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Diffusion Models In Recommendation Systems

A survey of diffusion models in recommendation systems.

Detailed information can be found in our survey paper accepted by ACM TORS.

@article{wei2026diffusion,
  title={Diffusion models in recommendation systems: A survey},
  author={Wei, Ting-Ruen and Fang, Yi},
  journal={ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems},
  publisher={ACM New York, NY}
}

Table of Contents

Background in Diffusion Models

Papers for Diffusion Models in Recsys

Core Recommendation Tasks

Collaborative Filtering

  • Implicit Feedback

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
Blurring-sharpening process models for collaborative filteringSIGIR 2023imageLink
Incorporating Classifier-Free Guidance in Diffusion Model-Based RecommendationArxiv 2024imageLink
Collaborative Filtering Based on Diffusion Models: Unveiling the Potential of High-Order ConnectivitySIGIR 2024imageLink
Recommendation via collaborative diffusion generative modelKSEM 2022Link
Denoising diffusion recommender modelSIGIR 2024imageLink
A Directional Diffusion Graph Transformer for RecommendationArxiv 2024imageLink
Diffusion recommender modelSIGIR 2023imageLink
Recfusion: A binomial diffusion process for 1d data for recommendationArxiv 2023imageLink
SCONE: A Novel Stochastic Sampling to Generate Contrastive Views and Hard Negative Samples for RecommendationWSDM 2025imageLink
Effects of Using Synthetic Data on Deep Recommender Models' PerformanceArxiv 2024imageLink
GDDRec: graph neural diffusion model for diversified recommendationKIS 2025imageLink
Collaborative Diffusion Model for Recommender SystemWWW 2025imageLink
Hyperbolic Diffusion Recommender ModelWWW 2025imageLink
Conditional diffusion model for recommender systemsNN 2025imageLink
Generative Recommendation with Continuous-Token DiffusionArxiv 2025imageLink
Diffusion Model as a Base for Cold Item RecommendationApplied Sciences 2025imageLink
Diff-GNDCRec: A diffusion model with graph-node enhancement and difference comparison for recommendationIPM 2025Link
A Diffusion Model with User Preference Guidance for RecommendationDASFAA 2024Link
Graph-based Diffusion Model for Collaborative FilteringArxiv 2025imageLink
DiffGCL: Diffusion model-based Graph Contrastive Learning for Service RecommendationICWS 2024imageLink
Divide-and-Conquer: Cold-Start Bundle Recommendation via Mixture of Diffusion ExpertsArxiv 2025imageLink
DiffGraph: Heterogeneous Graph Diffusion ModelWSDM 2025imageLink
Diffusion-driven SpatioTemporal Graph KANsformer for Medical Examination RecommendationArxiv 2025imageLink
DiffGR: A Discrete Diffusion-Based Model for Personalised Recommendation by Reconstructing User-Item Bipartite GraphsECIR 2025Link
GGDHSCL: A Graph Generative Diffusion With Hard Negative Sampling Contrastive Learning Recommendation MethodTCSS 2025imageLink
Personalized Diffusion Model Reshapes Cold-Start Bundle RecommendationWWW 2025imageLink
Addressing Cold-Start Problem in Click-Through Rate Prediction via Supervised Diffusion ModelingAAAI 2025imageLink
Interest-Aware Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation with Diffusion-based AugmentationTKDE 2025imageLink
Modeling Item-Level Dynamic Variability with Residual Diffusion for Bundle RecommendationAAAI 2026imageLink
GDiffMAE: Guided Diffusion Enhanced Mask Graph AutoEncoder for RecommendationTKDE 2025imageLink
DiffMSR: a Multi-Semantic Graph Diffusion Model for Service RecommendationTSC 2025imageLink
Hierarchical graph contrastive learning with diffusion-enhanced for multi-behavior recommendationIPM 2026Link
Dual-view collaboration fusion on diffusion learning for bundle recommendationInfo Fusion 2025Link
Diffusion-Augmented Hierarchical Graph Convolutional Network for Multi-behavior RecommendationADMA 2025Link
DGenCTR: Towards a Universal Generative Paradigm for Click-Through Rate Prediction via Discrete DiffusionArvix 2025imageLink
Fading to Grow: Growing Preference Ratios via Preference Fading Discrete Diffusion for RecommendationNeurIPS 2025imageLink
HierDiffuse: Progressive Diffusion for Robust Interest Fusion in CTR PredictionEMNLP 2025imageLink
ConDiff: Conditional graph diffusion model for recommendationIPM 2026imageLink
Causal variational inference for deconfounded multi-behavior recommendationTOIS 2025imageLink

  • Explicit Ratings

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
DGRM: Diffusion-GAN recommendation model to alleviate the mode collapse problem in sparse environmentsPattern Recognition 2024Link
EDGE-Rec: Efficient and Data-Guided Edge Diffusion For Recommender Systems GraphsArxiv 2024imageLink
Differentially Private Recommendation Algorithm based on Diffusion Model and Rényi SimilarityInfo Sci 2025Link

