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 65 of 138
- CVPR 2025TurboFill: Adapting Few-step Text-to-image Model for Fast Image Inpainting
- CVPR 2025U-Know-DiffPAN: An Uncertainty-aware Knowledge Distillation Diffusion Framework with Details Enhancement for PAN-Sharpening
- CVPR 2025UIBDiffusion: Universal Imperceptible Backdoor Attack for Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Unboxed: Geometrically and Temporally Consistent Video Outpainting
- CVPR 2025Uncertainty-guided Perturbation for Image Super-Resolution Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025Uni-Renderer: Unifying Rendering and Inverse Rendering Via Dual Stream Diffusion
- CVPR 2025UNIC-Adapter: Unified Image-instruction Adapter with Multi-modal Transformer for Image Generation
- CVPR 2025Unified Dense Prediction of Video Diffusion
- CVPR 2025Unified Uncertainty-Aware Diffusion for Multi-Agent Trajectory Modeling
- CVPR 2025UniRestore: Unified Perceptual and Task-Oriented Image Restoration Model Using Diffusion Prior
- CVPR 2025Unleashing In-context Learning of Autoregressive Models for Few-shot Image Manipulation
- CVPR 2025Using Diffusion Priors for Video Amodal Segmentation
- CVPR 2025Using Powerful Prior Knowledge of Diffusion Model in Deep Unfolding Networks for Image Compressive Sensing
- CVPR 2025UVGS: Reimagining Unstructured 3D Gaussian Splatting using UV Mapping
- CVPR 2025V2X-R: Cooperative LiDAR-4D Radar Fusion with Denoising Diffusion for 3D Object Detection
- CVPR 2025VasTSD: Learning 3D Vascular Tree-state Space Diffusion Model for Angiography Synthesis
- CVPR 2025VerbDiff: Text-Only Diffusion Models with Enhanced Interaction Awareness
- CVPR 2025vesselFM: A Foundation Model for Universal 3D Blood Vessel Segmentation
- CVPR 2025VidBot: Learning Generalizable 3D Actions from In-the-Wild 2D Human Videos for Zero-Shot Robotic Manipulation
- CVPR 2025Video Motion Transfer with Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2025VideoDirector: Precise Video Editing via Text-to-Video Models
- CVPR 2025VideoDPO: Omni-Preference Alignment for Video Diffusion Generation
- CVPR 2025VideoGuide: Improving Video Diffusion Models without Training Through a Teacher's Guide
- CVPR 2025VideoMage: Multi-Subject and Motion Customization of Text-to-Video Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025VideoScene: Distilling Video Diffusion Model to Generate 3D Scenes in One Step
- CVPR 2025VidSeg: Training-free Video Semantic Segmentation based on Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Visual Lexicon: Rich Image Features in Language Space
- CVPR 2025Visual Persona: Foundation Model for Full-Body Human Customization
- CVPR 2025Visual Prompting for One-shot Controllable Video Editing without Inversion
- CVPR 2025Visual-Instructed Degradation Diffusion for All-in-One Image Restoration
- CVPR 2025VLOGGER: Multimodal Diffusion for Embodied Avatar Synthesis
- CVPR 2025Volume Tells: Dual Cycle-Consistent Diffusion for 3D Fluorescence Microscopy De-noising and Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2025WeatherGen: A Unified Diverse Weather Generator for LiDAR Point Clouds via Spider Mamba Diffusion
- CVPR 2025WF-VAE: Enhancing Video VAE by Wavelet-Driven Energy Flow for Latent Video Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025Where's the Liability in the Generative Era? Recovery-based Black-Box Detection of AI-Generated Content
- CVPR 2025Wonderland: Navigating 3D Scenes from a Single Image
- CVPR 2025World-consistent Video Diffusion with Explicit 3D Modeling
- CVPR 2025Zero-1-to-A: Zero-Shot One Image to Animatable Head Avatars Using Video Diffusion
- CVPR 2025Zero-Shot Image Restoration Using Few-Step Guidance of Consistency Models (and Beyond)
- CVPR 2025Zero-Shot Novel View and Depth Synthesis with Multi-View Geometric Diffusion
- CVPR 2025ZoomLDM: Latent Diffusion Model for Multi-scale Image Generation
- ICLR 2025$\text{I}^2\text{AM}$: Interpreting Image-to-Image Latent Diffusion Models via Bi-Attribution Maps
- ICLR 2025$InterLCM$: Low-Quality Images as Intermediate States of Latent Consistency Models for Effective Blind Face Restoration
- ICLR 20253DGS-Drag: Dragging Gaussians for Intuitive Point-Based 3D Editing
- ICLR 20253DIS: Depth-Driven Decoupled Image Synthesis for Universal Multi-Instance Generation
- ICLR 2025A Geometric Framework for Understanding Memorization in Generative Models
- ICLR 2025A Large-scale Dataset and Benchmark for Commuting Origin-Destination Flow Generation
- ICLR 2025A Large-scale Training Paradigm for Graph Generative Models
- ICLR 2025A Periodic Bayesian Flow for Material Generation
- ICLR 2025A Simple Approach to Unifying Diffusion-based Conditional 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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