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

694 papers, page 9 of 14

401. ICLR 2026MeanCache: From Instantaneous to Average Velocity for Accelerating Flow Matching Inference
402. ICLR 2026Measurement Score-Based Diffusion Model
403. ICLR 2026Micro-Macro Coupled Koopman Modeling on Graph for Traffic Flow Prediction
404. ICLR 2026MIMIC: Mask-Injected Manipulation Video Generation with Interaction Control
405. ICLR 2026MindPilot: Closed-loop Visual Stimulation Optimization for Brain Modulation with EEG-guided Diffusion
406. ICLR 2026Mirror Flow Matching with Heavy-Tailed Priors for Generative Modeling on Convex Domains
407. ICLR 2026Mitigating Noise Shift in Denoising Generative Models with Noise Awareness Guidance
408. ICLR 2026Mitigating Semantic Collapse in Generative Personalization with Test-Time Embedding Adjustment
409. ICLR 2026MMPD: Diverse Time Series Forecasting via Multi-Mode Patch Diffusion Loss
410. ICLR 2026MoAlign: Motion-Centric Representation Alignment for Video Diffusion Models
411. ICLR 2026Model Already Knows the Best Noise: Bayesian Active Noise Selection via Attention in Video Diffusion Model
412. ICLR 2026MoGen: Detailed Neuronal Morphology Generation via Point Cloud Flow Matching
413. ICLR 2026MolEditRL: Structure-Preserving Molecular Editing via Discrete Diffusion and Reinforcement Learning
414. ICLR 2026MOLM: Mixture of LoRA Markers
415. ICLR 2026Monocular Normal Estimation via Shading Sequence Estimation
416. ICLR 2026MOSAIC: Multi-Subject Personalized Generation via Correspondence-Aware Alignment and Disentanglement
417. ICLR 2026Motion Prior Distillation in Time Reversal Sampling for Generative Inbetweening
418. ICLR 2026MotionWeaver: Holistic 4D-Anchored Framework for Multi-Humanoid Image Animation
419. ICLR 2026Moving Beyond Diffusion: Hierarchy-to-Hierarchy Autoregression for fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction
420. ICLR 2026Multi-agent Coordination via Flow Matching
421. ICLR 2026Multi-Marginal Flow Matching with Adversarially Learnt Interpolants
422. ICLR 2026Multi-Scale Diffusion-Guided Graph Learning with Power-Smoothing Random Walk Contrast for Multi-View Clustering
423. ICLR 2026Multi-Subspace Multi-Modal Modeling for Diffusion Models: Estimation, Convergence and Mixture of Experts
424. ICLR 2026Multiplicative Diffusion Models: Beyond Gaussian Latents
425. ICLR 2026MUSE: Model-Agnostic Tabular Watermarking via Multi-Sample Selection
426. ICLR 2026MVCustom: Multi-View Customized Diffusion via Geometric Latent Rendering and Completion
427. ICLR 2026NatADiff: Adversarial Boundary Guidance for Natural Adversarial Diffusion
428. ICLR 2026Native Adaptive Solution Expansion for Diffusion-based Combinatorial Optimization
429. ICLR 2026Neodragon: Mobile Video Generation Using Diffusion Transformer
430. ICLR 2026Neon: Negative Extrapolation From Self-Training Improves Image Generation
431. ICLR 2026NeRV-Diffusion: Diffuse Implicit Neural Representation for Video Synthesis
432. ICLR 2026NeuralOS: Towards Simulating Operating Systems via Neural Generative Models
433. ICLR 2026NExT-OMNI: Towards Any-to-Any Omnimodal Foundation Models with Discrete Flow Matching
434. ICLR 2026NextStep-1: Toward Autoregressive Image Generation with Continuous Tokens at Scale
435. ICLR 2026NI Sampling: Accelerating Discrete Diffusion Sampling by Token Order Optimization
436. ICLR 2026No Caption, No Problem: Caption-Free Membership Inference via Model-Fitted Embeddings
437. ICLR 2026Noise-Adaptive Diffusion Sampling for Inverse Problems Without Task-Specific Tuning
438. ICLR 2026NoisePrints: Distortion-Free Watermarks for Authorship in Private Diffusion Models
439. ICLR 2026Object Fidelity Diffusion for Remote Sensing Image Generation
440. ICLR 2026OBS-Diff: Accurate Pruning For Diffusion Models in One-Shot
441. ICLR 2026OmniNav: A Unified Framework for Prospective Exploration and Visual-Language Navigation
442. ICLR 2026OmniText: A Training-Free Generalist for Controllable Text-Image Manipulation
443. ICLR 2026On Powerful Ways to Generate: Autoregression, Diffusion, and Beyond
444. ICLR 2026On Robustness of Vision-Language-Action Model against Multi-Modal Perturbations
445. ICLR 2026On the Design of One-step Diffusion via Shortcutting Flow Paths
446. ICLR 2026On the Interpolation Effect of Score Smoothing in Diffusion Models
447. ICLR 2026On the Reasoning Abilities of Masked Diffusion Language Models
448. ICLR 2026One step further with Monte-Carlo sampler to guide diffusion better
449. ICLR 2026One-Step Flow for Image Super-Resolution with Tunable Fidelity-Realism Trade-offs
450. ICLR 2026One-Step Flow Q-Learning: Addressing the Diffusion Policy Bottleneck in Offline Reinforcement Learning

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.