  • Item Graph

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
DICES: Diffusion-Based Contrastive Learning with Knowledge Graphs for RecommendationKSEM 2024Link
G-Diff: A Graph-Based Decoding Network for Diffusion Recommender ModelTNNLS 2024imageLink
Graph Signal Diffusion Model for Collaborative FilteringSIGIR 2024imageLink
Disentangled Contrastive Bundle Recommendation with Conditional DiffusionAAAI 2025imageLink

  • User Graph

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
Diffusion social augmentation for social recommendationSupercomputing 2025imageLink
Recdiff: diffusion model for social recommendationCIKM 2024imageLink
Score-based generative diffusion models for social recommendationsArvix 2024imageLink
Graph diffusive self-supervised learning for social recommendationSIGIR 2024imageLink
Dual Graph Denoising Model for Social RecommendationWWW 2025imageLink
Model-Agnostic Social Network Refinement with Diffusion Models for Robust Social RecommendationWWW 2025imageLink
A Feature-Weighted Attention Diffusion Model for Social RecommendationDDCLS 2025imageLink
Graph Diffusion Social RecommendationTCE 2025imageLink

  • Knowledge Graph

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
Diffkg: Knowledge graph diffusion model for recommendationWSDM 2024imageLink
RsDiff: Rational Score baesd Knowledge Graph Diffusion for RecommendationInfo Sci 2025Link
DAGR: DyHGSampler and AdaSGC-Based Knowledge Graph Diffusion for RecommendationICIC 2025Link
TCM-DiffPR: knowledge graph diffusion model for personalized traditional Chinese medicine recommendationJIIS 2025imageLink
DKGM: A diffusion knowledge graph model for medication recommendation leveraging medical and drug informationICHI 2025imageLink
Mask diffusion-based contrastive learning for knowledge-aware recommendationTKDE 2025imageLink
Knowledge-aware Diffusion-Enhanced Multimedia RecommendationMultimedia 2025imageLink

Sequential Recommendation

  • Point-of-interest

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
Diffusion-based cloud-edge-device collaborative learning for next POI recommendationsKDD 2024imageLink
Diff-DGMN: A Diffusion-Based Dual Graph Multi-Attention Network for POI RecommendationIoT 2024imageLink
A diffusion model for poi recommendationTOIS 2023imageLink
DSDRec: Next POI recommendation using deep semantic extraction and diffusion modelInfo Sci 2024Link
HGDRec: Next poi recommendation based on hypergraph neural network and diffusion modelTSC 2025imageLink
DMSDRec: Dynamic Structure-aware Graph Masked Autoencoder and Spatiotemporal Diffusion for Next-POI RecommendationTSC 2025imageLink
Bridging User Dynamic Preferences: A Unified Bridge-based Diffusion Model for Next POI RecommendationBig Data 2025imageLink

  • Sequence as Diffusion Target and Guidance

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
Context Matters: Enhancing Sequential Recommendation with Context-aware Diffusion-based Contrastive LearningCIKM 2024imageLink
Dual Conditional Diffusion Models for Sequential RecommendationArxiv 2024imageLink
Semantic-Aware Diffusion Model for Sequential RecommendationOpen Review 2024imageLink
Diffusion Model for Interest Refinement in Multi-Interest RecommendationArxiv 2025imageLink
Unlocking the Power of Diffusion Models in Sequential Recommendation: A Simple and Effective ApproachArxiv 2025imageLink
Enhancing Sequential Recommendation with Global DiffusionAAAI 2025imageLink
Intent-aware Diffusion with Contrastive Learning for Sequential RecommendationSIGIR 2025imageLink
Diffusion augmentation for sequential recommendationCIKM 2023imageLink
Energy-Guided Diffusion Sampling for Long-Term User Behavior Prediction in Reinforcement Learning-based RecommendationCIKM 2025imageLink
DMMD4SR: Diffusion Model-based Multi-level Multimodal Denoising for Sequential RecommendationMM 2025imageLink
Multi-Modal Multi-Behavior Sequential Recommendation with Conditional Diffusion-Based Feature DenoisingSIGIR 2025imageLink

  • Sequence as Diffusion Target

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
Discrete conditional diffusion for reranking in recommendationWWW 2024imageLink
Breaking Determinism: Fuzzy Modeling of Sequential Recommendation Using Discrete State Space Diffusion ModelNeurIPS 2024imageLink
A Diffusion Data Enhancement Retentive Model for Sequential RecommendationCISAT 2024imageLink
Diff4rec: Sequential recommendation with curriculum-scheduled diffusion augmentationMM 2023imageLink
Multi-Interest Network with Simple Diffusion for Multi-Behavior Sequential RecommendationSDM 2024imageLink
Plug-in diffusion model for sequential recommendationAAAI 2024imageLink
SeeDRec: Sememe-based Diffusion for Sequential RecommendationIJCAI 2024imageLink
Bridging User Dynamics: Transforming Sequential Recommendations with Schr{"o}dinger Bridge and Diffusion ModelsCIKM 2024imageLink
Context-Aware Diffusion-based Sequential RecommendationBigData 2024imageLink
DiffGCA: A Diffusion Recommendation Model with Global Attention MechanismDSIT 2025imageLink
When Feature Encoder Meets Diffusion Model for Sequential RecommendationsInfo Sci 2025Link
EDiffuRec: An Enhanced Diffusion Model for Sequential RecommendationMathematics 2024imageLink
Similarity-Guided Diffusion for Contrastive Sequential RecommendationArxiv 2025imageLink
DiffusionGS: Generative Search with Query Conditioned Diffusion in KuaishouArxiv 2025imageLink
Fusion of diffusion models and intent learning in sequential recommendationJIIS 2025imageLink
Modeling Long-term User Behaviors with Diffusion-driven Multi-interest Network for CTR PredictionRecSys 2025imageLink
Time-Weighted Diffusion Model for Enhanced Sequential RecommendationsDDCLS 2025Link
Unconditional Diffusion for Generative Sequential RecommendationArxiv 2025imageLink
Adaptive User Interest Modeling via Conditioned Denoising Diffusion For Click-Through Rate PredictionArxiv 2025imageLink
DiffSBR: A diffusion model for session-based recommendationIPM 2026Link
Multi-source information diffusion model for conversation recommender systemEvolving Systems 2025imageLink

