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 58 of 138
- CVPR 2025Edit Away and My Face Will not Stay: Personal Biometric Defense against Malicious Generative Editing
- CVPR 2025EditAR: Unified Conditional Generation with Autoregressive Models
- CVPR 2025EditSplat: Multi-View Fusion and Attention-Guided Optimization for View-Consistent 3D Scene Editing with 3D Gaussian Splatting
- CVPR 2025EDM: Equirectangular Projection-Oriented Dense Kernelized Feature Matching
- CVPR 2025Effective Cloud Removal for Remote Sensing Images by an Improved Mean-Reverting Denoising Model with Elucidated Design Space
- CVPR 2025Efficient Diffusion as Low Light Enhancer
- CVPR 2025Efficient Fine-Tuning and Concept Suppression for Pruned Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Efficient Personalization of Quantized Diffusion Model without Backpropagation
- CVPR 2025EIDT-V: Exploiting Intersections in Diffusion Trajectories for Model-Agnostic, Zero-Shot, Training-Free Text-to-Video Generation
- CVPR 2025EmoDubber: Towards High Quality and Emotion Controllable Movie Dubbing
- CVPR 2025EmotiveTalk: Expressive Talking Head Generation through Audio Information Decoupling and Emotional Video Diffusion
- CVPR 2025EnergyMoGen: Compositional Human Motion Generation with Energy-Based Diffusion Model in Latent Space
- CVPR 2025Enhancing Creative Generation on Stable Diffusion-based Models
- CVPR 2025Enhancing Dance-to-Music Generation via Negative Conditioning Latent Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025Enhancing Facial Privacy Protection via Weakening Diffusion Purification
- CVPR 2025Enhancing Privacy-Utility Trade-offs to Mitigate Memorization in Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Erase Diffusion: Empowering Object Removal Through Calibrating Diffusion Pathways
- CVPR 2025Erasing Undesirable Influence in Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Estimating Body and Hand Motion in an Ego-sensed World
- CVPR 2025Everything to the Synthetic: Diffusion-driven Test-time Adaptation via Synthetic-Domain Alignment
- CVPR 2025Explaining in Diffusion: Explaining a Classifier with Diffusion Semantics
- CVPR 2025Exploring Sparse MoE in GANs for Text-conditioned Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2025Exploring the Deep Fusion of Large Language Models and Diffusion Transformers for Text-to-Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2025Extrapolating and Decoupling Image-to-Video Generation Models: Motion Modeling is Easier Than You Think
- CVPR 2025FADA: Fast Diffusion Avatar Synthesis with Mixed-Supervised Multi-CFG Distillation
- CVPR 2025FADE: Frequency-Aware Diffusion Model Factorization for Video Editing
- CVPR 2025FaithDiff: Unleashing Diffusion Priors for Faithful Image Super-resolution
- CVPR 2025FAM Diffusion: Frequency and Attention Modulation for High-Resolution Image Generation with Stable Diffusion
- CVPR 2025Fancy123: One Image to High-Quality 3D Mesh Generation via Plug-and-Play Deformation
- CVPR 2025FDS: Frequency-Aware Denoising Score for Text-Guided Latent Diffusion Image Editing
- CVPR 2025FedBiP: Heterogeneous One-Shot Federated Learning with Personalized Latent Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025FeedEdit: Text-Based Image Editing with Dynamic Feedback Regulation
- CVPR 2025Finding Local Diffusion Schrodinger Bridge using Kolmogorov-Arnold Network
- CVPR 2025Fine-Grained Erasure in Text-to-Image Diffusion-based Foundation Models
- CVPR 2025Fingerprinting Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models
- CVPR 2025FIRE: Robust Detection of Diffusion-Generated Images via Frequency-Guided Reconstruction Error
- CVPR 2025FireEdit: Fine-grained Instruction-based Image Editing via Region-aware Vision Language Model
- CVPR 2025Flash-Split: 2D Reflection Removal with Flash Cues and Latent Diffusion Separation
- CVPR 2025FlexiDiT: Your Diffusion Transformer Can Easily Generate High-Quality Samples with Less Compute
- CVPR 2025FlipSketch: Flipping Static Drawings to Text-Guided Sketch Animations
- CVPR 2025FloVD: Optical Flow Meets Video Diffusion Model for Enhanced Camera-Controlled Video Synthesis
- CVPR 2025Flowing from Words to Pixels: A Noise-Free Framework for Cross-Modality Evolution
- CVPR 2025FlowRAM: Grounding Flow Matching Policy with Region-Aware Mamba Framework for Robotic Manipulation
- CVPR 2025Floxels: Fast Unsupervised Voxel Based Scene Flow Estimation
- CVPR 2025FoundHand: Large-Scale Domain-Specific Learning for Controllable Hand Image Generation
- CVPR 2025Free-viewpoint Human Animation with Pose-correlated Reference Selection
- CVPR 2025FreePCA: Integrating Consistency Information across Long-short Frames in Training-free Long Video Generation via Principal Component Analysis
- CVPR 2025FreeUV: Ground-Truth-Free Realistic Facial UV Texture Recovery via Cross-Assembly Inference Strategy
- CVPR 2025From Faces to Voices: Learning Hierarchical Representations for High-quality Video-to-Speech
- CVPR 2025From Head to Tail: Towards Balanced Representation in Large Vision-Language Models through Adaptive Data Calibration
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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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