Diffusion Models papers, 2023–2026

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.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• 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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301. ICLR 2026GHOST: Hallucination-Inducing Image Generation for Multimodal LLMs
302. ICLR 2026GLASS Flows: Efficient Inference for Reward Alignment of Flow and Diffusion Models
303. ICLR 2026Global and Local Topology-Aware Graph Generation via Dual Conditioning Diffusion
304. ICLR 2026GlobeDiff: State Diffusion Process for Partial Observability in Multi-Agent System
305. ICLR 2026GoldenStart: Q-Guided Priors and Entropy Control for Distilling Flow Policies
306. ICLR 2026Gradient-Aligned Calibration for Post-Training Quantization of Diffusion Models
307. ICLR 2026Graph Diffusion Transformers are In-Context Molecular Designers
308. ICLR 2026Guidance Matters: Rethinking the Evaluation Pitfall for Text-to-Image Generation
309. ICLR 2026Guidance Watermarking for Diffusion Models
310. ICLR 2026Guided Flow Policy: Learning from High-Value Actions in Offline Reinforcement Learning
311. ICLR 2026H$^3$DP: Triply‑Hierarchical Diffusion Policy for Visuomotor Learning
312. ICLR 2026Half-order Fine-Tuning for Diffusion Model: A Recursive Likelihood Ratio Optimizer
313. ICLR 2026Harpoon: Generalised Manifold Guidance for Conditional Tabular Diffusion
314. ICLR 2026HiCache: A Plug-in Scaled-Hermite Upgrade for Taylor-Style Cache-then-Forecast Diffusion Acceleration
315. ICLR 2026Hierarchical Entity-centric Reinforcement Learning with Factored Subgoal Diffusion
316. ICLR 2026Hierarchical Semantic-Acoustic Modeling via Semi-Discrete Residual Representations for Expressive End-to-End Speech Synthesis
317. ICLR 2026Hierarchy Decoding: A Training-free Parallel Decoding Strategy for Diffusion Large Language Models
318. ICLR 2026High-dimensional Mean-Field Games by Particle-based Flow Matching
319. ICLR 2026HiGS: History-Guided Sampling for Plug-and-Play Enhancement of Diffusion Models
320. ICLR 2026HOG-Diff: Higher-Order Guided Diffusion for Graph Generation
321. ICLR 2026Horizon Imagination: Efficient On-Policy Rollout in Diffusion World Models
322. ICLR 2026Hot Fuzz: Temperature-Tunable Composition of Diffusion models with Fuzzy Logic
323. ICLR 2026HOTA: Hamiltonian framework for Optimal Transport Advection
324. ICLR 2026Hyperspherical Latents Improve Continuous-Token Autoregressive Generation
325. ICLR 2026I-DRUID: Layout to image generation via instance-disentangled representation and unpaired data
326. ICLR 2026IC-Custom: Diverse Image Customization via In-Context Learning
327. ICLR 2026ICDiffAD: Implicit Conditioning Diffusion Model for Time Series Anomaly Detection
328. ICLR 2026iFusion: Integrating Dynamic Interest Streams via Diffusion Model for Click-Through Rate Prediction
329. ICLR 2026Image Can Bring Your Memory Back: A Novel Multi-Modal Guided Attack against Image Generation Model Unlearning
330. ICLR 2026Implicit Regularisation in Diffusion Models: An Algorithm-Dependent Generalisation Analysis
331. ICLR 2026Improved Adversarial Diffusion Compression for Real-World Video Super-Resolution
332. ICLR 2026Improved Object-Centric Diffusion Learning with Registers and Contrastive Alignment
333. ICLR 2026Improving 2D Diffusion Models for 3D Medical Imaging with Inter‑Slice Consistent Stochasticity
334. ICLR 2026Improving Autoregressive Video Modeling with History Understanding
335. ICLR 2026Improving Classifier-Free Guidance in Masked Diffusion: Low-Dim Theoretical Insights with High-Dim Impact
336. ICLR 2026Improving Diffusion Models for Class-imbalanced Training Data via Capacity Manipulation
337. ICLR 2026Improving Discrete Diffusion Unmasking Policies Beyond Explicit Reference Policies
338. ICLR 2026Improving Reasoning for Diffusion Language Models via Group Diffusion Policy Optimization
339. ICLR 2026Incomplete Data, Complete Dynamics: A Diffusion Approach
340. ICLR 2026Inference-time scaling of diffusion models through classical search
341. ICLR 2026Inference-Time Scaling of Discrete Diffusion Models via Importance Weighting and Optimal Proposal Design
342. ICLR 2026InfoBridge: Mutual Information estimation via Bridge Matching
343. ICLR 2026Information Estimation with Discrete Diffusion
344. ICLR 2026Inpainting-Guided Policy Optimization for Diffusion Large Language Models
345. ICLR 2026Intention-Conditioned Flow Occupancy Models
346. ICLR 2026Interaction Field Matching: Overcoming Limitations of Electrostatic Models
347. ICLR 2026Interpolation-Based Conditioning of Flow Matching Models for Bioisosteric Ligand Design
348. ICLR 2026Inverse Virtual Try-On: Generating Multi-Category Product-Style Images from Clothed Individuals
349. ICLR 2026Iterative Distillation for Reward-Guided Fine-Tuning of Diffusion Models in Biomolecular Design
350. ICLR 2026JavisDiT++: Unified Modeling and Optimization for Joint Audio-Video Generation

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.