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
189 papers, page 3 of 4
- ICML 2025MGD$^3$ : Mode-Guided Dataset Distillation using Diffusion Models
- ICML 2025Mixed-curvature decision trees and random forests
- ICML 2025ML$^2$-GCL: Manifold Learning Inspired Lightweight Graph Contrastive Learning
- ICML 2025Near Optimal Non-asymptotic Sample Complexity of 1-Identification
- ICML 2025NestQuant: nested lattice quantization for matrix products and LLMs
- ICML 2025New Bounds for Sparse Variational Gaussian Processes
- ICML 2025No Metric to Rule Them All: Toward Principled Evaluations of Graph-Learning Datasets
- ICML 2025NoLiMa: Long-Context Evaluation Beyond Literal Matching
- ICML 2025Objective drives the consistency of representational similarity across datasets
- ICML 2025On the Clean Generalization and Robust Overfitting in Adversarial Training from Two Theoretical Views: Representation Complexity and Training Dynamics
- ICML 2025On the Interplay between Graph Structure and Learning Algorithms in Graph Neural Networks
- ICML 2025OpenworldAUC: Towards Unified Evaluation and Optimization for Open-world Prompt Tuning
- ICML 2025Optimal and Practical Batched Linear Bandit Algorithm
- ICML 2025Organize the Web: Constructing Domains Enhances Pre-Training Data Curation
- ICML 2025PaperBench: Evaluating AI’s Ability to Replicate AI Research
- ICML 2025PEINR: A Physics-enhanced Implicit Neural Representation for High-Fidelity Flow Field Reconstruction
- ICML 2025Penalizing Infeasible Actions and Reward Scaling in Reinforcement Learning with Offline Data
- ICML 2025PhantomWiki: On-Demand Datasets for Reasoning and Retrieval Evaluation
- ICML 2025PieClam: A Universal Graph Autoencoder Based on Overlapping Inclusive and Exclusive Communities
- ICML 2025Point Cloud Dataset Distillation
- ICML 2025Position: AI Evaluation Should Learn from How We Test Humans
- ICML 2025Position: AI Should Not Be An Imitation Game: Centaur Evaluations
- ICML 2025Position: All Current Generative Fidelity and Diversity Metrics are Flawed
- ICML 2025Position: Graph Learning Will Lose Relevance Due To Poor Benchmarks
- ICML 2025Position: Graph Matching Systems Deserve Better Benchmarks
- ICML 2025Position: In-House Evaluation Is Not Enough. Towards Robust Third-Party Evaluation and Flaw Disclosure for General-Purpose AI
- ICML 2025Position: Medical Large Language Model Benchmarks Should Prioritize Construct Validity
- ICML 2025Position: Societal Impacts Research Requires Benchmarks for Creative Composition Tasks
- ICML 2025Position: Stop treating `AGI' as the north-star goal of AI research
- ICML 2025Position: The Categorization of Race in ML is a Flawed Premise
- ICML 2025Position: Theory of Mind Benchmarks are Broken for Large Language Models
- ICML 2025Position: Truly Self-Improving Agents Require Intrinsic Metacognitive Learning
- ICML 2025Positive-unlabeled AUC Maximization under Covariate Shift
- ICML 2025Potemkin Understanding in Large Language Models
- ICML 2025Predicting the Susceptibility of Examples to Catastrophic Forgetting
- ICML 2025Predictive Data Selection: The Data That Predicts Is the Data That Teaches
- ICML 2025Prompt-based Depth Pruning of Large Language Models
- ICML 2025Protein Structure Tokenization: Benchmarking and New Recipe
- ICML 2025QEM-Bench: Benchmarking Learning-based Quantum Error Mitigation and QEMFormer as a Multi-ranged Context Learning Baseline
- ICML 2025RAGGED: Towards Informed Design of Scalable and Stable RAG Systems
- ICML 2025Reconstructing Cell Lineage Trees from Phenotypic Features with Metric Learning
- ICML 2025Regression for the Mean: Auto-Evaluation and Inference with Few Labels through Post-hoc Regression
- ICML 2025Reliable and Efficient Amortized Model-based Evaluation
- ICML 2025Rényi Neural Processes
- ICML 2025Rethinking the Stability-Plasticity Trade-off in Continual Learning from an Architectural Perspective
- ICML 2025Robust ML Auditing using Prior Knowledge
- ICML 2025Robust Offline Reinforcement Learning with Linearly Structured $f$-Divergence Regularization
- ICML 2025ROME is Forged in Adversity: Robust Distilled Datasets via Information Bottleneck
- ICML 2025Safe Delta: Consistently Preserving Safety when Fine-Tuning LLMs on Diverse Datasets
- ICML 2025Sanity Checking Causal Representation Learning on a Simple Real-World System
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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.