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. ICML 2026LieWarper: Geometry-Aware Motion Transfer via Lie Algebra
352. ICML 2026Light Forcing: Accelerating Autoregressive Video Diffusion via Sparse Attention
353. ICML 2026Light Up Your Face: A Physically Consistent Dataset and Diffusion Model for Face Fill-Light Enhancement
354. ICML 2026LightningRL: Breaking the Accuracy–Parallelism Trade-off of Block-wise dLLMs via Reinforcement Learning
355. ICML 2026Likelihood Matching for Diffusion Models
356. ICML 2026LineageFlow: Flow Matching for High-Fidelity Family-Aware Protein Sequence Generation
357. ICML 2026Listening Through the Noise: Cauchy-Driven Diffusion Bridges for Robust Gastrointestinal Auscultation and Clinical Benchmarking
358. ICML 2026LiteVSR: Lightweight Adaptation of Frozen Diffusion Transformers for Video Super-Resolution
359. ICML 2026LithoGRPO: Fast Inverse Lithography via GRPO Reinforced Flow Matching
360. ICML 2026Local Hessian Spectral Filtering for Robust Intrinsic Dimension Estimation
361. ICML 2026Local MAP Sampling for Diffusion Models
362. ICML 2026Local Mechanisms of Compositional Generalization in Conditional Diffusion
363. ICML 2026Localizing Memorized Regions in Diffusion Models via Coordinate-Wise Curvature Differences
364. ICML 2026Locally Coherent Parallel Decoding in Diffusion Language Models
365. ICML 2026Logical Guidance for the Exact Composition of Diffusion Models
366. ICML 2026Lookahead Path Likelihood Optimization for Diffusion LLMs
367. ICML 2026Lookahead Sample Reward Guidance for Test-Time Scaling of Diffusion Models
368. ICML 2026Lookahead Unmasking Elicits Reliable Decoding in Diffusion Language Models
369. ICML 2026LoPhyDA: Low-Rank Tensor and Physics Gradient Guided Diffusion for Atmospheric Data Assimilation
370. ICML 2026LoRe: Adaptive Interaction-Evaluation Routing with Per-step Interaction Budgets for Iterative Graph Solvers
371. ICML 2026LoSA: Locality Aware Sparse Attention in Diffusion Language Models
372. ICML 2026LSGQuant: Layer-Sensitivity Guided Quantization for One-Step Diffusion Real-World Video Super-Resolution
373. ICML 2026LUGS: Latent-aware Guidance for Efficient Unmasking in Diffusion Large Language Models
374. ICML 2026LUVE : Latent-Cascaded Ultra-High-Resolution Video Generation with Dual Frequency Experts
375. ICML 2026M-Star: Markovian Projection of Star-Shaped Diffusion for Exponential Family Distributions
376. ICML 2026MacroGuide: Topological Guidance for Macrocycle Generation
377. ICML 2026MAD: Manifold Attracted Diffusion
378. ICML 2026MaMi-HOI: Harmonizing Global Kinematics and Local Geometry for Human-Object Interaction Generation
379. ICML 2026Manifold-Aware Perturbations for Constrained Generative Modeling
380. ICML 2026Manifold-Optimal Guidance: A Unified Riemannian Control View of Diffusion Guidance
381. ICML 2026Marrying Generative Model of Healthcare Events with Digital Twin of Social Determinants of Health for Disease Reasoning
382. ICML 2026Masks Can Be Distracting: On Context Comprehension in Diffusion Language Models
383. ICML 2026MAST: Motif-Augmented Diffusion with Search Tree for Spectroscopic Molecular Structure Elucidation
384. ICML 2026Mean Flow Distillation: Robust and Stable Distillation for Flow Matching Models
385. ICML 2026Mean Flow Policy Optimization
386. ICML 2026Measurement-Consistent Langevin Corrector for Stabilizing Latent Diffusion Inverse Problem Solvers
387. ICML 2026MEDUSA: Motion Elimination in Diffusion Using Spectral Attack
388. ICML 2026Meta Flow Maps enable scalable reward alignment
389. ICML 2026MidSteer: Optimal Affine Framework for Steering Generative Models
390. ICML 2026Mind-Omni: A Unified Multi-Task Framework for Brain-Vision-Language Modeling via Discrete Diffusion
391. ICML 2026Minibatch Optimal Transport and Perplexity Bound Estimation in Discrete Flow Matching
392. ICML 2026MIRO: MultI-Reward cOnditioned pretraining improves T2I quality and efficiency
393. ICML 2026MIST: Moment-Aligned Invariant Stability Transform for Robust Flow Matching
394. ICML 2026Mitigating Mask Prior Drift and Positional Attention Collapse in Large Diffusion Vision-Language Models
395. ICML 2026Mitigating Noise-Induced Layout Priors for Object Counting in Diffusion Models
396. ICML 2026Mitigating Surgical Data Imbalance with Dual-Prediction Video Diffusion Model
397. ICML 2026Mitigating the Contractivity Trap in Diffusion ODEs via Stein Stabilization
398. ICML 2026Mixture of Distributions Matters: Dynamic Sparse Attention for Efficient Video Diffusion Transformers
399. ICML 2026Mixture Prototype Flow Matching for Open-Set Supervised Anomaly Detection
400. ICML 2026MMD Guidance: Training-Free Distribution Adaptation for Diffusion Models via Maximum Mean Discrepancy Guidance

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.