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
2,202 papers, page 43 of 45
- NeurIPS 2023PGDiff: Guiding Diffusion Models for Versatile Face Restoration via Partial Guidance
- NeurIPS 2023PHOTOSWAP: Personalized Subject Swapping in Images
- NeurIPS 2023PLANNER: Generating Diversified Paragraph via Latent Language Diffusion Model
- NeurIPS 2023Point Cloud Completion with Pretrained Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023PolyDiffuse: Polygonal Shape Reconstruction via Guided Set Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023Practical and Asymptotically Exact Conditional Sampling in Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023Pre-Training Protein Encoder via Siamese Sequence-Structure Diffusion Trajectory Prediction
- NeurIPS 2023Precision-Recall Divergence Optimization for Generative Modeling with GANs and Normalizing Flows
- NeurIPS 2023Predict, Refine, Synthesize: Self-Guiding Diffusion Models for Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting
- NeurIPS 2023Predicting mutational effects on protein-protein binding via a side-chain diffusion probabilistic model
- NeurIPS 2023PreDiff: Precipitation Nowcasting with Latent Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023PrimDiffusion: Volumetric Primitives Diffusion for 3D Human Generation
- NeurIPS 2023Projection Regret: Reducing Background Bias for Novelty Detection via Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023ProlificDreamer: High-Fidelity and Diverse Text-to-3D Generation with Variational Score Distillation
- NeurIPS 2023Protein Design with Guided Discrete Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2023ProtoDiff: Learning to Learn Prototypical Networks by Task-Guided Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2023Provable benefits of score matching
- NeurIPS 2023Provable Guarantees for Generative Behavior Cloning: Bridging Low-Level Stability and High-Level Behavior
- NeurIPS 2023PTQD: Accurate Post-Training Quantization for Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023Public Opinion Field Effect Fusion in Representation Learning for Trending Topics Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2023Puzzlefusion: Unleashing the Power of Diffusion Models for Spatial Puzzle Solving
- NeurIPS 2023Q-DM: An Efficient Low-bit Quantized Diffusion Model
- NeurIPS 2023RAPHAEL: Text-to-Image Generation via Large Mixture of Diffusion Paths
- NeurIPS 2023Re-Think and Re-Design Graph Neural Networks in Spaces of Continuous Graph Diffusion Functionals
- NeurIPS 2023Real-World Image Variation by Aligning Diffusion Inversion Chain
- NeurIPS 2023Reconstructing the Mind's Eye: fMRI-to-Image with Contrastive Learning and Diffusion Priors
- NeurIPS 2023Refining Diffusion Planner for Reliable Behavior Synthesis by Automatic Detection of Infeasible Plans
- NeurIPS 2023Regret Matching+: (In)Stability and Fast Convergence in Games
- NeurIPS 2023Relative Entropic Optimal Transport: a (Prior-aware) Matching Perspective to (Unbalanced) Classification
- NeurIPS 2023ResShift: Efficient Diffusion Model for Image Super-resolution by Residual Shifting
- NeurIPS 2023Restart Sampling for Improving Generative Processes
- NeurIPS 2023Rethinking Conditional Diffusion Sampling with Progressive Guidance
- NeurIPS 2023Reward-Directed Conditional Diffusion: Provable Distribution Estimation and Reward Improvement
- NeurIPS 2023SA-Solver: Stochastic Adams Solver for Fast Sampling of Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023Sample Complexity Bounds for Score-Matching: Causal Discovery and Generative Modeling
- NeurIPS 2023ScaleLong: Towards More Stable Training of Diffusion Model via Scaling Network Long Skip Connection
- NeurIPS 2023Scaling Riemannian Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023Score-based Data Assimilation
- NeurIPS 2023Score-based Generative Modeling through Stochastic Evolution Equations in Hilbert Spaces
- NeurIPS 2023Score-based Generative Models with Lévy Processes
- NeurIPS 2023Score-based Source Separation with Applications to Digital Communication Signals
- NeurIPS 2023SE(3) Diffusion Model-based Point Cloud Registration for Robust 6D Object Pose Estimation
- NeurIPS 2023SE(3) Equivariant Augmented Coupling Flows
- NeurIPS 2023SEEDS: Exponential SDE Solvers for Fast High-Quality Sampling from Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023SEGA: Instructing Text-to-Image Models using Semantic Guidance
- NeurIPS 2023SegRefiner: Towards Model-Agnostic Segmentation Refinement with Discrete Diffusion Process
- NeurIPS 2023Semi-Implicit Denoising Diffusion Models (SIDDMs)
- NeurIPS 2023SlotDiffusion: Object-Centric Generative Modeling with Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023SnapFusion: Text-to-Image Diffusion Model on Mobile Devices within Two Seconds
- NeurIPS 2023Solving Inverse Physics Problems with Score Matching
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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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