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. ICML 2026MMPD-Bench: Bridging Multimodal Fission with Multi-Polarimetric Modalities Decomposition
402. ICML 2026MOD-SR: Unifying Multimodal Learning and Direct Optimization with Gradient-Guided Diffusion Model for Symbolic Regression
403. ICML 2026Mode Seeking meets Mean Seeking for Fast Long Video Generation
404. ICML 2026Model-Based Diffusion Sampling for Predictive Control in Offline Decision Making
405. ICML 2026MoLF: Mixture-of-Latent-Flow for Pan-Cancer Spatial Gene Expression Prediction from Histology
406. ICML 2026Mosaic: Unlocking Over 30$\times$ Context Length for Diffusion LLMs Inference via Global Memory Planning and Dynamic Peak Taming
407. ICML 2026Motion-Residual Conflict-Aware Time Reversal for Generative Inbetweening
408. ICML 2026MPFM: Cross Multi-Domain Prototype Flow Matching for Log Anomaly Detection
409. ICML 2026Multi-Objective Learning for Diffusion Models: A Statistical Theory under Semi-Supervised Learning
410. ICML 2026Multi-Objective Protein Design via Memory-Aware Test-Time Scaling in Diffusion Models
411. ICML 2026Multimarginal flow matching with optimal transport potentials
412. ICML 2026Multimodal Crystal Flow: Any-to-Any Modality Generation for Unified Crystal Modeling
413. ICML 2026Multimodal Latent Language Modeling with Next-Token Diffusion
414. ICML 2026NanoFLUX: Distillation-Driven Compression of Large Text-to-Image Generation Models for Mobile Devices
415. ICML 2026NaRA: Noise-Aware LoRA for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Diffusion LLMs
416. ICML 2026Native Spatio-Temporal 4D Variational Autoencoder
417. ICML 2026NaviCache: Test-Time Self-Calibration Caching for Video Generation
418. ICML 2026Navigating the Energy Landscape of Collaboration: Multi-Agent Communication Graph Generation via Score-Based Diffusion
419. ICML 2026NavOL: Navigation Policy with Online Imitation Learning
420. ICML 2026NetDiff: Graph Diffusion with Improved Global Capabilities to Generate and Update Mobile Network Topologies
421. ICML 2026NeuronCtrl: Geometry-Aware Safe Closed-Loop Generative Control for Neuronal Microenvironment Dynamics
422. ICML 2026NNiT: Width-Agnostic Neural Network Generation with Structurally Aligned Weight Spaces
423. ICML 2026Noisy-Space Policy Gradient for Diffusion Policies in Offline Reinforcement Learning
424. ICML 2026NOMAD: Lifelong Trajectory Planning via Non-Parametric Bayesian Memory-Adaptive Diffusion Experts
425. ICML 2026Nonparametric Data Attribution for Diffusion Models
426. ICML 2026Normalization-equivariant Diffusion Models: Learning Posterior Samplers From Noisy And Partial Measurements
427. ICML 2026Normalizing Flows with Iterative Denoising
428. ICML 2026Not All Frequencies Are Equal: Energy-Adaptive Diffusion for Time Series Forecasting
429. ICML 2026OcclusionFormer: Arranging Z-Order for Layout-Grounded Image Generation
430. ICML 2026Offline Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Sequential Score Decomposition
431. ICML 2026Offline Preference Optimization for Rectified Flow with Noise-Tracked Pairs
432. ICML 2026Offline Reinforcement Learning with Generative Trajectory Policies
433. ICML 2026Omni-Diffusion: Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation with Masked Discrete Diffusion
434. ICML 2026OmniShow: Unifying Multimodal Conditions for Human-Object Interaction Video Generation
435. ICML 2026OMP: One-step Meanflow Policy with Directional Alignment
436. ICML 2026On the Anisotropy of Score-Based Generative Models
437. ICML 2026On the Collapse of Generative Paths: A Criterion and Correction for Diffusion Steering
438. ICML 2026On the Generalization in Topology Optimization via Sensitivity-Conditioned Bernoulli Flow Matching
439. ICML 2026On the Robustness of Langevin Dynamics to Score Function Error
440. ICML 2026On the Separability of Information in Diffusion Models
441. ICML 2026One Step Forward and K Steps Back: Better Reasoning with Denoising Recursion Models
442. ICML 2026One-step Latent-free Image Generation with Pixel Mean Flows
443. ICML 2026One-step Optimal Transport via Regularized Distribution Matching Distillation
444. ICML 2026One-Step Residual Shifting Diffusion for Image Super-Resolution via Distillation
445. ICML 2026Optimal Stopping in Latent Diffusion Models
446. ICML 2026Optimality of FSQ Tokens for Continuous Diffusion for Categorical Data with Application to Text-to-Speech
447. ICML 2026Optimizing Few-Step Generation with Adaptive Matching Distillation
448. ICML 2026Optimizing Visual Generative Models via Distribution-wise Rewards
449. ICML 2026OPTION: Optimal Transport–Guided Flow Matching for Incomplete and Unaligned Multi-View Clustering
450. ICML 2026Order Matters in Retrosynthesis: Structure-aware Generation via Reaction-Center-Guided Discrete Flow Matching

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.