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 41 of 42

2001. NeurIPS 2025Towards Robust Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning
2002. NeurIPS 2025Towards Understanding the Mechanisms of Classifier-Free Guidance
2003. NeurIPS 2025Towards Unified and Lossless Latent Space for 3D Molecular Latent Diffusion Modeling
2004. NeurIPS 2025Towards Unsupervised Training of Matching-based Graph Edit Distance Solver via Preference-aware GAN
2005. NeurIPS 2025Tracing the Roots: Leveraging Temporal Dynamics in Diffusion Trajectories for Origin Attribution
2006. NeurIPS 2025TractoTransformer: Diffusion MRI Streamline Tractography using CNN and Transformer Networks
2007. NeurIPS 2025Training-Free Constrained Generation With Stable Diffusion Models
2008. NeurIPS 2025Training-Free Efficient Video Generation via Dynamic Token Carving
2009. NeurIPS 2025Training-Free Guidance Beyond Differentiability: Scalable Path Steering with Tree Search in Diffusion and Flow Models
2010. NeurIPS 2025Training-Free Safe Denoisers for Safe Use of Diffusion Models
2011. NeurIPS 2025Training-Free Safe Text Embedding Guidance for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
2012. NeurIPS 2025Transformers for Mixed-type Event Sequences
2013. NeurIPS 2025Transition Matching: Scalable and Flexible Generative Modeling
2014. NeurIPS 2025Tree-Guided Diffusion Planner
2015. NeurIPS 2025TreeGen: A Bayesian Generative Model for Hierarchies
2016. NeurIPS 2025TRIM: Scalable 3D Gaussian Diffusion Inference with Temporal and Spatial Trimming
2017. NeurIPS 2025Trust Region Constrained Measure Transport in Path Space for Stochastic Optimal Control and Inference
2018. NeurIPS 2025Two-Steps Diffusion Policy for Robotic Manipulation via Genetic Denoising
2019. NeurIPS 2025U-REPA: Aligning Diffusion U-Nets to ViTs
2020. NeurIPS 2025UFM: A Simple Path towards Unified Dense Correspondence with Flow
2021. NeurIPS 2025UGoDIT: Unsupervised Group Deep Image Prior Via Transferable Weights
2022. NeurIPS 2025UltraHR-100K: Enhancing UHR Image Synthesis with A Large-Scale High-Quality Dataset
2023. NeurIPS 2025UMAMI: Unifying Masked Autoregressive Models and Deterministic Rendering for View Synthesis
2024. NeurIPS 2025Uncertainty-Aware Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning-Guided Diffusion Models for 3D De Novo Molecular Design
2025. NeurIPS 2025Uncertainty-aware Preference Alignment for Diffusion Policies
2026. NeurIPS 2025Uncover Governing Law of Pathology Propagation Mechanism Through A Mean-Field Game
2027. NeurIPS 2025Understanding Representation Dynamics of Diffusion Models via Low-Dimensional Modeling
2028. NeurIPS 2025Uni-Instruct: One-step Diffusion Model through Unified Diffusion Divergence Instruction
2029. NeurIPS 2025UniLumos: Fast and Unified Image and Video Relighting with Physics-Plausible Feedback
2030. NeurIPS 2025UniRelight: Learning Joint Decomposition and Synthesis for Video Relighting
2031. NeurIPS 2025UniTransfer: Video Concept Transfer via Progressive Spatio-Temporal Decomposition
2032. NeurIPS 2025Universal Few-shot Spatial Control for Diffusion Models
2033. NeurIPS 2025Unleashing Diffusion Transformers for Visual Correspondence by Modulating Massive Activations
2034. NeurIPS 2025Unleashing the Power of One-Step Diffusion based Image Super-Resolution via a Large-Scale Diffusion Discriminator
2035. NeurIPS 2025Unlocking Dataset Distillation with Diffusion Models
2036. NeurIPS 2025Unlocking hidden biomolecular conformational landscapes in diffusion models at inference time
2037. NeurIPS 2025Unraveling Metameric Dilemma for Spectral Reconstruction: A High-Fidelity Approach via Semi-Supervised Learning
2038. NeurIPS 2025Unveiling Concept Attribution in Diffusion Models
2039. NeurIPS 2025UtilGen: Utility-Centric Generative Data Augmentation with Dual-Level Task Adaptation
2040. NeurIPS 2025V-CECE: Visual Counterfactual Explanations via Conceptual Edits
2041. NeurIPS 2025Value Diffusion Reinforcement Learning
2042. NeurIPS 2025Value Gradient Guidance for Flow Matching Alignment
2043. NeurIPS 2025VarFlow: Proper Scoring-Rule Diffusion Distillation via Energy Matching
2044. NeurIPS 2025VETA-DiT: Variance-Equalized and Temporally Adaptive Quantization for Efficient 4-bit Diffusion Transformers
2045. NeurIPS 2025VFRTok: Variable Frame Rates Video Tokenizer with Duration-Proportional Information Assumption
2046. NeurIPS 2025Vicinity-Guided Discriminative Latent Diffusion for Privacy-Preserving Domain Adaptation
2047. NeurIPS 2025ViDAR: Video Diffusion-Aware 4D Reconstruction From Monocular Inputs
2048. NeurIPS 2025Video Diffusion Models Excel at Tracking Similar-Looking Objects Without Supervision
2049. NeurIPS 2025Video World Models with Long-term Spatial Memory
2050. NeurIPS 2025VideoHallu: Evaluating and Mitigating Multi-modal Hallucinations on Synthetic Video Understanding

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.