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 57 of 138
- CVPR 2025Diff2Flow: Training Flow Matching Models via Diffusion Model Alignment
- CVPR 2025Difference Inversion: Interpolate and Isolate the Difference with Token Consistency for Image Analogy Generation
- CVPR 2025DiffFNO: Diffusion Fourier Neural Operator
- CVPR 2025DiffLocks: Generating 3D Hair from a Single Image using Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025DiffPortrait360: Consistent Portrait Diffusion for 360 View Synthesis
- CVPR 2025DiffSensei: Bridging Multi-Modal LLMs and Diffusion Models for Customized Manga Generation
- CVPR 2025Diffusion Bridge: Leveraging Diffusion Model to Reduce the Modality Gap Between Text and Vision for Zero-Shot Image Captioning
- CVPR 2025Diffusion Model is Effectively Its Own Teacher
- CVPR 2025Diffusion Renderer: Neural Inverse and Forward Rendering with Video Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Diffusion Self-Distillation for Zero-Shot Customized Image Generation
- CVPR 2025Diffusion-4K: Ultra-High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Diffusion-based Event Generation for High-Quality Image Deblurring
- CVPR 2025Diffusion-based Realistic Listening Head Generation via Hybrid Motion Modeling
- CVPR 2025DiffusionDrive: Truncated Diffusion Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2025DiffusionSfM: Predicting Structure and Motion via Ray Origin and Endpoint Diffusion
- CVPR 2025DiffVsgg: Diffusion-Driven Online Video Scene Graph Generation
- CVPR 2025DifIISR: A Diffusion Model with Gradient Guidance for Infrared Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2025DIFIX3D+: Improving 3D Reconstructions with Single-Step Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025DiG: Scalable and Efficient Diffusion Models with Gated Linear Attention
- CVPR 2025DiN: Diffusion Model for Robust Medical VQA with Semantic Noisy Labels
- CVPR 2025Directional Label Diffusion Model for Learning from Noisy Labels
- CVPR 2025Disco4D: Disentangled 4D Human Generation and Animation from a Single Image
- CVPR 2025Discrete to Continuous: Generating Smooth Transition Poses from Sign Language Observations
- CVPR 2025Disentangled Pose and Appearance Guidance for Multi-Pose Generation
- CVPR 2025DiSRT-In-Bed: Diffusion-Based Sim-to-Real Transfer Framework for In-Bed Human Mesh Recovery
- CVPR 2025Dissecting and Mitigating Diffusion Bias via Mechanistic Interpretability
- CVPR 2025Distribution Prototype Diffusion Learning for Open-set Supervised Anomaly Detection
- CVPR 2025DiTCtrl: Exploring Attention Control in Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformer for Tuning-Free Multi-Prompt Longer Video Generation
- CVPR 2025Divide and Conquer: Heterogeneous Noise Integration for Diffusion-based Adversarial Purification
- CVPR 2025Divot: Diffusion Powers Video Tokenizer for Comprehension and Generation
- CVPR 2025DKDM: Data-Free Knowledge Distillation for Diffusion Models with Any Architecture
- CVPR 2025DNF: Unconditional 4D Generation with Dictionary-based Neural Fields
- CVPR 2025Do Visual Imaginations Improve Vision-and-Language Navigation Agents?
- CVPR 2025DreamRelation: Bridging Customization and Relation Generation
- CVPR 2025DRiVE: Diffusion-based Rigging Empowers Generation of Versatile and Expressive Characters
- CVPR 2025DriveGEN: Generalized and Robust 3D Detection in Driving via Controllable Text-to-Image Diffusion Generation
- CVPR 2025DriveScape: High-Resolution Driving Video Generation by Multi-View Feature Fusion
- CVPR 2025DTGBrepGen: A Novel B-rep Generative Model through Decoupling Topology and Geometry
- CVPR 2025Dual Diffusion for Unified Image Generation and Understanding
- CVPR 2025Dual Prompting Image Restoration with Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2025Dual-Granularity Semantic Guided Sparse Routing Diffusion Model for General Pansharpening
- CVPR 2025Dual-Interrelated Diffusion Model for Few-Shot Anomaly Image Generation
- CVPR 2025DyMO: Training-Free Diffusion Model Alignment with Dynamic Multi-Objective Scheduling
- CVPR 2025Dynamic Motion Blending for Versatile Motion Editing
- CVPR 2025DynamicScaler: Seamless and Scalable Video Generation for Panoramic Scenes
- CVPR 2025Early-Bird Diffusion: Investigating and Leveraging Timestep-Aware Early-Bird Tickets in Diffusion Models for Efficient Training
- CVPR 2025EchoMatch: Partial-to-Partial Shape Matching via Correspondence Reflection
- CVPR 2025EDEN: Enhanced Diffusion for High-quality Large-motion Video Frame Interpolation
- CVPR 2025Edge-SD-SR: Low Latency and Parameter Efficient On-device Super-Resolution with Stable Diffusion via Bidirectional Conditioning
- CVPR 2025EdgeDiff: Edge-aware Diffusion Network for Building Reconstruction from Point Clouds
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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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