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 59 of 138
- CVPR 2025From Slow Bidirectional to Fast Autoregressive Video Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025FruitNinja: 3D Object Interior Texture Generation with Gaussian Splatting
- CVPR 2025G3Flow: Generative 3D Semantic Flow for Pose-aware and Generalizable Object Manipulation
- CVPR 2025GAF: Gaussian Avatar Reconstruction from Monocular Videos via Multi-view Diffusion
- CVPR 2025GaussianIP: Identity-Preserving Realistic 3D Human Generation via Human-Centric Diffusion Prior
- CVPR 2025GCC: Generative Color Constancy via Diffusing a Color Checker
- CVPR 2025GenAssets: Generating in-the-wild 3D Assets in Latent Space
- CVPR 2025GenDeg: Diffusion-based Degradation Synthesis for Generalizable All-In-One Image Restoration
- CVPR 2025Generalized Diffusion Detector: Mining Robust Features from Diffusion Models for Domain-Generalized Detection
- CVPR 2025Generative Map Priors for Collaborative BEV Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Generative Modeling of Class Probability for Multi-Modal Representation Learning
- CVPR 2025Generative Multimodal Pretraining with Discrete Diffusion Timestep Tokens
- CVPR 2025Generative Multiview Relighting for 3D Reconstruction under Extreme Illumination Variation
- CVPR 2025Generative Omnimatte: Learning to Decompose Video into Layers
- CVPR 2025Generative Photomontage
- CVPR 2025Generative Sparse-View Gaussian Splatting
- CVPR 2025GenFusion: Closing the Loop between Reconstruction and Generation via Videos
- CVPR 2025GLASS: Guided Latent Slot Diffusion for Object-Centric Learning
- CVPR 2025GlyphMastero: A Glyph Encoder for High-Fidelity Scene Text Editing
- CVPR 2025Go-with-the-Flow: Motion-Controllable Video Diffusion Models Using Real-Time Warped Noise
- CVPR 2025GoalFlow: Goal-Driven Flow Matching for Multimodal Trajectories Generation in End-to-End Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2025GPS as a Control Signal for Image Generation
- CVPR 2025h-Edit: Effective and Flexible Diffusion-Based Editing via Doob's h-Transform
- CVPR 2025Hallo3: Highly Dynamic and Realistic Portrait Image Animation with Video Diffusion Transformer
- CVPR 2025Harnessing Frequency Spectrum Insights for Image Copyright Protection Against Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Harnessing Global-Local Collaborative Adversarial Perturbation for Anti-Customization
- CVPR 2025Hash3D: Training-free Acceleration for 3D Generation
- CVPR 2025Hiding Images in Diffusion Models by Editing Learned Score Functions
- CVPR 2025Hierarchical Features Matter: A Deep Exploration of Progressive Parameterization Method for Dataset Distillation
- CVPR 2025Hierarchical Flow Diffusion for Efficient Frame Interpolation
- CVPR 2025High-Fidelity Relightable Monocular Portrait Animation with Lighting-Controllable Video Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025HMAR: Efficient Hierarchical Masked Auto-Regressive Image Generation
- CVPR 2025HomoGen: Enhanced Video Inpainting via Homography Propagation and Diffusion
- CVPR 2025HSI-GPT: A General-Purpose Large Scene-Motion-Language Model for Human Scene Interaction
- CVPR 2025Hyperspectral Pansharpening via Diffusion Models with Iteratively Zero-Shot Guidance
- CVPR 2025I2VGuard: Safeguarding Images against Misuse in Diffusion-based Image-to-Video Models
- CVPR 2025ICE: Intrinsic Concept Extraction from a Single Image via Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025IceDiff: High Resolution and High-Quality Arctic Sea Ice Forecasting with Generative Diffusion Prior
- CVPR 2025IDEA-Bench: How Far are Generative Models from Professional Designing?
- CVPR 2025Image Generation Diversity Issues and How to Tame Them
- CVPR 2025Image is All You Need to Empower Large-scale Diffusion Models for In-Domain Generation
- CVPR 2025Image Referenced Sketch Colorization Based on Animation Creation Workflow
- CVPR 2025Implicit Bias Injection Attacks against Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Improved Video VAE for Latent Video Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025Improving Diffusion Inverse Problem Solving with Decoupled Noise Annealing
- CVPR 2025Infinity: Scaling Bitwise AutoRegressive Modeling for High-Resolution Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2025InPO: Inversion Preference Optimization with Reparametrized DDIM for Efficient Diffusion Model Alignment
- CVPR 2025Instant Adversarial Purification with Adversarial Consistency Distillation
- CVPR 2025Instant3dit: Multiview Inpainting for Fast Editing of 3D Objects
- CVPR 2025Instruct-CLIP: Improving Instruction-Guided Image Editing with Automated Data Refinement Using Contrastive Learning
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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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