  • Sequence as Diffusion Guidance

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
Conditional denoising diffusion for sequential recommendationPAKDD 2024imageLink
Sequential recommendation with diffusion modelsArxiv 2023imageLink
Diffusion Recommendation with Implicit Sequence InfluenceWWW 2024imageLink
Diffurec: A diffusion model for sequential recommendationTOIS 2023imageLink
DimeRec: A Unified Framework for Enhanced Sequential Recommendation via Generative Diffusion ModelsWSDM 2025imageLink
Generate what you prefer: Reshaping sequential recommendation via guided diffusionNeurIPS 2024imageLink
Generate and Instantiate What You Prefer: Text-Guided Diffusion for Sequential RecommendationArxiv 2024imageLink
Implicit local-global feature extraction for diffusion sequence recommendationEAAI 2025Link
LeadRec: Towards Personalized Sequential Recommendation via Guided DiffusionICIC 2024Link
Preference Diffusion for RecommendationArxiv 2024imageLink
Generative Diffusion Models for Sequential RecommendationsRecsys 2024imageLink
Learning Multiple User Distributions for Recommendation via Guided Conditional DiffusionAAAI 2025imageLink
Unleashing the Potential of Two-Tower Models: Diffusion-Based Cross-Interaction for Large-Scale MatchingWWW 2025imageLink
Distinguished quantized guidance for diffusion-based sequence recommendationWWW 2025imageLink
Addressing Missing Data Issue for Diffusion-based RecommendationArxiv 2025imageLink
Enhancing Diffusion Model with Auxiliary Information Mining-Exploration and Efficient Sampling Mechanism for Sequential RecommendationAAAI 2025imageLink
Why Generate When You Can Transform? Unleashing Generative Attention for Dynamic RecommendationMM 2025imageLink
Adaptive User Dynamic Interest Guidance for Generative Sequential RecommendationSIGIR 2025imageLink
On Efficiency-Effectiveness Trade-off of Diffusion-based RecommendersNeurIPS 2025imageLink
Unleashing the potential of diffusion models towards diversified sequential recommendationsSIGIR 2025imageLink

Data Modality and Domain

  • Image Generation

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
AdBooster: Personalized Ad Creative Generation using Stable Diffusion OutpaintingRecsys 2023imageLink
A New Creative Generation Pipeline for Click-Through Rate with Stable Diffusion ModelWWW 2024imageLink
Dynamic Product Image Generation and Recommendation at Scale for Personalized E-commerceRecsys 2024imageLink
Diffusion Models for Generative Outfit RecommendationSIGIR 2024imageLink
GEMRec: Towards Generative Model RecommendationWSDM 2024imageLink
Recommendations Beyond Catalogs: Diffusion Models for Personalized GenerationArxiv 2025imageLink
CTR-Driven Advertising Image Generation with Multimodal Large Language ModelsWWW 2025imageLink
Virtualmodel: Generating object-id-retentive human-object interaction image by diffusion model for e-commerce marketingArxiv 2024imageLink
Planning and rendering: Towards product poster generation with diffusion modelsArxiv 2023imageLink
Sell It Before You Make It: Revolutionizing E-Commerce with Personalized AI-Generated ItemsKDD 2026imageLink
Chaining text-to-image and large language model: A novel approach for generating personalized e-commerce bannersKDD 2024Link
Personalized image generation with large multimodal modelsWWW 2025imageLink
RAGAR: Retrieval Augment Personalized Image Generation Guided by RecommendationArxiv 2025imageLink
MMCRec: Towards Multi-modal Generative AI in Conversational RecommendationECIR 2024Link
Pmg: Personalized multimodal generation with large language modelsWWW 2024imageLink
Generative recommendation: Towards next-generation recommender paradigmArxiv 2023imageLink
Cross-Cultural Fashion Design via Interactive Large Language Models and Diffusion ModelsArxiv 2025Link

  • Text-to-recommendation

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
Diffusion Model for Slate RecommendationArxiv 2024imageLink

