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
1,471 papers, page 6 of 30
- CVPR 2024Intelligent Grimm - Open-ended Visual Storytelling via Latent Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024InteractDiffusion: Interaction Control in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024InterHandGen: Two-Hand Interaction Generation via Cascaded Reverse Diffusion
- CVPR 2024Intriguing Properties of Diffusion Models: An Empirical Study of the Natural Attack Capability in Text-to-Image Generative Models
- CVPR 2024Intrinsic Image Diffusion for Indoor Single-view Material Estimation
- CVPR 2024Inversion-Free Image Editing with Language-Guided Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024It's All About Your Sketch: Democratising Sketch Control in Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024iToF-flow-based High Frame Rate Depth Imaging
- CVPR 2024JeDi: Joint-Image Diffusion Models for Finetuning-Free Personalized Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Joint2Human: High-Quality 3D Human Generation via Compact Spherical Embedding of 3D Joints
- CVPR 2024L-MAGIC: Language Model Assisted Generation of Images with Coherence
- CVPR 2024LAMP: Learn A Motion Pattern for Few-Shot Video Generation
- CVPR 2024Language-driven Grasp Detection
- CVPR 2024Language-driven Object Fusion into Neural Radiance Fields with Pose-Conditioned Dataset Updates
- CVPR 2024Laplacian-guided Entropy Model in Neural Codec with Blur-dissipated Synthesis
- CVPR 2024LaRE^2: Latent Reconstruction Error Based Method for Diffusion-Generated Image Detection
- CVPR 2024Layout-Agnostic Scene Text Image Synthesis with Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Learned Representation-Guided Diffusion Models for Large-Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Learning Continuous 3D Words for Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Learning Diffusion Texture Priors for Image Restoration
- CVPR 2024Learning Spatial Adaptation and Temporal Coherence in Diffusion Models for Video Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2024LEDITS++: Limitless Image Editing using Text-to-Image Models
- CVPR 2024LeftRefill: Filling Right Canvas based on Left Reference through Generalized Text-to-Image Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024Light the Night: A Multi-Condition Diffusion Framework for Unpaired Low-Light Enhancement in Autonomous Driving
- CVPR 2024LightIt: Illumination Modeling and Control for Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Lodge: A Coarse to Fine Diffusion Network for Long Dance Generation Guided by the Characteristic Dance Primitives
- CVPR 2024LoS: Local Structure-Guided Stereo Matching
- CVPR 2024MACE: Mass Concept Erasure in Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024MagicAnimate: Temporally Consistent Human Image Animation using Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024Make Pixels Dance: High-Dynamic Video Generation
- CVPR 2024Make-Your-Anchor: A Diffusion-based 2D Avatar Generation Framework
- CVPR 2024MAS: Multi-view Ancestral Sampling for 3D Motion Generation Using 2D Diffusion
- CVPR 2024MaskINT: Video Editing via Interpolative Non-autoregressive Masked Transformers
- CVPR 2024Matching 2D Images in 3D: Metric Relative Pose from Metric Correspondences
- CVPR 2024Matching Anything by Segmenting Anything
- CVPR 2024Material Palette: Extraction of Materials from a Single Image
- CVPR 2024MatFuse: Controllable Material Generation with Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024MedM2G: Unifying Medical Multi-Modal Generation via Cross-Guided Diffusion with Visual Invariant
- CVPR 2024MeLFusion: Synthesizing Music from Image and Language Cues using Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024MESA: Matching Everything by Segmenting Anything
- CVPR 2024MetaCloak: Preventing Unauthorized Subject-driven Text-to-image Diffusion-based Synthesis via Meta-learning
- CVPR 2024MicroCinema: A Divide-and-Conquer Approach for Text-to-Video Generation
- CVPR 2024MicroDiffusion: Implicit Representation-Guided Diffusion for 3D Reconstruction from Limited 2D Microscopy Projections
- CVPR 2024MimicDiffusion: Purifying Adversarial Perturbation via Mimicking Clean Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024MMA-Diffusion: MultiModal Attack on Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024MMM: Generative Masked Motion Model
- CVPR 2024MoMask: Generative Masked Modeling of 3D Human Motions
- CVPR 2024MonoDiff: Monocular 3D Object Detection and Pose Estimation with Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Morphable Diffusion: 3D-Consistent Diffusion for Single-image Avatar Creation
- CVPR 2024Mosaic-SDF for 3D Generative 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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