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

260 papers, page 4 of 6

151. ICLR 2024Lipschitz Singularities in Diffusion Models
152. ICLR 2024LipVoicer: Generating Speech from Silent Videos Guided by Lip Reading
153. ICLR 2024LLM Blueprint: Enabling Text-to-Image Generation with Complex and Detailed Prompts
154. ICLR 2024LLM-grounded Video Diffusion Models
155. ICLR 2024Local Graph Clustering with Noisy Labels
156. ICLR 2024Localizing and Editing Knowledge In Text-to-Image Generative Models
157. ICLR 2024Long-tailed Diffusion Models with Oriented Calibration
158. ICLR 2024Machine Unlearning for Image-to-Image Generative Models
159. ICLR 2024MaGIC: Multi-modality Guided Image Completion
160. ICLR 2024Magic123: One Image to High-Quality 3D Object Generation Using Both 2D and 3D Diffusion Priors
161. ICLR 2024MagicDrive: Street View Generation with Diverse 3D Geometry Control
162. ICLR 2024Manifold Diffusion Fields
163. ICLR 2024Manifold Preserving Guided Diffusion
164. ICLR 2024Masked Completion via Structured Diffusion with White-Box Transformers
165. ICLR 2024Matryoshka Diffusion Models
166. ICLR 2024MG-TSD: Multi-Granularity Time Series Diffusion Models with Guided Learning Process
167. ICLR 2024MINDE: Mutual Information Neural Diffusion Estimation
168. ICLR 2024Mixed-Type Tabular Data Synthesis with Score-based Diffusion in Latent Space
169. ICLR 2024Model Merging by Uncertainty-Based Gradient Matching
170. ICLR 2024Modulated Phase Diffusor: Content-Oriented Feature Synthesis for Detecting Unknown Objects
171. ICLR 2024MOFDiff: Coarse-grained Diffusion for Metal-Organic Framework Design
172. ICLR 2024Monte Carlo guided Denoising Diffusion models for Bayesian linear inverse problems.
173. ICLR 2024Motion Guidance: Diffusion-Based Image Editing with Differentiable Motion Estimators
174. ICLR 2024Multi-Resolution Diffusion Models for Time Series Forecasting
175. ICLR 2024Multi-Source Diffusion Models for Simultaneous Music Generation and Separation
176. ICLR 2024Multimarginal Generative Modeling with Stochastic Interpolants
177. ICLR 2024MVDream: Multi-view Diffusion for 3D Generation
178. ICLR 2024NaturalSpeech 2: Latent Diffusion Models are Natural and Zero-Shot Speech and Singing Synthesizers
179. ICLR 2024Navigating the Design Space of Equivariant Diffusion-Based Generative Models for De Novo 3D Molecule Generation
180. ICLR 2024Nearly $d$-Linear Convergence Bounds for Diffusion Models via Stochastic Localization
181. ICLR 2024NeRM: Learning Neural Representations for High-Framerate Human Motion Synthesis
182. ICLR 2024Neural Network-Based Score Estimation in Diffusion Models: Optimization and Generalization
183. ICLR 2024Noise Map Guidance: Inversion with Spatial Context for Real Image Editing
184. ICLR 2024Noise-free Score Distillation
185. ICLR 2024NoiseDiffusion: Correcting Noise for Image Interpolation with Diffusion Models beyond Spherical Linear Interpolation
186. ICLR 2024Object-Aware Inversion and Reassembly for Image Editing
187. ICLR 2024OmniControl: Control Any Joint at Any Time for Human Motion Generation
188. ICLR 2024On Accelerating Diffusion-Based Sampling Processes via Improved Integration Approximation
189. ICLR 2024On Diffusion Modeling for Anomaly Detection
190. ICLR 2024On Error Propagation of Diffusion Models
191. ICLR 2024On gauge freedom, conservativity and intrinsic dimensionality estimation in diffusion models
192. ICLR 2024On the Stability of Iterative Retraining of Generative Models on their own Data
193. ICLR 2024PanoDiffusion: 360-degree Panorama Outpainting via Diffusion
194. ICLR 2024Parameter-Efficient Orthogonal Finetuning via Butterfly Factorization
195. ICLR 2024Particle Guidance: non-I.I.D. Diverse Sampling with Diffusion Models
196. ICLR 2024Patched Denoising Diffusion Models For High-Resolution Image Synthesis
197. ICLR 2024PhyloGFN: Phylogenetic inference with generative flow networks
198. ICLR 2024PixArt-$\alpha$: Fast Training of Diffusion Transformer for Photorealistic Text-to-Image Synthesis
199. ICLR 2024PnP Inversion: Boosting Diffusion-based Editing with 3 Lines of Code
200. ICLR 2024Probabilistic Adaptation of Black-Box Text-to-Video 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.