  • Multimodal Recommendation

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
DiffMM: Multi-Modal Diffusion Model for RecommendationMM 2024imageLink
LD4MRec: Simplifying and Powering Diffusion Model for Multimedia RecommendationArxiv 2023imageLink
Multimodal Conditioned Diffusion Model for RecommendationWWW 2024imageLink
Diffusion Review-Based RecommendationKSEM 2024Link
DiffCL: A Diffusion-Based Contrastive Learning Framework with Semantic Alignment for Multimodal RecommendationsArxiv 2025imageLink
Curriculum Conditioned Diffusion for Multimodal RecommendationAAAI 2025imageLink
DiffKD: collaborative graph diffusion with knowledge distillation for multimodal recommendationJIIS 2025imageLink
ITCoHD-MRec: An Independent Topological Preference Aware and Cooperative Hypergraph Diffusion based Multimodal Recommender ModelTOIS 2025imageLink
MDSBR: Multimodal Denoising for Session-based RecommendationRecSys 2025imageLink
Generating Difficulty-aware Negative Samples via Conditional Diffusion for Multi-modal RecommendationSIGIR 2025imageLink
Generating with fairness: A modality-diffused counterfactual framework for incomplete multimodal recommendationsWWW 2025imageLink
Flip is Better than Noise: Unbiased Interest Generation for Multimedia RecommendationMM 2025imageLink
Boosting Guided Diffusion with Large Language Models for Multimodal Sequential RecommendationMM 2025imageLink
Diffusion-based multi-modal synergy interest network for click-through rate predictionSIGIR 2025imageLink
Dual-layer cross-modal alignment recommendation based on the diffusion modelInfo Fusion 2026Link
Asymmetric Diffusion Recommendation ModelCIKM 2025imageLink

  • Cross-domain Recommendation

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
Diffusion Cross-domain RecommendationArxiv 2024imageLink
Diff-MSR: A Diffusion Model Enhanced Paradigm for Cold-Start Multi-Scenario RecommendationWSDM 2024imageLink
Exploring Preference-Guided Diffusion Model for Cross-Domain RecommendationKDD 2025imageLink
LLM-Grounded Diffusion for Cross-Domain RecommendationMM 2025imageLink
Align-for-Fusion: Harmonizing Triple Preferences via Dual-oriented Diffusion for Cross-domain Sequential RecommendationArxiv 2025imageLink
Diffusion Alignment for Cross Domain RecommendationICMR 2025imageLink
CD-CDR: Conditional Diffusion-based Item Generation for Cross-Domain RecommendationSIGIR 2025imageLink

Trustworthy Objectives and Constraints

  • Fairness

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
Balancing User Preferences by Social Networks: A Condition-Guided Social Recommendation Model for Mitigating Popularity BiasNN 2025imageLink
Controlling Diversity at Inference: Guiding Diffusion Recommender Models with Targeted Category PreferencesArxiv 2024imageLink
Guided Diffusion-based Counterfactual Augmentation for Robust Session-based RecommendationArxiv 2024imageLink
DifFaiRec: Generative Fair Recommender with Conditional Diffusion ModelArxiv 2024imageLink
How Fair is Your Diffusion Recommender Model?Arxiv 2024imageLink
Bridging Interests and Truth: Towards Mitigating Fake News with Personalized and Truthful RecommendationsSIGIR 2025imageLink
FairCDR: transferring fairness and user preferences for cross-domain recommendationKDD 2025imageLink
Adversarial regularized diffusion model for fair recommendationNN 2025Link
Alleviating User-Sensitive Bias with Fair Generative Sequential Recommendation ModelICIC 2025Link

  • Accountability

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
Manipulating Visually Aware Federated Recommender Systems and Its CountermeasuresTOIS 2023imageLink
Adversarial Item Promotion on Visually-Aware Recommender Systems by Guided DiffusionTOIS 2024imageLink
Generating Model Parameters for Controlling: Parameter Diffusion for Controllable Multi-Task RecommendationArxiv 2024imageLink
Multi-Resolution Diffusion for Privacy-Sensitive Recommender SystemsAccess 2024imageLink
ToDA: Target-oriented Diffusion Attacker against Recommendation SystemArxiv 2024imageLink
Federated Recommender System Based on Diffusion Augmentation and Guided DenoisingTOIS 2024imageLink
Latent diffusion model-based data poisoning attack against QoS-aware cloud API recommender systemComputer Networks 2025Link
FedDiffRec: A Module-wise Training Approach for Diffusion-Based Recommendation in Federated LearningICASSP 2025imageLink
An Adversarial Model with Diffusion for Robust Recommendation against Shilling AttackSAC 2025imageLink
Controllable and Stealthy Shilling Attacks via Dispersive Latent DiffusionArxiv 2025imageLink

  • Transparency

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
An Explainable Recommendation Method based on Diffusion ModelBigDIA 2023imageLink

  • Out-of-distribution

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
Graph Representation Learning via Causal Diffusion for Out-of-Distribution RecommendationWWW 2025imageLink
Distributionally robust graph out-of-distribution recommendation via diffusion modelWWW 2025imageLink
A Distributed Robust Out-of-Distribution Consumer Recommendation System Using Diffusion ModelTCE 2025Link
Causal Negative Sampling via Diffusion Model for Out-of-Distribution RecommendationArxiv 2025imageLink
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Diffusion Models In Recommendation Systems

A survey of diffusion models in recommendation systems.

