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

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

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.