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 9 of 138
- CVPR 2026PLACID Identity-Preserving Multi-Object Compositing via Video Diffusion with Synthetic Trajectories
- CVPR 2026PlannerRFT Reinforcing Diffusion Planners through Closed-Loop and Sample-Efficient Fine-Tuning
- CVPR 2026Pluggable Pruning with Contiguous Layer Distillation for Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2026PnP-CM Consistency Models as Plug-and-Play Priors for Inverse Problems
- CVPR 2026Points-to-3D Structure-Aware 3D Generation with Point Cloud Priors
- CVPR 2026Polyphony Diffusion-based Dual-Hand Action Segmentation with Alternating Vision Transformer and
- CVPR 2026PoseD-Flow Versatile and Guided Flow Matching Model of Human Pose
- CVPR 2026PR-IQA Partial-Reference Image Quality Assessment for Diffusion-Based Novel View Synthesis
- CVPR 2026Pressure2Motion Hierarchical Human Motion Reconstruction from Ground Pressure with Text
- CVPR 2026PrITTI Primitive-based Generation of Controllable and Editable 3D Semantic Urban
- CVPR 2026PrivateEyes Gaze-Preserving Anonymization for Data Sharing
- CVPR 2026Probabilistic Discrepancy Learning for Roadside LiDAR Scene Completion
- CVPR 2026Probabilistic Precipitation Nowcasting with Rectified Flow Transformers
- CVPR 2026Progressive Supernet Training for Efficient Visual Autoregressive Modeling
- CVPR 2026ProjFlow Projection Sampling with Flow Matching for Zero-Shot Exact Spatial
- CVPR 2026PROMO Promptable Outfitting for Efficient High-Fidelity Virtual Try-On
- CVPR 2026PromptEnhancer Taming Your Rewriter for Text-to-Image Generation via Fine-Grained Reward
- CVPR 2026PromptLoop Plug-and-Play Prompt Refinement via Latent Feedback for Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2026PropFly Learning to Propagate via On-the-Fly Supervision from Pre-trained Video
- CVPR 2026Prototype-Guided Concept Erasure in Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026Proxy-Tuning Tailoring Multimodal Autoregressive Models for Subject-Driven Image Generation
- CVPR 2026PS-SR Pseudo-Single-Step Video Super-Resolution via Speculative Diffusion
- CVPR 2026PyramidalWan On Making Pretrained Video Model Pyramidal for Efficient Inference
- CVPR 2026Qwen-Image-Layered Towards Inherent Editability via Layer Decomposition
- CVPR 2026RADAR VQ-VAE Decoder of VAR is a Good Student for
- CVPR 2026RAISE Requirement-Adaptive Evolutionary Refinement for Training-Free Text-to-Image Alignment
- CVPR 2026RAPID Reusing Attention Sparsity with Inter-step Adaptation for Efficient Video
- CVPR 2026RawMetaDiff Unlocking Extreme Darkness from Dual-Exposure RAW with Meta-Guided Diffusion
- CVPR 2026RDF-MIG A Robust Diffusion Framework for Masked Image Generation to
- CVPR 2026REACH Explicit Recovery Behavior for Diffusion Policies
- CVPR 2026Real-Time Generation of Streamable Talking Portrait Video with Reference-Guided Deep
- CVPR 2026Realiz3D 3D Generation Made Photorealistic via Domain-Aware Learning
- CVPR 2026RebRL Reinforcing Discrete Visual Diffusion Models with Rebalanced Timestep Credits
- CVPR 2026ReCoFuse Ultra-Robust Image Fusion via Restorative Multi-Modal Diffusion Reciprocal Coupling
- CVPR 2026Rectifying Latent Space for Generative Single-Image Reflection Removal
- CVPR 2026RecTok Reconstruction Distillation along Rectified Flow
- CVPR 2026Red-teaming Retrieval-Augmented Diffusion Models via Poisoning Knowledge Bases
- CVPR 2026Refacade Editing Object with Given Reference Texture
- CVPR 2026Refining Few-Step Text-to-Multiview Diffusion via Reinforcement Learning
- CVPR 2026Reflection Separation from a Single Image via Joint Latent Diffusion
- CVPR 2026ReFlow Self-correction Motion Learning for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction
- CVPR 2026Region-Adaptive Sampling for Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2026RegionRoute Regional Style Transfer with Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2026ReHyAt Recurrent Hybrid Attention for Video Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2026Relightful Video Portrait Harmonization
- CVPR 2026Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution for Imbalanced Textures A Texture-Aware Diffusion
- CVPR 2026RenderFlow Single-Step Neural Rendering via Flow Matching
- CVPR 2026Repurposing 3D Generative Model for Autoregressive Layout Generation
- CVPR 2026ResCa Residual Caching for Diffusion Transformers Acceleration
- CVPR 2026ResDiT Evoking the Intrinsic Resolution Scalability in Diffusion Transformers
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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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