Detailed information can be found in our survey paper accepted by ACM TORS.

@article{wei2026diffusion,
  title={Diffusion models in recommendation systems: A survey},
  author={Wei, Ting-Ruen and Fang, Yi},
  journal={ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems},
  publisher={ACM New York, NY}
}

Table of Contents

Background in Diffusion Models

Papers for Diffusion Models in Recsys

Core Recommendation Tasks

Collaborative Filtering

  • Implicit Feedback

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
Blurring-sharpening process models for collaborative filteringSIGIR 2023imageLink
Incorporating Classifier-Free Guidance in Diffusion Model-Based RecommendationArxiv 2024imageLink
Collaborative Filtering Based on Diffusion Models: Unveiling the Potential of High-Order ConnectivitySIGIR 2024imageLink
Recommendation via collaborative diffusion generative modelKSEM 2022Link
Denoising diffusion recommender modelSIGIR 2024imageLink
A Directional Diffusion Graph Transformer for RecommendationArxiv 2024imageLink
Diffusion recommender modelSIGIR 2023imageLink
Recfusion: A binomial diffusion process for 1d data for recommendationArxiv 2023imageLink
SCONE: A Novel Stochastic Sampling to Generate Contrastive Views and Hard Negative Samples for RecommendationWSDM 2025imageLink
Effects of Using Synthetic Data on Deep Recommender Models' PerformanceArxiv 2024imageLink
GDDRec: graph neural diffusion model for diversified recommendationKIS 2025imageLink
Collaborative Diffusion Model for Recommender SystemWWW 2025imageLink
Hyperbolic Diffusion Recommender ModelWWW 2025imageLink
Conditional diffusion model for recommender systemsNN 2025imageLink
Generative Recommendation with Continuous-Token DiffusionArxiv 2025imageLink
Diffusion Model as a Base for Cold Item RecommendationApplied Sciences 2025imageLink
Diff-GNDCRec: A diffusion model with graph-node enhancement and difference comparison for recommendationIPM 2025Link
A Diffusion Model with User Preference Guidance for RecommendationDASFAA 2024Link
Graph-based Diffusion Model for Collaborative FilteringArxiv 2025imageLink
DiffGCL: Diffusion model-based Graph Contrastive Learning for Service RecommendationICWS 2024imageLink
Divide-and-Conquer: Cold-Start Bundle Recommendation via Mixture of Diffusion ExpertsArxiv 2025imageLink
DiffGraph: Heterogeneous Graph Diffusion ModelWSDM 2025imageLink
Diffusion-driven SpatioTemporal Graph KANsformer for Medical Examination RecommendationArxiv 2025imageLink
DiffGR: A Discrete Diffusion-Based Model for Personalised Recommendation by Reconstructing User-Item Bipartite GraphsECIR 2025Link
GGDHSCL: A Graph Generative Diffusion With Hard Negative Sampling Contrastive Learning Recommendation MethodTCSS 2025imageLink
Personalized Diffusion Model Reshapes Cold-Start Bundle RecommendationWWW 2025imageLink
Addressing Cold-Start Problem in Click-Through Rate Prediction via Supervised Diffusion ModelingAAAI 2025imageLink
Interest-Aware Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation with Diffusion-based AugmentationTKDE 2025imageLink
Modeling Item-Level Dynamic Variability with Residual Diffusion for Bundle RecommendationAAAI 2026imageLink
GDiffMAE: Guided Diffusion Enhanced Mask Graph AutoEncoder for RecommendationTKDE 2025imageLink
DiffMSR: a Multi-Semantic Graph Diffusion Model for Service RecommendationTSC 2025imageLink
Hierarchical graph contrastive learning with diffusion-enhanced for multi-behavior recommendationIPM 2026Link
Dual-view collaboration fusion on diffusion learning for bundle recommendationInfo Fusion 2025Link
Diffusion-Augmented Hierarchical Graph Convolutional Network for Multi-behavior RecommendationADMA 2025Link
DGenCTR: Towards a Universal Generative Paradigm for Click-Through Rate Prediction via Discrete DiffusionArvix 2025imageLink
Fading to Grow: Growing Preference Ratios via Preference Fading Discrete Diffusion for RecommendationNeurIPS 2025imageLink
HierDiffuse: Progressive Diffusion for Robust Interest Fusion in CTR PredictionEMNLP 2025imageLink
ConDiff: Conditional graph diffusion model for recommendationIPM 2026imageLink
Causal variational inference for deconfounded multi-behavior recommendationTOIS 2025imageLink

  • Explicit Ratings

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
DGRM: Diffusion-GAN recommendation model to alleviate the mode collapse problem in sparse environmentsPattern Recognition 2024Link
EDGE-Rec: Efficient and Data-Guided Edge Diffusion For Recommender Systems GraphsArxiv 2024imageLink
Differentially Private Recommendation Algorithm based on Diffusion Model and Rényi SimilarityInfo Sci 2025Link

