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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- ICLR 2026Is Your Paper Being Reviewed by an LLM? Benchmarking AI Text Detection in Peer Review
- ICLR 2026IV-Bench: A Benchmark for Image-Grounded Video Perception and Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs
- ICLR 2026IVEBench: Modern Benchmark Suite for Instruction-Guided Video Editing Assessment
- ICLR 2026IWR-Bench: Can LVLMs reconstruct interactive webpage from a user interaction video?
- ICLR 2026Jacobian Aligned Random Forests
- ICLR 2026JailNewsBench: Multi-Lingual and Regional Benchmark for Fake News Generation under Jailbreak Attacks
- ICLR 2026JALMBench: Benchmarking Jailbreak Vulnerabilities in Audio Language Models
- ICLR 2026Joint Distillation for Fast Likelihood Evaluation and Sampling in Flow-based Models
- ICLR 2026jqBench: a benchmark for reading and editing JSON from natural language and/or examples
- ICLR 2026Kaleidoscope: In-language Exams for Massively Multilingual Vision Evaluation
- ICLR 2026KaLM-Embedding-V2: Superior Training Techniques and Data Inspire A Versatile Embedding Model
- ICLR 2026Knowledge Distillation as Decontamination? Revisiting the “Data Laundering” Concern
- ICLR 2026KnowledgeSmith: Uncovering Knowledge Updating in LLMs with Model Editing and Unlearning
- ICLR 2026KRAMABENCH: A Benchmark for AI Systems on Data-to-Insight Pipelines over Data Lakes
- ICLR 2026LAMDA: A Longitudinal Android Malware Benchmark for Concept Drift Analysis
- ICLR 2026Larger Datasets Can Be Repeated More: A Theoretical Analysis of Multi-Epoch Scaling in Linear Regression
- ICLR 2026Late-to-Early Training: LET LLMs Learn Earlier, So Faster and Better
- ICLR 2026Learning Mixtures of Linear Dynamical Systems (MoLDS) via Hybrid Tensor–EM Method
- ICLR 2026Learning Posterior Predictive Distributions for Node Classification from Synthetic Graph Priors
- ICLR 2026Learning Pseudorandom Numbers with Transformers: Permuted Congruential Generators, Curricula, and Interpretability
- ICLR 2026Learning to Interpret Weight Differences in Language Models
- ICLR 2026Learning-Augmented Moment Estimation on Time-Decay Models
- ICLR 2026LENS: Multi-level Evaluation of Multimodal Reasoning with Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026LEXam: Benchmarking Legal Reasoning on 340 Law Exams
- ICLR 2026LFQA-E: Carefully Benchmarking Long-form QA Evaluation
- ICLR 2026LiveClin: A Live Clinical Benchmark without Leakage
- ICLR 2026LiveResearchBench: Benchmarking Single- and Multi-Agent Systems for Citation-Grounded Deep Research
- ICLR 2026LiveWeb-IE: A Benchmark For Online Web Information Extraction
- ICLR 2026LLM-as-a-Prophet: Understanding Predictive Intelligence with Prophet Arena
- ICLR 2026LLMs as Rules Oracles: Exploring Real-World Multimodal Reasoning in Tabletop Strategy Game Environments
- ICLR 2026LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation
- ICLR 2026lmgame-Bench: How Good are LLMs at Playing Games?
- ICLR 2026Local Success Does Not Compose: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Compositional Formal Verification
- ICLR 2026LogiConBench: Benchmarking Logical Consistencies of LLMs
- ICLR 2026Long-Context Attention Benchmark: From Kernel Efficiency to Distributed Context Parallelism
- ICLR 2026Lookup multivariate Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
- ICLR 2026Lost in the Non-convex Loss Landscape: How to Fine-tune the Large Time Series Model?
- ICLR 2026M3CoTBench: Benchmark Chain-of-Thought of MLLMs in Medical Image Understanding
- ICLR 2026M4PQA: A Comprehensive QA Dataset for AI Research with Instance-Level Evaluation
- ICLR 2026ManagerBench: Evaluating the Safety-Pragmatism Trade-off in Autonomous LLMs
- ICLR 2026ManipEvalAgent: Promptable and Efficient Evaluation Framework for Robotic Manipulation Policies
- ICLR 2026Mapping Overlaps in Benchmarks through Perplexity in the Wild
- ICLR 2026MaRS: Memory-Adaptive Routing for Reliable Capacity Expansion and Knowledge Retention
- ICLR 2026Matched Data, Better Models: Target Aligned Data Filtering with Sparse Features
- ICLR 2026MATH-Beyond: A Benchmark for RL to Expand Beyond the Base Model
- ICLR 2026MCbiF: Measuring Topological Autocorrelation in Multiscale Clusterings via 2-Parameter Persistent Homology
- ICLR 2026MCIF: Multimodal Crosslingual Instruction-Following Benchmark from Scientific Talks
- ICLR 2026MCP Security Bench (MSB): Benchmarking Attacks Against Model Context Protocol in LLM Agents
- ICLR 2026MCP-Bench: Benchmarking Tool-Using LLM Agents with Complex Real-World Tasks via MCP Servers
- ICLR 2026MCP-SafetyBench: A Benchmark for Safety Evaluation of Large Language Models with Real-World MCP Servers
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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.