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
623 papers, page 11 of 13
- NeurIPS 2026SkillsBench: Benchmarking How Well Agent Skills Work Across Diverse Tasks
- NeurIPS 2026SkipSR: Faster Super-Resolution with Token Skipping
- NeurIPS 2026SLAyiNG: A Diverse and Community-validated Dataset of Queer Slang
- NeurIPS 2026SlopCodeBench: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Degrade Over Long-Horizon Iterative Tasks
- NeurIPS 2026sMMC-22M: A Context-Aware Dataset and Benchmark for Single-Cell Spatial Transcriptomics
- NeurIPS 2026SourceBench: Can AI Answers Reference Quality Web Sources?
- NeurIPS 2026Sparkle: Realizing Lively Instruction-Guided Video Background Replacement via Decoupled Guidance
- NeurIPS 2026Spectral Transformer Neural Processes
- NeurIPS 2026Spectral-Spatial Interpretation
- NeurIPS 2026Spik-NeRF v2: Pushing the Limit of Spiking Neural Radiance Fields with $ \pm $I-LIF
- NeurIPS 2026Spike-SFT: Selective Parameter Enhancement and Fusion for Efficient Spiking Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2026Spin-Weighted Spherical Harmonics Enable Complete and Scalable E(3)-Equivariant Networks
- NeurIPS 2026Splatting the Invisible: Geometry and Appearance Scene Completion from Sparse Views
- NeurIPS 2026Split-RL: Local Conflict Resolution in Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Sponsored Questions and How to Auction Them
- NeurIPS 2026SR-Prominence: A Crowdsourced Protocol and Dataset Suite for Perceptually-Weighted Super-Resolution Artifact Evaluation
- NeurIPS 2026SREGym: A Live Benchmark for AI SRE Agents with High-Fidelity Failure Scenarios
- NeurIPS 2026Stability-Enhanced Federated Learning with Accelerated Gradient
- NeurIPS 2026STAC-R: Subspace-Tracked Activation Compression with Residuals
- NeurIPS 2026StarCraft Motion: A Dataset for Agent Simulation in Adversarial and Partially Observable Scenarios
- NeurIPS 2026State-of-art minibatches via novel DPP kernels: discretization, wavelets, and rough objectives
- NeurIPS 2026STParOpt: An End-to-End Framework for Execution-Aware Parallelism Inference and Optimized CUDA Migration
- NeurIPS 2026Strategic Evaluation: Incentivizing AI Capability Coverage with Private Benchmarks
- NeurIPS 2026Strategic Feature Selection and Regularization
- NeurIPS 2026Stress-Testing Neural Network Verifiers with Provably Robust Instances
- NeurIPS 2026Subdata Selection: A Unified Framework for Optimal Selection and Statistical Efficiency Assessment
- NeurIPS 2026Submodular Benchmark Selection
- NeurIPS 2026SUPERVISE: A Unified Framework for Standardized and Reproducible Superpixel Evaluation
- NeurIPS 2026Surprisingly consistent failures of post-hoc OOD detectors reveal security concerns in open-set recognition with modern CNNs and ViTs, stemming from representation mismatch
- NeurIPS 2026SurvCancel: A Longitudinal Dataset and Benchmark for Dynamic Order Cancellation Prediction in On-Demand Ride-Sharing Systems
- NeurIPS 2026SWE Atlas: Benchmarking Coding Agents Beyond Issue Resolution
- NeurIPS 2026SynthForensics: Benchmarking and Evaluating People-Centric Synthetic Video Deepfakes
- NeurIPS 2026T$^2$-Splat: Adaptive Topology Mesh Splatting with Texture Residuals
- NeurIPS 2026TabBioMed: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Biomedical Tabular Learning
- NeurIPS 2026TabPrep: Closing the Feature Engineering Gap in Tabular Benchmarks
- NeurIPS 2026TACT: Mitigating Overthinking and Overacting in Coding Agents via Activation Steering
- NeurIPS 2026Tactile MNIST: Benchmarking Active Tactile Perception
- NeurIPS 2026Temporal Prototype Alignment for Frozen-Feature Dataset Distillation
- NeurIPS 2026Tessellations of Semi-Discrete Flow Matching
- NeurIPS 2026Test-Time Prompt-Agnostic Decomposition
- NeurIPS 2026Testable and Actionable Calibration for Full Swap Regret
- NeurIPS 2026Text-to-CAD Evaluation with CADTests
- NeurIPS 2026The BAMBI Dataset: Multimodal Nadir UAV-Recordings of Forest Wildlife
- NeurIPS 2026The BatchNorm Illusion: Diagnosing Normalization Artifacts in Machine Unlearning Evaluation
- NeurIPS 2026The Bayesian Learning Rule Beyond KL Geometry
- NeurIPS 2026The Communication Bottleneck: A Round-Trip Study of Compositional Serialization in Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026The Deadline Effect: Identifying and Correcting Temporal Bias in Human Evaluation
- NeurIPS 2026The Heavy Hitter Oracle: Enhancing Frequency Estimation in Skewed Data Streams
- NeurIPS 2026The Illusion of Forgetting: Rank Leakage in Knowledge Editing and Its Mitigation
- NeurIPS 2026The Interplay of Data Structure and Imbalance in the Learning Dynamics of Diffusion 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.