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
496 papers, page 5 of 10
- CVPR 2024Generate Like Experts: Multi-Stage Font Generation by Incorporating Font Transfer Process into Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Generate Subgoal Images before Act: Unlocking the Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Diffusion Model for Robot Manipulation with Multimodal Prompts
- CVPR 2024Generating Content for HDR Deghosting from Frequency View
- CVPR 2024Generating Enhanced Negatives for Training Language-Based Object Detectors
- CVPR 2024Generating Illustrated Instructions
- CVPR 2024Generative Image Dynamics
- CVPR 2024Generative Powers of Ten
- CVPR 2024Generative Proxemics: A Prior for 3D Social Interaction from Images
- CVPR 2024Generative Rendering: Controllable 4D-Guided Video Generation with 2D Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024GenesisTex: Adapting Image Denoising Diffusion to Texture Space
- CVPR 2024GenTron: Diffusion Transformers for Image and Video Generation
- CVPR 2024Genuine Knowledge from Practice: Diffusion Test-Time Adaptation for Video Adverse Weather Removal
- CVPR 2024GLACE: Global Local Accelerated Coordinate Encoding
- CVPR 2024GPLD3D: Latent Diffusion of 3D Shape Generative Models by Enforcing Geometric and Physical Priors
- CVPR 2024GraphDreamer: Compositional 3D Scene Synthesis from Scene Graphs
- CVPR 2024Grid Diffusion Models for Text-to-Video Generation
- CVPR 2024Grounded Text-to-Image Synthesis with Attention Refocusing
- CVPR 2024Guess The Unseen: Dynamic 3D Scene Reconstruction from Partial 2D Glimpses
- CVPR 2024HandBooster: Boosting 3D Hand-Mesh Reconstruction by Conditional Synthesis and Sampling of Hand-Object Interactions
- CVPR 2024HandDiff: 3D Hand Pose Estimation with Diffusion on Image-Point Cloud
- CVPR 2024HanDiffuser: Text-to-Image Generation With Realistic Hand Appearances
- CVPR 2024HarmonyView: Harmonizing Consistency and Diversity in One-Image-to-3D
- CVPR 2024HHMR: Holistic Hand Mesh Recovery by Enhancing the Multimodal Controllability of Graph Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Hierarchical Patch Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Video Generation
- CVPR 2024Hierarchical Spatio-temporal Decoupling for Text-to-Video Generation
- CVPR 2024High-fidelity Person-centric Subject-to-Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2024HIR-Diff: Unsupervised Hyperspectral Image Restoration Via Improved Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024HIVE: Harnessing Human Feedback for Instructional Visual Editing
- CVPR 2024HOIAnimator: Generating Text-prompt Human-object Animations using Novel Perceptive Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024HOIDiffusion: Generating Realistic 3D Hand-Object Interaction Data
- CVPR 2024HumanNorm: Learning Normal Diffusion Model for High-quality and Realistic 3D Human Generation
- CVPR 2024HumanRef: Single Image to 3D Human Generation via Reference-Guided Diffusion
- CVPR 2024HyperDreamBooth: HyperNetworks for Fast Personalization of Text-to-Image Models
- CVPR 2024HyperSDFusion: Bridging Hierarchical Structures in Language and Geometry for Enhanced 3D Text2Shape Generation
- CVPR 2024I'M HOI: Inertia-aware Monocular Capture of 3D Human-Object Interactions
- CVPR 2024ICP-Flow: LiDAR Scene Flow Estimation with ICP
- CVPR 2024ID-Blau: Image Deblurring by Implicit Diffusion-based reBLurring AUgmentation
- CVPR 2024Image Neural Field Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Image Restoration by Denoising Diffusion Models with Iteratively Preconditioned Guidance
- CVPR 2024ImageNet-D: Benchmarking Neural Network Robustness on Diffusion Synthetic Object
- CVPR 2024Implicit Motion Function
- CVPR 2024Improving Training Efficiency of Diffusion Models via Multi-Stage Framework and Tailored Multi-Decoder Architecture
- CVPR 2024In-Context Matting
- CVPR 2024In-distribution Public Data Synthesis with Diffusion Models for Differentially Private Image Classification
- CVPR 2024InitNO: Boosting Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Initial Noise Optimization
- CVPR 2024InstaGen: Enhancing Object Detection by Training on Synthetic Dataset
- CVPR 2024InstanceDiffusion: Instance-level Control for Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Instruct 4D-to-4D: Editing 4D Scenes as Pseudo-3D Scenes Using 2D Diffusion
- CVPR 2024Instruct-Imagen: Image Generation with Multi-modal Instruction
- CVPR 2024InstructVideo: Instructing Video Diffusion Models with Human Feedback
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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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