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
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- CVPR 2024Shadow Generation for Composite Image Using Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024SIGNeRF: Scene Integrated Generation for Neural Radiance Fields
- CVPR 2024SimAC: A Simple Anti-Customization Method for Protecting Face Privacy against Text-to-Image Synthesis of Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Single Mesh Diffusion Models with Field Latents for Texture Generation
- CVPR 2024SingularTrajectory: Universal Trajectory Predictor Using Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024SinSR: Diffusion-Based Image Super-Resolution in a Single Step
- CVPR 2024SiTH: Single-view Textured Human Reconstruction with Image-Conditioned Diffusion
- CVPR 2024SkillDiffuser: Interpretable Hierarchical Planning via Skill Abstractions in Diffusion-Based Task Execution
- CVPR 2024Slice3D: Multi-Slice Occlusion-Revealing Single View 3D Reconstruction
- CVPR 2024SmartEdit: Exploring Complex Instruction-based Image Editing with Multimodal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2024SmartMask: Context Aware High-Fidelity Mask Generation for Fine-grained Object Insertion and Layout Control
- CVPR 2024Smooth Diffusion: Crafting Smooth Latent Spaces in Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024SNED: Superposition Network Architecture Search for Efficient Video Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024SocialCounterfactuals: Probing and Mitigating Intersectional Social Biases in Vision-Language Models with Counterfactual Examples
- CVPR 2024SODA: Bottleneck Diffusion Models for Representation Learning
- CVPR 2024Solving Masked Jigsaw Puzzles with Diffusion Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2024SonicVisionLM: Playing Sound with Vision Language Models
- CVPR 2024Space-Time Diffusion Features for Zero-Shot Text-Driven Motion Transfer
- CVPR 2024SPAD: Spatially Aware Multi-View Diffusers
- CVPR 2024StableVITON: Learning Semantic Correspondence with Latent Diffusion Model for Virtual Try-On
- CVPR 2024Stratified Avatar Generation from Sparse Observations
- CVPR 2024Structure Matters: Tackling the Semantic Discrepancy in Diffusion Models for Image Inpainting
- CVPR 2024Structure-Guided Adversarial Training of Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Style Injection in Diffusion: A Training-free Approach for Adapting Large-scale Diffusion Models for Style Transfer
- CVPR 2024SVDTree: Semantic Voxel Diffusion for Single Image Tree Reconstruction
- CVPR 2024SVGDreamer: Text Guided SVG Generation with Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024SwiftBrush: One-Step Text-to-Image Diffusion Model with Variational Score Distillation
- CVPR 2024Tackling the Singularities at the Endpoints of Time Intervals in Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Tactile-Augmented Radiance Fields
- CVPR 2024Taming Stable Diffusion for Text to 360 Panorama Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Template Free Reconstruction of Human-object Interaction with Procedural Interaction Generation
- CVPR 2024TexOct: Generating Textures of 3D Models with Octree-based Diffusion
- CVPR 2024Text-Conditioned Generative Model of 3D Strand-based Human Hairstyles
- CVPR 2024Text-Guided 3D Face Synthesis - From Generation to Editing
- CVPR 2024Text-guided Explorable Image Super-resolution
- CVPR 2024Text-Image Alignment for Diffusion-Based Perception
- CVPR 2024Text-to-3D Generation with Bidirectional Diffusion using both 2D and 3D priors
- CVPR 2024Text-to-Image Diffusion Models are Great Sketch-Photo Matchmakers
- CVPR 2024Text2HOI: Text-guided 3D Motion Generation for Hand-Object Interaction
- CVPR 2024Text2QR: Harmonizing Aesthetic Customization and Scanning Robustness for Text-Guided QR Code Generation
- CVPR 2024TextCraftor: Your Text Encoder Can be Image Quality Controller
- CVPR 2024Texture-Preserving Diffusion Models for High-Fidelity Virtual Try-On
- CVPR 2024TextureDreamer: Image-Guided Texture Synthesis Through Geometry-Aware Diffusion
- CVPR 2024TFMQ-DM: Temporal Feature Maintenance Quantization for Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024The Mirrored Influence Hypothesis: Efficient Data Influence Estimation by Harnessing Forward Passes
- CVPR 2024The More You See in 2D the More You Perceive in 3D
- CVPR 2024TI2V-Zero: Zero-Shot Image Conditioning for Text-to-Video Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024TIGER: Time-Varying Denoising Model for 3D Point Cloud Generation with Diffusion Process
- CVPR 2024TokenCompose: Text-to-Image Diffusion with Token-level Supervision
- CVPR 2024Total Selfie: Generating Full-Body Selfies
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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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