Diffusion Models papers, 2023–2026

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.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• 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

487 papers, page 6 of 10

251. ICLR 2025IterComp: Iterative Composition-Aware Feedback Learning from Model Gallery for Text-to-Image Generation
252. ICLR 2025IV-mixed Sampler: Leveraging Image Diffusion Models for Enhanced Video Synthesis
253. ICLR 2025Jump Your Steps: Optimizing Sampling Schedule of Discrete Diffusion Models
254. ICLR 2025LaGeM: A Large Geometry Model for 3D Representation Learning and Diffusion
255. ICLR 2025LANTERN: Accelerating Visual Autoregressive Models with Relaxed Speculative Decoding
256. ICLR 2025Latent-EnSF: A Latent Ensemble Score Filter for High-Dimensional Data Assimilation with Sparse Observation Data
257. ICLR 2025LayerDAG: A Layerwise Autoregressive Diffusion Model for Directed Acyclic Graph Generation
258. ICLR 2025Learned Reference-based Diffusion Sampler for multi-modal distributions
259. ICLR 2025Learning Distributions of Complex Fluid Simulations with Diffusion Graph Networks
260. ICLR 2025Learning to Discretize Denoising Diffusion ODEs
261. ICLR 2025LeFusion: Controllable Pathology Synthesis via Lesion-Focused Diffusion Models
262. ICLR 2025Less is More: Masking Elements in Image Condition Features Avoids Content Leakages in Style Transfer Diffusion Models
263. ICLR 2025Lift Your Molecules: Molecular Graph Generation in Latent Euclidean Space
264. ICLR 2025Lightning-Fast Image Inversion and Editing for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
265. ICLR 2025Linear Combination of Saved Checkpoints Makes Consistency and Diffusion Models Better
266. ICLR 2025Linear combinations of latents in generative models: subspaces and beyond
267. ICLR 2025Linear Multistep Solver Distillation for Fast Sampling of Diffusion Models
268. ICLR 2025Looking Backward: Streaming Video-to-Video Translation with Feature Banks
269. ICLR 2025Loopy: Taming Audio-Driven Portrait Avatar with Long-Term Motion Dependency
270. ICLR 2025Lossy Compression with Pretrained Diffusion Models
271. ICLR 2025Lotus: Diffusion-based Visual Foundation Model for High-quality Dense Prediction
272. ICLR 2025Lumina-T2X: Scalable Flow-based Large Diffusion Transformer for Flexible Resolution Generation
273. ICLR 2025Manifold Constraint Reduces Exposure Bias in Accelerated Diffusion Sampling
274. ICLR 2025Manifold Induced Biases for Zero-shot and Few-shot Detection of Generated Images
275. ICLR 2025Manifolds, Random Matrices and Spectral Gaps: The geometric phases of generative diffusion
276. ICLR 2025MaRS: A Fast Sampler for Mean Reverting Diffusion based on ODE and SDE Solvers
277. ICLR 2025Masked Diffusion Models are Secretly Time-Agnostic Masked Models and Exploit Inaccurate Categorical Sampling
278. ICLR 2025Masked Temporal Interpolation Diffusion for Procedure Planning in Instructional Videos
279. ICLR 2025MDSGen: Fast and Efficient Masked Diffusion Temporal-Aware Transformers for Open-Domain Sound Generation
280. ICLR 2025Meissonic: Revitalizing Masked Generative Transformers for Efficient High-Resolution Text-to-Image Synthesis
281. ICLR 2025Meta Flow Matching: Integrating Vector Fields on the Wasserstein Manifold
282. ICLR 2025Minimal Impact ControlNet: Advancing Multi-ControlNet Integration
283. ICLR 2025Mining your own secrets: Diffusion Classifier Scores for Continual Personalization of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
284. ICLR 2025MMDisCo: Multi-Modal Discriminator-Guided Cooperative Diffusion for Joint Audio and Video Generation
285. ICLR 2025Modeling Complex System Dynamics with Flow Matching Across Time and Conditions
286. ICLR 2025MOFFlow: Flow Matching for Structure Prediction of Metal-Organic Frameworks
287. ICLR 2025MorphoDiff: Cellular Morphology Painting with Diffusion Models
288. ICLR 2025Motion-Agent: A Conversational Framework for Human Motion Generation with LLMs
289. ICLR 2025MotionAura: Generating High-Quality and Motion Consistent Videos using Discrete Diffusion
290. ICLR 2025MovieDreamer: Hierarchical Generation for Coherent Long Visual Sequences
291. ICLR 2025MS-Diffusion: Multi-subject Zero-shot Image Personalization with Layout Guidance
292. ICLR 2025Multi-domain Distribution Learning for De Novo Drug Design
293. ICLR 2025Multi-Modal and Multi-Attribute Generation of Single Cells with CFGen
294. ICLR 2025Multi-objective antibody design with constrained preference optimization
295. ICLR 2025Multi-Perspective Data Augmentation for Few-shot Object Detection
296. ICLR 2025Multi-Resolution Decomposable Diffusion Model for Non-Stationary Time Series Anomaly Detection
297. ICLR 2025Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Diffusion Models
298. ICLR 2025Multi-Task Dense Predictions via Unleashing the Power of Diffusion
299. ICLR 2025Multimodal Large Language Models for Inverse Molecular Design with Retrosynthetic Planning
300. ICLR 2025MVTokenFlow: High-quality 4D Content Generation using Multiview Token Flow

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.