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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1. CVPR 20253DEnhancer: Consistent Multi-View Diffusion for 3D Enhancement
2. CVPR 20253DTopia-XL: Scaling High-quality 3D Asset Generation via Primitive Diffusion
3. CVPR 20254Real-Video: Learning Generalizable Photo-Realistic 4D Video Diffusion
4. CVPR 2025A Bias-Free Training Paradigm for More General AI-generated Image Detection
5. CVPR 2025A Closer Look at Time Steps is Worthy of Triple Speed-Up for Diffusion Model Training
6. CVPR 2025A Comprehensive Study of Decoder-Only LLMs for Text-to-Image Generation
7. CVPR 2025A Unified Latent Schrodinger Bridge Diffusion Model for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection and Localization
8. CVPR 2025AC3D: Analyzing and Improving 3D Camera Control in Video Diffusion Transformers
9. CVPR 2025Acc3D: Accelerating Single Image to 3D Diffusion Models via Edge Consistency Guided Score Distillation
10. CVPR 2025Accelerating Diffusion Transformer via Increment-Calibrated Caching with Channel-Aware Singular Value Decomposition
11. CVPR 2025ACE: Anti-Editing Concept Erasure in Text-to-Image Models
12. CVPR 2025Adaptive Non-Uniform Timestep Sampling for Accelerating Diffusion Model Training
13. CVPR 2025Advancing Generalizable Tumor Segmentation with Anomaly-Aware Open-Vocabulary Attention Maps and Frozen Foundation Diffusion Models
14. CVPR 2025Adversarial Domain Prompt Tuning and Generation for Single Domain Generalization
15. CVPR 2025AeroGen: Enhancing Remote Sensing Object Detection with Diffusion-Driven Data Generation
16. CVPR 2025Aesthetic Post-Training Diffusion Models from Generic Preferences with Step-by-step Preference Optimization
17. CVPR 2025AI-Face: A Million-Scale Demographically Annotated AI-Generated Face Dataset and Fairness Benchmark
18. CVPR 2025AIM-Fair: Advancing Algorithmic Fairness via Selectively Fine-Tuning Biased Models with Contextual Synthetic Data
19. CVPR 2025Alias-Free Latent Diffusion Models: Improving Fractional Shift Equivariance of Diffusion Latent Space
20. CVPR 2025Align-A-Video: Deterministic Reward Tuning of Image Diffusion Models for Consistent Video Editing
21. CVPR 2025Align3R: Aligned Monocular Depth Estimation for Dynamic Videos
22. CVPR 2025An End-to-End Robust Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation Network with Single-Step Conditional Diffusion Models
23. CVPR 2025An Image-like Diffusion Method for Human-Object Interaction Detection
24. CVPR 2025Anatomical Consistency and Adaptive Prior-informed Transformation for Multi-contrast MR Image Synthesis via Diffusion Model
25. CVPR 2025AniDoc: Animation Creation Made Easier
26. CVPR 2025Animate and Sound an Image
27. CVPR 2025AnyDressing: Customizable Multi-Garment Virtual Dressing via Latent Diffusion Models
28. CVPR 2025AnyMoLe: Any Character Motion In-betweening Leveraging Video Diffusion Models
29. CVPR 2025APT: Adaptive Personalized Training for Diffusion Models with Limited Data
30. CVPR 2025AR-Diffusion: Asynchronous Video Generation with Auto-Regressive Diffusion
31. CVPR 2025Arbitrary-steps Image Super-resolution via Diffusion Inversion
32. CVPR 2025Are Images Indistinguishable to Humans Also Indistinguishable to Classifiers?
33. CVPR 2025Around the World in 80 Timesteps: A Generative Approach to Global Visual Geolocation
34. CVPR 2025Articulated Kinematics Distillation from Video Diffusion Models
35. CVPR 2025ArtiFade: Learning to Generate High-quality Subject from Blemished Images
36. CVPR 2025Attend to Not Attended: Structure-then-Detail Token Merging for Post-training DiT Acceleration
37. CVPR 2025Attention Distillation: A Unified Approach to Visual Characteristics Transfer
38. CVPR 2025Auto Cherry-Picker: Learning from High-quality Generative Data Driven by Language
39. CVPR 2025Autoregressive Distillation of Diffusion Transformers
40. CVPR 2025Autoregressive Sequential Pretraining for Visual Tracking
41. CVPR 2025AvatarArtist: Open-Domain 4D Avatarization
42. CVPR 2025BADGR: Bundle Adjustment Diffusion Conditioned by Gradients for Wide-Baseline Floor Plan Reconstruction
43. CVPR 2025Believing is Seeing: Unobserved Object Detection using Generative Models
44. CVPR 2025BEVDiffuser: Plug-and-Play Diffusion Model for BEV Denoising with Ground-Truth Guidance
45. CVPR 2025Beyond Generation: A Diffusion-based Low-level Feature Extractor for Detecting AI-generated Images
46. CVPR 2025BIGS: Bimanual Category-agnostic Interaction Reconstruction from Monocular Videos via 3D Gaussian Splatting
47. CVPR 2025Birth and Death of a Rose
48. CVPR 2025Black Hole-Driven Identity Absorbing in Diffusion Models
49. CVPR 2025Black-Box Forgery Attacks on Semantic Watermarks for Diffusion Models
50. CVPR 2025Blind Bitstream-corrupted Video Recovery via Metadata-guided Diffusion Model

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.