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
6,899 papers, page 55 of 138
- CVPR 2025ACE: Anti-Editing Concept Erasure in Text-to-Image Models
- CVPR 2025Adaptive Non-Uniform Timestep Sampling for Accelerating Diffusion Model Training
- CVPR 2025Advancing Generalizable Tumor Segmentation with Anomaly-Aware Open-Vocabulary Attention Maps and Frozen Foundation Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Adversarial Domain Prompt Tuning and Generation for Single Domain Generalization
- CVPR 2025AeroGen: Enhancing Remote Sensing Object Detection with Diffusion-Driven Data Generation
- CVPR 2025Aesthetic Post-Training Diffusion Models from Generic Preferences with Step-by-step Preference Optimization
- CVPR 2025AI-Face: A Million-Scale Demographically Annotated AI-Generated Face Dataset and Fairness Benchmark
- CVPR 2025AIM-Fair: Advancing Algorithmic Fairness via Selectively Fine-Tuning Biased Models with Contextual Synthetic Data
- CVPR 2025Alias-Free Latent Diffusion Models: Improving Fractional Shift Equivariance of Diffusion Latent Space
- CVPR 2025Align-A-Video: Deterministic Reward Tuning of Image Diffusion Models for Consistent Video Editing
- CVPR 2025Align3R: Aligned Monocular Depth Estimation for Dynamic Videos
- CVPR 2025An End-to-End Robust Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation Network with Single-Step Conditional Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025An Image-like Diffusion Method for Human-Object Interaction Detection
- CVPR 2025Anatomical Consistency and Adaptive Prior-informed Transformation for Multi-contrast MR Image Synthesis via Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025AniDoc: Animation Creation Made Easier
- CVPR 2025Animate and Sound an Image
- CVPR 2025AnyDressing: Customizable Multi-Garment Virtual Dressing via Latent Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025AnyMoLe: Any Character Motion In-betweening Leveraging Video Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025APT: Adaptive Personalized Training for Diffusion Models with Limited Data
- CVPR 2025AR-Diffusion: Asynchronous Video Generation with Auto-Regressive Diffusion
- CVPR 2025Arbitrary-steps Image Super-resolution via Diffusion Inversion
- CVPR 2025Are Images Indistinguishable to Humans Also Indistinguishable to Classifiers?
- CVPR 2025Around the World in 80 Timesteps: A Generative Approach to Global Visual Geolocation
- CVPR 2025Articulated Kinematics Distillation from Video Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025ArtiFade: Learning to Generate High-quality Subject from Blemished Images
- CVPR 2025Attend to Not Attended: Structure-then-Detail Token Merging for Post-training DiT Acceleration
- CVPR 2025Attention Distillation: A Unified Approach to Visual Characteristics Transfer
- CVPR 2025Auto Cherry-Picker: Learning from High-quality Generative Data Driven by Language
- CVPR 2025Autoregressive Distillation of Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2025Autoregressive Sequential Pretraining for Visual Tracking
- CVPR 2025AvatarArtist: Open-Domain 4D Avatarization
- CVPR 2025BADGR: Bundle Adjustment Diffusion Conditioned by Gradients for Wide-Baseline Floor Plan Reconstruction
- CVPR 2025Believing is Seeing: Unobserved Object Detection using Generative Models
- CVPR 2025BEVDiffuser: Plug-and-Play Diffusion Model for BEV Denoising with Ground-Truth Guidance
- CVPR 2025Beyond Generation: A Diffusion-based Low-level Feature Extractor for Detecting AI-generated Images
- CVPR 2025BIGS: Bimanual Category-agnostic Interaction Reconstruction from Monocular Videos via 3D Gaussian Splatting
- CVPR 2025Birth and Death of a Rose
- CVPR 2025Black Hole-Driven Identity Absorbing in Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Black-Box Forgery Attacks on Semantic Watermarks for Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Blind Bitstream-corrupted Video Recovery via Metadata-guided Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025BlobGEN-Vid: Compositional Text-to-Video Generation with Blob Video Representations
- CVPR 2025BlockDance: Reuse Structurally Similar Spatio-Temporal Features to Accelerate Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2025Blood Flow Speed Estimation with Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography Images
- CVPR 2025BooW-VTON: Boosting In-the-Wild Virtual Try-On via Mask-Free Pseudo Data Training
- CVPR 2025BrepGiff: Lightweight Generation of Complex B-rep with 3D GAT Diffusion
- CVPR 2025Bridging the Gap between Gaussian Diffusion Models and Universal Quantization for Image Compression
- CVPR 2025BWFormer: Building Wireframe Reconstruction from Airborne LiDAR Point Cloud with Transformer
- CVPR 2025CacheQuant: Comprehensively Accelerated Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025CADDreamer: CAD Object Generation from Single-view Images
- CVPR 2025Calibrated Multi-Preference Optimization for Aligning Diffusion Models
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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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