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 64 of 138
- CVPR 2025StageDesigner: Artistic Stage Generation for Scenography via Theater Scripts
- CVPR 2025StarGen: A Spatiotemporal Autoregression Framework with Video Diffusion Model for Scalable and Controllable Scene Generation
- CVPR 2025STCOcc: Sparse Spatial-Temporal Cascade Renovation for 3D Occupancy and Scene Flow Prediction
- CVPR 2025STDD: Spatio-Temporal Dual Diffusion for Video Generation
- CVPR 2025StdGEN: Semantic-Decomposed 3D Character Generation from Single Images
- CVPR 2025STEPS: Sequential Probability Tensor Estimation for Text-to-Image Hard Prompt Search
- CVPR 2025STEREO: A Two-Stage Framework for Adversarially Robust Concept Erasing from Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025StreamingT2V: Consistent, Dynamic, and Extendable Long Video Generation from Text
- CVPR 2025StreetCrafter: Street View Synthesis with Controllable Video Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Stretching Each Dollar: Diffusion Training from Scratch on a Micro-Budget
- CVPR 2025StyleSSP: Sampling StartPoint Enhancement for Training-free Diffusion-based Method for Style Transfer
- CVPR 2025SuperPC: A Single Diffusion Model for Point Cloud Completion, Upsampling, Denoising, and Colorization
- CVPR 2025SwiftEdit: Lightning Fast Text-Guided Image Editing via One-Step Diffusion
- CVPR 2025Symmetry Strikes Back: From Single-Image Symmetry Detection to 3D Generation
- CVPR 2025Synchronized Video-to-Audio Generation via Mel Quantization-Continuum Decomposition
- CVPR 2025SyncSDE: A Probabilistic Framework for Diffusion Synchronization
- CVPR 2025SyncVP: Joint Diffusion for Synchronous Multi-Modal Video Prediction
- CVPR 2025Synthetic Data is an Elegant GIFT for Continual Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2025SynthLight: Portrait Relighting with Diffusion Model by Learning to Re-render Synthetic Faces
- CVPR 2025T2ICount: Enhancing Cross-modal Understanding for Zero-Shot Counting
- CVPR 2025T2ISafety: Benchmark for Assessing Fairness, Toxicity, and Privacy in Image Generation
- CVPR 2025Taming Video Diffusion Prior with Scene-Grounding Guidance for 3D Gaussian Splatting from Sparse Inputs
- CVPR 2025TCFG: Tangential Damping Classifier-free Guidance
- CVPR 2025Temporal Score Analysis for Understanding and Correcting Diffusion Artifacts
- CVPR 2025TexGaussian: Generating High-quality PBR Material via Octree-based 3D Gaussian Splatting
- CVPR 2025Text Embedding is Not All You Need: Attention Control for Text-to-Image Semantic Alignment with Text Self-Attention Maps
- CVPR 2025The Art of Deception: Color Visual Illusions and Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025The Illusion of Unlearning: The Unstable Nature of Machine Unlearning in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025The Power of Context: How Multimodality Improves Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2025Tiled Diffusion
- CVPR 2025Timestep Embedding Tells: It's Time to Cache for Video Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025TinyFusion: Diffusion Transformers Learned Shallow
- CVPR 2025TKG-DM: Training-free Chroma Key Content Generation Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025TokenMotion: Decoupled Motion Control via Token Disentanglement for Human-centric Video Generation
- CVPR 2025TopoCellGen: Generating Histopathology Cell Topology with a Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025Tora: Trajectory-oriented Diffusion Transformer for Video Generation
- CVPR 2025Touch2Shape: Touch-Conditioned 3D Diffusion for Shape Exploration and Reconstruction
- CVPR 2025Towards Better Alignment: Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning Against Sparse Rewards
- CVPR 2025Towards High-fidelity 3D Talking Avatar with Personalized Dynamic Texture
- CVPR 2025Towards Precise Embodied Dialogue Localization via Causality Guided Diffusion
- CVPR 2025Towards Precise Scaling Laws for Video Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2025Towards Transformer-Based Aligned Generation with Self-Coherence Guidance
- CVPR 2025Towards Universal AI-Generated Image Detection by Variational Information Bottleneck Network
- CVPR 2025Towards Universal Dataset Distillation via Task-Driven Diffusion
- CVPR 2025Track4Gen: Teaching Video Diffusion Models to Track Points Improves Video Generation
- CVPR 2025Training-free Dense-Aligned Diffusion Guidance for Modular Conditional Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2025Transfer Your Perspective: Controllable 3D Generation from Any Viewpoint in a Driving Scene
- CVPR 2025Traversing Distortion-Perception Tradeoff using a Single Score-Based Generative Model
- CVPR 2025TriTex: Learning Texture from a Single Mesh via Triplane Semantic Features
- CVPR 2025TSD-SR: One-Step Diffusion with Target Score Distillation for Real-World Image Super-Resolution
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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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