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

520 papers, page 1 of 11

1. NeurIPS 2024$\text{Di}^2\text{Pose}$: Discrete Diffusion Model for Occluded 3D Human Pose Estimation
2. NeurIPS 2024$\text{ID}^3$: Identity-Preserving-yet-Diversified Diffusion Models for Synthetic Face Recognition
3. NeurIPS 2024$\textit{Bifr\"ost}$: 3D-Aware Image Compositing with Language Instructions
4. NeurIPS 20243D Structure Prediction of Atomic Systems with Flow-based Direct Preference Optimization
5. NeurIPS 20243DGS-Enhancer: Enhancing Unbounded 3D Gaussian Splatting with View-consistent 2D Diffusion Priors
6. NeurIPS 20244D Gaussian Splatting in the Wild with Uncertainty-Aware Regularization
7. NeurIPS 20244Diffusion: Multi-view Video Diffusion Model for 4D Generation
8. NeurIPS 20244Real: Towards Photorealistic 4D Scene Generation via Video Diffusion Models
9. NeurIPS 2024A Cat Is A Cat (Not A Dog!): Unraveling Information Mix-ups in Text-to-Image Encoders through Causal Analysis and Embedding Optimization
10. NeurIPS 2024A Geometric View of Data Complexity: Efficient Local Intrinsic Dimension Estimation with Diffusion Models
11. NeurIPS 2024A Modular Conditional Diffusion Framework for Image Reconstruction
12. NeurIPS 2024A Versatile Diffusion Transformer with Mixture of Noise Levels for Audiovisual Generation
13. NeurIPS 2024A versatile informative diffusion model for single-cell ATAC-seq data generation and analysis
14. NeurIPS 2024Absorb & Escape: Overcoming Single Model Limitations in Generating Heterogeneous Genomic Sequences
15. NeurIPS 2024Accelerating Diffusion Models with Parallel Sampling: Inference at Sub-Linear Time Complexity
16. NeurIPS 2024ACFun: Abstract-Concrete Fusion Facial Stylization
17. NeurIPS 2024ActAnywhere: Subject-Aware Video Background Generation
18. NeurIPS 2024ActFusion: a Unified Diffusion Model for Action Segmentation and Anticipation
19. NeurIPS 2024Action Imitation in Common Action Space for Customized Action Image Synthesis
20. NeurIPS 2024AdaFlow: Imitation Learning with Variance-Adaptive Flow-Based Policies
21. NeurIPS 2024Adapting Diffusion Models for Improved Prompt Compliance and Controllable Image Synthesis
22. NeurIPS 2024Adapting to Unknown Low-Dimensional Structures in Score-Based Diffusion Models
23. NeurIPS 2024Addressing Asynchronicity in Clinical Multimodal Fusion via Individualized Chest X-ray Generation
24. NeurIPS 2024AdjointDEIS: Efficient Gradients for Diffusion Models
25. NeurIPS 2024AdvAD: Exploring Non-Parametric Diffusion for Imperceptible Adversarial Attacks
26. NeurIPS 2024Advancing Fine-Grained Classification by Structure and Subject Preserving Augmentation
27. NeurIPS 2024Advection Augmented Convolutional Neural Networks
28. NeurIPS 2024Adversarial Environment Design via Regret-Guided Diffusion Models
29. NeurIPS 2024Adversarial Schrödinger Bridge Matching
30. NeurIPS 2024AID: Attention Interpolation of Text-to-Image Diffusion
31. NeurIPS 2024AirSketch: Generative Motion to Sketch
32. NeurIPS 2024Aligning Diffusion Behaviors with Q-functions for Efficient Continuous Control
33. NeurIPS 2024Aligning Diffusion Models by Optimizing Human Utility
34. NeurIPS 2024Aligning Target-Aware Molecule Diffusion Models with Exact Energy Optimization
35. NeurIPS 2024Alleviating Distortion in Image Generation via Multi-Resolution Diffusion Models and Time-Dependent Layer Normalization
36. NeurIPS 2024Amortizing intractable inference in diffusion models for vision, language, and control
37. NeurIPS 2024An Expectation-Maximization Algorithm for Training Clean Diffusion Models from Corrupted Observations
38. NeurIPS 2024An Image is Worth 32 Tokens for Reconstruction and Generation
39. NeurIPS 2024Animate3D: Animating Any 3D Model with Multi-view Video Diffusion
40. NeurIPS 2024ANT: Adaptive Noise Schedule for Time Series Diffusion Models
41. NeurIPS 2024Antigen-Specific Antibody Design via Direct Energy-based Preference Optimization
42. NeurIPS 2024AnyFit: Controllable Virtual Try-on for Any Combination of Attire Across Any Scenario
43. NeurIPS 2024AP-Adapter: Improving Generalization of Automatic Prompts on Unseen Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
44. NeurIPS 2024Applying Guidance in a Limited Interval Improves Sample and Distribution Quality in Diffusion Models
45. NeurIPS 2024AR-Pro: Counterfactual Explanations for Anomaly Repair with Formal Properties
46. NeurIPS 2024Architect: Generating Vivid and Interactive 3D Scenes with Hierarchical 2D Inpainting
47. NeurIPS 2024AROMA: Preserving Spatial Structure for Latent PDE Modeling with Local Neural Fields
48. NeurIPS 2024AsCAN: Asymmetric Convolution-Attention Networks for Efficient Recognition and Generation
49. NeurIPS 2024Association of Objects May Engender Stereotypes: Mitigating Association-Engendered Stereotypes in Text-to-Image Generation
50. NeurIPS 2024AsyncDiff: Parallelizing Diffusion Models by Asynchronous Denoising

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.