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
1,935 papers, page 12 of 39
- NeurIPS 2026The Labeling Problem in Hallucination Detection Benchmarks: An Empirical Evaluation
- NeurIPS 2026The Marauder’s Map: Bézier Manifolds Reveal Hidden Surfaces for Model Merging and Ensembling
- NeurIPS 2026The Path Not Taken: RLVR Learns Off the Principals
- NeurIPS 2026The Piggyback Hypothesis of Generalization: Explaining and Mitigating Emergent Misalignment
- NeurIPS 2026The Pok\'emon Theorem and other Fairness Impossibility Results
- NeurIPS 2026The PokeAgent Challenge: Competitive and Long-Context Learning at Scale
- NeurIPS 2026The Ruler and the Judge: Benchmark-Conditional Evaluation of LLM-as-a-Judge
- NeurIPS 2026The Score Kalman Filter
- NeurIPS 2026The SEC Filings Dataset: Reconstructing U.S. Corporate and Financial Disclosures into Layout-Faithful and Token-Efficient Pretraining Data
- NeurIPS 2026The Sign Code: The Hidden Binary Nature of Deep Networks
- NeurIPS 2026The Stability of Data Exchange in Competitive Markets
- NeurIPS 2026The Structural Bias of $\ell_2$-Regularized Cross-Entropy Heads in Class-Incremental Learning: Characterization, Limits, and a Gauge-Anchoring Fix
- NeurIPS 2026The Subjectivity of Monoculture
- NeurIPS 2026The Value of Covariance Matching in Gaussian DDPMs and the Lanczos Sampler
- NeurIPS 2026THEIA: A Multimodal Dataset and Benchmark for Vision-Language Analysis of Layout
- NeurIPS 2026TherapyGym: Evaluating and Aligning Clinical Fidelity and Safety in Therapy Chatbots
- NeurIPS 2026Time series analysis with Gumbel dynamics
- NeurIPS 2026TimeWarp: Evaluating Web Agents by Revisiting the Past
- NeurIPS 2026Timing Is All You Need: SpikeCore, Learnable Delays, and Gain Control for Neuromorphic Classification
- NeurIPS 2026TokenSwap: Benchmarking and Reducing the Modality Gap in Multimodal LLMs
- NeurIPS 2026TorchUMM: A Unified Multimodal Model Codebase for Evaluation, Analysis, and Post-training
- NeurIPS 2026Toward Embodied World Agents via Embodied-Planning Dataset and Interactive World Models
- NeurIPS 2026Toward Multimodal Sheet Music Recognition and Understanding
- NeurIPS 2026Towards Identifiable Latent Additive Noise Models
- NeurIPS 2026Towards Unified Dynamic Face Landmark Detection
- NeurIPS 2026Training Language Models to Explain Their Own Computations
- NeurIPS 2026Training-Based Backdoors Are Not Cryptographic
- NeurIPS 2026Training-Free 3D Editing via Feature-Divergence Localization and Trajectory Correction
- NeurIPS 2026TransitLM: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Map-Free Transit Route Generation
- NeurIPS 2026TransmissiveGS: Residual-Guided Disentangled Gaussian Splatting for Transmissive Scene Reconstruction and Rendering
- NeurIPS 2026TraXion: Rethinking Pre-training Frameworks for Mobility and Beyond
- NeurIPS 2026TreeWalker: Partial Evaluation for Grouped Tree-Ensemble Inference
- NeurIPS 2026TRIAD: Benchmarking Omni-Modal Ambiguity in Multimodal Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026Trivialized Generative Models on Lie Groups
- NeurIPS 2026Trustworthy and Efficient Map-free LiDAR Localization via Scan-Pose Alignment and Flow Matching
- NeurIPS 2026TSB-SEG: A Systematic Time-Series Segmentation Benchmark
- NeurIPS 2026TurtLES: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Turbulent 3D Neural PDE Surrogates
- NeurIPS 2026TwinRouterBench: Fast Static and Live Dynamic Evaluation for Realistic Agentic LLM Routing
- NeurIPS 2026Two-Level Softmax Sampling Done Right: Correcting Bias from Size Imbalance and Dispersion
- NeurIPS 2026Uncertainty Quantification for Large Language Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2026Understanding the Interplay between Memorization and Learning in Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026UniverSat: Resolution- and Modality-Agnostic Transformers for Earth Observation
- NeurIPS 2026Unlearning Diffusion Policies via Relative Fisher Forgetting
- NeurIPS 2026VAANI: Capturing the language landscape for an inclusive digital India
- NeurIPS 2026Vendi Anomaly Scores for Efficient and Accurate Anomaly Detection
- NeurIPS 2026VeriVul: A Verification-Guided Framework for Generating Realistic Vulnerability Benchmarks
- NeurIPS 2026ViroGym: Realistic Large-Scale Benchmarks for Evaluating Viral Proteins
- NeurIPS 2026Visual Robustness and Neural Alignment in a Shared Foraging Task: The Mouse vs. AI Benchmark
- NeurIPS 2026Vortex: Efficient and Programmable Sparse Attention Serving
- NeurIPS 2026VTBench: Disentangled and Human-Aligned Evaluation for Image-Based Virtual Try-on
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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.