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

327 papers, page 1 of 7

1. NeurIPS 20233D molecule generation by denoising voxel grids
2. NeurIPS 2023A Diffusion-Model of Joint Interactive Navigation
3. NeurIPS 2023A generative model of the hippocampal formation trained with theta driven local learning rules
4. NeurIPS 2023A Heat Diffusion Perspective on Geodesic Preserving Dimensionality Reduction
5. NeurIPS 2023A Tale of Two Features: Stable Diffusion Complements DINO for Zero-Shot Semantic Correspondence
6. NeurIPS 2023A Unified Conditional Framework for Diffusion-based Image Restoration
7. NeurIPS 2023A Unified Framework for U-Net Design and Analysis
8. NeurIPS 2023AbDiffuser: full-atom generation of in-vitro functioning antibodies
9. NeurIPS 2023Act As You Wish: Fine-Grained Control of Motion Diffusion Model with Hierarchical Semantic Graphs
10. NeurIPS 2023Adaptive Online Replanning with Diffusion Models
11. NeurIPS 2023Add and Thin: Diffusion for Temporal Point Processes
12. NeurIPS 2023Addressing Negative Transfer in Diffusion Models
13. NeurIPS 2023Adversarial Examples Are Not Real Features
14. NeurIPS 2023Aligning Optimization Trajectories with Diffusion Models for Constrained Design Generation
15. NeurIPS 2023Aligning Synthetic Medical Images with Clinical Knowledge using Human Feedback
16. NeurIPS 2023Ambient Diffusion: Learning Clean Distributions from Corrupted Data
17. NeurIPS 2023Any-to-Any Generation via Composable Diffusion
18. NeurIPS 2023AR-Diffusion: Auto-Regressive Diffusion Model for Text Generation
19. NeurIPS 2023Are Diffusion Models Vision-And-Language Reasoners?
20. NeurIPS 2023ARTIC3D: Learning Robust Articulated 3D Shapes from Noisy Web Image Collections
21. NeurIPS 2023Asynchrony-Robust Collaborative Perception via Bird's Eye View Flow
22. NeurIPS 2023AUDIT: Audio Editing by Following Instructions with Latent Diffusion Models
23. NeurIPS 2023Autodecoding Latent 3D Diffusion Models
24. NeurIPS 2023BCDiff: Bidirectional Consistent Diffusion for Instantaneous Trajectory Prediction
25. NeurIPS 2023Beta Diffusion
26. NeurIPS 2023Black-box Backdoor Defense via Zero-shot Image Purification
27. NeurIPS 2023BLIP-Diffusion: Pre-trained Subject Representation for Controllable Text-to-Image Generation and Editing
28. NeurIPS 2023Block-State Transformers
29. NeurIPS 2023Boundary Guided Learning-Free Semantic Control with Diffusion Models
30. NeurIPS 2023Brain Diffusion for Visual Exploration: Cortical Discovery using Large Scale Generative Models
31. NeurIPS 2023Building the Bridge of Schrödinger: A Continuous Entropic Optimal Transport Benchmark
32. NeurIPS 2023Censored Sampling of Diffusion Models Using 3 Minutes of Human Feedback
33. NeurIPS 2023Cinematic Mindscapes: High-quality Video Reconstruction from Brain Activity
34. NeurIPS 2023Cocktail: Mixing Multi-Modality Control for Text-Conditional Image Generation
35. NeurIPS 2023COCO-Counterfactuals: Automatically Constructed Counterfactual Examples for Image-Text Pairs
36. NeurIPS 2023Cold Diffusion: Inverting Arbitrary Image Transforms Without Noise
37. NeurIPS 2023Collaborative Score Distillation for Consistent Visual Editing
38. NeurIPS 2023CommonScenes: Generating Commonsense 3D Indoor Scenes with Scene Graph Diffusion
39. NeurIPS 2023Complexity Matters: Rethinking the Latent Space for Generative Modeling
40. NeurIPS 2023Compositional Abilities Emerge Multiplicatively: Exploring Diffusion Models on a Synthetic Task
41. NeurIPS 2023Compositional Foundation Models for Hierarchical Planning
42. NeurIPS 2023Compositional Sculpting of Iterative Generative Processes
43. NeurIPS 2023Concept Algebra for (Score-Based) Text-Controlled Generative Models
44. NeurIPS 2023Conditional Matrix Flows for Gaussian Graphical Models
45. NeurIPS 2023Conditional Score Guidance for Text-Driven Image-to-Image Translation
46. NeurIPS 2023Conditional score-based diffusion models for Bayesian inference in infinite dimensions
47. NeurIPS 2023Conformal Prediction for Uncertainty-Aware Planning with Diffusion Dynamics Model
48. NeurIPS 2023ConRad: Image Constrained Radiance Fields for 3D Generation from a Single Image
49. NeurIPS 2023Consistent Diffusion Models: Mitigating Sampling Drift by Learning to be Consistent
50. NeurIPS 2023Constructing Non-isotropic Gaussian Diffusion Model Using Isotropic Gaussian Diffusion Model for Image Editing

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.