# Diffusion for compression and wireless

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## Key facts

- Diffusion for compression and wireless: 214 papers on arXiv since 2022 (data through 7 Oct 2026).
- 46 of its 214 mapped papers (21%) cite “Lossy Image Compression with Conditional Diffusion Models” (2022, arXiv 2209.06950).
- 31 of its 214 mapped papers (14%) cite “MIMO Channel Estimation using Score-Based Generative Models” (2022, arXiv 2204.07122).
- 2 new papers 17 Sep–7 Oct.

## Most cited here

- [Lossy Image Compression with Conditional Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.06950/) (2022), cited by 46 papers here
- [MIMO Channel Estimation using Score-Based Generative Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.07122/) (2022), cited by 31 papers here
- [Lossy Compression with Gaussian Diffusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.08889/) (2022), cited by 30 papers here
- [CDDM: Channel Denoising Diffusion Models for Wireless Semantic Communications](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.08895/) (2023), cited by 27 papers here
- [Towards Extreme Image Compression with Latent Feature Guidance and Diffusion Prior](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.18820/) (2024), cited by 25 papers here
- [High-Fidelity Image Compression with Score-based Generative Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.18231/) (2023), cited by 22 papers here
- [RadioDiff: An Effective Generative Diffusion Model for Sampling-Free Dynamic Radio Map Construction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.08593/) (2024), cited by 21 papers here
- [Diffusion-based Generative Prior for Low-Complexity MIMO Channel Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.03545/) (2024), cited by 19 papers here
- [Lossy Image Compression with Foundation Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.08580/) (2024), cited by 17 papers here
- [A Residual Diffusion Model for High Perceptual Quality Codec Augmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2301.05489/) (2023), cited by 16 papers here

## New (17 Sep–7 Oct)

- [SNR-Gated LSTM-Conditioned Diffusion Model for MIMO Channel Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.08977/) (2026-10-06)
- [SpaceDiffusion: Over-the-Orbit Diffusion for Space Generate-and-Forward Communications](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.20899/) (2026-09-17)