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

2,078 papers, page 32 of 42

1551. NeurIPS 2025Distributional Autoencoders Know the Score
1552. NeurIPS 2025Distributional Training Data Attribution: What do Influence Functions Sample?
1553. NeurIPS 2025dKV-Cache: The Cache for Diffusion Language Models
1554. NeurIPS 2025DMol: A Highly Efficient and Chemical Motif-Preserving Molecule Generation Platform
1555. NeurIPS 2025DNAEdit: Direct Noise Alignment for Text-Guided Rectified Flow Editing
1556. NeurIPS 2025Doctor Approved: Generating Medically Accurate Skin Disease Images through AI-Expert Feedback
1557. NeurIPS 2025Don’t Let It Fade: Preserving Edits in Diffusion Language Models via Token Timestep Allocation
1558. NeurIPS 2025Don’t Trade Off Safety: Diffusion Regularization for Constrained Offline RL
1559. NeurIPS 2025DOVE: Efficient One-Step Diffusion Model for Real-World Video Super-Resolution
1560. NeurIPS 2025DP²O-SR: Direct Perceptual Preference Optimization for Real-World Image Super-Resolution
1561. NeurIPS 2025DPAIL: Training Diffusion Policy for Adversarial Imitation Learning without Policy Optimization
1562. NeurIPS 2025DreamLight: Towards Harmonious and Consistent Image Relighting
1563. NeurIPS 2025Dual-Flow: Transferable Multi-Target, Instance-Agnostic Attacks via $\textit{In-the-wild}$ Cascading Flow Optimization
1564. NeurIPS 2025DynaGuide: Steering Diffusion Polices with Active Dynamic Guidance
1565. NeurIPS 2025Dynamic Diffusion Schrödinger Bridge in Astrophysical Observational Inversions
1566. NeurIPS 2025Dynamic Test-Time Compute Scaling in Control Policy: Difficulty-Aware Stochastic Interpolant Policy
1567. NeurIPS 2025Dynamic View Synthesis as an Inverse Problem
1568. NeurIPS 2025DynaPhArM: Adaptive and Physics-Constrained Modeling for Target-Drug Complexes with Drug-Specific Adaptations
1569. NeurIPS 2025EchoShot: Multi-Shot Portrait Video Generation
1570. NeurIPS 2025EDELINE: Enhancing Memory in Diffusion-based World Models via Linear-Time Sequence Modeling
1571. NeurIPS 2025Edit Flows: Variable Length Discrete Flow Matching with Sequence-Level Edit Operations
1572. NeurIPS 2025EditInfinity: Image Editing with Binary-Quantized Generative Models
1573. NeurIPS 2025Efficient Rectified Flow for Image Fusion
1574. NeurIPS 2025Elucidated Rolling Diffusion Models for Probabilistic Forecasting of Complex Dynamics
1575. NeurIPS 2025Emergence and Evolution of Interpretable Concepts in Diffusion Models
1576. NeurIPS 2025Emergent Temporal Correspondences from Video Diffusion Transformers
1577. NeurIPS 2025Enabling Instructional Image Editing with In-Context Generation in Large Scale Diffusion Transformer
1578. NeurIPS 2025Encoder-Decoder Diffusion Language Models for Efficient Training and Inference
1579. NeurIPS 2025Energy Loss Functions for Physical Systems
1580. NeurIPS 2025Energy Matching: Unifying Flow Matching and Energy-Based Models for Generative Modeling
1581. NeurIPS 2025Energy-based generator matching: A neural sampler for general state space
1582. NeurIPS 2025Enhancing Diffusion-based Unrestricted Adversarial Attacks via Adversary Preferences Alignment
1583. NeurIPS 2025Enhancing Text-to-Image Diffusion Transformer via Split-Text Conditioning
1584. NeurIPS 2025ENMA: Tokenwise Autoregression for Continuous Neural PDE Operators
1585. NeurIPS 2025Entropic Time Schedulers for Generative Diffusion Models
1586. NeurIPS 2025Entropy Rectifying Guidance for Diffusion and Flow Models
1587. NeurIPS 2025Event-Guided Consistent Video Enhancement with Modality-Adaptive Diffusion Pipeline
1588. NeurIPS 2025EverybodyDance: Bipartite Graph–Based Identity Correspondence for Multi-Character Animation
1589. NeurIPS 2025EVODiff: Entropy-aware Variance Optimized Diffusion Inference
1590. NeurIPS 2025Explore In-Context Message Passing Operator for Graph Neural Networks in A Mean Field Game
1591. NeurIPS 2025Exploring Diffusion Transformer Designs via Grafting
1592. NeurIPS 2025Exploring Semantic-constrained Adversarial Example with Instruction Uncertainty Reduction
1593. NeurIPS 2025Exploring the Design Space of Diffusion Bridge Models
1594. NeurIPS 2025Exponential Convergence Guarantees for Iterative Markovian Fitting
1595. NeurIPS 2025Fading to Grow: Growing Preference Ratios via Preference Fading Discrete Diffusion for Recommendation
1596. NeurIPS 2025Failure Prediction at Runtime for Generative Robot Policies
1597. NeurIPS 2025FairImagen: Post-Processing for Bias Mitigation in Text-to-Image Models
1598. NeurIPS 2025Fast and Fluent Diffusion Language Models via Convolutional Decoding and Rejective Fine-tuning
1599. NeurIPS 2025Fast constrained sampling in pre-trained diffusion models
1600. NeurIPS 2025Fast Data Attribution for Text-to-Image Models

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.