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
5,852 papers, page 20 of 118
- ICLR 2026Sci2Pol: Evaluating and Fine-tuning LLMs on Scientific-to-Policy Brief Generation
- ICLR 2026SealQA: Raising the Bar for Reasoning in Search-Augmented Language Models
- ICLR 2026Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs
- ICLR 2026Seeing Through Deception: Uncovering Misleading Creator Intent in Multimodal News with Vision-Language Models
- ICLR 2026Self-Aligned Reward: Towards Effective and Efficient Reasoners
- ICLR 2026Self-Consistency Improves the Trustworthiness of Self-Interpretable GNNs
- ICLR 2026SelvaBox: A high‑resolution dataset for tropical tree crown detection
- ICLR 2026Semantic Visual Anomaly Detection and Reasoning in AI-Generated Images
- ICLR 2026Signal in the Noise: Polysemantic Interference Transfers and Predicts Cross-Model Influence
- ICLR 2026SimBench: Benchmarking the Ability of Large Language Models to Simulate Human Behaviors
- ICLR 2026SimpleToM: Exposing the Gap between Explicit ToM Inference and Implicit ToM Application in LLMs
- ICLR 2026SimuHome: A Temporal- and Environment-Aware Benchmark for Smart Home LLM Agents
- ICLR 2026SkyEvents: A Large-Scale Event-enhanced UAV Dataset for Robust 3D Scene Reconstruction
- ICLR 2026Slicing Wasserstein over Wasserstein via Functional Optimal Transport
- ICLR 2026SmellNet: A Large-scale Dataset for Real-world Smell Recognition
- ICLR 2026Smooth Calibration Error: Uniform Convergence and Functional Gradient Analysis
- ICLR 2026SOSBENCH: Benchmarking Safety Alignment on Scientific Knowledge
- ICLR 2026SpaCE-10: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models in Compositional Spatial Intelligence
- ICLR 2026SpaCE-Eval: A Benchmark for Real-World Multi-Modal Reasoning
- ICLR 2026Sparse Autoencoders Trained on the Same Data Learn Different Features
- ICLR 2026SPARTA: Scalable and Principled Benchmark of Tree-Structured Multi-hop QA over Text and Tables
- ICLR 2026Spatial CAPTCHA: Generatively Benchmarking Spatial Reasoning for Human-Machine Differentiation
- ICLR 2026Spatial Reasoning with Vision-Language Models in Ego-Centric Multi-View Scenes
- ICLR 2026Spatial-DISE: A Unified Benchmark for Evaluating Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
- ICLR 2026SpatiaLab: Can Vision–Language Models Perform Spatial Reasoning in the Wild?
- ICLR 2026SpatialViz-Bench: A Cognitively-Grounded Benchmark for Diagnosing Spatial Visualization in MLLMs
- ICLR 2026SpeakerVid-5M: A Large-Scale High-Quality Dataset for Audio-Visual Dyadic Interactive Human Generation
- ICLR 2026SpecBranch: Speculative Decoding via Hybrid Drafting and Rollback-Aware Branch Parallelism
- ICLR 2026Spectrum Tuning: Post-Training for Distributional Coverage and In-Context Steerability
- ICLR 2026Speech-to-LaTeX: New Models and Datasets for Converting Spoken Equations and Sentences
- ICLR 2026SpinBench: Perspective and Rotation as a Lens on Spatial Reasoning in VLMs
- ICLR 2026SpineBench: A Clinically Salient, Level-Aware Benchmark Powered by the SpineMed-450k Corpus
- ICLR 2026SplitLoRA: Balancing Stability and Plasticity in Continual Learning Through Gradient Space Splitting
- ICLR 2026ST-WebAgentBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Safety and Trustworthiness in Web Agents
- ICLR 2026Stability Under Scrutiny: Benchmarking Representation Paradigms for Online HD Mapping
- ICLR 2026STAR-Bench: Probing Deep Spatio-Temporal Reasoning as Audio 4D Intelligence
- ICLR 2026STAT: Skill-Targeted Adaptive Training
- ICLR 2026Steering Embedding Models with Geometric Rotation: Mapping Semantic Relationships Across Languages and Models
- ICLR 2026StoryAlign: Evaluating and Training Reward Models for Story Generation
- ICLR 2026Summaries as Centroids for Interpretable and Scalable Text Clustering
- ICLR 2026Supporting Multimodal Intermediate Fusion with Informatic Constraint and Distribution Coherence
- ICLR 2026SurvHTE-Bench: A Benchmark for Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation in Survival Analysis
- ICLR 2026Synthetic History: Evaluating Visual Representations of the Past in Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2026SynthWorlds: Controlled Parallel Worlds for Disentangling Reasoning and Knowledge in Language Models
- ICLR 2026SysMoBench: Evaluating AI on Formally Specifying Complex Real-World Systems
- ICLR 2026Tab-MIA: A Benchmark Dataset for Membership Inference Attacks on Tabular Data in LLMs
- ICLR 2026TABLET: A Large-Scale Dataset for Robust Visual Table Understanding
- ICLR 2026TabStruct: Measuring Structural Fidelity of Tabular Data
- ICLR 2026TaCo: A Benchmark for Lossless and Lossy Codecs of Heterogeneous Tactile Data
- ICLR 2026Take Note: Your Molecular Dataset Is Probably Aligned
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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.