Datasets and Benchmarks papers, 2023–2026
New datasets and evaluation protocols
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 5,856 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Datasets and Benchmarks went from 937 papers in 2023 to 1,991 in 2026, roughly 2.1x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Datasets and Benchmarks work: 1,935 papers from 2023 to 2026, 33% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with AI Agents: papers tagged with both rose from 8 in 2023 to 194 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Efficiency and Systems, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Hardware-Aware ML, is up 4.4x versus 2.1x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 227 | 162 | 166 | 382 | 937 |
| 2024 | 448 | 216 | 318 | 364 | 1,346 |
| 2025 | 637 | 419 | 189 | 337 | 1,582 |
| 2026 | 623 | 635 | 275 | 458 | 1,991 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026A Surrogate Perspective on Convergence of Fixed-Target DQN
- ICML 2026$\mu$pscaling small models: Principled warm starts and hyperparameter transfer
- ICLR 2026**TandemFoilSet**: Datasets for Flow Field Prediction of Tandem-Airfoil Through the Reuse of Single Airfoils
- CVPR 20264DEquine Disentangling Motion and Appearance for 4D Equine Reconstruction from
- NeurIPS 2025A Dataset for Distilling Knowledge Priors from Literature for Therapeutic Design
- ICML 2025Active Evaluation Acquisition for Efficient LLM Benchmarking
- ICLR 2025$F^3Set$: Towards Analyzing Fast, Frequent, and Fine-grained Events from Videos
- CVPR 20253D-GRAND: A Million-Scale Dataset for 3D-LLMs with Better Grounding and Less Hallucination
- NeurIPS 2024A Benchmark Dataset for Event-Guided Human Pose Estimation and Tracking in Extreme Conditions
- ICML 2024A connection between Tempering and Entropic Mirror Descent
- ICLR 2024A Benchmark Study on Calibration
- CVPR 2024Data Valuation and Detections in Federated Learning
- NeurIPS 2023$\mathbf{\mathbb{E}^{FWI}}$: Multiparameter Benchmark Datasets for Elastic Full Waveform Inversion of Geophysical Properties
- ICML 2023A Picture of the Space of Typical Learnable Tasks
- ICLR 2023$\Lambda$-DARTS: Mitigating Performance Collapse by Harmonizing Operation Selection among Cells
- CVPR 2023A Bag-of-Prototypes Representation for Dataset-Level Applications
- NeurIPS 2026A Theoretical Bridge Between Long-Tailed Recognition and Continual Learning
- ICML 2026A Semantically Consistent Dataset for Data-Efficient Query-Based Universal Sound Separation
- ICLR 2026A Fictional Q&A Dataset for Studying Memorization and Knowledge Acquisition
- CVPR 2026Advancing Cancer Prognosis with Hierarchical Fusion of Genomic Proteomic and
All Datasets and Benchmarks papers
1,432 papers, page 10 of 29
- ICLR 2026PuzzleWorld: A Benchmark for Multimodal, Open-Ended Reasoning in Puzzlehunts
- ICLR 2026PYRREGULAR: A Unified Framework for Irregular Time Series, with Classification Benchmarks
- ICLR 2026Quagmires in SFT-RL Post-Training: When High SFT Scores Mislead and What to Use Instead
- ICLR 2026Random Spiking Neural Networks are Stable and Spectrally Simple
- ICLR 2026RankLLM: Weighted Ranking of LLMs by Quantifying Question Difficulty
- ICLR 2026RAVENEA: A Benchmark for Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Visual Culture Understanding
- ICLR 2026Reasoning Language Model Inference Serving Unveiled: An Empirical Study
- ICLR 2026Reassessing Layer Pruning in LLMs: New Insights and Methods
- ICLR 2026RECODE: A Benchmark for Research Code DEvelopment with Interactive Human Feedback
- ICLR 2026Rectified Decoupled Dataset Distillation: A Closer Look for Fair and Comprehensive Evaluation
- ICLR 2026RedacBench: Can AI Erase Your Secrets?
