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
1,792 papers, page 30 of 36
- CVPR 2024MicroDiffusion: Implicit Representation-Guided Diffusion for 3D Reconstruction from Limited 2D Microscopy Projections
- CVPR 2024MimicDiffusion: Purifying Adversarial Perturbation via Mimicking Clean Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024MMA-Diffusion: MultiModal Attack on Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024MMM: Generative Masked Motion Model
- CVPR 2024MoMask: Generative Masked Modeling of 3D Human Motions
- CVPR 2024MonoDiff: Monocular 3D Object Detection and Pose Estimation with Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Morphable Diffusion: 3D-Consistent Diffusion for Single-image Avatar Creation
- CVPR 2024Mosaic-SDF for 3D Generative Models
- CVPR 2024Motion2VecSets: 4D Latent Vector Set Diffusion for Non-rigid Shape Reconstruction and Tracking
- CVPR 2024MotionEditor: Editing Video Motion via Content-Aware Diffusion
- CVPR 2024Move Anything with Layered Scene Diffusion
- CVPR 2024Move as You Say Interact as You Can: Language-guided Human Motion Generation with Scene Affordance
- CVPR 2024MPOD123: One Image to 3D Content Generation Using Mask-enhanced Progressive Outline-to-Detail Optimization
- CVPR 2024MULDE: Multiscale Log-Density Estimation via Denoising Score Matching for Video Anomaly Detection
- CVPR 2024MultiDiff: Consistent Novel View Synthesis from a Single Image
- CVPR 2024MVD-Fusion: Single-view 3D via Depth-consistent Multi-view Generation
- CVPR 2024NeRFiller: Completing Scenes via Generative 3D Inpainting
- CVPR 2024Neural Markov Random Field for Stereo Matching
- CVPR 2024Neural Point Cloud Diffusion for Disentangled 3D Shape and Appearance Generation
- CVPR 2024Neural Sign Actors: A Diffusion Model for 3D Sign Language Production from Text
- CVPR 2024NIFTY: Neural Object Interaction Fields for Guided Human Motion Synthesis
- CVPR 2024NIVeL: Neural Implicit Vector Layers for Text-to-Vector Generation
- CVPR 2024NoiseCLR: A Contrastive Learning Approach for Unsupervised Discovery of Interpretable Directions in Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024NoiseCollage: A Layout-Aware Text-to-Image Diffusion Model Based on Noise Cropping and Merging
- CVPR 2024NRDF: Neural Riemannian Distance Fields for Learning Articulated Pose Priors
- CVPR 2024Object Pose Estimation via the Aggregation of Diffusion Features
- CVPR 2024Observation-Guided Diffusion Probabilistic Models
- CVPR 2024OMG: Towards Open-vocabulary Motion Generation via Mixture of Controllers
- CVPR 2024On Exact Inversion of DPM-Solvers
- CVPR 2024One More Step: A Versatile Plug-and-Play Module for Rectifying Diffusion Schedule Flaws and Enhancing Low-Frequency Controls
- CVPR 2024One-2-3-45++: Fast Single Image to 3D Objects with Consistent Multi-View Generation and 3D Diffusion
- CVPR 2024One-dimensional Adapter to Rule Them All: Concepts Diffusion Models and Erasing Applications
- CVPR 2024One-Shot Structure-Aware Stylized Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2024One-step Diffusion with Distribution Matching Distillation
- CVPR 2024Open-Vocabulary Attention Maps with Token Optimization for Semantic Segmentation in Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Optimizing Diffusion Noise Can Serve As Universal Motion Priors
- CVPR 2024Orthogonal Adaptation for Modular Customization of Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Outdoor Scene Extrapolation with Hierarchical Generative Cellular Automata
- CVPR 2024Paint3D: Paint Anything 3D with Lighting-Less Texture Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024PAIR Diffusion: A Comprehensive Multimodal Object-Level Image Editor
- CVPR 2024Partial-to-Partial Shape Matching with Geometric Consistency
- CVPR 2024PEEKABOO: Interactive Video Generation via Masked-Diffusion
- CVPR 2024PEGASUS: Personalized Generative 3D Avatars with Composable Attributes
- CVPR 2024Personalized Residuals for Concept-Driven Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Perturbing Attention Gives You More Bang for the Buck: Subtle Imaging Perturbations That Efficiently Fool Customized Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024PFStorer: Personalized Face Restoration and Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2024PhyScene: Physically Interactable 3D Scene Synthesis for Embodied AI
- CVPR 2024PI3D: Efficient Text-to-3D Generation with Pseudo-Image Diffusion
- CVPR 2024pix2gestalt: Amodal Segmentation by Synthesizing Wholes
- CVPR 2024Plug-and-Play Diffusion Distillation
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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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