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

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351. ICLR 2026Joint Distillation for Fast Likelihood Evaluation and Sampling in Flow-based Models
352. ICLR 2026JointDiff: Bridging Continuous and Discrete in Multi-Agent Trajectory Generation
353. ICLR 2026KernelFusion: Zero-Shot Blind Super-Resolution via Patch Diffusion
354. ICLR 2026KinemaDiff: Towards Diffusion for Coherent and Physically Plausible Human Motion Prediction
355. ICLR 2026La-Proteina: Atomistic Protein Generation via Partially Latent Flow Matching
356. ICLR 2026LaDiR: Latent Diffusion Enhances LLMs for Text Reasoning
357. ICLR 2026Landing with the Score: Riemannian Optimization through Denoising
358. ICLR 2026Laplacian Multi-scale Flow Matching for Generative Modeling
359. ICLR 2026Large Scale Diffusion Distillation via Score-Regularized Continuous-Time Consistency
360. ICLR 2026Latent Diffusion Model without Variational Autoencoder
361. ICLR 2026Latent Fourier Transform
362. ICLR 2026Latent Stochastic Interpolants
363. ICLR 2026Latent Wavelet Diffusion For Ultra High-Resolution Image Synthesis
364. ICLR 2026Latent-to-Data Cascaded Diffusion Models for Unconditional Time Series Generation
365. ICLR 2026Lavida-O: Elastic Large Masked Diffusion Models for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation
366. ICLR 2026LayerSync: Self-aligning Intermediate Layers
367. ICLR 2026LazyDrag: Enabling Stable Drag-Based Editing on Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformers via Explicit Correspondence
368. ICLR 2026Learn to Guide Your Diffusion Model
369. ICLR 2026Learnable Sparsity for Vision Generative Models
370. ICLR 2026Learning a distance measure from the information-estimation geometry of data
371. ICLR 2026Learning an Image Editing Model without Image Editing Pairs
372. ICLR 2026Learning Escorted Protocols For Multistate Free-Energy Estimation
373. ICLR 2026Learning Flexible Forward Trajectories for Masked Molecular Diffusion
374. ICLR 2026Learning from Noisy Preferences: A Semi-Supervised Learning Approach to Direct Preference Optimization
375. ICLR 2026Learning Patient-Specific Disease Dynamics With Latent Flow Matching For Longitudinal Imaging Generation
376. ICLR 2026Learning to Generate Stylized Handwritten Text via a Unified Representation of Style, Content, and Noise
377. ICLR 2026Learning to Parallel: Accelerating Diffusion Large Language Models via Adaptive Parallel Decoding
378. ICLR 2026Learning Video Generation for Robotic Manipulation with Collaborative Trajectory Control
379. ICLR 2026LearnIR: Learnable Posterior Sampling for Real-World Image Restoration
380. ICLR 2026Let Features Decide Their Own Solvers: Hybrid Feature Caching for Diffusion Transformers
381. ICLR 2026LightCtrl: Training-free Controllable Video Relighting
382. ICLR 2026LiTo: Surface Light Field Tokenization
383. ICLR 2026Localized Concept Erasure in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via High-Level Representation Misdirection
384. ICLR 2026Logit‑KL Flow Matching: Non‑Autoregressive Text Generation via Sampling‑Hybrid Inference
385. ICLR 2026Loopholing Discrete Diffusion: Deterministic Bypass of the Sampling Wall
386. ICLR 2026LoRA meets Riemannion: Muon Optimizer for Parametrization-independent Low-Rank Adapters
387. ICLR 2026LoRAGen: Structure-Aware Weight Space Learning for LoRA Generation
388. ICLR 2026Low-Rank Few-Shot Node Classification by Node-Level Graph Diffusion
389. ICLR 2026LucidFlux: Caption-Free Universal Image Restoration via a Large-Scale Diffusion Transformer
390. ICLR 2026LumiTex: Towards High-Fidelity PBR Texture Generation with Illumination Context
391. ICLR 2026Lumos-1: On Autoregressive Video Generation with Discrete Diffusion from a Unified Model Perspective
392. ICLR 2026LumosX: Relate Any Identities with Their Attributes for Personalized Video Generation
393. ICLR 2026LVTINO: LAtent Video consisTency INverse sOlver for High Definition Video Restoration
394. ICLR 2026Lyra: Generative 3D Scene Reconstruction via Video Diffusion Model Self-Distillation
395. ICLR 2026MAGREF: Masked Guidance for Any-Reference Video Generation with Subject Disentanglement
396. ICLR 2026MambaVoiceCloning: Efficient and Expressive Text-to-Speech via State-Space Modeling and Diffusion Control
397. ICLR 2026Many-for-Many: Unify the Training of Multiple Video and Image Generation and Manipulation Tasks
398. ICLR 2026MarS-FM: Generative Modeling of Molecular Dynamics via Markov State Models
399. ICLR 2026Massive Activations are the Key to Local Detail Synthesis in Diffusion Transformers
400. ICLR 2026Massive Editing for Large Language Models Based on Dynamic Weight Generation

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.