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
Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up
- 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
1,987 papers, page 40 of 40
- NeurIPS 2026TurtLES: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Turbulent 3D Neural PDE Surrogates
- NeurIPS 2026TwinRouterBench: Fast Static and Live Dynamic Evaluation for Realistic Agentic LLM Routing
- NeurIPS 2026Two-Level Softmax Sampling Done Right: Correcting Bias from Size Imbalance and Dispersion
- NeurIPS 2026Uncertainty Quantification for Large Language Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2026Understanding the Interplay between Memorization and Learning in Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026UniverSat: Resolution- and Modality-Agnostic Transformers for Earth Observation
- NeurIPS 2026Unlearning Diffusion Policies via Relative Fisher Forgetting
- NeurIPS 2026VAANI: Capturing the language landscape for an inclusive digital India
- NeurIPS 2026Vendi Anomaly Scores for Efficient and Accurate Anomaly Detection
- NeurIPS 2026VeriVul: A Verification-Guided Framework for Generating Realistic Vulnerability Benchmarks
- NeurIPS 2026ViroGym: Realistic Large-Scale Benchmarks for Evaluating Viral Proteins
- NeurIPS 2026Visual Robustness and Neural Alignment in a Shared Foraging Task: The Mouse vs. AI Benchmark
- NeurIPS 2026Vortex: Efficient and Programmable Sparse Attention Serving
- NeurIPS 2026VTBench: Disentangled and Human-Aligned Evaluation for Image-Based Virtual Try-on
- NeurIPS 2026We Need to Improve Benchmarks in AI for Mathematics
- NeurIPS 2026WebSpatial: A Benchmarking Framework of Spatial Intelligence via Web-based Runtime Environments
- NeurIPS 2026Weird Generalization from Narrow Finetuning: Persona Shifts and Inductive Backdoors
- NeurIPS 2026Welfare, Improvability, and Variance: A Principal-Agent Approach to Optimal Benchmark Item Aggregation
- NeurIPS 2026What Cohort INRs Encode, and Where to Freeze Them
- NeurIPS 2026What Fits (Into Few Tokens) Doesn't Overfit: Compression and Generalization in ML Research Agents
- NeurIPS 2026What Sketches Tell Us about LVLMs: Conventions, Grounding, and Localisation
- NeurIPS 2026What Transformer FFNs Never See: Theory, Diagnosis, and Lightweight Remediation
- NeurIPS 2026When and Why Does Multi-Agent Debate Fail and Does It Really Underperform?
- NeurIPS 2026When and Why is Optimistic Multiplicative Weights Slow? The Geometry of Energy Dissipation
- NeurIPS 2026When Do Learned State Representations Break Sensitivity Analysis?
- NeurIPS 2026When Helpfulness Becomes Sycophancy: Sycophancy is a Boundary Failure Between Social Alignment and Epistemic Integrity in Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026When Sanitization Becomes the Trigger: Defense-Triggered Backdoor Attacks
- NeurIPS 2026Where Tabular Foundation Models Falter on Genetic Data: Datasets That Expose and Provide a Path to Address the Gap
- NeurIPS 2026Where to Connect? Boosting MLLMs via Dynamic Gated Pathways across ALL ViT and LLM Layers
- NeurIPS 2026Which Way Did It Move? Diagnosing and Overcoming Directional Motion Blindness in Video LLMs
- NeurIPS 2026Who&When Pro: Can LLMs Really Attribute Failures in AI Agents?
- NeurIPS 2026Why Heavy-Tailed Weights Predict Model Quality
- NeurIPS 2026WildBox: A Dataset and Benchmark for Aerial Monocular 3D Detection of African Savanna Wildlife
- NeurIPS 2026Winfree Oscillatory Neural Network
- NeurIPS 2026Workspace-Bench 1.0: Benchmarking AI Agents on Workspace Tasks with Large-Scale File Dependencies
- NeurIPS 2026X-Palm: Paired Multispectral-to-Smartphone Dataset for Cross-Domain Palmprint Authentication
- NeurIPS 2026XL-SafetyBench: A Country-Grounded Cross-Cultural Benchmark for LLM Safety and Cultural Sensitivity
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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.