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
6,899 papers, page 84 of 138
- NeurIPS 2025Can Diffusion Models Disentangle? A Theoretical Perspective
- NeurIPS 2025Can Knowledge-Graph-based Retrieval Augmented Generation Really Retrieve What You Need?
- NeurIPS 2025CAR-Flow: Condition-Aware Reparameterization Aligns Source and Target for Better Flow Matching
- NeurIPS 2025CCS: Controllable and Constrained Sampling with Diffusion Models via Initial Noise Perturbation
- NeurIPS 2025CLEAR: Conv-Like Linearization Revs Pre-Trained Diffusion Transformers Up
- NeurIPS 2025CoDA: Coordinated Diffusion Noise Optimization for Whole-Body Manipulation of Articulated Objects
- NeurIPS 2025Color Conditional Generation with Sliced Wasserstein Guidance
- NeurIPS 2025Communication-Efficient Diffusion Denoising Parallelization via Reuse-then-Predict Mechanism
- NeurIPS 2025Composite Flow Matching for Reinforcement Learning with Shifted-Dynamics Data
- NeurIPS 2025Composition and Alignment of Diffusion Models using Constrained Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Compositional Discrete Latent Code for High Fidelity, Productive Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2025Compositional Monte Carlo Tree Diffusion for Extendable Planning
- NeurIPS 2025Comprehensive Assessment and Analysis for NSFW Content Erasure in Text-to-Image Diffusion models
- NeurIPS 2025Compressed and Smooth Latent Space for Text Diffusion Modeling
- NeurIPS 2025Conditional Diffusion Anomaly Modeling on Graphs
- NeurIPS 2025Conditional Panoramic Image Generation via Masked Autoregressive Modeling
- NeurIPS 2025Conditioning Matters: Training Diffusion Policies is Faster Than You Think
- NeurIPS 2025Consistent Sampling and Simulation: Molecular Dynamics with Energy-Based Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2025Consistent Story Generation: Unlocking the Potential of Zigzag Sampling
- NeurIPS 2025Constrained Diffusers for Safe Planning and Control
- NeurIPS 2025Constrained Discrete Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2025Constrained Posterior Sampling: Time Series Generation with Hard Constraints
- NeurIPS 2025Contact Map Transfer with Conditional Diffusion Model for Generalizable Dexterous Grasp Generation
- NeurIPS 2025Continuous Concepts Removal in Text-to-image Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2025Continuous Diffusion Model for Language Modeling
- NeurIPS 2025Continuous Q-Score Matching: Diffusion Guided Reinforcement Learning for Continuous-Time Control
- NeurIPS 2025Controllable Human-centric Keyframe Interpolation with Generative Prior
- NeurIPS 2025CORAL: Disentangling Latent Representations in Long-Tailed Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2025CoT-lized Diffusion: Let's Reinforce T2I Generation Step-by-step
- NeurIPS 2025Counterfactual Identifiability via Dynamic Optimal Transport
- NeurIPS 2025Counterfactual Image Editing with Disentangled Causal Latent Space
- NeurIPS 2025Coupled Data and Measurement Space Dynamics for Enhanced Diffusion Posterior Sampling
- NeurIPS 2025CoVoMix2: Advancing Zero-Shot Dialogue Generation with Fully Non-Autoregressive Flow Matching
- NeurIPS 2025CPO: Condition Preference Optimization for Controllable Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2025Cross City Traffic Flow Generation via Retrieval Augmented Diffusion Model
- NeurIPS 2025Cross-Domain Graph Data Scaling: A Showcase with Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2025Cross-fluctuation phase transitions reveal sampling dynamics in diffusion models
- NeurIPS 2025CURE: Concept Unlearning via Orthogonal Representation Editing in Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2025Curly Flow Matching for Learning Non-gradient Field Dynamics
- NeurIPS 2025CymbaDiff: Structured Spatial Diffusion for Sketch-based 3D Semantic Urban Scene Generation
- NeurIPS 2025D-VST: Diffusion Transformer for Pathology-Correct Tone-Controllable Cross-Dye Virtual Staining of Whole Slide Images
- NeurIPS 2025d1: Scaling Reasoning in Diffusion Large Language Models via Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2025DCI: Dual-Conditional Inversion for Boosting Diffusion-Based Image Editing
- NeurIPS 2025DEAL: Diffusion Evolution Adversarial Learning for Sim-to-Real Transfer
- NeurIPS 2025DeblurDiff: Real-Word Image Deblurring with Generative Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2025Decomposing stimulus-specific sensory neural information via diffusion models
- NeurIPS 2025Deep Compositional Phase Diffusion for Long Motion Sequence Generation
- NeurIPS 2025Deep learning for continuous-time stochastic control with jumps
- NeurIPS 2025Denoising Trajectory Biases for Zero-Shot AI-Generated Image Detection
- NeurIPS 2025DenseDPO: Fine-Grained Temporal Preference Optimization for Video Diffusion Models
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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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