  • Item Graph

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
DICES: Diffusion-Based Contrastive Learning with Knowledge Graphs for RecommendationKSEM 2024Link
G-Diff: A Graph-Based Decoding Network for Diffusion Recommender ModelTNNLS 2024imageLink
Graph Signal Diffusion Model for Collaborative FilteringSIGIR 2024imageLink
Disentangled Contrastive Bundle Recommendation with Conditional DiffusionAAAI 2025imageLink

  • User Graph

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
Diffusion social augmentation for social recommendationSupercomputing 2025imageLink
Recdiff: diffusion model for social recommendationCIKM 2024imageLink
Score-based generative diffusion models for social recommendationsArvix 2024imageLink
Graph diffusive self-supervised learning for social recommendationSIGIR 2024imageLink
Dual Graph Denoising Model for Social RecommendationWWW 2025imageLink
Model-Agnostic Social Network Refinement with Diffusion Models for Robust Social RecommendationWWW 2025imageLink
A Feature-Weighted Attention Diffusion Model for Social RecommendationDDCLS 2025imageLink
Graph Diffusion Social RecommendationTCE 2025imageLink

  • Knowledge Graph

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
Diffkg: Knowledge graph diffusion model for recommendationWSDM 2024imageLink
RsDiff: Rational Score baesd Knowledge Graph Diffusion for RecommendationInfo Sci 2025Link
DAGR: DyHGSampler and AdaSGC-Based Knowledge Graph Diffusion for RecommendationICIC 2025Link
TCM-DiffPR: knowledge graph diffusion model for personalized traditional Chinese medicine recommendationJIIS 2025imageLink
DKGM: A diffusion knowledge graph model for medication recommendation leveraging medical and drug informationICHI 2025imageLink
Mask diffusion-based contrastive learning for knowledge-aware recommendationTKDE 2025imageLink
Knowledge-aware Diffusion-Enhanced Multimedia RecommendationMultimedia 2025imageLink

Sequential Recommendation

  • Point-of-interest

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
Diffusion-based cloud-edge-device collaborative learning for next POI recommendationsKDD 2024imageLink
Diff-DGMN: A Diffusion-Based Dual Graph Multi-Attention Network for POI RecommendationIoT 2024imageLink
A diffusion model for poi recommendationTOIS 2023imageLink
DSDRec: Next POI recommendation using deep semantic extraction and diffusion modelInfo Sci 2024Link
HGDRec: Next poi recommendation based on hypergraph neural network and diffusion modelTSC 2025imageLink
DMSDRec: Dynamic Structure-aware Graph Masked Autoencoder and Spatiotemporal Diffusion for Next-POI RecommendationTSC 2025imageLink
Bridging User Dynamic Preferences: A Unified Bridge-based Diffusion Model for Next POI RecommendationBig Data 2025imageLink

  • Sequence as Diffusion Target and Guidance

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
Context Matters: Enhancing Sequential Recommendation with Context-aware Diffusion-based Contrastive LearningCIKM 2024imageLink
Dual Conditional Diffusion Models for Sequential RecommendationArxiv 2024imageLink
Semantic-Aware Diffusion Model for Sequential RecommendationOpen Review 2024imageLink
Diffusion Model for Interest Refinement in Multi-Interest RecommendationArxiv 2025imageLink
Unlocking the Power of Diffusion Models in Sequential Recommendation: A Simple and Effective ApproachArxiv 2025imageLink
Enhancing Sequential Recommendation with Global DiffusionAAAI 2025imageLink
Intent-aware Diffusion with Contrastive Learning for Sequential RecommendationSIGIR 2025imageLink
Diffusion augmentation for sequential recommendationCIKM 2023imageLink
Energy-Guided Diffusion Sampling for Long-Term User Behavior Prediction in Reinforcement Learning-based RecommendationCIKM 2025imageLink
DMMD4SR: Diffusion Model-based Multi-level Multimodal Denoising for Sequential RecommendationMM 2025imageLink
Multi-Modal Multi-Behavior Sequential Recommendation with Conditional Diffusion-Based Feature DenoisingSIGIR 2025imageLink

  • Sequence as Diffusion Target

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
Discrete conditional diffusion for reranking in recommendationWWW 2024imageLink
Breaking Determinism: Fuzzy Modeling of Sequential Recommendation Using Discrete State Space Diffusion ModelNeurIPS 2024imageLink
A Diffusion Data Enhancement Retentive Model for Sequential RecommendationCISAT 2024imageLink
Diff4rec: Sequential recommendation with curriculum-scheduled diffusion augmentationMM 2023imageLink
Multi-Interest Network with Simple Diffusion for Multi-Behavior Sequential RecommendationSDM 2024imageLink
Plug-in diffusion model for sequential recommendationAAAI 2024imageLink
SeeDRec: Sememe-based Diffusion for Sequential RecommendationIJCAI 2024imageLink
Bridging User Dynamics: Transforming Sequential Recommendations with Schr{"o}dinger Bridge and Diffusion ModelsCIKM 2024imageLink
Context-Aware Diffusion-based Sequential RecommendationBigData 2024imageLink
DiffGCA: A Diffusion Recommendation Model with Global Attention MechanismDSIT 2025imageLink
When Feature Encoder Meets Diffusion Model for Sequential RecommendationsInfo Sci 2025Link
EDiffuRec: An Enhanced Diffusion Model for Sequential RecommendationMathematics 2024imageLink
Similarity-Guided Diffusion for Contrastive Sequential RecommendationArxiv 2025imageLink
DiffusionGS: Generative Search with Query Conditioned Diffusion in KuaishouArxiv 2025imageLink
Fusion of diffusion models and intent learning in sequential recommendationJIIS 2025imageLink
Modeling Long-term User Behaviors with Diffusion-driven Multi-interest Network for CTR PredictionRecSys 2025imageLink
Time-Weighted Diffusion Model for Enhanced Sequential RecommendationsDDCLS 2025Link
Unconditional Diffusion for Generative Sequential RecommendationArxiv 2025imageLink
Adaptive User Interest Modeling via Conditioned Denoising Diffusion For Click-Through Rate PredictionArxiv 2025imageLink
DiffSBR: A diffusion model for session-based recommendationIPM 2026Link
Multi-source information diffusion model for conversation recommender systemEvolving Systems 2025imageLink

