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
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- ICLR 2026Tell me Habibi, is it Real or Fake?
- ICLR 2026Terminal-Bench: Benchmarking Agents on Hard, Realistic Tasks in Command Line Interfaces
- ICLR 2026TGM: A Modular and Efficient Library for Machine Learning on Temporal Graphs
- ICLR 2026The Lie of the Average: How Class Incremental Learning Evaluation Deceives You?
- ICLR 2026The Open Proof Corpus: A Large-Scale Study of LLM-Generated Mathematical Proofs
- ICLR 2026The Quest for Efficient Reasoning: A Data-Centric Benchmark to CoT Distillation
- ICLR 2026The Quest for Generalizable Motion Generation: Data, Model, and Evaluation
- ICLR 2026The Seismic Wavefield Common Task Framework
- ICLR 2026The Tool Decathlon: Benchmarking Language Agents for Diverse, Realistic, and Long-Horizon Task Execution
- ICLR 2026THEMIS: Towards Holistic Evaluation of MLLMs for Scientific Paper Fraud Forensics
- ICLR 2026Theory of Space: Can Foundation Models Construct Spatial Beliefs through Active Exploration?
- ICLR 2026Theory-Grounded Evaluation of Human-Like Fallacy Patterns in LLM Reasoning
- ICLR 2026TimeRecipe: A Time-Series Forecasting Recipe via Benchmarking Module Level Effectiveness
- ICLR 2026Towards a Foundation Model for Crowdsourced Label Aggregation
- ICLR 2026Towards High Data Efficiency in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward
- ICLR 2026Towards Multimodal Data-Driven Scientific Discovery Powered by LLM Agents
- ICLR 2026Towards Personalized Deep Research: Benchmarks and Evaluations
- ICLR 2026Towards Quantifying Long-Range Interactions in Graph Machine Learning: a Large Graph Dataset and a Measurement
- ICLR 2026Towards Self-Evolving Agent Benchmarks : Validatable Agent Trajectory via Test-Time Exploration
- ICLR 2026TPRU: Advancing Temporal and Procedural Understanding in Large Multimodal Models
- ICLR 2026Traceable Evidence Enhanced Visual Grounded Reasoning: Evaluation and Method
- ICLR 2026Train-before-Test Harmonizes Language Model Rankings
- ICLR 2026TrainRef: Curating Data with Label Distribution and Minimal Reference for Accurate Prediction and Reliable Confidence
- ICLR 2026TRAJECT-Bench:A Trajectory-Aware Benchmark for Evaluating Agentic Tool Use
- ICLR 2026Transformers with Endogenous In-Context Learning: Bias Characterization and Mitigation
- ICLR 2026Transitive RL: Value Learning via Divide and Conquer
- ICLR 2026TrustGen: A Platform of Dynamic Benchmarking on the Trustworthiness of Generative Foundation Models
- ICLR 2026TrustJudge: Inconsistencies of LLM-as-a-Judge and How to Alleviate Them
- ICLR 2026TSM-Bench: Detecting LLM-Generated Text in Real-World Wikipedia Editing Practices
- ICLR 2026TTSDS2: Resources and Benchmark for Evaluating Human-Quality Text to Speech Systems
- ICLR 2026U2-BENCH: Benchmarking Large Vision-Language Models on Ultrasound Understanding
- ICLR 2026UIS-Digger: Towards Comprehensive Research Agent Systems for Real-world Unindexed Information Seeking
- ICLR 2026ULTRA-360: Unconstrained Dataset for Large-scale Temporal 3D Reconstruction across Altitudes and Omnidirectional Views
- ICLR 2026Understanding Dataset Distillation via Spectral Filtering
- ICLR 2026Unfolding Spatial Cognition: Evaluating Multimodal Models on Visual Simulations
- ICLR 2026Unpacking Human Preference for LLMs: Demographically Aware Evaluation with the HUMAINE Framework
- ICLR 2026Unveiling Perceptual Artifacts: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Interpretable AI-Generated Image Detection
- ICLR 2026UrbanFeel:A Comprehensive Benchmark for Temporal and Perceptual Understanding of City Scenes through Human Perspective
- ICLR 2026Use the Online Network If You Can: Towards Fast and Stable Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2026USTBench: Benchmarking and Dissecting Spatiotemporal Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs as Urban Agents
- ICLR 2026VaseVQA-3D: Benchmarking 3D VLMs on Ancient Greek Pottery
- ICLR 2026vAttention: Verified Sparse Attention via Sampling
- ICLR 2026vCache: Verified Semantic Prompt Caching
- ICLR 2026VenusX: Unlocking Fine-Grained Functional Understanding of Proteins
- ICLR 2026VeriEquivBench: An Equivalence Score for Ground-Truth-Free Evaluation of Formally Verifiable Code
- ICLR 2026VERIFY: A Novel Multi-Domain Dataset Grounding LTL in Contextual Natural Language via Provable Intermediate Logic
- ICLR 2026VerifyBench: Benchmarking Reference-based Reward Systems for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026Video-LevelGauge: Investigating Contextual Positional Bias in Video Language Models.
- ICLR 2026VideoPhy-2: A Challenging Action-Centric Physical Commonsense Evaluation in Video Generation
- ICLR 2026Virne: A Comprehensive Benchmark for RL-based Network Resource Allocation in NFV
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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.