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 8 of 138
- CVPR 2026MoCha End-to-End Video Character Replacement without Structural Guidance
- CVPR 2026MoCoDiff A Controllable Autoregressive Diffusion Model for Expressive Motion Generation
- CVPR 2026MOS Mitigating Optical-SAR Modality Gap for Cross-Modal Ship Re-Identification
- CVPR 2026MotionEnhancer Leveraging Video Diffusion for Motion-Enhanced Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2026MotionHiFlow Text-to-Motion via Hierarchical Flow Matching
- CVPR 2026MR. Illuminate Zero-Shot Low-Light Image Enhancement with Diffusion Prior
- CVPR 2026Multi-Patch Global-to-Local Transformer Architecture For Efficient Flow Matching and Diffusion
- CVPR 2026MusicInfuser Making Video Diffusion Listen and Dance
- CVPR 2026MUST Modality-Specific Representation-Aware Transformer for Diffusion-Enhanced Survival Prediction with Missing
- CVPR 2026MV2UV Generating High-quality UV Texture Maps with Multiview Prompts
- CVPR 2026NanoSD Edge Efficient Foundation Model for Real Time Image Restoration
- CVPR 2026NaTex Seamless Texture Generation as Latent Color Diffusion
- CVPR 2026Native and Compact Structured Latents for 3D Generation
- CVPR 2026NEC-Diff Noise-Robust Event-RAW Complementary Diffusion for Seeing Motion in Extreme
- CVPR 2026Neighbor GRPO Contrastive ODE Policy Optimization Aligns Flow Models
- CVPR 2026Neighbor-Aware Localized Concept Erasure in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026NeuroFlow Toward Unified Visual Encoding and Decoding from Neural Activity
- CVPR 2026NexusFlow Unifying Disparate Tasks under Partial Supervision via Invertible Flow
- CVPR 2026NIL No-data Imitation Learning
- CVPR 2026No Way To Steal My Face Proactive Defense Against Identity-Preserving
- CVPR 2026Occluded Human Body Capture with Frequency Domain Denoising Prior
- CVPR 2026OMGTex One-stage Multi-style Facial Texture Reconstruction without Geometry Guidance
- CVPR 2026Omni2Sound Towards Unified Video-Text-to-Audio Generation
- CVPR 2026One Model Many Budgets Elastic Latent Interfaces for Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2026One-Step Diffusion Transformer for Controllable Real-World Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2026One-to-All Animation Alignment-Free Character Animation and Image Pose Transfer
- CVPR 2026OntoAug Rethinking Generative Data Augmentation via Ontology Guidance
- CVPR 2026OpenDPR Open-Vocabulary Change Detection via Vision-Centric Diffusion-Guided Prototype Retrieval for
- CVPR 2026Optical Flow Matching Reframing Optical Flow as Continuous Transport Dynamics
- CVPR 2026OrthoFuse Training-free Riemannian Fusion of Orthogonal Style-Concept Adapters for Diffusion
- CVPR 2026Otil Accelerating Diffusion Model Inference via Communication-Efficient Multi-GPU Parallelism
- CVPR 2026Outlier-Robust Diffusion Solvers for Inverse Problems
- CVPR 2026PAD-Hand Physics-Aware Diffusion for Hand Motion Recovery
- CVPR 2026Pantheon360 Taming Digital Twin Generation via 3D-Aware 360deg Video Diffusion
- CVPR 2026Parallelised Differentiable Straightest Geodesics for 3D Meshes
- CVPR 2026ParaUni Enhance Generation in Unified Multimodal Model with Reinforcement-driven Hierarchical
- CVPR 2026PartDiffuser Part-wise 3D Mesh Generation via Discrete Diffusion
- CVPR 2026PatchScene Patch-based Voxel Diffusion Model for Large-Scale Scene Completion
- CVPR 2026Personalized Federated Training of Diffusion Models with Privacy Guarantees
- CVPR 2026PG-VTON Single-Pass Training-Free Virtual Try-On via Patch-Guided Reference Alignment
- CVPR 2026PHAC Promptable Human Amodal Completion
- CVPR 2026Phased DMD Few-step Distribution Matching Distillation via Score Matching within
- CVPR 2026PhyCo Learning Controllable Physical Priors for Generative Motion
- CVPR 2026PhyOceanCast Global Ocean Forecasting with Physics-Informed Diffusion
- CVPR 2026PhysGen Physically Grounded 3D Shape Generation for Industrial Design
- CVPR 2026Physical Simulator In-the-Loop Video Generation
- CVPR 2026Physics-Consistent Diffusion for Efficient Fluid Super-Resolution via Multiscale Residual Correction
- CVPR 2026Pixel Motion Diffusion is What We Need for Robot Control
- CVPR 2026PixelDiT Pixel Diffusion Transformers for Image Generation
- CVPR 2026PixelRush Ultra-Fast Training-Free High-Resolution Image Generation via One-step Diffusion
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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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