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 75 of 138
- ICLR 2025UIFace: Unleashing Inherent Model Capabilities to Enhance Intra-Class Diversity in Synthetic Face Recognition
- ICLR 2025Underdamped Diffusion Bridges with Applications to Sampling
- ICLR 2025UniCon: Unidirectional Information Flow for Effective Control of Large-Scale Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Unified Convergence Analysis for Score-Based Diffusion Models with Deterministic Samplers
- ICLR 2025UniGEM: A Unified Approach to Generation and Property Prediction for Molecules
- ICLR 2025UniRestore3D: A Scalable Framework For General Shape Restoration
- ICLR 2025Unlocking Guidance for Discrete State-Space Diffusion and Flow Models
- ICLR 2025Unlocking Point Processes through Point Set Diffusion
- ICLR 2025Variational Diffusion Posterior Sampling with Midpoint Guidance
- ICLR 2025VD3D: Taming Large Video Diffusion Transformers for 3D Camera Control
- ICLR 2025VEDIT: Latent Prediction Architecture For Procedural Video Representation Learning
- ICLR 2025Vevo: Controllable Zero-Shot Voice Imitation with Self-Supervised Disentanglement
- ICLR 2025ViBiDSampler: Enhancing Video Interpolation Using Bidirectional Diffusion Sampler
- ICLR 2025VideoGrain: Modulating Space-Time Attention for Multi-Grained Video Editing
- ICLR 2025ViDiT-Q: Efficient and Accurate Quantization of Diffusion Transformers for Image and Video Generation
- ICLR 2025VILA-U: a Unified Foundation Model Integrating Visual Understanding and Generation
- ICLR 2025Visually Guided Decoding: Gradient-Free Hard Prompt Inversion with Language Models
- ICLR 2025VSTAR: Generative Temporal Nursing for Longer Dynamic Video Synthesis
- ICLR 2025Warm Diffusion: Recipe for Blur-Noise Mixture Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Wavelet Diffusion Neural Operator
- ICLR 2025What Makes a Good Diffusion Planner for Decision Making?
- ICLR 2025What Matters When Repurposing Diffusion Models for General Dense Perception Tasks?
- ICLR 2025What Secrets Do Your Manifolds Hold? Understanding the Local Geometry of Generative Models
- ICLR 2025X-Drive: Cross-modality Consistent Multi-Sensor Data Synthesis for Driving Scenarios
- ICLR 2025You Only Sample Once: Taming One-Step Text-to-Image Synthesis by Self-Cooperative Diffusion GANs
- ICLR 2025Your Absorbing Discrete Diffusion Secretly Models the Conditional Distributions of Clean Data
- ICLR 2025ZeroDiff: Solidified Visual-semantic Correlation in Zero-Shot Learning
- ICLR 2025Zigzag Diffusion Sampling: Diffusion Models Can Self-Improve via Self-Reflection
- ICML 2025A First-order Generative Bilevel Optimization Framework for Diffusion Models
- ICML 2025A General Framework for Inference-time Scaling and Steering of Diffusion Models
- ICML 2025A Mixture-Based Framework for Guiding Diffusion Models
- ICML 2025A Non-isotropic Time Series Diffusion Model with Moving Average Transitions
- ICML 2025A Variational Perspective on Generative Protein Fitness Optimization
- ICML 2025Accelerated Diffusion Models via Speculative Sampling
- ICML 2025Action-Minimization Meets Generative Modeling: Efficient Transition Path Sampling with the Onsager-Machlup Functional
- ICML 2025Adaptive Flow Matching for Resolving Small-Scale Physics
- ICML 2025Adaptive Median Smoothing: Adversarial Defense for Unlearned Text-to-Image Diffusion Models at Inference Time
- ICML 2025AdaWorld: Learning Adaptable World Models with Latent Actions
- ICML 2025Adjoint Sampling: Highly Scalable Diffusion Samplers via Adjoint Matching
- ICML 2025AdvI2I: Adversarial Image Attack on Image-to-Image Diffusion Models
- ICML 2025AffinityFlow: Guided Flows for Antibody Affinity Maturation
- ICML 2025Aligning Protein Conformation Ensemble Generation with Physical Feedback
- ICML 2025All-atom Diffusion Transformers: Unified generative modelling of molecules and materials
- ICML 2025All-atom inverse protein folding through discrete flow matching
- ICML 2025An All-Atom Generative Model for Designing Protein Complexes
- ICML 2025An analytic theory of creativity in convolutional diffusion models
- ICML 2025An Error Analysis of Flow Matching for Deep Generative Modeling
- ICML 2025Angle Domain Guidance: Latent Diffusion Requires Rotation Rather Than Extrapolation
- ICML 2025Annealing Flow Generative Models Towards Sampling High-Dimensional and Multi-Modal Distributions
- ICML 2025Arbitrarily-Conditioned Multi-Functional Diffusion for Multi-Physics Emulation
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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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