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. ICML 2025Efficiently Access Diffusion Fisher: Within the Outer Product Span Space
102. ICML 2025Elucidating Flow Matching ODE Dynamics via Data Geometry and Denoisers
103. ICML 2025Emotional Face-to-Speech
104. ICML 2025Energy-Based Flow Matching for Generating 3D Molecular Structure
105. ICML 2025Ensemble Distribution Distillation via Flow Matching
106. ICML 2025Epsilon-VAE: Denoising as Visual Decoding
107. ICML 2025EraseAnything: Enabling Concept Erasure in Rectified Flow Transformers
108. ICML 2025Ergodic Generative Flows
109. ICML 2025ETTA: Elucidating the Design Space of Text-to-Audio Models
110. ICML 2025Event-Customized Image Generation
111. ICML 2025Expert Race: A Flexible Routing Strategy for Scaling Diffusion Transformer with Mixture of Experts
112. ICML 2025Exponential Family Variational Flow Matching for Tabular Data Generation
113. ICML 2025Expressive Score-Based Priors for Distribution Matching with Geometry-Preserving Regularization
114. ICML 2025Falcon: Fast Visuomotor Policies via Partial Denoising
115. ICML 2025Fast Video Generation with Sliding Tile Attention
116. ICML 2025Fast, Accurate Manifold Denoising by Tunneling Riemannian Optimization
117. ICML 2025Feynman-Kac Correctors in Diffusion: Annealing, Guidance, and Product of Experts
118. ICML 2025Finite-Time Analysis of Discrete-Time Stochastic Interpolants
119. ICML 2025Flex3D: Feed-Forward 3D Generation with Flexible Reconstruction Model and Input View Curation
120. ICML 2025FlexControl: Computation-Aware Conditional Control with Differentiable Router for Text-to-Image Generation
121. ICML 2025Flexibility-conditioned protein structure design with flow matching
122. ICML 2025FlexiClip: Locality-Preserving Free-Form Character Animation
123. ICML 2025Flow Matching for Denoised Social Recommendation
124. ICML 2025Flow Matching for Few-Trial Neural Adaptation with Stable Latent Dynamics
125. ICML 2025Flow Q-Learning
126. ICML 2025FlowAR: Scale-wise Autoregressive Image Generation Meets Flow Matching
127. ICML 2025FlowDrag: 3D-aware Drag-based Image Editing with Mesh-guided Deformation Vector Flow Fields
128. ICML 2025FrameBridge: Improving Image-to-Video Generation with Bridge Models
129. ICML 2025From Uncertain to Safe: Conformal Adaptation of Diffusion Models for Safe PDE Control
130. ICML 2025Gaussian Mixture Flow Matching Models
131. ICML 2025GaussMarker: Robust Dual-Domain Watermark for Diffusion Models
132. ICML 2025Generalized Interpolating Discrete Diffusion
133. ICML 2025Generative Audio Language Modeling with Continuous-valued Tokens and Masked Next-Token Prediction
134. ICML 2025Generative Data Mining with Longtail-Guided Diffusion
135. ICML 2025Generative Human Trajectory Recovery via Embedding-Space Conditional Diffusion
136. ICML 2025Generative Intervention Models for Causal Perturbation Modeling
137. ICML 2025GenMol: A Drug Discovery Generalist with Discrete Diffusion
138. ICML 2025Geometric Generative Modeling with Noise-Conditioned Graph Networks
139. ICML 2025Geometric Representation Condition Improves Equivariant Molecule Generation
140. ICML 2025GMAIL: Generative Modality Alignment for generated Image Learning
141. ICML 2025Graph Diffusion for Robust Multi-Agent Coordination
142. ICML 2025Habitizing Diffusion Planning for Efficient and Effective Decision Making
143. ICML 2025HarmoniCa: Harmonizing Training and Inference for Better Feature Caching in Diffusion Transformer Acceleration
144. ICML 2025Harmonizing Geometry and Uncertainty: Diffusion with Hyperspheres
145. ICML 2025Hessian Geometry of Latent Space in Generative Models
146. ICML 2025Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning with Uncertainty-Guided Diffusional Subgoals
147. ICML 2025History-Guided Video Diffusion
148. ICML 2025How Compositional Generalization and Creativity Improve as Diffusion Models are Trained
149. ICML 2025How Distributed Collaboration Influences the Diffusion Model Training? A Theoretical Perspective
150. ICML 2025How Far Is Video Generation from World Model: A Physical Law Perspective

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.