- ICLR 2026RedSage: A Cybersecurity Generalist LLM
- ICLR 2026Reducing Symmetry Increase in Equivariant Neural Networks
- ICLR 2026Referring Layer Decomposition
- ICLR 2026RefineBench: Evaluating Refinement Capability in Language Models
- ICLR 2026Reliable Evaluation of MRI Motion Correction: Dataset and Insights
- ICLR 2026Reliable Fine-Grained Evaluation of Natural Language Math Proofs
- ICLR 2026ResearchRubrics: A Benchmark of Prompts and Rubrics For Deep Research Agents
- ICLR 2026ReTabAD: A Benchmark for Restoring Semantic Context in Tabular Anomaly Detection
- ICLR 2026Rethinking Benign Relearning: Syntax as the Hidden Driver of Unlearning Failures
- ICLR 2026Rethinking Continual Learning with Progressive Neural Collapse
- ICLR 2026Reusing Pre-Training Data at Test Time is a Compute Multiplier
- ICLR 2026Revisiting Sharpness-Aware Minimization: A More Faithful and Effective Implementation
- ICLR 2026Revisiting the Past: Data Unlearning with Model State History
- ICLR 2026Revisiting the Scaling Properties of Downstream Metrics in Large Language Model Training
- ICLR 2026RewardEval: Advancing Reward Model Evaluation
- ICLR 2026Rewriting Pre-Training Data Boosts LLM Performance in Math and Code
- ICLR 2026RF-MatID: Dataset and Benchmark for Radio Frequency Material Identification
- ICLR 2026RFEval: Benchmarking Reasoning Faithfulness under Counterfactual Reasoning Intervention in Large Reasoning Models
- ICLR 2026RIVER: Real-time Video Interaction Benchmark
- ICLR 2026RoboCasa365: A Large-Scale Simulation Framework for Training and Benchmarking Generalist Robots
- ICLR 2026RobotArena $\infty$: Unlimited Robot Benchmarking via Real-to-Sim Translation
- ICLR 2026Robustness in Text-Attributed Graph Learning: Insights, Trade-offs, and New Defenses
- ICLR 2026RobustSpring: Benchmarking Robustness to Image Corruptions for Optical Flow, Scene Flow and Stereo
- ICLR 2026RouterArena: An Open Platform for Comprehensive Comparison of LLM Routers
- ICLR 2026Rubrics as Rewards: Reinforcement Learning Beyond Verifiable Domains
- ICLR 2026S2R-HDR: A Large-Scale Rendered Dataset for HDR Fusion
- ICLR 2026SafeDialBench: A Fine-Grained Safety Evaluation Benchmark for Large Language Models in Multi-Turn Dialogues with Diverse Jailbreak Attacks
- ICLR 2026Safeguarding Multimodal Knowledge Copyright in the RAG-as-a-Service Environment
- ICLR 2026Safety Mirage: How Spurious Correlations Undermine VLM Safety Fine-Tuning and Can Be Mitigated by Machine Unlearning
- ICLR 2026SAIR: Enabling Deep Learning for Protein-Ligand Interactions with a Synthetic Structural Dataset
- ICLR 2026Same Content, Different Representations: A Controlled Study for Table QA
- ICLR 2026Sampling Complexity of TD and PPO in RKHS
- ICLR 2026SC-Arena: A Natural Language Benchmark for Single-Cell Reasoning with Knowledge-Augmented Evaluation
- ICLR 2026ScaleLong: A Multi-Timescale Benchmark for Long Video Understanding
- ICLR 2026Scaling Up, Speeding Up: A Benchmark of Speculative Decoding for Efficient LLM Test-Time Scaling
- ICLR 2026Sci2Pol: Evaluating and Fine-tuning LLMs on Scientific-to-Policy Brief Generation
- ICLR 2026SealQA: Raising the Bar for Reasoning in Search-Augmented Language Models
- ICLR 2026Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs
- ICLR 2026Seeing Through Deception: Uncovering Misleading Creator Intent in Multimodal News with Vision-Language Models
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FAQ
- How many Datasets and Benchmarks papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 5,856 in total: 937 in 2023, 1,346 in 2024, 1,582 in 2025, 1,991 in 2026.
- How many Datasets and Benchmarks papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 623 Datasets and Benchmarks papers, versus 637 the year before.
- How many Datasets and Benchmarks papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 635 Datasets and Benchmarks papers, versus 419 the year before.
- How many Datasets and Benchmarks papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 275 Datasets and Benchmarks papers, versus 189 the year before.
- How many Datasets and Benchmarks papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 458 Datasets and Benchmarks papers, versus 337 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Datasets and Benchmarks papers?
- NeurIPS, with 1,935 papers from 2023 to 2026.