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 97 of 138
- CVPR 2024Attention-Driven Training-Free Efficiency Enhancement of Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024AVID: Any-Length Video Inpainting with Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024Balancing Act: Distribution-Guided Debiasing in Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Bayesian Diffusion Models for 3D Shape Reconstruction
- CVPR 2024Beyond First-Order Tweedie: Solving Inverse Problems using Latent Diffusion
- CVPR 2024Beyond Textual Constraints: Learning Novel Diffusion Conditions with Fewer Examples
- CVPR 2024Bidirectional Autoregessive Diffusion Model for Dance Generation
- CVPR 2024BIVDiff: A Training-Free Framework for General-Purpose Video Synthesis via Bridging Image and Video Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Boosting Diffusion Models with Moving Average Sampling in Frequency Domain
- CVPR 2024Boosting Flow-based Generative Super-Resolution Models via Learned Prior
- CVPR 2024BOTH2Hands: Inferring 3D Hands from Both Text Prompts and Body Dynamics
- CVPR 2024Breathing Life Into Sketches Using Text-to-Video Priors
- CVPR 2024Building Bridges across Spatial and Temporal Resolutions: Reference-Based Super-Resolution via Change Priors and Conditional Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024Building Optimal Neural Architectures using Interpretable Knowledge
- CVPR 2024C3Net: Compound Conditioned ControlNet for Multimodal Content Generation
- CVPR 2024Cache Me if You Can: Accelerating Diffusion Models through Block Caching
- CVPR 2024CAD: Photorealistic 3D Generation via Adversarial Distillation
- CVPR 2024CAGE: Controllable Articulation GEneration
- CVPR 2024CAMEL: CAusal Motion Enhancement Tailored for Lifting Text-driven Video Editing
- CVPR 2024Can Protective Perturbation Safeguard Personal Data from Being Exploited by Stable Diffusion?
- CVPR 2024CapHuman: Capture Your Moments in Parallel Universes
- CVPR 2024Carve3D: Improving Multi-view Reconstruction Consistency for Diffusion Models with RL Finetuning
- CVPR 2024CAT-DM: Controllable Accelerated Virtual Try-on with Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024CCEdit: Creative and Controllable Video Editing via Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024CDFormer: When Degradation Prediction Embraces Diffusion Model for Blind Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2024CGI-DM: Digital Copyright Authentication for Diffusion Models via Contrasting Gradient Inversion
- CVPR 2024Check Locate Rectify: A Training-Free Layout Calibration System for Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2024CityDreamer: Compositional Generative Model of Unbounded 3D Cities
- CVPR 2024Clockwork Diffusion: Efficient Generation With Model-Step Distillation
- CVPR 2024Closely Interactive Human Reconstruction with Proxemics and Physics-Guided Adaption
- CVPR 2024Co-Speech Gesture Video Generation via Motion-Decoupled Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024Coarse-to-Fine Latent Diffusion for Pose-Guided Person Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2024CoDi: Conditional Diffusion Distillation for Higher-Fidelity and Faster Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Collaborating Foundation Models for Domain Generalized Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2024CommonCanvas: Open Diffusion Models Trained on Creative-Commons Images
- CVPR 2024Concept Weaver: Enabling Multi-Concept Fusion in Text-to-Image Models
- CVPR 2024CONFORM: Contrast is All You Need for High-Fidelity Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Confronting Ambiguity in 6D Object Pose Estimation via Score-Based Diffusion on SE(3)
- CVPR 2024ConsistDreamer: 3D-Consistent 2D Diffusion for High-Fidelity Scene Editing
- CVPR 2024Consistent3D: Towards Consistent High-Fidelity Text-to-3D Generation with Deterministic Sampling Prior
- CVPR 2024ConsistNet: Enforcing 3D Consistency for Multi-view Images Diffusion
- CVPR 2024ConTex-Human: Free-View Rendering of Human from a Single Image with Texture-Consistent Synthesis
- CVPR 2024Contrastive Denoising Score for Text-guided Latent Diffusion Image Editing
- CVPR 2024ConvoFusion: Multi-Modal Conversational Diffusion for Co-Speech Gesture Synthesis
- CVPR 2024Correcting Diffusion Generation through Resampling
- CVPR 2024CosalPure: Learning Concept from Group Images for Robust Co-Saliency Detection
- CVPR 2024CoSeR: Bridging Image and Language for Cognitive Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2024CosmicMan: A Text-to-Image Foundation Model for Humans
- CVPR 2024CPR: Retrieval Augmented Generation for Copyright Protection
- CVPR 2024Cross Initialization for Face Personalization of Text-to-Image Models
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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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