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
1,582 papers, page 15 of 32
- ICLR 2025SysBench: Can LLMs Follow System Message?
- ICLR 2025TabReD: Analyzing Pitfalls and Filling the Gaps in Tabular Deep Learning Benchmarks
- ICLR 2025Talking Turns: Benchmarking Audio Foundation Models on Turn-Taking Dynamics
- ICLR 2025TaskGalaxy: Scaling Multi-modal Instruction Fine-tuning with Tens of Thousands Vision Task Types
- ICLR 2025TAU-106K: A New Dataset for Comprehensive Understanding of Traffic Accident
- ICLR 2025TDDBench: A Benchmark for Training data detection
- ICLR 2025Teaching Human Behavior Improves Content Understanding Abilities Of VLMs
- ICLR 2025Test of Time: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on Temporal Reasoning
- ICLR 2025TestGenEval: A Real World Unit Test Generation and Test Completion Benchmark
- ICLR 2025TGB-Seq Benchmark: Challenging Temporal GNNs with Complex Sequential Dynamics
- ICLR 2025The Effectiveness of Curvature-Based Rewiring and the Role of Hyperparameters in GNNs Revisited
- ICLR 2025The KoLMogorov Test: Compression by Code Generation
- ICLR 2025The Labyrinth of Links: Navigating the Associative Maze of Multi-modal LLMs
- ICLR 2025The OMG dataset: An Open MetaGenomic corpus for mixed-modality genomic language modeling
- ICLR 2025The Rise and Down of Babel Tower: Investigating the Evolution Process of Multilingual Code Large Language Model
- ICLR 2025THE ROBUSTNESS OF DIFFERENTIABLE CAUSAL DISCOVERY IN MISSPECIFIED SCENARIOS
- ICLR 2025To CoT or not to CoT? Chain-of-thought helps mainly on math and symbolic reasoning
- ICLR 2025TODO: Enhancing LLM Alignment with Ternary Preferences
- ICLR 2025TOMATO: Assessing Visual Temporal Reasoning Capabilities in Multimodal Foundation Models
- ICLR 2025ToolDial: Multi-turn Dialogue Generation Method for Tool-Augmented Language Models
- ICLR 2025Topological Blindspots: Understanding and Extending Topological Deep Learning Through the Lens of Expressivity
- ICLR 2025Towards Synergistic Path-based Explanations for Knowledge Graph Completion: Exploration and Evaluation
- ICLR 2025Training on the Test Task Confounds Evaluation and Emergence
- ICLR 2025Transformer Block Coupling and its Correlation with Generalization in LLMs
- ICLR 2025Tuning-Free Bilevel Optimization: New Algorithms and Convergence Analysis
- ICLR 2025UGMathBench: A Diverse and Dynamic Benchmark for Undergraduate-Level Mathematical Reasoning with Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025Uncovering Gaps in How Humans and LLMs Interpret Subjective Language
- ICLR 2025Unearthing Skill-level Insights for Understanding Trade-offs of Foundation Models
- ICLR 2025Uni$^2$Det: Unified and Universal Framework for Prompt-Guided Multi-dataset 3D Detection
- ICLR 2025UniDetox: Universal Detoxification of Large Language Models via Dataset Distillation
- ICLR 2025Unify ML4TSP: Drawing Methodological Principles for TSP and Beyond from Streamlined Design Space of Learning and Search
- ICLR 2025Unifying Unsupervised Graph-Level Anomaly Detection and Out-of-Distribution Detection: A Benchmark
- ICLR 2025Unlocking the Power of Function Vectors for Characterizing and Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Instruction Tuning
- ICLR 2025VCR: A Task for Pixel-Level Complex Reasoning in Vision Language Models via Restoring Occluded Text
- ICLR 2025Vertical Federated Learning with Missing Features During Training and Inference
- ICLR 2025VibeCheck: Discover and Quantify Qualitative Differences in Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025Video Action Differencing
- ICLR 2025VideoPhy: Evaluating Physical Commonsense for Video Generation
- ICLR 2025VisualAgentBench: Towards Large Multimodal Models as Visual Foundation Agents
- ICLR 2025VL-ICL Bench: The Devil in the Details of Multimodal In-Context Learning
- ICLR 2025VOILA: Evaluation of MLLMs For Perceptual Understanding and Analogical Reasoning
- ICLR 2025VoxDialogue: Can Spoken Dialogue Systems Understand Information Beyond Words?
- ICLR 2025VTDexManip: A Dataset and Benchmark for Visual-tactile Pretraining and Dexterous Manipulation with Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2025VVC-Gym: A Fixed-Wing UAV Reinforcement Learning Environment for Multi-Goal Long-Horizon Problems
- ICLR 2025Ward: Provable RAG Dataset Inference via LLM Watermarks
- ICLR 2025Wasserstein Distances, Neuronal Entanglement, and Sparsity
- ICLR 2025What Are Good Positional Encodings for Directed Graphs?
- ICLR 2025What Makes a Maze Look Like a Maze?
- ICLR 2025What Matters in Learning from Large-Scale Datasets for Robot Manipulation
- ICLR 2025What's New in My Data? Novelty Exploration via Contrastive Generation
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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.