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
520 papers, page 5 of 11
- NeurIPS 2024Exploring Structured Semantic Priors Underlying Diffusion Score for Test-time Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2024Exploring the Role of Large Language Models in Prompt Encoding for Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Face2QR: A Unified Framework for Aesthetic, Face-Preserving, and Scannable QR Code Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Factorized Diffusion Architectures for Unsupervised Image Generation and Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2024FashionR2R: Texture-preserving Rendered-to-Real Image Translation with Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Fast and Memory-Efficient Video Diffusion Using Streamlined Inference
- NeurIPS 2024Fast samplers for Inverse Problems in Iterative Refinement models
- NeurIPS 2024Fast Sampling via Discrete Non-Markov Diffusion Models with Predetermined Transition Time
- NeurIPS 2024Fast T2T: Optimization Consistency Speeds Up Diffusion-Based Training-to-Testing Solving for Combinatorial Optimization
- NeurIPS 2024FastDrag: Manipulate Anything in One Step
- NeurIPS 2024Faster Diffusion: Rethinking the Role of the Encoder for Diffusion Model Inference
- NeurIPS 2024Faster Local Solvers for Graph Diffusion Equations
- NeurIPS 2024FasterDiT: Towards Faster Diffusion Transformers Training without Architecture Modification
- NeurIPS 2024Few-Shot Diffusion Models Escape the Curse of Dimensionality
- NeurIPS 2024FewViewGS: Gaussian Splatting with Few View Matching and Multi-stage Training
- NeurIPS 2024FIDE: Frequency-Inflated Conditional Diffusion Model for Extreme-Aware Time Series Generation
- NeurIPS 2024FIFO-Diffusion: Generating Infinite Videos from Text without Training
- NeurIPS 2024Finding NeMo: Localizing Neurons Responsible For Memorization in Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Fisher Flow Matching for Generative Modeling over Discrete Data
- NeurIPS 2024FiVA: Fine-grained Visual Attribute Dataset for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024FlexSBDD: Structure-Based Drug Design with Flexible Protein Modeling
- NeurIPS 2024Flow Priors for Linear Inverse Problems via Iterative Corrupted Trajectory Matching
- NeurIPS 2024FlowLLM: Flow Matching for Material Generation with Large Language Models as Base Distributions
- NeurIPS 2024FlowTurbo: Towards Real-time Flow-Based Image Generation with Velocity Refiner
- NeurIPS 2024FouRA: Fourier Low-Rank Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2024FreeLong: Training-Free Long Video Generation with SpectralBlend Temporal Attention
- NeurIPS 2024Frieren: Efficient Video-to-Audio Generation Network with Rectified Flow Matching
- NeurIPS 2024From Trojan Horses to Castle Walls: Unveiling Bilateral Data Poisoning Effects in Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Full-Atom Peptide Design with Geometric Latent Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2024FuseAnyPart: Diffusion-Driven Facial Parts Swapping via Multiple Reference Images
- NeurIPS 2024General Articulated Objects Manipulation in Real Images via Part-Aware Diffusion Process
- NeurIPS 2024Generalized Protein Pocket Generation with Prior-Informed Flow Matching
- NeurIPS 2024Generalizing Consistency Policy to Visual RL with Prioritized Proximal Experience Regularization
- NeurIPS 2024Generating compositional scenes via Text-to-image RGBA Instance Generation
- NeurIPS 2024Generating Highly Designable Proteins with Geometric Algebra Flow Matching
- NeurIPS 2024Generative Fractional Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Generative Hierarchical Materials Search
- NeurIPS 2024Generative Modelling of Structurally Constrained Graphs
- NeurIPS 2024GENOT: Entropic (Gromov) Wasserstein Flow Matching with Applications to Single-Cell Genomics
- NeurIPS 2024GenRec: Unifying Video Generation and Recognition with Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024GenWarp: Single Image to Novel Views with Semantic-Preserving Generative Warping
- NeurIPS 2024Geometric Trajectory Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Gradient Guidance for Diffusion Models: An Optimization Perspective
- NeurIPS 2024Gradient-free Decoder Inversion in Latent Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Graph Diffusion Policy Optimization
- NeurIPS 2024Graph Diffusion Transformers for Multi-Conditional Molecular Generation
- NeurIPS 2024GrounDiT: Grounding Diffusion Transformers via Noisy Patch Transplantation
- NeurIPS 2024Group and Shuffle: Efficient Structured Orthogonal Parametrization
- NeurIPS 2024GTA: Generative Trajectory Augmentation with Guidance for Offline Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2024Guided Trajectory Generation with Diffusion Models for Offline Model-based Optimization
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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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