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
Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up
- 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
1,935 papers, page 10 of 39
- NeurIPS 2026Resolution-Aware Structural Density Peak Clustering
- NeurIPS 2026Rethinking "RL Generalizes, SFT Memorizes": The Role of SFT Data
- NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Dataset Distillation for Classification: Do Distilled Sets Outperform Coresets?
- NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Long-Video Efficiency: A Joint Allocation Perspective on Frames, Pixels, and Front-End Latency
- NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Projector Training in Multimodal LLMs
- NeurIPS 2026Rethinking SAE Evaluation: An Atomic Interpretable Unit Framework Reveals Hidden Polysemanticity and Redundancy
- NeurIPS 2026Rethinking XAI Evaluation: A Human-Centered Audit of Shapley Benchmarks in High-Stakes Settings
- NeurIPS 2026Revisiting Incremental Learning: A Three-Interface Diagnosis of Stability and Plasticity
- NeurIPS 2026Reward-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Richer or More Gates? Fan-In Trade-offs in Learnable Logic Circuits
- NeurIPS 2026RoadmapBench: Evaluating Long-Horizon Agentic Software Development Across Version Upgrades
- NeurIPS 2026Robust and Hard-to-Remove GNN Watermarking via Topological Invariant Perception
- NeurIPS 2026Robust Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search for Any Dataset
- NeurIPS 2026Robust Domain Generalization under Divergent Marginal and Conditional Distributions
- NeurIPS 2026Robust Satisficing Ensemble: Scalable Model Aggregation Under Distribution Shifts
- NeurIPS 2026Robust Statistical Estimators with Bounded Empirical Sensitivity
- NeurIPS 2026Routeability Before Routing: Routeability Audit Protocol (RAP) and RouteabilityBench for Audited LLM Model Selection
- NeurIPS 2026RSSA: Robust Semantic and Spatial Aligner for Collaborative Perception
- NeurIPS 2026RTCBench: Evaluating Tool Use of Large Language Models Beyond Oracle Access
- NeurIPS 2026RTEB: An Overfitting-Resistant Benchmark for Embedding Model Evaluation
- NeurIPS 2026RVR: Retrieve-Verify-Retrieve for Comprehensive Question Answering
- NeurIPS 2026S&P: Towards Scalable and Powerful Graph Learning with Hierarchical Structural Acquisition
- NeurIPS 2026S3Former: Sequential, Structural, and Statistical Fusion for Continuous-Time Dynamic Graphs
- NeurIPS 2026Safe Actions Can Form Unsafe Traces: Benchmarking and Shielding Compositional Emergent Risk in AI Agents
- NeurIPS 2026Safe Active Learning with Future Viability Guarantees in Time-Series Models
- NeurIPS 2026Safe Offline Reinforcement Learning using Behavior Regularisation and Latent Feasibility-Guidance
- NeurIPS 2026SafeDrug: A Benchmark Dataset for Safety-Critical Pharmacological Reasoning in LLMs
- NeurIPS 2026SAGE: Semantically Disentangled Representation Learning through Latent Geometry Constraint and Large Language Model
- NeurIPS 2026SAM 3D Animal: Promptable Animal 3D Reconstruction from Images in the Wild
- NeurIPS 2026Same Words, Different Judgments: How Preferences Vary Across Modalities
- NeurIPS 2026SBNO : Schrödinger Bridge Neural Operator for the Forward and Inverse Problems under Missing Information
- NeurIPS 2026Scalable Fair Learning via Cramér-von Mises Regularization
- NeurIPS 2026Scaling Arbitrary Architectures and Optimizers with Automatic Parameterization
- NeurIPS 2026Scaling Genomic Language Modeling with Unified Corpus and Evaluation in Bacteria
- NeurIPS 2026Scaling Point-in-Time Language Models: Economic Evaluation of Embeddings
- NeurIPS 2026ScrapeGraphAI-100k: Dataset for Schema-Constrained LLM Generation
- NeurIPS 2026Seeing Across Skies and Streets: Feedforward 3D Reconstruction from Satellite, Drone, and Ground Images
- NeurIPS 2026Selectivity and Shape in the Design of Forward-Forward Goodness Functions
- NeurIPS 2026Self-Evolving Agents Should Build Internal and External Models of the World
- NeurIPS 2026Self-Recognition Finetuning can Reverse and Prevent Emergent Misalignment
- NeurIPS 2026SeoulMMOD: A Large-Scale Multimodal Origin-Destination Flow Benchmark
- NeurIPS 2026SGD at the Edge of Stability: The Stochastic Sharpness Gap
- NeurIPS 2026Sharpness, Stability, and Step-Size Scaling in Deep Polynomial Networks
- NeurIPS 2026Shepherd: A Runtime Substrate Empowering Meta-Agents with a Formalized Execution Trace
- NeurIPS 2026Short-Context Dominance: How Much Local Context Natural Language Actually Needs?
- NeurIPS 2026Simple Baselines are Competitive with Code Evolution
- NeurIPS 2026Simplified Reversible Residual Networks
- NeurIPS 2026SimSD: Simple Speculative Decoding in Diffusion Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026Single-Pass Evidence Measurement for Interpretable and Uncertainty-Aware Multimodal Face Anti-Spoofing
- NeurIPS 2026SkillForge: Co-Evolving Skills and Agents via Dynamic Skill Lifecycles
Ask about this trend from Claude or Cursor
Connect the Paperlist MCP and your assistant can pull the numbers on this page while you draft a survey, pick a direction or plan a submission: papers per year and venue, growth, the fastest-rising sub-themes and representative papers, shaped around your question.
Copy this prompt into your assistant
Use paperlist to show how Datasets and Benchmarks papers grew at NeurIPS from 2023 to 2026, and which year jumped the most.
Tool the assistant calls: get_topic_stats {"topic": "dataset-and-benchmarks"}
Set up Paperlist MCP in two minutes (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT)
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.