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

487 papers, page 1 of 10

1. ICLR 2025$\text{I}^2\text{AM}$: Interpreting Image-to-Image Latent Diffusion Models via Bi-Attribution Maps
2. ICLR 2025$InterLCM$: Low-Quality Images as Intermediate States of Latent Consistency Models for Effective Blind Face Restoration
3. ICLR 20253DGS-Drag: Dragging Gaussians for Intuitive Point-Based 3D Editing
4. ICLR 20253DIS: Depth-Driven Decoupled Image Synthesis for Universal Multi-Instance Generation
5. ICLR 2025A Geometric Framework for Understanding Memorization in Generative Models
6. ICLR 2025A Large-scale Dataset and Benchmark for Commuting Origin-Destination Flow Generation
7. ICLR 2025A Large-scale Training Paradigm for Graph Generative Models
8. ICLR 2025A Periodic Bayesian Flow for Material Generation
9. ICLR 2025A Simple Approach to Unifying Diffusion-based Conditional Generation
10. ICLR 2025A Spark of Vision-Language Intelligence: 2-Dimensional Autoregressive Transformer for Efficient Finegrained Image Generation
11. ICLR 2025A3D: Does Diffusion Dream about 3D Alignment?
12. ICLR 2025Accelerating 3D Molecule Generation via Jointly Geometric Optimal Transport
13. ICLR 2025Accelerating Diffusion Transformers with Token-wise Feature Caching
14. ICLR 2025ACE: All-round Creator and Editor Following Instructions via Diffusion Transformer
15. ICLR 2025ADBM: Adversarial Diffusion Bridge Model for Reliable Adversarial Purification
16. ICLR 2025Add-it: Training-Free Object Insertion in Images With Pretrained Diffusion Models
17. ICLR 2025Adding Conditional Control to Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning
18. ICLR 2025Adjoint Matching: Fine-tuning Flow and Diffusion Generative Models with Memoryless Stochastic Optimal Control
19. ICLR 2025Advancing Graph Generation through Beta Diffusion
20. ICLR 2025Adversarial Score identity Distillation: Rapidly Surpassing the Teacher in One Step
21. ICLR 2025AdvPaint: Protecting Images from Inpainting Manipulation via Adversarial Attention Disruption
22. ICLR 2025Aligned Datasets Improve Detection of Latent Diffusion-Generated Images
23. ICLR 2025Aligning Generative Denoising with Discriminative Objectives Unleashes Diffusion for Visual Perception
24. ICLR 2025Ambient Diffusion Posterior Sampling: Solving Inverse Problems with Diffusion Models Trained on Corrupted Data
25. ICLR 2025An Efficient Framework for Crediting Data Contributors of Diffusion Models
26. ICLR 2025An Image is Worth More Than 16x16 Patches: Exploring Transformers on Individual Pixels
27. ICLR 2025An Undetectable Watermark for Generative Image Models
28. ICLR 2025Analysis of Linear Mode Connectivity via Permutation-Based Weight Matching: With Insights into Other Permutation Search Methods
29. ICLR 2025Anti-Exposure Bias in Diffusion Models
30. ICLR 2025ARLON: Boosting Diffusion Transformers with Autoregressive Models for Long Video Generation
31. ICLR 2025AssembleFlow: Rigid Flow Matching with Inertial Frames for Molecular Assembly
32. ICLR 2025Atlas Gaussians Diffusion for 3D Generation
33. ICLR 2025Automated Filtering of Human Feedback Data for Aligning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
34. ICLR 2025Autoregressive Video Generation without Vector Quantization
35. ICLR 2025AvatarGO: Zero-shot 4D Human-Object Interaction Generation and Animation
36. ICLR 2025Bayesian Experimental Design Via Contrastive Diffusions
37. ICLR 2025Beyond Autoregression: Discrete Diffusion for Complex Reasoning and Planning
38. ICLR 2025Beyond Autoregression: Fast LLMs via Self-Distillation Through Time
39. ICLR 2025Bias Mitigation in Graph Diffusion Models
40. ICLR 2025BinaryDM: Accurate Weight Binarization for Efficient Diffusion Models
41. ICLR 2025Block Diffusion: Interpolating Between Autoregressive and Diffusion Language Models
42. ICLR 2025Boltzmann priors for Implicit Transfer Operators
43. ICLR 2025Boosting Latent Diffusion with Perceptual Objectives
44. ICLR 2025Both Ears Wide Open: Towards Language-Driven Spatial Audio Generation
45. ICLR 2025BrainACTIV: Identifying visuo-semantic properties driving cortical selectivity using diffusion-based image manipulation
46. ICLR 2025Broadening Target Distributions for Accelerated Diffusion Models via a Novel Analysis Approach
47. ICLR 2025Build-A-Scene: Interactive 3D Layout Control for Diffusion-Based Image Generation
48. ICLR 2025CameraCtrl: Enabling Camera Control for Video Diffusion Models
49. ICLR 2025CatVTON: Concatenation Is All You Need for Virtual Try-On with Diffusion Models
50. ICLR 2025CFG++: Manifold-constrained Classifier Free Guidance for Diffusion Models

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.