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

551 papers, page 9 of 12

401. CVPR 2025ReDiffDet: Rotation-equivariant Diffusion Model for Oriented Object Detection
402. CVPR 2025Repurposing Pre-trained Video Diffusion Models for Event-based Video Interpolation
403. CVPR 2025Rethinking Diffusion for Text-Driven Human Motion Generation: Redundant Representations, Evaluation, and Masked Autoregression
404. CVPR 2025Reversing Flow for Image Restoration
405. CVPR 2025Revisiting Generative Replay for Class Incremental Object Detection
406. CVPR 2025Reward Fine-Tuning Two-Step Diffusion Models via Learning Differentiable Latent-Space Surrogate Reward
407. CVPR 2025REWIND: Real-Time Egocentric Whole-Body Motion Diffusion with Exemplar-Based Identity Conditioning
408. CVPR 2025Robust Message Embedding via Attention Flow-Based Steganography
409. CVPR 2025Robust Multi-Object 4D Generation for In-the-wild Videos
410. CVPR 2025Robust-MVTON: Learning Cross-Pose Feature Alignment and Fusion for Robust Multi-View Virtual Try-On
411. CVPR 2025ROICtrl: Boosting Instance Control for Visual Generation
412. CVPR 2025RoomPainter: View-Integrated Diffusion for Consistent Indoor Scene Texturing
413. CVPR 2025RORem: Training a Robust Object Remover with Human-in-the-Loop
414. CVPR 2025S^3-Face: SSS-Compliant Facial Reflectance Estimation via Diffusion Priors
415. CVPR 2025SALAD: Skeleton-aware Latent Diffusion for Text-driven Motion Generation and Editing
416. CVPR 2025Satellite Observations Guided Diffusion Model for Accurate Meteorological States at Arbitrary Resolution
417. CVPR 2025Satellite to GroundScape - Large-scale Consistent Ground View Generation from Satellite Views
418. CVPR 2025Scaling Down Text Encoders of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
419. CVPR 2025Scaling Inference Time Compute for Diffusion Models
420. CVPR 2025Scaling Properties of Diffusion Models For Perceptual Tasks
421. CVPR 2025Scenario Dreamer: Vectorized Latent Diffusion for Generating Driving Simulation Environments
422. CVPR 2025Scene Splatter: Momentum 3D Scene Generation from Single Image with Video Diffusion Model
423. CVPR 2025Scene4U: Hierarchical Layered 3D Scene Reconstruction from Single Panoramic Image for Your Immerse Exploration
424. CVPR 2025SceneCrafter: Controllable Multi-View Driving Scene Editing
425. CVPR 2025Schedule On the Fly: Diffusion Time Prediction for Faster and Better Image Generation
426. CVPR 2025ScribbleLight: Single Image Indoor Relighting with Scribbles
427. CVPR 2025SeaLion: Semantic Part-Aware Latent Point Diffusion Models for 3D Generation
428. CVPR 2025Secret Lies in Color: Enhancing AI-Generated Images Detection with Color Distribution Analysis
429. CVPR 2025See Further When Clear: Curriculum Consistency Model
430. CVPR 2025SeedVR: Seeding Infinity in Diffusion Transformer Towards Generic Video Restoration
431. CVPR 2025Segment Any-Quality Images with Generative Latent Space Enhancement
432. CVPR 2025Self-Cross Diffusion Guidance for Text-to-Image Synthesis of Similar Subjects
433. CVPR 2025Self-Learning Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Fusion via Adaptive Residual Guided Subspace Diffusion Model
434. CVPR 2025Self-supervised ControlNet with Spatio-Temporal Mamba for Real-world Video Super-resolution
435. CVPR 2025SemanticDraw: Towards Real-Time Interactive Content Creation from Image Diffusion Models
436. CVPR 2025Shadow Generation Using Diffusion Model with Geometry Prior
437. CVPR 2025ShapeShifter: 3D Variations Using Multiscale and Sparse Point-Voxel Diffusion
438. CVPR 2025Sharp-It: A Multi-view to Multi-view Diffusion Model for 3D Synthesis and Manipulation
439. CVPR 2025SharpDepth: Sharpening Metric Depth Predictions Using Diffusion Distillation
440. CVPR 2025Shift the Lens: Environment-Aware Unsupervised Camouflaged Object Detection
441. CVPR 2025Shining Yourself: High-Fidelity Ornaments Virtual Try-on with Diffusion Model
442. CVPR 2025ShotAdapter: Text-to-Multi-Shot Video Generation with Diffusion Models
443. CVPR 2025ShowHowTo: Generating Scene-Conditioned Step-by-Step Visual Instructions
444. CVPR 2025Silence is Golden: Leveraging Adversarial Examples to Nullify Audio Control in LDM-based Talking-Head Generation
445. CVPR 2025Silent Branding Attack: Trigger-free Data Poisoning Attack on Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
446. CVPR 2025SimAvatar: Simulation-Ready Avatars with Layered Hair and Clothing
447. CVPR 2025Simpler Diffusion: 1.5 FID on ImageNet512 with Pixel-space Diffusion
448. CVPR 2025SIR-DIFF: Sparse Image Sets Restoration with Multi-View Diffusion Model
449. CVPR 2025Six-CD: Benchmarking Concept Removals for Text-to-image Diffusion Models
450. CVPR 2025SleeperMark: Towards Robust Watermark against Fine-Tuning Text-to-image Diffusion Models

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.