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

6,899 papers, page 83 of 138

4101. NeurIPS 2025ADG: Ambient Diffusion-Guided Dataset Recovery for Corruption-Robust Offline Reinforcement Learning
4102. NeurIPS 2025Adjoint Schrödinger Bridge Sampler
4103. NeurIPS 2025Adjusting Initial Noise to Mitigate Memorization in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
4104. NeurIPS 2025Advanced Sign Language Video Generation with Compressed and Quantized Multi-Condition Tokenization
4105. NeurIPS 2025Advancing Wasserstein Convergence Analysis of Score-Based Models: Insights from Discretization and Second-Order Acceleration
4106. NeurIPS 2025Adversarial Diffusion for Robust Reinforcement Learning
4107. NeurIPS 2025Algorithm- and Data-Dependent Generalization Bounds for Diffusion Models
4108. NeurIPS 2025Align Your Flow: Scaling Continuous-Time Flow Map Distillation
4109. NeurIPS 2025Align-DA: Align Score-based Atmospheric Data Assimilation with Multiple Preferences
4110. NeurIPS 2025AlignedGen: Aligning Style Across Generated Images
4111. NeurIPS 2025Aligning Compound AI Systems via System-level DPO
4112. NeurIPS 2025Aligning Text to Image in Diffusion Models is Easier Than You Think
4113. NeurIPS 2025Aligning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models to Human Preference by Classification
4114. NeurIPS 2025Aligning What Matters: Masked Latent Adaptation for Text-to-Audio-Video Generation
4115. NeurIPS 2025ALTER: All-in-One Layer Pruning and Temporal Expert Routing for Efficient Diffusion Generation
4116. NeurIPS 2025Ambient Diffusion Omni: Training Good Models with Bad Data
4117. NeurIPS 2025Ambient Proteins - Training Diffusion Models on Noisy Structures
4118. NeurIPS 2025An Analytical Theory of Spectral Bias in the Learning Dynamics of Diffusion Models
4119. NeurIPS 2025Analytic Energy-Guided Policy Optimization for Offline Reinforcement Learning
4120. NeurIPS 2025Anchored Diffusion Language Model
4121. NeurIPS 2025AngleRoCL: Angle-Robust Concept Learning for Physically View-Invariant Adversarial Patches
4122. NeurIPS 2025AnimateQR: Bridging Aesthetics and Functionality in Dynamic QR Code Generation
4123. NeurIPS 2025Approximation and Generalization Abilities of Score-based Neural Network Generative Models for Sub-Gaussian Distributions
4124. NeurIPS 2025Are Pixel-Wise Metrics Reliable for Computerized Tomography Reconstruction?
4125. NeurIPS 2025ASDSV: Multimodal Generation Made Efficient with Approximate Speculative Diffusion and Speculative Verification
4126. NeurIPS 2025Assessing the quality of denoising diffusion models in Wasserstein distance: noisy score and optimal bounds
4127. NeurIPS 2025Atomic Diffusion Models for Small Molecule Structure Elucidation from NMR Spectra
4128. NeurIPS 2025Attention with Trained Embeddings Provably Selects Important Tokens
4129. NeurIPS 2025AugGen: Synthetic Augmentation using Diffusion Models Can Improve Recognition
4130. NeurIPS 2025AutoEdit: Automatic Hyperparameter Tuning for Image Editing
4131. NeurIPS 2025Autoregressive Adversarial Post-Training for Real-Time Interactive Video Generation
4132. NeurIPS 2025Autoregressive Motion Generation with Gaussian Mixture-Guided Latent Sampling
4133. NeurIPS 2025BackdoorDM: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Backdoor Learning on Diffusion Model
4134. NeurIPS 2025BADiff: Bandwidth Adaptive Diffusion Model
4135. NeurIPS 2025Balanced Conic Rectified Flow
4136. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Masked and Unmasked: Discrete Diffusion Models via Partial Masking
4137. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Scores: Proximal Diffusion Models
4138. NeurIPS 2025Bifrost-1: Bridging Multimodal LLMs and Diffusion Models with Patch-level CLIP Latents
4139. NeurIPS 2025Blockwise Flow Matching: Improving Flow Matching Models For Efficient High-Quality Generation
4140. NeurIPS 2025BlurDM: A Blur Diffusion Model for Image Deblurring
4141. NeurIPS 2025BoltzNCE: Learning likelihoods for Boltzmann Generation with Stochastic Interpolants and Noise Contrastive Estimation
4142. NeurIPS 2025Boosting Generative Image Modeling via Joint Image-Feature Synthesis
4143. NeurIPS 2025BrainFlow: A Holistic Pathway of Dynamic Neural System on Manifold
4144. NeurIPS 2025Breaking AR’s Sampling Bottleneck: Provable Acceleration via Diffusion Language Models
4145. NeurIPS 2025Breaking Latent Prior Bias in Detectors for Generalizable AIGC Image Detection
4146. NeurIPS 2025BridgePure: Limited Protection Leakage Can Break Black-Box Data Protection
4147. NeurIPS 2025BundleFlow: Deep Menus for Combinatorial Auctions by Diffusion-Based Optimization
4148. NeurIPS 2025CADGrasp: Learning Contact and Collision Aware General Dexterous Grasping in Cluttered Scenes
4149. NeurIPS 2025CADMorph: Geometry‑Driven Parametric CAD Editing via a Plan–Generate–Verify Loop
4150. NeurIPS 2025CamEdit: Continuous Camera Parameter Control for Photorealistic Image Editing

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.