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
2,078 papers, page 8 of 42
- CVPR 2025OSDFace: One-Step Diffusion Model for Face Restoration
- CVPR 2025OSV: One Step is Enough for High-Quality Image to Video Generation
- CVPR 2025Paint by Inpaint: Learning to Add Image Objects by Removing Them First
- CVPR 2025Panorama Generation From NFoV Image Done Right
- CVPR 2025ParaHome: Parameterizing Everyday Home Activities Towards 3D Generative Modeling of Human-Object Interactions
- CVPR 2025PartGen: Part-level 3D Generation and Reconstruction with Multi-view Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025PartRM: Modeling Part-Level Dynamics with Large Cross-State Reconstruction Model
- CVPR 2025PassionSR: Post-Training Quantization with Adaptive Scale in One-Step Diffusion based Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2025PatchVSR: Breaking Video Diffusion Resolution Limits with Patch-wise Video Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2025Pathways on the Image Manifold: Image Editing via Video Generation
- CVPR 2025Pattern Analogies: Learning to Perform Programmatic Image Edits by Analogy
- CVPR 2025PCM : Picard Consistency Model for Fast Parallel Sampling of Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025PersonaBooth: Personalized Text-to-Motion Generation
- CVPR 2025Personalized Preference Fine-tuning of Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Perturb-and-Revise: Flexible 3D Editing with Generative Trajectories
- CVPR 2025PhysAnimator: Physics-Guided Generative Cartoon Animation
- CVPR 2025PhysicsGen: Can Generative Models Learn from Images to Predict Complex Physical Relations?
- CVPR 2025PhyT2V: LLM-Guided Iterative Self-Refinement for Physics-Grounded Text-to-Video Generation
- CVPR 2025PICD: Versatile Perceptual Image Compression with Diffusion Rendering
- CVPR 2025Pioneering 4-Bit FP Quantization for Diffusion Models: Mixup-Sign Quantization and Timestep-Aware Fine-Tuning
- CVPR 2025Plug-and-Play Interpretable Responsible Text-to-Image Generation via Dual-Space Multi-facet Concept Control
- CVPR 2025Point Cloud Upsampling Using Conditional Diffusion Module with Adaptive Noise Suppression
- CVPR 2025PoseTraj: Pose-Aware Trajectory Control in Video Diffusion
- CVPR 2025POSTA: A Go-to Framework for Customized Artistic Poster Generation
- CVPR 2025PQPP: A Joint Benchmark for Text-to-Image Prompt and Query Performance Prediction
- CVPR 2025Precise, Fast, and Low-cost Concept Erasure in Value Space: Orthogonal Complement Matters
- CVPR 2025Prior Does Matter: Visual Navigation via Denoising Diffusion Bridge Models
- CVPR 2025Probability Density Geodesics in Image Diffusion Latent Space
- CVPR 2025Progressive Rendering Distillation: Adapting Stable Diffusion for Instant Text-to-Mesh Generation without 3D Data
- CVPR 2025Prometheus: 3D-Aware Latent Diffusion Models for Feed-Forward Text-to-3D Scene Generation
- CVPR 2025Prompt2Perturb (P2P): Text-Guided Diffusion-Based Adversarial Attack on Breast Ultrasound Images
- CVPR 2025ProReflow: Progressive Reflow with Decomposed Velocity
- CVPR 2025PS-Diffusion: Photorealistic Subject-Driven Image Editing with Disentangled Control and Attention
- CVPR 2025PSHuman: Photorealistic Single-image 3D Human Reconstruction using Cross-Scale Multiview Diffusion and Explicit Remeshing
- CVPR 2025PTDiffusion: Free Lunch for Generating Optical Illusion Hidden Pictures with Phase-Transferred Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025Pursuing Temporal-Consistent Video Virtual Try-On via Dynamic Pose Interaction
- CVPR 2025Q-DiT: Accurate Post-Training Quantization for Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2025RAD: Region-Aware Diffusion Models for Image Inpainting
- CVPR 2025Random Conditioning for Diffusion Model Compression with Distillation
- CVPR 2025Random Conditioning with Distillation for Data-Efficient Diffusion Model Compression
- CVPR 2025RaSS: Improving Denoising Diffusion Samplers with Reinforced Active Sampling Scheduler
- CVPR 2025RayFlow: Instance-Aware Diffusion Acceleration via Adaptive Flow Trajectories
- CVPR 2025Re-HOLD: Video Hand Object Interaction Reenactment via adaptive Layout-instructed Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2025Reanimating Images using Neural Representations of Dynamic Stimuli
- CVPR 2025ReCapture: Generative Video Camera Controls for User-Provided Videos using Masked Video Fine-Tuning
- CVPR 2025Reconciling Stochastic and Deterministic Strategies for Zero-shot Image Restoration using Diffusion Model in Dual
- CVPR 2025Reconstructing Close Human Interaction with Appearance and Proxemics Reasoning
- CVPR 2025Reconstruction vs. Generation: Taming Optimization Dilemma in Latent Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Rectified Diffusion Guidance for Conditional Generation
- CVPR 2025Redefining <Creative> in Dictionary: Towards an Enhanced Semantic Understanding of Creative Generation
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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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