  • Sequence as Diffusion Guidance

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
Conditional denoising diffusion for sequential recommendationPAKDD 2024imageLink
Sequential recommendation with diffusion modelsArxiv 2023imageLink
Diffusion Recommendation with Implicit Sequence InfluenceWWW 2024imageLink
Diffurec: A diffusion model for sequential recommendationTOIS 2023imageLink
DimeRec: A Unified Framework for Enhanced Sequential Recommendation via Generative Diffusion ModelsWSDM 2025imageLink
Generate what you prefer: Reshaping sequential recommendation via guided diffusionNeurIPS 2024imageLink
Generate and Instantiate What You Prefer: Text-Guided Diffusion for Sequential RecommendationArxiv 2024imageLink
Implicit local-global feature extraction for diffusion sequence recommendationEAAI 2025Link
LeadRec: Towards Personalized Sequential Recommendation via Guided DiffusionICIC 2024Link
Preference Diffusion for RecommendationArxiv 2024imageLink
Generative Diffusion Models for Sequential RecommendationsRecsys 2024imageLink
Learning Multiple User Distributions for Recommendation via Guided Conditional DiffusionAAAI 2025imageLink
Unleashing the Potential of Two-Tower Models: Diffusion-Based Cross-Interaction for Large-Scale MatchingWWW 2025imageLink
Distinguished quantized guidance for diffusion-based sequence recommendationWWW 2025imageLink
Addressing Missing Data Issue for Diffusion-based RecommendationArxiv 2025imageLink
Enhancing Diffusion Model with Auxiliary Information Mining-Exploration and Efficient Sampling Mechanism for Sequential RecommendationAAAI 2025imageLink
Why Generate When You Can Transform? Unleashing Generative Attention for Dynamic RecommendationMM 2025imageLink
Adaptive User Dynamic Interest Guidance for Generative Sequential RecommendationSIGIR 2025imageLink
On Efficiency-Effectiveness Trade-off of Diffusion-based RecommendersNeurIPS 2025imageLink
Unleashing the potential of diffusion models towards diversified sequential recommendationsSIGIR 2025imageLink

Data Modality and Domain

  • Image Generation

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
AdBooster: Personalized Ad Creative Generation using Stable Diffusion OutpaintingRecsys 2023imageLink
A New Creative Generation Pipeline for Click-Through Rate with Stable Diffusion ModelWWW 2024imageLink
Dynamic Product Image Generation and Recommendation at Scale for Personalized E-commerceRecsys 2024imageLink
Diffusion Models for Generative Outfit RecommendationSIGIR 2024imageLink
GEMRec: Towards Generative Model RecommendationWSDM 2024imageLink
Recommendations Beyond Catalogs: Diffusion Models for Personalized GenerationArxiv 2025imageLink
CTR-Driven Advertising Image Generation with Multimodal Large Language ModelsWWW 2025imageLink
Virtualmodel: Generating object-id-retentive human-object interaction image by diffusion model for e-commerce marketingArxiv 2024imageLink
Planning and rendering: Towards product poster generation with diffusion modelsArxiv 2023imageLink
Sell It Before You Make It: Revolutionizing E-Commerce with Personalized AI-Generated ItemsKDD 2026imageLink
Chaining text-to-image and large language model: A novel approach for generating personalized e-commerce bannersKDD 2024Link
Personalized image generation with large multimodal modelsWWW 2025imageLink
RAGAR: Retrieval Augment Personalized Image Generation Guided by RecommendationArxiv 2025imageLink
MMCRec: Towards Multi-modal Generative AI in Conversational RecommendationECIR 2024Link
Pmg: Personalized multimodal generation with large language modelsWWW 2024imageLink
Generative recommendation: Towards next-generation recommender paradigmArxiv 2023imageLink
Cross-Cultural Fashion Design via Interactive Large Language Models and Diffusion ModelsArxiv 2025Link

  • Text-to-recommendation

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
Diffusion Model for Slate RecommendationArxiv 2024imageLink

