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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- NeurIPS 2026Monroe: A Molecular Foundation Model for In-context Probabilistic Inference
- NeurIPS 2026MoSE3: Learning World-Space SE(3) at Every Pixel
- NeurIPS 2026MSAlign: Aligning Molecular and Mass Spectra Foundation Models for Metabolite Identification
- NeurIPS 2026MSConsensus: A Hundred-Million-Scale, Batch-Effect–Suppressed Dataset and Benchmark for Proteomics Machine Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Multi-site PPG: An In-the-Wild Physiological Dataset from Emerging Multi-Site Wearables
- NeurIPS 2026Multiclass Classification with Rare Useful Features: Fundamental Limits and the Optimality of Diversity Pursuit Higher Criticism
- NeurIPS 2026NanoFold: Designing Reproducible Protein Structure Benchmarks through Principled Sampling
- NeurIPS 2026Nautilus: From One Prompt to Plug-and-Play Robot Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Near-Optimal Stochastic Linear Bandits with Delay
- NeurIPS 2026NEST: Nascent Encoded Steganographic Thoughts
- NeurIPS 2026NestedVLA: Learning to Consolidate and Generate Skills for Vision-Language-Action Model
- NeurIPS 2026Neural Dual Bounds: Valid-by-Construction JGLP Warm-Starts for MAP and Constrained MAP
- NeurIPS 2026Neural Optimal Transport in Hilbert Spaces
- NeurIPS 2026New Coresets for Fair Clustering
- NeurIPS 2026NGDB-Zoo: Towards Efficient and Scalable Neural Graph Databases Training
- NeurIPS 2026NNCoxKL: Risk-Set Distillation from Probability-Free Prognostic Teachers for Deep Cox Models
- NeurIPS 2026nnTrace: Detecting and Localizing Silent Bugs in Distributed Training
- NeurIPS 2026Non-Colliding Biometric Identities for Digital Entities: Geometry, Capacity, and Million-Scale Virtual Identity Provisioning
- NeurIPS 2026Non-Linear Pricing Restores Tractability for a Data Seller
- NeurIPS 2026Norm Anchors Make Model Edits Last
- NeurIPS 2026nuReasoning: A Reasoning-Centric Dataset and Benchmark for Long-Tail Autonomous Driving
- NeurIPS 2026Object Detection Benchmarks are Incomplete: The Role of Label Errors and Annotation Uncertainty
- NeurIPS 2026OBLIQ-Bench: Exposing Overlooked Bottlenecks in Modern Retrievers with Latent and Implicit Queries
- NeurIPS 2026ODDR: One-Step Deshadow Diffusion via Reward Guidance
- NeurIPS 2026OfficeInstruct: A Dataset for Tool-Augmented Office Agents on Long-Trajectory Generative Tasks
- NeurIPS 2026Offline Preference-Based Trajectory Evaluation
- NeurIPS 2026Offline Reinforcement Learning for Plasma Control in Nuclear Fusion: Codebase and Benchmark
- NeurIPS 2026OmniTraffic: A Controllable Generation Pipeline and Benchmark for Spatio-Temporal Traffic Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2026On Differential Private $\ell_1$, $\ell_2$ and $\ell_p^p$ Distance Queries
- NeurIPS 2026On Nash Equilibria in Participatory Budgeting with Donations and Beyond
- NeurIPS 2026On the Construction and Implications of Low-Loss Valleys in LoRA-based Bayesian Inference
- NeurIPS 2026On the Convergence of Multicalibration Gradient Boosting
- NeurIPS 2026On the Existence of Uniformly Optimal Policies in MDPs under Epistemic Uncertainty
- NeurIPS 2026On the Geometry and Latent-Space Composition of Hypernetwork-Generated LoRAs
- NeurIPS 2026One Temperature to Rule Them All?
- NeurIPS 2026Online Maximization of Non-Decomposable Test and Population Utilities
- NeurIPS 2026OpenSanctions Pairs: A Large-Scale Dataset for Pairwise Entity Matching
- NeurIPS 2026OpenView: Empowering MLLMs with Out-of-view VQA
- NeurIPS 2026OpenVTON-Bench: A Large-Scale High-Resolution Benchmark for Controllable Virtual Try-On Evaluation
- NeurIPS 2026OpenWhistle: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Dataset and Benchmark of Bottlenose Dolphin Vocalizations
- NeurIPS 2026Optimal In-context Adaptivity and Distributional Robustness of Transformers
- NeurIPS 2026Optimal Representation Size: High-Dimensional Analysis of Pretraining and Linear Probing
- NeurIPS 2026Optimal Transport Reweighting for Robust Learning under Spurious Correlations and Label Noise
- NeurIPS 2026OverLay++: Dense-Overlap Layout-to-Image Generation Dataset
- NeurIPS 2026Panoptic Saliency Ranking
- NeurIPS 2026PanoWorld: Towards Spatial Supersensing in 360◦ Panorama World
- NeurIPS 2026PaperLens: How Predictable Is Paper Acceptance?
- NeurIPS 2026Participatory ML for Social Harm Should be Constructed, Validated and Reasoned Through First-Person Accounts
- NeurIPS 2026PatchBench: Measuring Collateral Damage in Activation Patching
- NeurIPS 2026Patching Up Circuit Learning on Images
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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.