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
487 papers, page 5 of 10
- ICLR 2025Generative Classifiers Avoid Shortcut Solutions
- ICLR 2025Generative Inbetweening: Adapting Image-to-Video Models for Keyframe Interpolation
- ICLR 2025Generator Matching: Generative modeling with arbitrary Markov processes
- ICLR 2025GenXD: Generating Any 3D and 4D Scenes
- ICLR 2025Glad: A Streaming Scene Generator for Autonomous Driving
- ICLR 2025Glauber Generative Model: Discrete Diffusion Models via Binary Classification
- ICLR 2025Global Well-posedness and Convergence Analysis of Score-based Generative Models via Sharp Lipschitz Estimates
- ICLR 2025GoodDrag: Towards Good Practices for Drag Editing with Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Gradient-Free Generation for Hard-Constrained Systems
- ICLR 2025GravMAD: Grounded Spatial Value Maps Guided Action Diffusion for Generalized 3D Manipulation
- ICLR 2025Growth Inhibitors for Suppressing Inappropriate Image Concepts in Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Guided Score identity Distillation for Data-Free One-Step Text-to-Image Generation
- ICLR 2025HART: Efficient Visual Generation with Hybrid Autoregressive Transformer
- ICLR 2025HD-Painter: High-Resolution and Prompt-Faithful Text-Guided Image Inpainting with Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Heavy-Tailed Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Heavy-Tailed Diffusion with Denoising Levy Probabilistic Models
- ICLR 2025HERO: Human-Feedback Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Online Diffusion Model Finetuning
- ICLR 2025Hidden in the Noise: Two-Stage Robust Watermarking for Images
- ICLR 2025High-Precision Dichotomous Image Segmentation via Probing Diffusion Capacity
- ICLR 2025High-quality Text-to-3D Character Generation with SparseCubes and Sparse Transformers.
- ICLR 2025How Discrete and Continuous Diffusion Meet: Comprehensive Analysis of Discrete Diffusion Models via a Stochastic Integral Framework
- ICLR 2025How Much is a Noisy Image Worth? Data Scaling Laws for Ambient Diffusion.
- ICLR 2025Hummingbird: High Fidelity Image Generation via Multimodal Context Alignment
- ICLR 2025Hybrid Regularization Improves Diffusion-based Inverse Problem Solving
- ICLR 2025IDArb: Intrinsic Decomposition for Arbitrary Number of Input Views and Illuminations
- ICLR 2025Image Watermarks are Removable using Controllable Regeneration from Clean Noise
- ICLR 2025Image-level Memorization Detection via Inversion-based Inference Perturbation
- ICLR 2025ImageFolder: Autoregressive Image Generation with Folded Tokens
- ICLR 2025Implicit Search via Discrete Diffusion: A Study on Chess
- ICLR 2025Improved Convergence Rate for Diffusion Probabilistic Models
- ICLR 2025Improved Diffusion-based Generative Model with Better Adversarial Robustness
- ICLR 2025Improved Sampling Algorithms for Lévy-Itô Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Improved Sampling Of Diffusion Models In Fluid Dynamics With Tweedie's Formula
- ICLR 2025Improved Training Technique for Latent Consistency Models
- ICLR 2025Improving Equivariant Networks with Probabilistic Symmetry Breaking
- ICLR 2025Improving Long-Text Alignment for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Improving Probabilistic Diffusion Models With Optimal Diagonal Covariance Matching
- ICLR 2025InCoDe: Interpretable Compressed Descriptions For Image Generation
- ICLR 2025Incorporating Visual Correspondence into Diffusion Model for Virtual Try-On
- ICLR 2025Infinite-Resolution Integral Noise Warping for Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Influence Functions for Scalable Data Attribution in Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Influence-Guided Diffusion for Dataset Distillation
- ICLR 2025Information Theoretic Text-to-Image Alignment
- ICLR 2025Instant Policy: In-Context Imitation Learning via Graph Diffusion
- ICLR 2025InstantPortrait: One-Step Portrait Editing via Diffusion Multi-Objective Distillation
- ICLR 2025InstaRevive: One-Step Image Enhancement via Dynamic Score Matching
- ICLR 2025Integrating Protein Dynamics into Structure-Based Drug Design via Full-Atom Stochastic Flows
- ICLR 2025InterMask: 3D Human Interaction Generation via Collaborative Masked Modeling
- ICLR 2025InverseBench: Benchmarking Plug-and-Play Diffusion Priors for Inverse Problems in Physical Sciences
- ICLR 2025IPDreamer: Appearance-Controllable 3D Object Generation with Complex Image Prompts
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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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