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
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- CVPR 20233D Neural Field Generation Using Triplane Diffusion
- CVPR 2023Adversarial Counterfactual Visual Explanations
- CVPR 2023Affordance Diffusion: Synthesizing Hand-Object Interactions
- CVPR 2023Align Your Latents: High-Resolution Video Synthesis With Latent Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023All Are Worth Words: A ViT Backbone for Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023Ambiguous Medical Image Segmentation Using Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023Avatars Grow Legs: Generating Smooth Human Motion From Sparse Tracking Inputs With Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2023Back to the Source: Diffusion-Driven Adaptation To Test-Time Corruption
- CVPR 2023BBDM: Image-to-Image Translation With Brownian Bridge Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023Binary Latent Diffusion
- CVPR 2023CCuantuMM: Cycle-Consistent Quantum-Hybrid Matching of Multiple Shapes
- CVPR 2023Class-Balancing Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023Collaborative Diffusion for Multi-Modal Face Generation and Editing
- CVPR 2023Conditional Image-to-Video Generation With Latent Flow Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023Conditional Text Image Generation With Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023Consistent View Synthesis With Pose-Guided Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023Constrained Evolutionary Diffusion Filter for Monocular Endoscope Tracking
- CVPR 2023Controllable Light Diffusion for Portraits
- CVPR 2023Controllable Mesh Generation Through Sparse Latent Point Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023Correspondence Transformers With Asymmetric Feature Learning and Matching Flow Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2023DATID-3D: Diversity-Preserved Domain Adaptation Using Text-to-Image Diffusion for 3D Generative Model
- CVPR 2023DCFace: Synthetic Face Generation With Dual Condition Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2023DETRs With Hybrid Matching
- CVPR 2023DiffCollage: Parallel Generation of Large Content With Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023DiffPose: Toward More Reliable 3D Pose Estimation
- CVPR 2023DiffRF: Rendering-Guided 3D Radiance Field Diffusion
- CVPR 2023DiffSwap: High-Fidelity and Controllable Face Swapping via 3D-Aware Masked Diffusion
- CVPR 2023DiffTalk: Crafting Diffusion Models for Generalized Audio-Driven Portraits Animation
- CVPR 2023Diffusion Art or Digital Forgery? Investigating Data Replication in Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023Diffusion Probabilistic Model Made Slim
- CVPR 2023Diffusion Video Autoencoders: Toward Temporally Consistent Face Video Editing via Disentangled Video Encoding
- CVPR 2023Diffusion-Based Generation, Optimization, and Planning in 3D Scenes
- CVPR 2023Diffusion-Based Signed Distance Fields for 3D Shape Generation
- CVPR 2023Diffusion-SDF: Text-To-Shape via Voxelized Diffusion
- CVPR 2023DiffusioNeRF: Regularizing Neural Radiance Fields With Denoising Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023DiffusionRig: Learning Personalized Priors for Facial Appearance Editing
- CVPR 2023Dimensionality-Varying Diffusion Process
- CVPR 2023Distribution Shift Inversion for Out-of-Distribution Prediction
- CVPR 2023DR2: Diffusion-Based Robust Degradation Remover for Blind Face Restoration
- CVPR 2023Dream3D: Zero-Shot Text-to-3D Synthesis Using 3D Shape Prior and Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023DreamBooth: Fine Tuning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Subject-Driven Generation
- CVPR 2023EDGE: Editable Dance Generation From Music
- CVPR 2023EDICT: Exact Diffusion Inversion via Coupled Transformations
- CVPR 2023ERNIE-ViLG 2.0: Improving Text-to-Image Diffusion Model With Knowledge-Enhanced Mixture-of-Denoising-Experts
- CVPR 2023Executing Your Commands via Motion Diffusion in Latent Space
- CVPR 2023FaceLit: Neural 3D Relightable Faces
- CVPR 2023Fast Point Cloud Generation With Straight Flows
- CVPR 2023FlowGrad: Controlling the Output of Generative ODEs With Gradients
- CVPR 2023Freestyle Layout-to-Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2023GALIP: Generative Adversarial CLIPs for Text-to-Image Synthesis
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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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