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

694 papers, page 8 of 14

351. NeurIPS 2025LLM Meets Diffusion: A Hybrid Framework for Crystal Material Generation
352. NeurIPS 2025Locality in Image Diffusion Models Emerges from Data Statistics
353. NeurIPS 2025Localizing Knowledge in Diffusion Transformers
354. NeurIPS 2025LocDiff: Identifying Locations on Earth by Diffusing in the Hilbert Space
355. NeurIPS 2025LoRAShop: Training-Free Multi-Concept Image Generation and Editing with Rectified Flow Transformers
356. NeurIPS 2025Lost in Latent Space: An Empirical Study of Latent Diffusion Models for Physics Emulation
357. NeurIPS 2025Luminance-Aware Statistical Quantization: Unsupervised Hierarchical Learning for Illumination Enhancement
358. NeurIPS 2025LuxDiT: Lighting Estimation with Video Diffusion Transformer
359. NeurIPS 2025MagCache: Fast Video Generation with Magnitude-Aware Cache
360. NeurIPS 2025Make Information Diffusion Explainable: LLM-based Causal Framework for Diffusion Prediction
361. NeurIPS 2025Masked Diffusion Models as Energy Minimization
362. NeurIPS 2025MDNS: Masked Diffusion Neural Sampler via Stochastic Optimal Control
363. NeurIPS 2025Mean Flows for One-step Generative Modeling
364. NeurIPS 2025Measure gradients, not activations! Enhancing neuronal activity in deep reinforcement learning
365. NeurIPS 2025MEgoHand: Multimodal Egocentric Hand-Object Interaction Motion Generation
366. NeurIPS 2025MGE-LDM: Joint Latent Diffusion for Simultaneous Music Generation and Source Extraction
367. NeurIPS 2025Mind-the-Glitch: Visual Correspondence for Detecting Inconsistencies in Subject-Driven Generation
368. NeurIPS 2025MiniMax-Remover: Taming Bad Noise Helps Video Object Removal
369. NeurIPS 2025Mitigating Occlusions in Virtual Try-On via A Simple-Yet-Effective Mask-Free Framework
370. NeurIPS 2025Mitigating Sexual Content Generation via Embedding Distortion in Text-conditioned Diffusion Models
371. NeurIPS 2025MMMG: A Massive, Multidisciplinary, Multi-Tier Generation Benchmark for Text-to-Image Reasoning
372. NeurIPS 2025MoCha: Towards Movie-Grade Talking Character Generation
373. NeurIPS 2025Modeling Microenvironment Trajectories on Spatial Transcriptomics with NicheFlow
374. NeurIPS 2025MoleBridge: Synthetic Space Projecting with Discrete Markov Bridges
375. NeurIPS 2025Momentum Multi-Marginal Schrödinger Bridge Matching
376. NeurIPS 2025More Than Generation: Unifying Generation and Depth Estimation via Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
377. NeurIPS 2025MoRE-Brain: Routed Mixture of Experts for Interpretable and Generalizable Cross-Subject fMRI Visual Decoding
378. NeurIPS 2025MotionBind: Multi-Modal Human Motion Alignment for Retrieval, Recognition, and Generation
379. NeurIPS 2025MotionRAG: Motion Retrieval-Augmented Image-to-Video Generation
380. NeurIPS 2025MRO: Enhancing Reasoning in Diffusion Language Models via Multi-Reward Optimization
381. NeurIPS 2025MultiHuman-Testbench: Benchmarking Image Generation for Multiple Humans
382. NeurIPS 2025Multitask Learning with Stochastic Interpolants
383. NeurIPS 2025Multivariate Latent Recalibration for Conditional Normalizing Flows
384. NeurIPS 2025Nabla-R2D3: Effective and Efficient 3D Diffusion Alignment with 2D Rewards
385. NeurIPS 2025Native-Resolution Image Synthesis
386. NeurIPS 2025Neural Entropy
387. NeurIPS 2025Neural Hamiltonian Diffusions for Modeling Structured Geometric Dynamics
388. NeurIPS 2025Neural MJD: Neural Non-Stationary Merton Jump Diffusion for Time Series Prediction
389. NeurIPS 2025Neural-Driven Image Editing
390. NeurIPS 2025NeuralPLexer3: Accurate Biomolecular Complex Structure Prediction with Flow Models
391. NeurIPS 2025NeuroRenderedFake: A Challenging Benchmark to Detect Fake Images Generated by Advanced Neural Rendering Methods
392. NeurIPS 2025Neurosymbolic Diffusion Models
393. NeurIPS 2025Next Semantic Scale Prediction via Hierarchical Diffusion Language Models
394. NeurIPS 2025No Object Is an Island: Enhancing 3D Semantic Segmentation Generalization with Diffusion Models
395. NeurIPS 2025Noise Consistency Training: A Native Approach for One-step Generator in Learning Additional Controls
396. NeurIPS 2025Noise Hypernetworks: Amortizing Test-Time Compute in Diffusion Models
397. NeurIPS 2025Noise Matters: Optimizing Matching Noise for Diffusion Classifiers
398. NeurIPS 2025Noisy Multi-Label Learning through Co-Occurrence-Aware Diffusion
399. NeurIPS 2025Non-equilibrium Annealed Adjoint Sampler
400. NeurIPS 2025Non-Markovian Discrete Diffusion with Causal Language Models

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.