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

487 papers, page 8 of 10

351. ICLR 2025RB-Modulation: Training-Free Stylization using Reference-Based Modulation
352. ICLR 2025RDT-1B: a Diffusion Foundation Model for Bimanual Manipulation
353. ICLR 2025Real-Time Video Generation with Pyramid Attention Broadcast
354. ICLR 2025Rectified Diffusion: Straightness Is Not Your Need in Rectified Flow
355. ICLR 2025Refine-by-Align: Reference-Guided Artifacts Refinement through Semantic Alignment
356. ICLR 2025Regularization by Texts for Latent Diffusion Inverse Solvers
357. ICLR 2025Relation-Aware Diffusion for Heterogeneous Graphs with Partially Observed Features
358. ICLR 2025Representation Alignment for Generation: Training Diffusion Transformers Is Easier Than You Think
359. ICLR 2025Representative Guidance: Diffusion Model Sampling with Coherence
360. ICLR 2025Repulsive Latent Score Distillation for Solving Inverse Problems
361. ICLR 2025Resolution Attack: Exploiting Image Compression to Deceive Deep Neural Networks
362. ICLR 2025Rethinking Diffusion Posterior Sampling: From Conditional Score Estimator to Maximizing a Posterior
363. ICLR 2025Rethinking Visual Counterfactual Explanations Through Region Constraint
364. ICLR 2025Reti-Diff: Illumination Degradation Image Restoration with Retinex-based Latent Diffusion Model
365. ICLR 2025Retrieval Augmented Diffusion Model for Structure-informed Antibody Design and Optimization
366. ICLR 2025Revisit Large-Scale Image-Caption Data in Pre-training Multimodal Foundation Models
367. ICLR 2025RFWave: Multi-band Rectified Flow for Audio Waveform Reconstruction
368. ICLR 2025Risk-Sensitive Diffusion: Robustly Optimizing Diffusion Models with Noisy Samples
369. ICLR 2025Robust Barycenter Estimation using Semi-Unbalanced Neural Optimal Transport
370. ICLR 2025Robust Representation Consistency Model via Contrastive Denoising
371. ICLR 2025Robust Watermarking Using Generative Priors Against Image Editing: From Benchmarking to Advances
372. ICLR 2025Robust-PIFu: Robust Pixel-aligned Implicit Function for 3D Human Digitalization from a Single Image
373. ICLR 2025RTDiff: Reverse Trajectory Synthesis via Diffusion for Offline Reinforcement Learning
374. ICLR 2025SafeDiffuser: Safe Planning with Diffusion Probabilistic Models
375. ICLR 2025SAFREE: Training-Free and Adaptive Guard for Safe Text-to-Image And Video Generation
376. ICLR 2025SANA: Efficient High-Resolution Text-to-Image Synthesis with Linear Diffusion Transformers
377. ICLR 2025SaRA: High-Efficient Diffusion Model Fine-tuning with Progressive Sparse Low-Rank Adaptation
378. ICLR 2025Scalable Discrete Diffusion Samplers: Combinatorial Optimization and Statistical Physics
379. ICLR 2025Scaling Diffusion Language Models via Adaptation from Autoregressive Models
380. ICLR 2025Scaling In-the-Wild Training for Diffusion-based Illumination Harmonization and Editing by Imposing Consistent Light Transport
381. ICLR 2025Scaling up Masked Diffusion Models on Text
382. ICLR 2025Score Forgetting Distillation: A Swift, Data-Free Method for Machine Unlearning in Diffusion Models
383. ICLR 2025Score-based Self-supervised MRI Denoising
384. ICLR 2025Self-Supervised Diffusion Models for Electron-Aware Molecular Representation Learning
385. ICLR 2025Self-Supervised Diffusion MRI Denoising via Iterative and Stable Refinement
386. ICLR 2025Semantic Image Inversion and Editing using Rectified Stochastic Differential Equations
387. ICLR 2025Semantix: An Energy-guided Sampler for Semantic Style Transfer
388. ICLR 2025Sequential Controlled Langevin Diffusions
389. ICLR 2025SG-I2V: Self-Guided Trajectory Control in Image-to-Video Generation
390. ICLR 2025Shallow diffusion networks provably learn hidden low-dimensional structure
391. ICLR 2025ShEPhERD: Diffusing shape, electrostatics, and pharmacophores for bioisosteric drug design
392. ICLR 2025SigDiffusions: Score-Based Diffusion Models for Time Series via Log-Signature Embeddings
393. ICLR 2025Simple Guidance Mechanisms for Discrete Diffusion Models
394. ICLR 2025Simple ReFlow: Improved Techniques for Fast Flow Models
395. ICLR 2025Simplifying, Stabilizing and Scaling Continuous-time Consistency Models
396. ICLR 2025SINGAPO: Single Image Controlled Generation of Articulated Parts in Objects
397. ICLR 2025Slot-Guided Adaptation of Pre-trained Diffusion Models for Object-Centric Learning and Compositional Generation
398. ICLR 2025SlowFast-VGen: Slow-Fast Learning for Action-Driven Long Video Generation
399. ICLR 2025SMITE: Segment Me In TimE
400. ICLR 2025Solving New Tasks by Adapting Internet Video Knowledge

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.