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
487 papers, page 7 of 10
- ICLR 2025Neural Approximate Mirror Maps for Constrained Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Neural Sampling from Boltzmann Densities: Fisher-Rao Curves in the Wasserstein Geometry
- ICLR 2025NExT-Mol: 3D Diffusion Meets 1D Language Modeling for 3D Molecule Generation
- ICLR 2025No Training, No Problem: Rethinking Classifier-Free Guidance for Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Not All Prompts Are Made Equal: Prompt-based Pruning of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Not-So-Optimal Transport Flows for 3D Point Cloud Generation
- ICLR 2025NVS-Solver: Video Diffusion Model as Zero-Shot Novel View Synthesizer
- ICLR 2025O(d/T) Convergence Theory for Diffusion Probabilistic Models under Minimal Assumptions
- ICLR 2025OmniEdit: Building Image Editing Generalist Models Through Specialist Supervision
- ICLR 2025OmniPhysGS: 3D Constitutive Gaussians for General Physics-Based Dynamics Generation
- ICLR 2025On Statistical Rates of Conditional Diffusion Transformers: Approximation, Estimation and Minimax Optimality
- ICLR 2025On the Crucial Role of Initialization for Matrix Factorization
- ICLR 2025On the Feature Learning in Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025One Step Diffusion via Shortcut Models
- ICLR 2025One-Prompt-One-Story: Free-Lunch Consistent Text-to-Image Generation Using a Single Prompt
- ICLR 2025Online Reward-Weighted Fine-Tuning of Flow Matching with Wasserstein Regularization
- ICLR 2025Overcoming False Illusions in Real-World Face Restoration with Multi-Modal Guided Diffusion Model
- ICLR 2025PaRa: Personalizing Text-to-Image Diffusion via Parameter Rank Reduction
- ICLR 2025ParaSolver: A Hierarchical Parallel Integral Solver for Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025ParetoFlow: Guided Flows in Multi-Objective Optimization
- ICLR 2025Periodic Materials Generation using Text-Guided Joint Diffusion Model
- ICLR 2025PeriodWave: Multi-Period Flow Matching for High-Fidelity Waveform Generation
- ICLR 2025Personalized Representation from Personalized Generation
- ICLR 2025PFDiff: Training-Free Acceleration of Diffusion Models Combining Past and Future Scores
- ICLR 2025PharmacoMatch: Efficient 3D Pharmacophore Screening via Neural Subgraph Matching
- ICLR 2025Phidias: A Generative Model for Creating 3D Content from Text, Image, and 3D Conditions with Reference-Augmented Diffusion
- ICLR 2025Physics-aligned field reconstruction with diffusion bridge
- ICLR 2025Physics-Informed Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025PixWizard: Versatile Image-to-Image Visual Assistant with Open-Language Instructions
- ICLR 2025PnP-Flow: Plug-and-Play Image Restoration with Flow Matching
- ICLR 2025Positive-Unlabeled Diffusion Models for Preventing Sensitive Data Generation
- ICLR 2025PostCast: Generalizable Postprocessing for Precipitation Nowcasting via Unsupervised Blurriness Modeling
- ICLR 2025Posterior-Mean Rectified Flow: Towards Minimum MSE Photo-Realistic Image Restoration
- ICLR 2025Precise Parameter Localization for Textual Generation in Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Preference Diffusion for Recommendation
- ICLR 2025Presto! Distilling Steps and Layers for Accelerating Music Generation
- ICLR 2025Prioritized Generative Replay
- ICLR 2025Probing the Latent Hierarchical Structure of Data via Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Progressive Compositionality in Text-to-Image Generative Models
- ICLR 2025Progressive Compression with Universally Quantized Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025ProtComposer: Compositional Protein Structure Generation with 3D Ellipsoids
- ICLR 2025Proteina: Scaling Flow-based Protein Structure Generative Models
- ICLR 2025ProtPainter: Draw or Drag Protein via Topology-guided Diffusion
- ICLR 2025Provable Convergence Bounds for Hybrid Dynamical Sampling and Optimization
- ICLR 2025PT-T2I/V: An Efficient Proxy-Tokenized Diffusion Transformer for Text-to-Image/Video-Task
- ICLR 2025PuzzleFusion++: Auto-agglomerative 3D Fracture Assembly by Denoise and Verify
- ICLR 2025Pyramidal Flow Matching for Efficient Video Generative Modeling
- ICLR 2025QuaDiM: A Conditional Diffusion Model For Quantum State Property Estimation
- ICLR 2025RAPID: Retrieval Augmented Training of Differentially Private Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Rare-to-Frequent: Unlocking Compositional Generation Power of Diffusion Models on Rare Concepts with LLM Guidance
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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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