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 40 of 42

1951. NeurIPS 2025SplitFlow: Flow Decomposition for Inversion-Free Text-to-Image Editing
1952. NeurIPS 2025SPMDM: Enhancing Masked Diffusion Models through Simplifing Sampling Path
1953. NeurIPS 2025SPRO: Improving Image Generation via Self-Play
1954. NeurIPS 2025SRSR: Enhancing Semantic Accuracy in Real-World Image Super-Resolution with Spatially Re-Focused Text-Conditioning
1955. NeurIPS 2025SSIMBaD: Sigma Scaling with SSIM-Guided Balanced Diffusion for AnimeFace Colorization
1956. NeurIPS 2025Stable Matching with Ties: Approximation Ratios and Learning
1957. NeurIPS 2025Stable Part Diffusion 4D: Multi-View RGB and Kinematic Parts Video Generation
1958. NeurIPS 2025StableGuard: Towards Unified Copyright Protection and Tamper Localization in Latent Diffusion Models
1959. NeurIPS 2025STARFlow: Scaling Latent Normalizing Flows for High-resolution Image Synthesis
1960. NeurIPS 2025State Size Independent Statistical Error Bound for Discrete Diffusion Models
1961. NeurIPS 2025State-Covering Trajectory Stitching for Diffusion Planners
1962. NeurIPS 2025StateSpaceDiffuser: Bringing Long Context to Diffusion World Models
1963. NeurIPS 2025STEAD: Robust Provably Secure Linguistic Steganography with Diffusion Language Model
1964. NeurIPS 2025Steering Generative Models with Experimental Data for Protein Fitness Optimization
1965. NeurIPS 2025STITCH-OPE: Trajectory Stitching with Guided Diffusion for Off-Policy Evaluation
1966. NeurIPS 2025Stochastic Process Learning via Operator Flow Matching
1967. NeurIPS 2025Straight-Line Diffusion Model for Efficient 3D Molecular Generation
1968. NeurIPS 2025Streaming Audio Generation from Discrete Tokens via Streaming Flow Matching
1969. NeurIPS 2025Structural Information-based Hierarchical Diffusion for Offline Reinforcement Learning
1970. NeurIPS 2025StruDiCO: Structured Denoising Diffusion with Gradient-free Inference-stage Boosting for Memory and Time Efficient Combinatorial Optimization
1971. NeurIPS 2025StyleGuard: Preventing Text-to-Image-Model-based Style Mimicry Attacks by Style Perturbations
1972. NeurIPS 2025SViMo: Synchronized Diffusion for Video and Motion Generation in Hand-object Interaction Scenarios
1973. NeurIPS 2025SyncHuman: Synchronizing 2D and 3D Generative Models for Single-view Human Reconstruction
1974. NeurIPS 2025Synthetic-powered predictive inference
1975. NeurIPS 2025System-Embedded Diffusion Bridge Models
1976. NeurIPS 2025T2SMark: Balancing Robustness and Diversity in Noise-as-Watermark for Diffusion Models
1977. NeurIPS 2025T2V-OptJail: Discrete Prompt Optimization for Text-to-Video Jailbreak Attacks
1978. NeurIPS 2025Tackling Continual Offline RL through Selective Weights Activation on Aligned Spaces
1979. NeurIPS 2025TADA: Improved Diffusion Sampling with Training-free Augmented DynAmics
1980. NeurIPS 2025TaDiCodec: Text-aware Diffusion Speech Tokenizer for Speech Language Modeling
1981. NeurIPS 2025TC-Light: Temporally Coherent Generative Rendering for Realistic World Transfer
1982. NeurIPS 2025Template-Guided 3D Molecular Pose Generation via Flow Matching and Differentiable Optimization
1983. NeurIPS 2025Temporal In‑Context Fine‑Tuning for Versatile Control of Video Diffusion Models
1984. NeurIPS 2025Test-Time Scaling of Diffusion Models via Noise Trajectory Search
1985. NeurIPS 2025Text to Sketch Generation with Multi-Styles
1986. NeurIPS 2025Text-Aware Real-World Image Super-Resolution via Diffusion Model with Joint Segmentation Decoders
1987. NeurIPS 2025Theoretical Benefit and Limitation of Diffusion Language Model
1988. NeurIPS 2025ThermalGen: Style-Disentangled Flow-Based Generative Models for RGB-to-Thermal Image Translation
1989. NeurIPS 2025Time-Embedded Algorithm Unrolling for Computational MRI
1990. NeurIPS 2025TimeWak: Temporal Chained-Hashing Watermark for Time Series Data
1991. NeurIPS 2025Token Perturbation Guidance for Diffusion Models
1992. NeurIPS 2025Topology-aware Graph Diffusion Model with Persistent Homology
1993. NeurIPS 2025Tortoise and Hare Guidance: Accelerating Diffusion Model Inference with Multirate Integration
1994. NeurIPS 2025Toward a Unified Geometry Understanding : Riemannian Diffusion Framework for Graph Generation and Prediction
1995. NeurIPS 2025Towards a Golden Classifier-Free Guidance Path via Foresight Fixed Point Iterations
1996. NeurIPS 2025Towards foundational LiDAR world models with efficient latent flow matching
1997. NeurIPS 2025Towards General Modality Translation with Contrastive and Predictive Latent Diffusion Bridge
1998. NeurIPS 2025Towards Physical Understanding in Video Generation: A 3D Point Regularization Approach
1999. NeurIPS 2025Towards Reliable Identification of Diffusion-based Image Manipulations
2000. NeurIPS 2025Towards Resilient Safety-driven Unlearning for Diffusion Models against Downstream Fine-tuning

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.