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
948 papers, page 6 of 19
- ICML 2026UltraLIF: Fully Differentiable Spiking Neural Networks via Ultradiscretization and Max-Plus Algebra
- ICML 2026Uncovering Competency Gaps in Large Language Models and Their Benchmarks
- ICML 2026Understanding Data Temporality Impact on Large Language Models Pre-training
- ICML 2026Understanding Generalization from Embedding Dimension and Distributional Convergence
- ICML 2026Unified Time Series Explanations via Amortized Optimization and Instance-level Multi-Expert Knowledge Distillation
- ICML 2026Unifying and Optimizing Data Values for Selection via Sequential Decision-Making
- ICML 2026Unifying Dataset Pruning and Distillation for Efficient Large-scale Compression
- ICML 2026Unifying Value Alignment and Assignment in Cross-Domain Offline Reinforcement Learning with Heterogeneous Datasets
- ICML 2026UniRRM: Unified Reasoning Reward Models Across Languages and Evaluation Paradigms
- ICML 2026Unlocking the Potential of Continual Model Merging: An ODE Perspective
- ICML 2026Unsupervised Camouflaged Object Detection with Dual-Eigenvector Spectral Pseudo-Labeling and Contrastive Refinement
- ICML 2026UOTIP: Unbalanced Optimal Transport Map for Unpaired Inverse Problems
- ICML 2026Utility Boundary of Dataset Distillation: Scaling and Coverage Laws
- ICML 2026VALUEFLOW: Toward Pluralistic and Steerable Value-based Alignment in Large Language Models
- ICML 2026Vector Linking via Cross-Model Local Isometric Consistency
- ICML 2026VPD-100K: Towards Generalizable and Fine-grained Visual Privacy Protection
- ICML 2026WBMM: Windowed Batch Matrix Multiplication for Efficient Large Receptive Field Convolution
- ICML 2026WeightCLIP: Aligning Datasets and Models for Weight Space Learning
- ICML 2026WF-Bench: A Benchmark for Neural-Network WaveFunction Expressivity and Scaling Laws
- ICML 2026What Language is This? Ask Your Tokenizer.
- ICML 2026When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation
- ICML 2026When Can We Trust Survival Model Evaluation ?
- ICML 2026When Do Diffusion Models Learn to Generate Multiple Objects?
- ICML 2026When Single Answer Is Not Enough: Rethinking Single-Step Retrosynthesis Benchmarks for LLMs
- ICML 2026Why Self-Distillation Helps and Hurts: Denoising vs. Signal Forgetting
- ICML 2025A Closer Look at Transformers for Time Series Forecasting: Understanding Why They Work and Where They Struggle
- ICML 2025A Generic Family of Graphical Models: Diversity, Efficiency, and Heterogeneity
- ICML 2025AAAR-1.0: Assessing AI’s Potential to Assist Research
- ICML 2025Ab Initio Nonparametric Variable Selection for Scalable Symbolic Regression with Large $p$
- ICML 2025Activation by Interval-wise Dropout: A Simple Way to Prevent Neural Networks from Plasticity Loss
- ICML 2025Active Evaluation Acquisition for Efficient LLM Benchmarking
- ICML 2025Adversarial Cooperative Rationalization: The Risk of Spurious Correlations in Even Clean Datasets
- ICML 2025Adversarial Robustness via Deformable Convolution with Stochasticity
- ICML 2025AffectGPT: A New Dataset, Model, and Benchmark for Emotion Understanding with Multimodal Large Language Models
- ICML 2025Aggregation Buffer: Revisiting DropEdge with a New Parameter Block
- ICML 2025Alberta Wells Dataset: Pinpointing Oil and Gas Wells from Satellite Imagery
- ICML 2025Approximating Latent Manifolds in Neural Networks via Vanishing Ideals
- ICML 2025Archetypal SAE: Adaptive and Stable Dictionary Learning for Concept Extraction in Large Vision Models
- ICML 2025Assessing Safety Risks and Quantization-aware Safety Patching for Quantized Large Language Models
- ICML 2025Automatically Identify and Rectify: Robust Deep Contrastive Multi-view Clustering in Noisy Scenarios
- ICML 2025Average Sensitivity of Hierarchical $k$-Median Clustering
- ICML 2025Balancing Model Efficiency and Performance: Adaptive Pruner for Long-tailed Data
- ICML 2025Balancing the Scales: A Theoretical and Algorithmic Framework for Learning from Imbalanced Data
- ICML 2025Benign Overfitting in Token Selection of Attention Mechanism
- ICML 2025Best Subset Selection: Optimal Pursuit for Feature Selection and Elimination
- ICML 2025Beyond Cropped Regions: New Benchmark and Corresponding Baseline for Chinese Scene Text Retrieval in Diverse Layouts
- ICML 2025CACTI: Leveraging Copy Masking and Contextual Information to Improve Tabular Data Imputation
- ICML 2025Catching Two Birds with One Stone: Reward Shaping with Dual Random Networks for Balancing Exploration and Exploitation
- ICML 2025Certifiably Robust Model Evaluation in Federated Learning under Meta-Distributional Shifts
- ICML 2025Chaos Meets Attention: Transformers for Large-Scale Dynamical Prediction
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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.