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. ICLR 2026Consistent Noisy Latent Rewards for Trajectory Preference Optimization in Diffusion Models
102. ICLR 2026Consolidating Reinforcement Learning for Multimodal Discrete Diffusion Models
103. ICLR 2026Constrained Decoding of Diffusion LLMs with Context-Free Grammars
104. ICLR 2026Constrained Diffusion for Protein Design with Hard Structural Constraints
105. ICLR 2026Context Tokens are Anchors: Understanding the Repetition Curse in Diffusion MLLMs from an Information Flow Perspective
106. ICLR 2026ContextBench: Modifying Contexts for Targeted Latent Activation and Behaviour Elicitation
107. ICLR 2026ContextGen: Contextual Layout Anchoring for Identity-Consistent Multi-Instance Generation
108. ICLR 2026Continual Unlearning for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models: A Regularization Perspective
109. ICLR 2026Continuously Augmented Discrete Diffusion model for Categorical Generative Modeling
110. ICLR 2026Contractive Diffusion Policies: Robust Action Diffusion via Contractive Score-Based Sampling with Differential Equations
111. ICLR 2026Contrastive Diffusion Guidance for Spatial Inverse Problems
112. ICLR 2026Controllable diffusion-based generation for multi-channel biological data
113. ICLR 2026Controllable First-Frame-Guided Video Editing via Mask-Aware LoRA Fine-Tuning
114. ICLR 2026Convergence Dynamics of Over-Parameterized Score Matching for a Single Gaussian
115. ICLR 2026CORDS - Continuous Representations of Discrete Structures
116. ICLR 2026Count Bridges enable Modeling and Deconvolving Transcriptomic Data
117. ICLR 2026CreatiDesign: A Unified Multi-Conditional Diffusion Transformer for Creative Graphic Design
118. ICLR 2026CREPE: Controlling diffusion with REPlica Exchange
119. ICLR 2026CRONOS: Continuous time reconstruction for 4D medical longitudinal series
120. ICLR 2026Cross-ControlNet: Training-Free Fusion of Multiple Conditions for Text-to-Image Generation
121. ICLR 2026Cross-Timestep: 3D Diffusion Model with Trans-temporal Memory LSTM and Adaptive Priori Decoding Strategy for Medical Segmentation
122. ICLR 2026CryoNet.Refine: A One-step Diffusion Model for Rapid Refinement of Structural Models with Cryo-EM Density Map Restraints
123. ICLR 2026CTRL&SHIFT: High-quality Geometry-Aware Object Manipulation in Visual Generation
124. ICLR 2026Culture in Action: Evaluating Text-to-Image Models through Social Activities
125. ICLR 2026D-AR: Diffusion via Autoregressive Models
126. ICLR 2026d$^2$Cache: Accelerating Diffusion-Based LLMs via Dual Adaptive Caching
127. ICLR 2026Data-to-Energy Stochastic Dynamics
128. ICLR 2026Dataset Distillation as Pushforward Optimal Quantization
129. ICLR 2026Decision Pre-Trained Transformer is a Scalable In-Context Reinforcement Learner
130. ICLR 2026Declarative Audio Editing with Audio Language Model
131. ICLR 2026Deconstructing Guidance: A Semantic Hierarchy for Precise Diffusion Model Editing
132. ICLR 2026Decoupled DMD: CFG Augmentation as the Spear, Distribution Matching as the Shield
133. ICLR 2026Decoupled MeanFlow: Turning Flow Models into Flow Maps for Accelerated Sampling
134. ICLR 2026DeepWeightFlow: Re-Basined Flow Matching for Generating Neural Network Weights
135. ICLR 2026Deforming Videos to Masks: Flow Matching for Referring Video Segmentation
136. ICLR 2026Delay Flow Matching
137. ICLR 2026Demystifying Robot Diffusion Policies: Action Memorization and a Simple Lookup Table Alternative
138. ICLR 2026DenseGRPO: From Sparse to Dense Reward for Flow Matching Model Alignment
139. ICLR 2026DeRaDiff: Denoising Time Realignment of Diffusion Models
140. ICLR 2026Detecting and Mitigating Memorization in Diffusion Models through Anisotropy of the Log-Probability
141. ICLR 2026Detective SAM: Adaptive AI-Image Forgery Localization
142. ICLR 2026Diagnosing and Improving Diffusion Models by Estimating Optimal Loss Value
143. ICLR 2026DiCache: Let Diffusion Model Determine Its Own Cache
144. ICLR 2026Dichotomous Diffusion Policy Optimization
145. ICLR 2026DiffInk: Glyph- and Style-Aware Latent Diffusion Transformer for Text to Online Handwriting Generation
146. ICLR 2026DiffPBR: Point-Based Rendering via Spatial-Aware Residual Diffusion
147. ICLR 2026DiffSDA: Unsupervised Diffusion Sequential Disentanglement Across Modalities
148. ICLR 2026DIFFSPARSE: ACCELERATING DIFFUSION TRANSFORMERS WITH LEARNED TOKEN SPARSITY
149. ICLR 2026DiffuCoder: Understanding and Improving Masked Diffusion Models for Code Generation
150. ICLR 2026DiffuDETR: Rethinking Detection Transformers with Diffusion Process

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.