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 4 of 54
- CVPR 2026DyaDiT A Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformer for Socially Favorable Dyadic Gesture
- CVPR 2026Dynamic-eDiTor Training-Free Text-Driven 4D Scene Editing with Multimodal Diffusion Transformer
- CVPR 2026DynFusion Rethinking Condition Fusion for Adaptive Multi-Conditional Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2026Easy3E Feed-Forward 3D Asset Editing via Rectified Voxel Flow
- CVPR 2026EasyOmnimatte Taming Pretrained Inpainting Diffusion Models for End-to-End Video Layered
- CVPR 2026EchoVDiff Cardiac-Cycle Echocardiography Video Generation from Arbitrary Single Frame
- CVPR 2026Edit2Perceive Image Editing Diffusion Models Are Strong Dense Perceivers
- CVPR 2026EditMGT Unleashing Potentials of Masked Generative Transformers in Image Editing
- CVPR 2026Efficient and Training-Free Single-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026Efficient Training for Human Video Generation with Entropy-Guided Prioritized Progressive
- CVPR 2026Efficient Weighted Sampling via Score-based Generative Models
- CVPR 2026EgoControl Controllable Egocentric Video Generation via 3D Full-Body Poses
- CVPR 2026EgoFlow Gradient-Guided Flow Matching for Egocentric 6DoF Object Motion Generation
- CVPR 2026EgoX Egocentric Video Generation from a Single Exocentric Video
- CVPR 2026Elucidating the Design Space of Arbitrary-Noise-Based Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026Elucidating the SNR-t Bias of Diffusion Probabilistic Models
- CVPR 2026EMR-Diff Edge-aware Multimodal Residual Diffusion Model for Hyperspectral Image Super-resolution
- CVPR 2026End-to-End Language-Action Model for Humanoid Whole Body Control
- CVPR 2026Envisioning the Future One Step at a Time
- CVPR 2026Erasing Thousands of Concepts Towards Scalable and Practical Concept Erasure
- CVPR 2026Exploring Conditions for Diffusion Models in Robotic Control
- CVPR 2026ExpPortrait Expressive Portrait Generation via Personalized Representation
- CVPR 2026Extending One-Step Image Generation from Class Labels to Text via
- CVPR 2026FabricGen Microstructure-Aware Woven Fabric Generation
- CVPR 2026FACE A Face-based Autoregressive Representation for High-Fidelity and Efficient Mesh
- CVPR 2026Face2Scene Using Facial Degradation as an Oracle for Diffusion-Based Scene
- CVPR 2026FailureAtlas Mapping the Failure Landscape of T2I Models via Active
- CVPR 2026FaithFusion Harmonizing Reconstruction and Generation via Pixel-wise Information Gain
- CVPR 2026FARMER Flow AutoRegressive Transformer over Pixels
- CVPR 2026Fast3Dcache Training-free 3D Geometry Synthesis Acceleration
- CVPR 2026FastHybrid Accelerating Hybrid Autoregressive Image Generation with Lookahead and Guided
- CVPR 2026FE2E From Editor to Dense Geometry Estimator
- CVPR 2026Few-shot Acoustic Synthesis with Multimodal Flow Matching
- CVPR 2026Few-Step Diffusion Sampling Through Instance-Aware Discretizations
- CVPR 2026FG-Portrait 3D Flow Guided Editable Portrait Animation
- CVPR 2026FiDeSR High-Fidelity and Detail-Preserving One-Step Diffusion Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2026FINE Factorizing Knowledge for Initialization of Variable-sized Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026FISHuman Fine-grained Single-image 3D Human Reconstruction via Multi-view 4D Remeshing
- CVPR 2026Flash-DMD Towards High-Fidelity Few-Step Image Generation with Efficient Distillation and
- CVPR 2026FlashDecoder Real-Time Latent-to-Pixel Streaming Decoder with Transformers
- CVPR 2026FlashIn Fast and Accurate Image Inversion for Real-time Image Editing
- CVPR 2026FlashLips 100-FPS Mask-Free Latent Lip-Sync using Reconstruction Instead of Diffusion
- CVPR 2026FlashVSR Towards Real-time Diffusion-Based Streaming Video Super Resolution
- CVPR 2026FloodDiffusion Tailored Diffusion Forcing for Streaming Motion Generation
- CVPR 2026Flow Map Distillation Without Data
- CVPR 2026Flow Matching for Multimodal Distributions
- CVPR 2026Flowception Temporally Expansive Flow Matching for Video Generation
- CVPR 2026FlowComposer Composable Flows for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
- CVPR 2026FlowDC Flow-Based Decoupling-Decay for Complex Image Editing
- CVPR 2026FlowDirector Training-Free Flow Steering for Precise Text-to-Video Editing
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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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