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 98 of 138
- CVPR 2024CrowdDiff: Multi-hypothesis Crowd Density Estimation using Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024CURSOR: Scalable Mixed-Order Hypergraph Matching with CUR Decomposition
- CVPR 2024Customization Assistant for Text-to-Image Generation
- CVPR 2024D^4: Dataset Distillation via Disentangled Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024DanceCamera3D: 3D Camera Movement Synthesis with Music and Dance
- CVPR 2024De-Diffusion Makes Text a Strong Cross-Modal Interface
- CVPR 2024DEADiff: An Efficient Stylization Diffusion Model with Disentangled Representations
- CVPR 2024Deep Equilibrium Diffusion Restoration with Parallel Sampling
- CVPR 2024DeepCache: Accelerating Diffusion Models for Free
- CVPR 2024Delving into the Trajectory Long-tail Distribution for Muti-object Tracking
- CVPR 2024DemoFusion: Democratising High-Resolution Image Generation With No $$$
- CVPR 2024DetDiffusion: Synergizing Generative and Perceptive Models for Enhanced Data Generation and Perception
- CVPR 2024Diff-BGM: A Diffusion Model for Video Background Music Generation
- CVPR 2024Diff-Plugin: Revitalizing Details for Diffusion-based Low-level Tasks
- CVPR 2024DiffAM: Diffusion-based Adversarial Makeup Transfer for Facial Privacy Protection
- CVPR 2024DiffAssemble: A Unified Graph-Diffusion Model for 2D and 3D Reassembly
- CVPR 2024DiffCast: A Unified Framework via Residual Diffusion for Precipitation Nowcasting
- CVPR 2024DiffEditor: Boosting Accuracy and Flexibility on Diffusion-based Image Editing
- CVPR 2024DiffForensics: Leveraging Diffusion Prior to Image Forgery Detection and Localization
- CVPR 2024DiffHuman: Probabilistic Photorealistic 3D Reconstruction of Humans
- CVPR 2024DiffLoc: Diffusion Model for Outdoor LiDAR Localization
- CVPR 2024DifFlow3D: Toward Robust Uncertainty-Aware Scene Flow Estimation with Iterative Diffusion-Based Refinement
- CVPR 2024DiffMorpher: Unleashing the Capability of Diffusion Models for Image Morphing
- CVPR 2024DiffMOT: A Real-time Diffusion-based Multiple Object Tracker with Non-linear Prediction
- CVPR 2024DiffPerformer: Iterative Learning of Consistent Latent Guidance for Diffusion-based Human Video Generation
- CVPR 2024DiffPortrait3D: Controllable Diffusion for Zero-Shot Portrait View Synthesis
- CVPR 2024DiffSal: Joint Audio and Video Learning for Diffusion Saliency Prediction
- CVPR 2024DiffSCI: Zero-Shot Snapshot Compressive Imaging via Iterative Spectral Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024DiffSHEG: A Diffusion-Based Approach for Real-Time Speech-driven Holistic 3D Expression and Gesture Generation
- CVPR 2024DiffuScene: Denoising Diffusion Models for Generative Indoor Scene Synthesis
- CVPR 2024Diffuse Attend and Segment: Unsupervised Zero-Shot Segmentation using Stable Diffusion
- CVPR 2024DiffuseMix: Label-Preserving Data Augmentation with Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Diffusion 3D Features (Diff3F): Decorating Untextured Shapes with Distilled Semantic Features
- CVPR 2024Diffusion Handles Enabling 3D Edits for Diffusion Models by Lifting Activations to 3D
- CVPR 2024Diffusion Model Alignment Using Direct Preference Optimization
- CVPR 2024Diffusion Models Without Attention
- CVPR 2024Diffusion Reflectance Map: Single-Image Stochastic Inverse Rendering of Illumination and Reflectance
- CVPR 2024Diffusion Time-step Curriculum for One Image to 3D Generation
- CVPR 2024Diffusion-based Blind Text Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2024Diffusion-driven GAN Inversion for Multi-Modal Face Image Generation
- CVPR 2024Diffusion-EDFs: Bi-equivariant Denoising Generative Modeling on SE(3) for Visual Robotic Manipulation
- CVPR 2024Diffusion-ES: Gradient-free Planning with Diffusion for Autonomous and Instruction-guided Driving
- CVPR 2024Diffusion-FOF: Single-View Clothed Human Reconstruction via Diffusion-Based Fourier Occupancy Field
- CVPR 2024DiffusionAvatars: Deferred Diffusion for High-fidelity 3D Head Avatars
- CVPR 2024DiffusionGAN3D: Boosting Text-guided 3D Generation and Domain Adaptation by Combining 3D GANs and Diffusion Priors
- CVPR 2024DiffusionLight: Light Probes for Free by Painting a Chrome Ball
- CVPR 2024DiffusionMTL: Learning Multi-Task Denoising Diffusion Model from Partially Annotated Data
- CVPR 2024DiffusionPoser: Real-time Human Motion Reconstruction From Arbitrary Sparse Sensors Using Autoregressive Diffusion
- CVPR 2024DiffusionRegPose: Enhancing Multi-Person Pose Estimation using a Diffusion-Based End-to-End Regression Approach
- CVPR 2024DiffusionTrack: Point Set Diffusion Model for Visual Object Tracking
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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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