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
275 papers, page 3 of 6
- ICML 2026Focus and Dilution: The Multi-stage Learning Process of Attention
- ICML 2026Forgetting Whenever You Want: A Decentralized Continual Learning Framework with On-Demand Unlearning
- ICML 2026Foundations of Equivariant Deep Learning: Unifying Graph and Sheaf Neural Networks
- ICML 2026From Evaluation to Design: Using Potential Energy Surface Smoothness Metrics to Guide ML Interatomic Potential Architectures
- ICML 2026From Moments to Models: Graphon-Mixture Learning for Mixup and Contrastive Learning
- ICML 2026FT-Dojo: Towards Autonomous LLM Fine-Tuning with Language Agents
- ICML 2026Full-Spectrum Graph Neural Networks: Expressive and Scalable
- ICML 2026GENEB: Why Genomic Models Are Hard to Compare
- ICML 2026Generalization of Gibbs and Langevin Monte Carlo Algorithms in the Interpolation Regime
- ICML 2026GeoDM: Geometry-aware Distribution Matching for Dataset Distillation
- ICML 2026Geometric Conformal Prediction with Spatial Ranks and Multivariate Quantiles
- ICML 2026Geometry-Aware Dataset Condensation for Diffusion Model Training
- ICML 2026Geometry-Aware Decoding with Wasserstein-Regularized Truncation and Mass Penalties for Large Language Models
- ICML 2026GFedCL: Graph-Based Federated Continual Learning with Spatial and Temporal Awareness
- ICML 2026Graph Alignment for Benchmarking Graph Neural Networks and Learning Positional Encodings
- ICML 2026Graph Neural Dynamics via Learned Energy and Tangential Flows
- ICML 2026Hard Labels In! Rethinking the Role of Hard Labels in Mitigating Local Semantic Drift
- ICML 2026Hedging on the Frontier: Learning New Tasks with Few Samples
- ICML 2026HELIX: Hybrid Encoding with Learnable Identity and Cross-dimensional Synthesis for Time Series Imputation
- ICML 2026HiDe: Rethinking The Zoom-IN method in High Resolution MLLMs via Hierarchical Decoupling
- ICML 2026How Can Mamba Learn In Context with Outliers and Generalize Provably?
- ICML 2026How much can language models memorize?
- ICML 2026How Out-of-Distribution Detection Learning Theory Enhances Transformer: Learnability and Reliability
- ICML 2026How to Correctly Report LLM-as-a-Judge Evaluations
- ICML 2026How to Price Data: A Market Equilibrium Based Approach
- ICML 2026Hyperbolic Multimodal Continual Learning
- ICML 2026IdEst: Assessing Self-Supervised Learning Representations via Intrinsic Dimension
- ICML 2026IDRBench: Understanding the Capability of Large Language Models on Interdisciplinary Research
- ICML 2026Improved Bounds for Reward-Agnostic and Reward-Free Exploration
- ICML 2026Influence-Disentangled Federated Training: Learning Models That Are Easy to Unlearn
- ICML 2026InfraRL: A Benchmark for Constrained Resource Allocation in Large-Scale Infrastructure Asset Management
- ICML 2026Instance-Level Costs for Nuanced Classifier Evaluation
- ICML 2026Integrated Episodic and Semantic Memory via Modulating Transformer FeedForward Layers
- ICML 2026Interpretable Self-Supervised Learning via Representer Landmarks and Nyström Approximation
- ICML 2026Interpreting and Steering State-Space Models via Activation Subspace Bottlenecks
- ICML 2026Is Graph Mixup Beneficial? Investigating Interpolation And Empirical Performance of Graph Mixup Methods
- ICML 2026It's TIME: Towards the Next Generation of Time Series Forecasting Benchmarks
- ICML 2026L-CUBE: Isolating Long-Context Capacity from Knowledge with Controllable Mutual Information Scaling
- ICML 2026LAMP: Data-Efficient Linear Affine Weight-Space Models for Parameter-Controlled 3D Shape Generation and Extrapolation
- ICML 2026Learning Dynamic Stability Landscapes in Synchronization Networks
- ICML 2026Learning Flexible Generalization in Video Quality Assessment by Bringing Device and Viewing Condition Distributions
- ICML 2026Learning Junta Distributions, Quantum Junta States, and QAC$^0$ Circuits
- ICML 2026Learning Partial Concept Classes and Universal Rates Under Massart Noise
- ICML 2026Learning Permutation Distributions via Reflected Diffusion on Ranks
- ICML 2026Learning syntax without semantics: Disentangled tiny language models
- ICML 2026Learning to Extrapolate to New Tasks: A Relational Approach to Task Extrapolation
- ICML 2026Less Data, Faster Training: repeating smaller datasets speeds up learning via sampling biases
- ICML 2026LiveNewsBench: Evaluating Web Search Agents with Freshly Curated News
- ICML 2026LoBCD-GW: A Fast and Data-Dependent Algorithm for Computing Gromov-Wasserstein Distance via Localized Block Coordinate Descent
- ICML 2026Magnitude Distance: A Geometric Measure of Dataset Similarity
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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.