  • Multimodal Recommendation

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
DiffMM: Multi-Modal Diffusion Model for RecommendationMM 2024imageLink
LD4MRec: Simplifying and Powering Diffusion Model for Multimedia RecommendationArxiv 2023imageLink
Multimodal Conditioned Diffusion Model for RecommendationWWW 2024imageLink
Diffusion Review-Based RecommendationKSEM 2024Link
DiffCL: A Diffusion-Based Contrastive Learning Framework with Semantic Alignment for Multimodal RecommendationsArxiv 2025imageLink
Curriculum Conditioned Diffusion for Multimodal RecommendationAAAI 2025imageLink
DiffKD: collaborative graph diffusion with knowledge distillation for multimodal recommendationJIIS 2025imageLink
ITCoHD-MRec: An Independent Topological Preference Aware and Cooperative Hypergraph Diffusion based Multimodal Recommender ModelTOIS 2025imageLink
MDSBR: Multimodal Denoising for Session-based RecommendationRecSys 2025imageLink
Generating Difficulty-aware Negative Samples via Conditional Diffusion for Multi-modal RecommendationSIGIR 2025imageLink
Generating with fairness: A modality-diffused counterfactual framework for incomplete multimodal recommendationsWWW 2025imageLink
Flip is Better than Noise: Unbiased Interest Generation for Multimedia RecommendationMM 2025imageLink
Boosting Guided Diffusion with Large Language Models for Multimodal Sequential RecommendationMM 2025imageLink
Diffusion-based multi-modal synergy interest network for click-through rate predictionSIGIR 2025imageLink
Dual-layer cross-modal alignment recommendation based on the diffusion modelInfo Fusion 2026Link
Asymmetric Diffusion Recommendation ModelCIKM 2025imageLink

  • Cross-domain Recommendation

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
Diffusion Cross-domain RecommendationArxiv 2024imageLink
Diff-MSR: A Diffusion Model Enhanced Paradigm for Cold-Start Multi-Scenario RecommendationWSDM 2024imageLink
Exploring Preference-Guided Diffusion Model for Cross-Domain RecommendationKDD 2025imageLink
LLM-Grounded Diffusion for Cross-Domain RecommendationMM 2025imageLink
Align-for-Fusion: Harmonizing Triple Preferences via Dual-oriented Diffusion for Cross-domain Sequential RecommendationArxiv 2025imageLink
Diffusion Alignment for Cross Domain RecommendationICMR 2025imageLink
CD-CDR: Conditional Diffusion-based Item Generation for Cross-Domain RecommendationSIGIR 2025imageLink

Trustworthy Objectives and Constraints

  • Fairness

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
Balancing User Preferences by Social Networks: A Condition-Guided Social Recommendation Model for Mitigating Popularity BiasNN 2025imageLink
Controlling Diversity at Inference: Guiding Diffusion Recommender Models with Targeted Category PreferencesArxiv 2024imageLink
Guided Diffusion-based Counterfactual Augmentation for Robust Session-based RecommendationArxiv 2024imageLink
DifFaiRec: Generative Fair Recommender with Conditional Diffusion ModelArxiv 2024imageLink
How Fair is Your Diffusion Recommender Model?Arxiv 2024imageLink
Bridging Interests and Truth: Towards Mitigating Fake News with Personalized and Truthful RecommendationsSIGIR 2025imageLink
FairCDR: transferring fairness and user preferences for cross-domain recommendationKDD 2025imageLink
Adversarial regularized diffusion model for fair recommendationNN 2025Link
Alleviating User-Sensitive Bias with Fair Generative Sequential Recommendation ModelICIC 2025Link

  • Accountability

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
Manipulating Visually Aware Federated Recommender Systems and Its CountermeasuresTOIS 2023imageLink
Adversarial Item Promotion on Visually-Aware Recommender Systems by Guided DiffusionTOIS 2024imageLink
Generating Model Parameters for Controlling: Parameter Diffusion for Controllable Multi-Task RecommendationArxiv 2024imageLink
Multi-Resolution Diffusion for Privacy-Sensitive Recommender SystemsAccess 2024imageLink
ToDA: Target-oriented Diffusion Attacker against Recommendation SystemArxiv 2024imageLink
Federated Recommender System Based on Diffusion Augmentation and Guided DenoisingTOIS 2024imageLink
Latent diffusion model-based data poisoning attack against QoS-aware cloud API recommender systemComputer Networks 2025Link
FedDiffRec: A Module-wise Training Approach for Diffusion-Based Recommendation in Federated LearningICASSP 2025imageLink
An Adversarial Model with Diffusion for Robust Recommendation against Shilling AttackSAC 2025imageLink
Controllable and Stealthy Shilling Attacks via Dispersive Latent DiffusionArxiv 2025imageLink

  • Transparency

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
An Explainable Recommendation Method based on Diffusion ModelBigDIA 2023imageLink

  • Out-of-distribution

TitleVenueMain ImagePaper
Graph Representation Learning via Causal Diffusion for Out-of-Distribution RecommendationWWW 2025imageLink
Distributionally robust graph out-of-distribution recommendation via diffusion modelWWW 2025imageLink
A Distributed Robust Out-of-Distribution Consumer Recommendation System Using Diffusion ModelTCE 2025Link
Causal Negative Sampling via Diffusion Model for Out-of-Distribution RecommendationArxiv 2025imageLink
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