Diffusion Models papers, 2023–2026
Diffusion, flow matching, and score-based generative modeling
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 6,900 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 327 | 86 | 109 | 138 | 660 |
| 2024 | 520 | 260 | 195 | 496 | 1,471 |
| 2025 | 694 | 487 | 346 | 551 | 2,078 |
| 2026 | 661 | 694 | 728 | 608 | 2,691 |
Representative papers
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- 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
2,690 papers, page 3 of 54
- CVPR 2026DABO Difficulty-Aware Bayesian Optimization with Diffusion-Learned Priors
- CVPR 2026DBMSolver A Training-free Diffusion Bridge Sampler for High-Quality Image-to-Image Translation
- CVPR 2026DDiT Dynamic Patch Scheduling for Efficient Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2026DDT Decoupled Diffusion Transformer
- CVPR 2026DeCo Frequency-Decoupled Pixel Diffusion for End-to-End Image Generation
- CVPR 2026Decoupled Generative Modeling for Human-Object Interaction Synthesis
- CVPR 2026Decoupled Residual Denoising Diffusion Models for Unified and Data Efficient
- CVPR 2026Degradation-Robust Fusion An Efficient Degradation-Aware Diffusion Framework for Multimodal Image
- CVPR 2026DeltaQuant 4-bit Video Diffusion Models with Spatiotemporal Delta Smoothing
- CVPR 2026Denoising as Path Planning Training-Free Acceleration of Diffusion Models with
- CVPR 2026Detecting AI-Generated Forgeries via Iterative Manifold Deviation Amplification
- CVPR 2026DeX-Portrait Disentangled and Expressive Portrait Animation via Explicit and Latent
- CVPR 2026Dexterous World Models
- CVPR 2026DICArt Advancing Category-level Articulated Object Pose Estimation in Discrete State-Spaces
- CVPR 2026Diff-SemiER Transparency-Aware Adaptive Fusion Diffusion Model with Generative Prior for
- CVPR 2026Diff4Splat Repurposing Video Diffusion Models for Dynamic Scene Generation
- CVPR 2026DiffDecompose Layer-Wise Decomposition of Alpha-Composited Images via Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2026DiffGraph An Automated Agent-driven Model Merging Framework for In-the-Wild Text-to-Image
- CVPR 2026Diffusion Guided Chain-of-Vision for Large Autoregressive Vision Models
- CVPR 2026Diffusion Mental Averages
- CVPR 2026Diffusion MRI Transformer with a Diffusion Space Rotary Positional Embedding
- CVPR 2026Diffusion Probe Generated Image Result Prediction Using CNN Probes
- CVPR 2026Diffusion Sampling Path Tells More An Efficient Plug-and-Play Strategy for
- CVPR 2026Diffusion with a Linguistic Compass Steering the Generation of Clinically
- CVPR 2026Diffusion-Based Makeup Transfer with Facial Region-Aware Makeup Features
- CVPR 2026Diffusion-Based Native Adversarial Synthesis for Enhanced Medical Segmentation Generalization
- CVPR 2026Diffusion-Based sRGB Real Noise Generation via Prompt-Driven Noise Representation Learning
- CVPR 2026DiffusionFF A Diffusion-based Framework for Joint Face Forgery Detection and
- CVPR 2026DiffusionHarmonizer Bridging Neural Reconstruction and Photorealistic Simulation with Online Diffusion
- CVPR 2026DiffuView Multi-View Diffusion Pretraining for 3D Aware Robotic Manipulation
- CVPR 2026DiP Taming Diffusion Models in Pixel Space
- CVPR 2026DisCa Accelerating Video Diffusion Transformers with Distillation-Compatible Learnable Feature Caching
- CVPR 2026Disentangled Textual Priors for Diffusion-based Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2026DiT-IC Aligned Diffusion Transformer for Efficient Image Compression
- CVPR 2026Diverse Video Generation with Determinantal Point Process-Guided Policy Optimization
- CVPR 2026DiverseDiT Towards Diverse Representation Learning in Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2026DMAligner Enhancing Image Alignment via Diffusion Model Based View Synthesis
- CVPR 2026DMGD Train-Free Dataset Distillation with Semantic-Distribution Matching in Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026dMLLM-TTS Self-Verified and Efficient Test-Time Scaling for Diffusion Multi-Modal Large
- CVPR 2026DNF-SR Dual-Input and Negative-Aware Feature Fine-Tuning for Real-World Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2026Do Less Achieve More Do We Need Every-Step Optimization for
- CVPR 2026DreamShot Personalized Storyboard Synthesis with Video Diffusion Prior
- CVPR 2026DreamSR Towards Ultra-High-Resolution Image Super-Resolution via a Receptive-Field Enhanced Diffusion
- CVPR 2026DRiffusion Draft-and-Refine Process Parallelizes Diffusion Models with Ease
- CVPR 2026DrivePTS A Progressive Learning Framework with Textual and Structural Enhancement
- CVPR 2026DRM Diffusion-based Reward Model With Step-wise Guidance
- CVPR 2026DTG-Restore Training-Free Diffusion Refinement for Generative Video Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2026Dual Ascent Diffusion for Inverse Problems
- CVPR 2026DUO-VSR Dual-Stream Distillation for One-Step Video Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2026DuoMo Dual Motion Diffusion for World-Space Human Reconstruction
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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.
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