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
2,078 papers, page 7 of 42
- 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
- CVPR 2025Mind the Trojan Horse: Image Prompt Adapter Enabling Scalable and Deceptive Jailbreaking
- CVPR 2025Minority-Focused Text-to-Image Generation via Prompt Optimization
- CVPR 2025MirrorVerse: Pushing Diffusion Models to Realistically Reflect the World
- CVPR 2025MixerMDM: Learnable Composition of Human Motion Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025MMAudio: Taming Multimodal Joint Training for High-Quality Video-to-Audio Synthesis
- CVPR 2025MoFlow: One-Step Flow Matching for Human Trajectory Forecasting via Implicit Maximum Likelihood Estimation based Distillation
- CVPR 2025Mono2Stereo: A Benchmark and Empirical Study for Stereo Conversion
- CVPR 2025Morpheus: Text-Driven 3D Gaussian Splat Shape and Color Stylization
- CVPR 2025Move-in-2D: 2D-Conditioned Human Motion Generation
- CVPR 2025MOVIS: Enhancing Multi-Object Novel View Synthesis for Indoor Scenes
- CVPR 2025MTADiffusion: Mask Text Alignment Diffusion Model for Object Inpainting
- CVPR 2025Multi-focal Conditioned Latent Diffusion for Person Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2025Multi-Modal Contrastive Masked Autoencoders: A Two-Stage Progressive Pre-training Approach for RGBD Datasets
- CVPR 2025Multi-party Collaborative Attention Control for Image Customization
- CVPR 2025Multi-view Reconstruction via SfM-guided Monocular Depth Estimation
- CVPR 2025MultiGO: Towards Multi-level Geometry Learning for Monocular 3D Textured Human Reconstruction
- CVPR 2025MVBoost: Boost 3D Reconstruction with Multi-View Refinement
- CVPR 2025MVGenMaster: Scaling Multi-View Generation from Any Image via 3D Priors Enhanced Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025MVPaint: Synchronized Multi-View Diffusion for Painting Anything 3D
- CVPR 2025MVPortrait: Text-Guided Motion and Emotion Control for Multi-view Vivid Portrait Animation
- CVPR 2025Nearly Zero-Cost Protection Against Mimicry by Personalized Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Nested Diffusion Models Using Hierarchical Latent Priors
- CVPR 2025Neural LightRig: Unlocking Accurate Object Normal and Material Estimation with Multi-Light Diffusion
- CVPR 2025NitroFusion: High-Fidelity Single-Step Diffusion through Dynamic Adversarial Training
- CVPR 2025Noise Diffusion for Enhancing Semantic Faithfulness in Text-to-Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2025Noise-Consistent Siamese-Diffusion for Medical Image Synthesis and Segmentation
- CVPR 2025NoiseCtrl: A Sampling-Algorithm-Agnostic Conditional Generation Method for Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Nonisotropic Gaussian Diffusion for Realistic 3D Human Motion Prediction
- CVPR 2025Not All Parameters Matter: Masking Diffusion Models for Enhancing Generation Ability
- CVPR 2025Novel View Synthesis with Pixel-Space Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025NVComposer: Boosting Generative Novel View Synthesis with Multiple Sparse and Unposed Images
- CVPR 2025OFER: Occluded Face Expression Reconstruction
- CVPR 2025OmniGen: Unified Image Generation
- CVPR 2025On Denoising Walking Videos for Gait Recognition
- CVPR 2025One Diffusion to Generate Them All
- CVPR 2025One-for-More: Continual Diffusion Model for Anomaly Detection
- CVPR 2025One-Way Ticket: Time-Independent Unified Encoder for Distilling Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025OpenSDI: Spotting Diffusion-Generated Images in the Open World
- CVPR 2025Optical-Flow Guided Prompt Optimization for Coherent Video Generation
- CVPR 2025Optimizing for the Shortest Path in Denoising Diffusion Model
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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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