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
623 papers, page 7 of 13
- NeurIPS 2026LithoBench: Benchmarking Large Multimodal Models for Remote-Sensing Lithology Interpretation
- NeurIPS 2026LittleLearner: Language Models Under Pedagogically-Controlled Knowledge Exposure
- NeurIPS 2026LLMs can construct powerful representations and streamline sample-efficient supervised learning
- NeurIPS 2026Log-Likelihood, Simpson’s Paradox, and the Detection of Machine-Generated Text
- NeurIPS 2026Logical Distillation of Transformer Encoders
- NeurIPS 2026Looped Diffusion Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026LoopNav: Benchmarking Spatial Consistency in World Models
- NeurIPS 2026Lost in Translation, Found in Embeddings: Sign Language Translation and Alignment
- NeurIPS 2026LSC-Parlament: An Automatically Aligned Catalan Sign Language Dataset from Parliament Videos.
- NeurIPS 2026Magnitude-preserving Layers Enable Efficient GANs
- NeurIPS 2026Marginal-Nonuniform Multiclass Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Marrying Optimal Transport and ODEs for Unified Continuous-Time 4D Reconstruction and Tracking
- NeurIPS 2026Masked Generative Pretraining Improves Cross-Dataset Transfer in Pixel-Space Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2026Matching-while-Decoding: Enhancing Template-Free Retrosynthesis via Explicit Structural Alignment
- NeurIPS 2026Matrix-Free Natural Gradient via Stochastic Truncated Metrics
- NeurIPS 2026MaxIM: Maximally Informative Incremental Summarization via Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Measuring and Mitigating the Distributional Gap Between Real and Simulated User Behaviors
- NeurIPS 2026Measuring Coherence in Predictive Models
- NeurIPS 2026Measuring What Matters: Synthetic Benchmarks for Concept Bottleneck Models
- NeurIPS 2026MegaStyle: Constructing Diverse and Scalable Style Dataset via Consistent Text-to-Image Style Mapping
- NeurIPS 2026MEME: Multi-Entity & Evolving Memory Evaluation
- NeurIPS 2026Mesh-Free Convolution: Learned Spectral Attenuation and Transport
- NeurIPS 2026Metropolis-Adjusted Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2026Metropolis-Scale Road Network Datasets for Fine-Grained Urban Traffic Modeling
- NeurIPS 2026MEV: A Multi-Event Video Dataset for Long-Take Generation
- NeurIPS 2026Mind the Gap: Dataset and Fine-grained Evaluation for Inline Audio Descriptions
- NeurIPS 2026Mitigating Over-squashing without Rewiring: A Sheaf Effective Resistance Perspective
- NeurIPS 2026MITO: A Millimeter-Wave Dataset and Simulator for Non-Line-of-Sight Perception
- NeurIPS 2026MLLMs Fail to Refuse when Using Tools Agentically
- NeurIPS 2026MM-DyGraph: A Dataset, Benchmark, and Model for Multimodal Dynamic Graphs
- NeurIPS 2026Model Capacity Determines Grokking through Competing Memorisation and Generalisation Speeds
- NeurIPS 2026Model Distribution-Aware Multimodal Dataset Distillation
- NeurIPS 2026Model-based Bootstrap of Controlled Markov Chains
- NeurIPS 2026ModelLens: Finding the Best for Your Task from Myriads of Models
- NeurIPS 2026Monoculture Robust Learning
- NeurIPS 2026MonoPhysics: Estimating Geometry, Appearance, and Physical Parameters from Monocular Videos
- 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
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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.