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 60 of 138
- CVPR 2025InteractAnything: Zero-shot Human Object Interaction Synthesis via LLM Feedback and Object Affordance Parsing
- CVPR 2025InterDyn: Controllable Interactive Dynamics with Video Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Interpretable Generative Models through Post-hoc Concept Bottlenecks
- CVPR 2025ITA-MDT: Image-Timestep-Adaptive Masked Diffusion Transformer Framework for Image-Based Virtual Try-On
- CVPR 2025JamMa: Ultra-lightweight Local Feature Matching with Joint Mamba
- CVPR 2025K-LoRA: Unlocking Training-Free Fusion of Any Subject and Style LoRAs
- CVPR 2025Kiss3DGen: Repurposing Image Diffusion Models for 3D Asset Generation
- CVPR 2025Knowledge-Aligned Counterfactual-Enhancement Diffusion Perception for Unsupervised Cross-Domain Visual Emotion Recognition
- CVPR 2025Latent Drifting in Diffusion Models for Counterfactual Medical Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2025Latent Space Super-Resolution for Higher-Resolution Image Generation with Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025LatentHOI: On the Generalizable Hand Object Motion Generation with Latent Hand Diffusion.
- CVPR 2025LaVin-DiT: Large Vision Diffusion Transformer
- CVPR 2025Layer- and Timestep-Adaptive Differentiable Token Compression Ratios for Efficient Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2025Learning Conditional Space-Time Prompt Distributions for Video Class-Incremental Learning
- CVPR 2025Learning Flow Fields in Attention for Controllable Person Image Generation
- CVPR 2025Learning Hazing to Dehazing: Towards Realistic Haze Generation for Real-World Image Dehazing
- CVPR 2025Learning Temporally Consistent Video Depth from Video Diffusion Priors
- CVPR 2025Learning to Sample Effective and Diverse Prompts for Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2025LEDiff: Latent Exposure Diffusion for HDR Generation
- CVPR 2025LeviTor: 3D Trajectory Oriented Image-to-Video Synthesis
- CVPR 2025Lifting Motion to the 3D World via 2D Diffusion
- CVPR 2025Light Transport-aware Diffusion Posterior Sampling for Single-View Reconstruction of 3D Volumes
- CVPR 2025LineArt: A Knowledge-guided Training-free High-quality Appearance Transfer for Design Drawing with Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025Localized Concept Erasure for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models Using Training-Free Gated Low-Rank Adaptation
- CVPR 2025Long Video Diffusion Generation with Segmented Cross-Attention and Content-Rich Video Data Curation
- CVPR 2025LongDiff: Training-Free Long Video Generation in One Go
- CVPR 2025LookingGlass: Generative Anamorphoses via Laplacian Pyramid Warping
- CVPR 2025LoRACLR: Contrastive Adaptation for Customization of Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Low-Biased General Annotated Dataset Generation
- CVPR 2025LT3SD: Latent Trees for 3D Scene Diffusion
- CVPR 2025LumiNet: Latent Intrinsics Meets Diffusion Models for Indoor Scene Relighting
- CVPR 2025Lux Post Facto: Learning Portrait Performance Relighting with Conditional Video Diffusion and a Hybrid Dataset
- CVPR 2025MAGE : Single Image to Material-Aware 3D via the Multi-View G-Buffer Estimation Model
- CVPR 2025MagicArticulate: Make Your 3D Models Articulation-Ready
- CVPR 2025Make It Count: Text-to-Image Generation with an Accurate Number of Objects
- CVPR 2025MambaVO: Deep Visual Odometry Based on Sequential Matching Refinement and Training Smoothing
- CVPR 2025MangaNinja: Line Art Colorization with Precise Reference Following
- CVPR 2025MANTA: Diffusion Mamba for Efficient and Effective Stochastic Long-Term Dense Action Anticipation
- CVPR 2025MATCHA: Towards Matching Anything
- CVPR 2025Material Anything: Generating Materials for Any 3D Object via Diffusion
- CVPR 2025MCCD: Multi-Agent Collaboration-based Compositional Diffusion for Complex Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2025MEAT: Multiview Diffusion Model for Human Generation on Megapixels with Mesh Attention
- CVPR 2025Medusa: A Multi-Scale High-order Contrastive Dual-Diffusion Approach for Multi-View Clustering
- CVPR 2025Memories of Forgotten Concepts
- CVPR 2025MeshGen: Generating PBR Textured Mesh with Render-Enhanced Auto-Encoder and Generative Data Augmentation
- CVPR 2025MET3R: Measuring Multi-View Consistency in Generated Images
- CVPR 2025MExD: An Expert-Infused Diffusion Model for Whole-Slide Image Classification
- CVPR 2025MIDI: Multi-Instance Diffusion for Single Image to 3D Scene Generation
- CVPR 2025Mimir: Improving Video Diffusion Models for Precise Text Understanding
- CVPR 2025MIMO: Controllable Character Video Synthesis with Spatial Decomposed Modeling
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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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