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

346 papers, page 1 of 7

1. ICML 2025A First-order Generative Bilevel Optimization Framework for Diffusion Models
2. ICML 2025A General Framework for Inference-time Scaling and Steering of Diffusion Models
3. ICML 2025A Mixture-Based Framework for Guiding Diffusion Models
4. ICML 2025A Non-isotropic Time Series Diffusion Model with Moving Average Transitions
5. ICML 2025A Variational Perspective on Generative Protein Fitness Optimization
6. ICML 2025Accelerated Diffusion Models via Speculative Sampling
7. ICML 2025Action-Minimization Meets Generative Modeling: Efficient Transition Path Sampling with the Onsager-Machlup Functional
8. ICML 2025Adaptive Flow Matching for Resolving Small-Scale Physics
9. ICML 2025Adaptive Median Smoothing: Adversarial Defense for Unlearned Text-to-Image Diffusion Models at Inference Time
10. ICML 2025AdaWorld: Learning Adaptable World Models with Latent Actions
11. ICML 2025Adjoint Sampling: Highly Scalable Diffusion Samplers via Adjoint Matching
12. ICML 2025AdvI2I: Adversarial Image Attack on Image-to-Image Diffusion Models
13. ICML 2025AffinityFlow: Guided Flows for Antibody Affinity Maturation
14. ICML 2025Aligning Protein Conformation Ensemble Generation with Physical Feedback
15. ICML 2025All-atom Diffusion Transformers: Unified generative modelling of molecules and materials
16. ICML 2025All-atom inverse protein folding through discrete flow matching
17. ICML 2025An All-Atom Generative Model for Designing Protein Complexes
18. ICML 2025An analytic theory of creativity in convolutional diffusion models
19. ICML 2025An Error Analysis of Flow Matching for Deep Generative Modeling
20. ICML 2025Angle Domain Guidance: Latent Diffusion Requires Rotation Rather Than Extrapolation
21. ICML 2025Annealing Flow Generative Models Towards Sampling High-Dimensional and Multi-Modal Distributions
22. ICML 2025Arbitrarily-Conditioned Multi-Functional Diffusion for Multi-Physics Emulation
23. ICML 2025ArrayDPS: Unsupervised Blind Speech Separation with a Diffusion Prior
24. ICML 2025AsymRnR: Video Diffusion Transformers Acceleration with Asymmetric Reduction and Restoration
25. ICML 2025Behavior-Regularized Diffusion Policy Optimization for Offline Reinforcement Learning
26. ICML 2025Better to Teach than to Give: Domain Generalized Semantic Segmentation via Agent Queries with Diffusion Model Guidance
27. ICML 2025Beyond One-Hot Labels: Semantic Mixing for Model Calibration
28. ICML 2025BiMaCoSR: Binary One-Step Diffusion Model Leveraging Flexible Matrix Compression for Real Super-Resolution
29. ICML 2025BinauralFlow: A Causal and Streamable Approach for High-Quality Binaural Speech Synthesis with Flow Matching Models
30. ICML 2025Blink of an eye: a simple theory for feature localization in generative models
31. ICML 2025BOOD: Boundary-based Out-Of-Distribution Data Generation
32. ICML 2025Boost-and-Skip: A Simple Guidance-Free Diffusion for Minority Generation
33. ICML 2025Bridging Protein Sequences and Microscopy Images with Unified Diffusion Models
34. ICML 2025Broadband Ground Motion Synthesis by Diffusion Model with Minimal Condition
35. ICML 2025Ca2-VDM: Efficient Autoregressive Video Diffusion Model with Causal Generation and Cache Sharing
36. ICML 2025Can Diffusion Models Learn Hidden Inter-Feature Rules Behind Images?
37. ICML 2025CAT: Contrastive Adversarial Training for Evaluating the Robustness of Protective Perturbations in Latent Diffusion Models
38. ICML 2025CellFlux: Simulating Cellular Morphology Changes via Flow Matching
39. ICML 2025CFP-Gen: Combinatorial Functional Protein Generation via Diffusion Language Models
40. ICML 2025CHATS: Combining Human-Aligned Optimization and Test-Time Sampling for Text-to-Image Generation
41. ICML 2025Chip Placement with Diffusion Models
42. ICML 2025Clustering via Self-Supervised Diffusion
43. ICML 2025Competing Bandits in Matching Markets via Super Stability
44. ICML 2025Compositional Flows for 3D Molecule and Synthesis Pathway Co-design
45. ICML 2025Compositional Scene Understanding through Inverse Generative Modeling
46. ICML 2025Compressed Image Generation with Denoising Diffusion Codebook Models
47. ICML 2025Concept Reachability in Diffusion Models: Beyond Dataset Constraints
48. ICML 2025ConceptAttention: Diffusion Transformers Learn Highly Interpretable Features
49. ICML 2025Conditional Diffusion Model with Nonlinear Data Transformation for Time Series Forecasting
50. ICML 2025Conditioning Diffusions Using Malliavin Calculus

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.