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
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- CVPR 2026Guiding Diffusion Models with Fine-Grained Conditions and Semantics-Preserving Sampling for
- CVPR 2026Guiding Diffusion Models with Semantically Degraded Conditions
- CVPR 2026Guiding Diffusion-based Reconstruction with Contrastive Signals for Balanced Visual Representation
- CVPR 2026Guiding Token-Sparse Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026GVIS Generative Vector Image Steganography
- CVPR 2026HBridge H-Shape Bridging of Heterogeneous Experts for Unified Multimodal Understanding
- CVPR 2026HDW-SR High-Frequency Guided Diffusion Model based on Wavelet Decomposition for
- CVPR 2026Hear What You See Video-to-Audio Generation with Diffusion Transformer and
- CVPR 2026Heterogeneous Decentralized Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026HiCoGen Hierarchical Compositional Text-to-Image Generation in Diffusion Models via Reinforcement
- CVPR 2026HierEdit Region-Aware Hierarchical Diffusion for Efficient High-Resolution Editing
- CVPR 2026High-Fidelity Diffusion Face Swapping with ID-Constrained Facial Conditioning
- CVPR 2026High-Fidelity Virtual Try-On beyond Paired Data Scarcity via Diffusion-based Cycle-Consistent
- CVPR 2026HP-Edit A Human-Preference Post-Training Framework for Image Editing
- CVPR 2026Identity-Preserving Image-to-Video Generation via Reward-Guided Optimization
- CVPR 2026IDperturb Enhancing Variation in Synthetic Face Generation via Angular Perturbations
- CVPR 2026IFCSR Inference-Free Fidelity-Realism Control for One-Step Diffusion-based Real-World Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2026Image Diffusion Preview with Consistency Solver
- CVPR 2026Image Generation from Contextually-Contradictory Prompts
- CVPR 2026Image-Guided Geometric Stylization of 3D Meshes
- CVPR 2026ImageRAGTurbo Towards One-step Text-to-Image Generation with Retrieval-Augmented Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026Imagine Before Concentration Diffusion-Guided Registers Enhance Partially Relevant Video Retrieval
- CVPR 2026Improving Controllable Generation Faster Training and Better Performance via x0-Supervision
- CVPR 2026Improving Diffusion Generalization with Weak-to-Strong Segmented Guidance
- CVPR 2026IMS3 Breaking Distributional Aggregation in Diffusion-Based Dataset Distillation
- CVPR 2026Inconsistency-aware Multimodal Schrodinger Bridge for Deepfake Localization
- CVPR 2026Infinity-RoPE Action-Controllable Infinite Video Generation Emerges From Autoregressive Self-Rollout
- CVPR 2026InnoAds-Composer Efficient Condition Composition for E-Commerce Poster Generation
- CVPR 2026InstantRetouch Efficient and High-Fidelity Instruction-Guided Image Retouching with Bilateral Space
- CVPR 2026InstantViR Real-Time Video Inverse Problem Solver with Distilled Diffusion Prior
- CVPR 2026InstructMix2Mix Consistent Sparse-View Editing Through Multi-View Model Personalization
- CVPR 2026Interact2Ar Full-Body Human-Human Interaction Generation via Autoregressive Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026InvAD Inversion-based Reconstruction-Free Anomaly Detection with Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026InverFill One-Step Inversion for Enhanced Few-Step Diffusion Inpainting
- CVPR 2026IP-Adapter Is All You Need Towards Fine-Tuning-Free Diffusion-Based Talking Face
- CVPR 2026Iris Bringing Real-World Priors into Diffusion Model for Monocular Depth
- CVPR 2026Iris Integrating Language into Diffusion-based Monocular Depth Estimation
- CVPR 2026JRM Joint Reconstruction Model for Multiple Objects without Alignment
- CVPR 2026Just-in-Time Training-Free Spatial Acceleration for Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2026KLIP Localized Distribution Shift Detection via KL-Divergence with Diffusion Priors
- CVPR 2026L3DR 3D-aware LiDAR Diffusion and Rectification
- CVPR 2026LacTokGen Latent Consistency Tokenizer for 1024-pixel Image Generation by 256
- CVPR 2026Landscape-Awareness for Geometric View Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2026Language-Free Generative Editing from One Visual Example
- CVPR 2026Language-Guided One-Step Diffusion Model for Nighttime Flare Removal
- CVPR 2026Latent Diffusion Inversion Requires Understanding the Latent Space
- CVPR 2026LeapAlign Post-training Flow Matching Models at Any Generation Step by
- CVPR 2026Learnability-Guided Diffusion for Dataset Distillation
- CVPR 2026Learning Explicit Continuous Motion Representation for Dynamic Gaussian Splatting from
- CVPR 2026Learning Hierarchical Hyperbolic Mixture Model for Part-aware 3D Generation
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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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