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Diffusion recommenders

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Keywords: recommendation, user, item, items, diffusion

Key facts. Diffusion recommenders: 83 papers on arXiv since 2023 (data through 7 Oct 2026). 47 of its 83 mapped papers (57%) cite “DiffuRec: A Diffusion Model for Sequential Recommendation” (2023, arXiv 2304.00686). 33 of its 83 mapped papers (40%) cite “Generate What You Prefer: Reshaping Sequential Recommendation via Guided Diffusion” (2023, arXiv 2310.20453). 2 new papers 17 Sep–7 Oct.

What’s new

17 Sep – 7 Oct 2026

2 new since 17 Sep

  1. Eval4DiRec: A Unified and Systematic Evaluation Framework for Diffusion-based Recommender Systems
  2. X-Rec Technical Report

Foundations

Most cited by papers here

  1. DiffuRec: A Diffusion Model for Sequential Recommendation2023cited by 47 here
  2. Generate What You Prefer: Reshaping Sequential Recommendation via Guided Diffusion2023cited by 33 here
  3. Plug-in Diffusion Model for Sequential Recommendation2024cited by 17 here
  4. DimeRec: A Unified Framework for Enhanced Sequential Recommendation via Generative Diffusion Models2024cited by 17 here
  5. Conditional Denoising Diffusion for Sequential Recommendation2023cited by 15 here

Lineage

The papers this direction builds on, oldest first.

Each paper on the line cites the one before.

  1. 2020Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Modelscited by 57 here
  2. 2020Denoising Diffusion Implicit Modelscited by 18 here
  3. 2021Improved Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Modelscited by 14 here
  4. 2021Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesiscited by 25 here
  5. 2022Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidancecited by 10 here
  6. 2022DiffuSeq: Sequence to Sequence Text Generation with Diffusion Modelscited by 15 here
  7. 2023DiffuRec: A Diffusion Model for Sequential Recommendationcited by 47 here
  8. 2023Generate What You Prefer: Reshaping Sequential Recommendation via Guided Diffusioncited by 33 here
  9. 2024DimeRec: A Unified Framework for Enhanced Sequential Recommendation via Generative Diffusion Modelscited by 17 here
  10. 2024A Survey on Diffusion Models for Recommender Systemscited by 10 here
14 more it builds on, not in this chain
  1. 2020Score-Based Generative Modeling through Stochastic Differential Equationscited by 18 here
  2. 2021Structured Denoising Diffusion Models in Discrete State-Spacescited by 15 here
  3. 2021High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Modelscited by 15 here
  4. 2022Understanding Diffusion Models: A Unified Perspectivecited by 11 here
  5. 2023Conditional Denoising Diffusion for Sequential Recommendationcited by 15 here
  6. 2023Discrete Conditional Diffusion for Reranking in Recommendationcited by 9 here
  7. 2023Diffusion Augmentation for Sequential Recommendationcited by 14 here
  8. 2023Graph Signal Diffusion Model for Collaborative Filteringcited by 13 here
  9. 2023DiffKG: Knowledge Graph Diffusion Model for Recommendationcited by 12 here
  10. 2024Plug-in Diffusion Model for Sequential Recommendationcited by 17 here
  11. 2024Denoising Diffusion Recommender Modelcited by 13 here
  12. 2024Collaborative Filtering Based on Diffusion Models: Unveiling the Potential of High-Order Connectivitycited by 13 here
  13. 2024RecDiff: Diffusion Model for Social Recommendationcited by 10 here
  14. 2025Distinguished Quantized Guidance for Diffusion-based Sequence Recommendationcited by 9 here

The 24 most cited of 292.

Browse

30 of 83, ranked 6–35

  1. 6Diffusion Augmentation for Sequential Recommendation202314
  2. 7Denoising Diffusion Recommender Model202413
  3. 8Collaborative Filtering Based on Diffusion Models: Unveiling the Potential of High-Order Connectivity202413
  4. 9Graph Signal Diffusion Model for Collaborative Filtering202313
  5. 10DiffKG: Knowledge Graph Diffusion Model for Recommendation202312
  6. 11RecDiff: Diffusion Model for Social Recommendation202410
  7. 12A Survey on Diffusion Models for Recommender Systems202410
  8. 13Distinguished Quantized Guidance for Diffusion-based Sequence Recommendation20259
  9. 14Discrete Conditional Diffusion for Reranking in Recommendation20239
  10. 15A Diffusion model for POI recommendation20238
All 30
  1. 16LD4MRec: Simplifying and Powering Diffusion Model for Multimedia Recommendation20237
  2. 17A Directional Diffusion Graph Transformer for Recommendation20246
  3. 18Diffusion-based Contrastive Learning for Sequential Recommendation20246
  4. 19DiffMM: Multi-Modal Diffusion Model for Recommendation20246
  5. 20Flow Matching for Collaborative Filtering20255
  6. 21RecFusion: A Binomial Diffusion Process for 1D Data for Recommendation20235
  7. 22Generate and Instantiate What You Prefer: Text-Guided Diffusion for Sequential Recommendation20244
  8. 23Dual Conditional Diffusion Models for Sequential Recommendation20244
  9. 24Sequential Recommendation with Diffusion Models20234
  10. 25Exploring Preference-Guided Diffusion Model for Cross-Domain Recommendation20253
  11. 26Addressing Missing Data Issue for Diffusion-based Recommendation20253
  12. 27FlowRec: Prior-Informed Flow Matching for Efficient Sequential Recommendation Generation20253
  13. 28Score-based Generative Diffusion Models for Social Recommendations20243
  14. 29S-Diff: An Anisotropic Diffusion Model for Collaborative Filtering in Spectral Domain20243
  15. 30Distributionally Robust Graph Out-of-Distribution Recommendation via Diffusion Model20252
  16. 31Unlocking the Power of Diffusion Models in Sequential Recommendation: A Simple and Effective Approach20252
  17. 32Fading to Grow: Growing Preference Ratios via Preference Fading Discrete Diffusion for Recommendation20252
  18. 33On Efficiency-Effectiveness Trade-off of Diffusion-based Recommenders20252
  19. 34DiffGRM: Diffusion-based Generative Recommendation Model20252
  20. 35LLaDA-Rec: Discrete Diffusion for Parallel Semantic ID Generation in Generative Recommendation20252