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

2,690 papers, page 8 of 54

351. CVPR 2026MoCha End-to-End Video Character Replacement without Structural Guidance
352. CVPR 2026MoCoDiff A Controllable Autoregressive Diffusion Model for Expressive Motion Generation
353. CVPR 2026MOS Mitigating Optical-SAR Modality Gap for Cross-Modal Ship Re-Identification
354. CVPR 2026MotionEnhancer Leveraging Video Diffusion for Motion-Enhanced Vision-Language Models
355. CVPR 2026MotionHiFlow Text-to-Motion via Hierarchical Flow Matching
356. CVPR 2026MR. Illuminate Zero-Shot Low-Light Image Enhancement with Diffusion Prior
357. CVPR 2026Multi-Patch Global-to-Local Transformer Architecture For Efficient Flow Matching and Diffusion
358. CVPR 2026MusicInfuser Making Video Diffusion Listen and Dance
359. CVPR 2026MUST Modality-Specific Representation-Aware Transformer for Diffusion-Enhanced Survival Prediction with Missing
360. CVPR 2026MV2UV Generating High-quality UV Texture Maps with Multiview Prompts
361. CVPR 2026NanoSD Edge Efficient Foundation Model for Real Time Image Restoration
362. CVPR 2026NaTex Seamless Texture Generation as Latent Color Diffusion
363. CVPR 2026Native and Compact Structured Latents for 3D Generation
364. CVPR 2026NEC-Diff Noise-Robust Event-RAW Complementary Diffusion for Seeing Motion in Extreme
365. CVPR 2026Neighbor GRPO Contrastive ODE Policy Optimization Aligns Flow Models
366. CVPR 2026Neighbor-Aware Localized Concept Erasure in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
367. CVPR 2026NeuroFlow Toward Unified Visual Encoding and Decoding from Neural Activity
368. CVPR 2026NexusFlow Unifying Disparate Tasks under Partial Supervision via Invertible Flow
369. CVPR 2026NIL No-data Imitation Learning
370. CVPR 2026No Way To Steal My Face Proactive Defense Against Identity-Preserving
371. CVPR 2026Occluded Human Body Capture with Frequency Domain Denoising Prior
372. CVPR 2026OMGTex One-stage Multi-style Facial Texture Reconstruction without Geometry Guidance
373. CVPR 2026Omni2Sound Towards Unified Video-Text-to-Audio Generation
374. CVPR 2026One Model Many Budgets Elastic Latent Interfaces for Diffusion Transformers
375. CVPR 2026One-Step Diffusion Transformer for Controllable Real-World Image Super-Resolution
376. CVPR 2026One-to-All Animation Alignment-Free Character Animation and Image Pose Transfer
377. CVPR 2026OntoAug Rethinking Generative Data Augmentation via Ontology Guidance
378. CVPR 2026OpenDPR Open-Vocabulary Change Detection via Vision-Centric Diffusion-Guided Prototype Retrieval for
379. CVPR 2026Optical Flow Matching Reframing Optical Flow as Continuous Transport Dynamics
380. CVPR 2026OrthoFuse Training-free Riemannian Fusion of Orthogonal Style-Concept Adapters for Diffusion
381. CVPR 2026Otil Accelerating Diffusion Model Inference via Communication-Efficient Multi-GPU Parallelism
382. CVPR 2026Outlier-Robust Diffusion Solvers for Inverse Problems
383. CVPR 2026PAD-Hand Physics-Aware Diffusion for Hand Motion Recovery
384. CVPR 2026Pantheon360 Taming Digital Twin Generation via 3D-Aware 360deg Video Diffusion
385. CVPR 2026Parallelised Differentiable Straightest Geodesics for 3D Meshes
386. CVPR 2026ParaUni Enhance Generation in Unified Multimodal Model with Reinforcement-driven Hierarchical
387. CVPR 2026PartDiffuser Part-wise 3D Mesh Generation via Discrete Diffusion
388. CVPR 2026PatchScene Patch-based Voxel Diffusion Model for Large-Scale Scene Completion
389. CVPR 2026Personalized Federated Training of Diffusion Models with Privacy Guarantees
390. CVPR 2026PG-VTON Single-Pass Training-Free Virtual Try-On via Patch-Guided Reference Alignment
391. CVPR 2026PHAC Promptable Human Amodal Completion
392. CVPR 2026Phased DMD Few-step Distribution Matching Distillation via Score Matching within
393. CVPR 2026PhyCo Learning Controllable Physical Priors for Generative Motion
394. CVPR 2026PhyOceanCast Global Ocean Forecasting with Physics-Informed Diffusion
395. CVPR 2026PhysGen Physically Grounded 3D Shape Generation for Industrial Design
396. CVPR 2026Physical Simulator In-the-Loop Video Generation
397. CVPR 2026Physics-Consistent Diffusion for Efficient Fluid Super-Resolution via Multiscale Residual Correction
398. CVPR 2026Pixel Motion Diffusion is What We Need for Robot Control
399. CVPR 2026PixelDiT Pixel Diffusion Transformers for Image Generation
400. CVPR 2026PixelRush Ultra-Fast Training-Free High-Resolution Image Generation via One-step Diffusion

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.