120. ICLR 2024Image Inpainting via Iteratively Decoupled Probabilistic Modeling
121. ICLR 2024Image Inpainting via Tractable Steering of Diffusion Models
122. ICLR 2024Image Translation as Diffusion Visual Programmers
123. ICLR 2024ImagenHub: Standardizing the evaluation of conditional image generation models
124. ICLR 2024Improved Active Learning via Dependent Leverage Score Sampling
125. ICLR 2024Improved sampling via learned diffusions
126. ICLR 2024Improved Techniques for Training Consistency Models
127. ICLR 2024IMPUS: Image Morphing with Perceptually-Uniform Sampling Using Diffusion Models
128. ICLR 2024InfoBatch: Lossless Training Speed Up by Unbiased Dynamic Data Pruning
129. ICLR 2024Inner Classifier-Free Guidance and Its Taylor Expansion for Diffusion Models
130. ICLR 2024InstaFlow: One Step is Enough for High-Quality Diffusion-Based Text-to-Image Generation
131. ICLR 2024Instant3D: Fast Text-to-3D with Sparse-view Generation and Large Reconstruction Model
132. ICLR 2024InstructCV: Instruction-Tuned Text-to-Image Diffusion Models as Vision Generalists
133. ICLR 2024InstructPix2NeRF: Instructed 3D Portrait Editing from a Single Image
134. ICLR 2024InstructScene: Instruction-Driven 3D Indoor Scene Synthesis with Semantic Graph Prior
135. ICLR 2024Interpretable Diffusion via Information Decomposition
136. ICLR 2024Intriguing Properties of Data Attribution on Diffusion Models
137. ICLR 2024Intriguing Properties of Generative Classifiers
138. ICLR 2024Ito Diffusion Approximation of Universal Ito Chains for Sampling, Optimization and Boosting
139. ICLR 2024JointNet: Extending Text-to-Image Diffusion for Dense Distribution Modeling
140. ICLR 2024Kosmos-G: Generating Images in Context with Multimodal Large Language Models
141. ICLR 2024Label-Noise Robust Diffusion Models
142. ICLR 2024Language Control Diffusion: Efficiently Scaling through Space, Time, and Tasks
143. ICLR 2024Language Model Beats Diffusion - Tokenizer is key to visual generation
144. ICLR 2024Large-Vocabulary 3D Diffusion Model with Transformer
145. ICLR 2024Latent 3D Graph Diffusion
146. ICLR 2024Learning Energy-Based Models by Cooperative Diffusion Recovery Likelihood
147. ICLR 2024Learning Stackable and Skippable LEGO Bricks for Efficient, Reconfigurable, and Variable-Resolution Diffusion Modeling
148. ICLR 2024Let 2D Diffusion Model Know 3D-Consistency for Robust Text-to-3D Generation
149. ICLR 2024Leveraging Optimization for Adaptive Attacks on Image Watermarks
150. ICLR 2024Likelihood Training of Cascaded Diffusion Models via Hierarchical Volume-preserving Maps

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.