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. ICLR 2026``Noisier'’ Noise Contrastive Estimation is (Almost) Maximum Likelihood
2. ICLR 2026$\alpha$-DPO: Robust Preference Alignment for Diffusion Models via $\alpha$ Divergence
3. ICLR 2026$\textit{MADFormer}$: Mixed Autoregressive and Diffusion Transformers for Continuous Image Generation
4. ICLR 20263D Scene Prompting for Scene-Consistent Camera-Controllable Video Generation
5. ICLR 2026A Hidden Semantic Bottleneck in Conditional Embeddings of Diffusion Transformers
6. ICLR 2026A Joint Diffusion Model with Pre-Trained Priors for RNA Sequence–Structure Co-Design
7. ICLR 2026A Noise is Worth Diffusion Guidance
8. ICLR 2026A Sharp KL-Convergence Analysis for Diffusion Models under Minimal Assumptions
9. ICLR 2026A Statistical Benchmark for Diffusion Posterior Sampling Algorithms
10. ICLR 2026A Study of Posterior Stability in Time-Series Latent Diffusion
11. ICLR 2026A Unification of Discrete, Gaussian, and Simplicial Diffusion
12. ICLR 2026A2D: Any-Order, Any-Step Safety Alignment for Diffusion Language Models
13. ICLR 2026Abstracting Robot Manipulation Skills via Mixture-of-Experts Diffusion Policies
14. ICLR 2026AC-Sampler: Accelerate and Correct Diffusion Sampling with Metropolis-Hastings Algorithm
15. ICLR 2026Accelerated Parallel Tempering via Neural Transports
16. ICLR 2026Accelerating Diffusion Large Language Models with SlowFast Sampling: The Three Golden Principles
17. ICLR 2026Accelerating Diffusion Planners in Offline RL via Reward-Aware Consistency Trajectory Distillation
18. ICLR 2026ACCORD: Alleviating Concept Coupling through Dependence Regularization for Text-to-Image Diffusion Personalization
19. ICLR 2026Ada-Diffuser: Latent-Aware Adaptive Diffusion for Decision-Making
20. ICLR 2026Adapting Self-Supervised Representations as a Latent Space for Efficient Generation
21. ICLR 2026Adaptive Domain Shift in Diffusion Models for Cross-Modality Image Translation
22. ICLR 2026Adaptive Moments are Surprisingly Effective for Plug-and-Play Diffusion Sampling
23. ICLR 2026AdaViewPlanner: Adapting Video Diffusion Models for Viewpoint Planning in 4D Scenes
24. ICLR 2026Advancing End-to-End Pixel-Space Generative Modeling via Self-Supervised Pre-Training
25. ICLR 2026AEGIS: Adversarial Target–Guided Retention-Data-Free Robust Concept Erasure from Diffusion Models
26. ICLR 2026Align Your Structures: Generating Trajectories with Structure Pretraining for Molecular Dynamics
27. ICLR 2026Aligned Novel View Image and Geometry Synthesis via Cross-modal Attention Instillation
28. ICLR 2026AlignFlow: Improving Flow-based Generative Models with Semi-Discrete Optimal Transport
29. ICLR 2026Aligning Visual Foundation Encoders to Tokenizers for Diffusion Models
30. ICLR 2026AlignSep: Temporally-Aligned Video-Queried Sound Separation with Flow Matching
31. ICLR 2026AlphaFlow: Understanding and Improving MeanFlow Models
32. ICLR 2026Alternating Diffusion for Proximal Sampling with Zeroth Order Queries
33. ICLR 2026An Optimal Diffusion Approach to Quadratic Rate-Distortion Problems: New Solution and Approximation Methods
34. ICLR 2026Animating the Uncaptured: Humanoid Mesh Animation with Video Diffusion Models
35. ICLR 2026Antithetic Noise in Diffusion Models
36. ICLR 2026Any-Order Flexible Length Masked Diffusion
37. ICLR 2026Any-to-Bokeh: Arbitrary-Subject Video Refocusing with Video Diffusion Model
38. ICLR 2026Arbitrary-Shaped Image Generation via Spherical Neural Field Diffusion
39. ICLR 2026ASTRAEA: A Token-wise Acceleration Framework for Video Diffusion Transformers
40. ICLR 2026Asynchronous Denoising Diffusion Models for Aligning Text-to-Image Generation
41. ICLR 2026Attack-Resistant Watermarking for AIGC Image Forensics via Diffusion-based Semantic Deflection
42. ICLR 2026Attention Is All You Need for KV Cache in Diffusion LLMs
43. ICLR 2026AttriCtrl: A Generalizable Framework for Controlling Semantic Attribute Intensity in Diffusion Models
44. ICLR 2026AUHead: Realistic Emotional Talking Head Generation via Action Units Control
45. ICLR 2026Aurora: Towards Universal Generative Multimodal Time Series Forecasting
46. ICLR 2026Autoregressive Visual Decoding from EEG Signals
47. ICLR 2026Autoregressive-based Progressive Coding for Ultra-Low Bitrate Image Compression
48. ICLR 2026Avoid Catastrophic Forgetting with Rank-1 Fisher from Diffusion Models
49. ICLR 2026Beyond Fixed: Training-Free Variable-Length Denoising for Diffusion Large Language Models
50. ICLR 2026Beyond Masks: Efficient, Flexible Diffusion Language Models via Deletion-Insertion Processes

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.