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
496 papers, page 8 of 10
- CVPR 2024Prompt Augmentation for Self-supervised Text-guided Image Manipulation
- CVPR 2024Prompt-Free Diffusion: Taking "Text" out of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024PromptCoT: Align Prompt Distribution via Adapted Chain-of-Thought
- CVPR 2024Prompting Hard or Hardly Prompting: Prompt Inversion for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024R-Cyclic Diffuser: Reductive and Cyclic Latent Diffusion for 3D Clothed Human Digitalization
- CVPR 2024Ranni: Taming Text-to-Image Diffusion for Accurate Instruction Following
- CVPR 2024Rapid 3D Model Generation with Intuitive 3D Input
- CVPR 2024RAVE: Randomized Noise Shuffling for Fast and Consistent Video Editing with Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024READ: Retrieval-Enhanced Asymmetric Diffusion for Motion Planning
- CVPR 2024Readout Guidance: Learning Control from Diffusion Features
- CVPR 2024RecDiffusion: Rectangling for Image Stitching with Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Referring Image Editing: Object-level Image Editing via Referring Expressions
- CVPR 2024Relation Rectification in Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024Relightful Harmonization: Lighting-aware Portrait Background Replacement
- CVPR 2024Repurposing Diffusion-Based Image Generators for Monocular Depth Estimation
- CVPR 2024Residual Denoising Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Residual Learning in Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Restoration by Generation with Constrained Priors
- CVPR 2024Rethinking Diffusion Model for Multi-Contrast MRI Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2024Rethinking the Spatial Inconsistency in Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance
- CVPR 2024Revisiting Non-Autoregressive Transformers for Efficient Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2024RichDreamer: A Generalizable Normal-Depth Diffusion Model for Detail Richness in Text-to-3D
- CVPR 2024RoHM: Robust Human Motion Reconstruction via Diffusion
- CVPR 2024Rolling Shutter Correction with Intermediate Distortion Flow Estimation
- CVPR 2024RoMa: Robust Dense Feature Matching
- CVPR 2024Sat2Scene: 3D Urban Scene Generation from Satellite Images with Diffusion
- CVPR 2024SatSynth: Augmenting Image-Mask Pairs through Diffusion Models for Aerial Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024Scaling Diffusion Models to Real-World 3D LiDAR Scene Completion
- CVPR 2024SCEdit: Efficient and Controllable Image Diffusion Generation via Skip Connection Editing
- CVPR 2024SceneTex: High-Quality Texture Synthesis for Indoor Scenes via Diffusion Priors
- CVPR 2024Score-Guided Diffusion for 3D Human Recovery
- CVPR 2024Sculpt3D: Multi-View Consistent Text-to-3D Generation with Sparse 3D Prior
- CVPR 2024SD-DiT: Unleashing the Power of Self-supervised Discrimination in Diffusion Transformer
- CVPR 2024SD4Match: Learning to Prompt Stable Diffusion Model for Semantic Matching
- CVPR 2024SDDGR: Stable Diffusion-based Deep Generative Replay for Class Incremental Object Detection
- CVPR 2024SeeSR: Towards Semantics-Aware Real-World Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2024Selective Hourglass Mapping for Universal Image Restoration Based on Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024Self-Adaptive Reality-Guided Diffusion for Artifact-Free Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2024Self-correcting LLM-controlled Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Self-Discovering Interpretable Diffusion Latent Directions for Responsible Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Semantic Human Mesh Reconstruction with Textures
- CVPR 2024SemCity: Semantic Scene Generation with Triplane Diffusion
- CVPR 2024Shadow Generation for Composite Image Using Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024SIGNeRF: Scene Integrated Generation for Neural Radiance Fields
- CVPR 2024SimAC: A Simple Anti-Customization Method for Protecting Face Privacy against Text-to-Image Synthesis of Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Single Mesh Diffusion Models with Field Latents for Texture Generation
- CVPR 2024SingularTrajectory: Universal Trajectory Predictor Using Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024SinSR: Diffusion-Based Image Super-Resolution in a Single Step
- CVPR 2024SiTH: Single-view Textured Human Reconstruction with Image-Conditioned Diffusion
- CVPR 2024SkillDiffuser: Interpretable Hierarchical Planning via Skill Abstractions in Diffusion-Based Task Execution
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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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