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 2026MCIF: Multimodal Crosslingual Instruction-Following Benchmark from Scientific Talks
- ICLR 2026MCP Security Bench (MSB): Benchmarking Attacks Against Model Context Protocol in LLM Agents
- ICLR 2026MCP-Bench: Benchmarking Tool-Using LLM Agents with Complex Real-World Tasks via MCP Servers
- ICLR 2026MCP-SafetyBench: A Benchmark for Safety Evaluation of Large Language Models with Real-World MCP Servers
- ICLR 2026MCPMark: A Benchmark for Stress-Testing Realistic and Comprehensive MCP Use
- ICLR 2026Measuring LLM Novelty As The Frontier Of Original And High-Quality Output
- ICLR 2026Measuring Uncertainty Calibration
- ICLR 2026MedAraBench: Large-scale Arabic Medical Question Answering Dataset and Benchmark
- ICLR 2026Medical thinking with multiple images
- ICLR 2026MedLesionVQA: A Multimodal Benchmark Emulating Clinical Visual Diagnosis for Body Surface Health
- ICLR 2026MIMIC-Bench: Exploring the User-Like Thinking and Mimicking Capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026Minimax Sample Complexity of Graph Neural Networks: Lower Bounds and Structural Effects
- ICLR 2026Mix-Ecom: Towards Mixed-Type E-Commerce Dialogues with Complex Domain Rules
- ICLR 2026Mixed-Curvature Tree-Sliced Wasserstein Distance
- ICLR 2026MLE-Smith: Scaling MLE Tasks with Automated Multi-agent Pipeline
- ICLR 2026MME-Unify: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation Models
- ICLR 2026MMR-Life: Piecing Together Real-life Scenes for Multimodal Multi-image Reasoning
- ICLR 2026MMR-V: What's Left Unsaid? A Benchmark for Multimodal Deep Reasoning in Videos
- ICLR 2026MMSI-Bench: A Benchmark for Multi-Image Spatial Intelligence
- ICLR 2026MMSU: A Massive Multi-task Spoken Language Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark
- ICLR 2026MnemoDyn: Learning Resting State Dynamics from $40$K FMRI sequences
- ICLR 2026MolecularIQ: Characterizing Chemical Reasoning Capabilities Through Symbolic Verification on Molecular Graphs
- ICLR 2026MolLangBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Language-Prompted Molecular Structure Recognition, Editing, and Generation
- ICLR 2026Monocular Normal Estimation via Shading Sequence Estimation
- ICLR 2026MoReBench: Evaluating Procedural and Pluralistic Moral Reasoning in Language Models, More than Outcomes
- ICLR 2026Moving Beyond Medical Exams: A Clinician-Annotated Fairness Dataset of Real-World Tasks and Ambiguity in Mental Healthcare
- ICLR 2026MRMR: A Realistic and Expert-Level Multidisciplinary Benchmark for Reasoning-Intensive Multimodal Retrieval
- ICLR 2026Multi-LCB: Extending LiveCodeBench to Multiple Programming Languages
- ICLR 2026Multi-modal Data Spectrum: Multi-modal Datasets are Multi-dimensional
- ICLR 2026Multilingual Routing in Mixture-of-Experts
- ICLR 2026Multimodal Dataset Distillation via Phased Teacher Models
- ICLR 2026NarrLV: Towards a Comprehensive Narrative-Centric Evaluation for Long Video Generation
- ICLR 2026Natural Identifiers for Privacy and Data Audits in Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026NC-Bench and NCfold: A Benchmark and Closed-Loop Framework for RNA Non-Canonical Base-Pair Prediction
- ICLR 2026Negative Pre-activations Differentiate Syntax
- ICLR 2026Nemotron-CC-Math: A 133 Billion-Token-Scale High Quality Math Pretraining Dataset
- ICLR 2026NetArena: Dynamically Generated LLM Benchmarks for Network Applications
- ICLR 2026Neural Sum-of-Squares: Certifying the Nonnegativity of Polynomials with Transformers
- ICLR 2026Neural Theorem Proving for Verification Conditions: A Real-World Benchmark
- ICLR 2026NewtonBench: Benchmarking Generalizable Scientific Law Discovery in LLM Agents
- ICLR 2026Noise-Aware Generalization: Robustness to In-Domain Noise and Out-of-Domain Generalization
- ICLR 2026Non-Collaborative User Simulators for Tool Agents
- ICLR 2026Nonparametric Teaching of Attention Learners
- ICLR 2026NurValues: Real-World Nursing Values Evaluation for Large Language Models in Clinical Context
- ICLR 2026OD$^3$: Optimization-free Dataset Distillation for Object Detection
- ICLR 2026ODI-Bench: Can MLLMs Understand Immersive Omnidirectional Environments?
- ICLR 2026Omni-iEEG: A Large-Scale, Comprehensive iEEG Dataset and Benchmark for Epilepsy Research
- ICLR 2026OmniSpatial: Towards Comprehensive Spatial Reasoning Benchmark for Vision Language Models
- ICLR 2026OmniSTVG: Toward Spatio-Temporal Omni-Object Video Grounding
- ICLR 2026OmniWorld: A Multi-Domain and Multi-Modal Dataset for 4D World Modeling
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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.