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
275 papers, page 1 of 6
- ICML 2026$\mu$pscaling small models: Principled warm starts and hyperparameter transfer
- ICML 2026A Benchmark and Framework for Evaluating Next Action Predictions in Spreadsheets
- ICML 2026A Critical Look at Targeted Instruction Selection: Disentangling What Matters (and What Doesn’t)
- ICML 2026A Noise Sensitivity Exponent Controls Large Statistical-to-Computational Gaps in Single- and Multi-Index Models
- ICML 2026A Semantically Consistent Dataset for Data-Efficient Query-Based Universal Sound Separation
- ICML 2026A Strictly Proper Scoring Rule and a Calibration Metric for Interval-Censored Data Analysis
- ICML 2026A Studentized Spherical Harmonics–Based Nonparametric Two-Sample Test for Compositional and Directional Data
- ICML 2026A Systematic Study of Behavioral Cloning for Scientific Data Annotation
- ICML 2026Accuracy and Normalized Accuracy under Length Bias: Analysis, Guidelines, and a Bayesian Alternative
- ICML 2026Accurate Evaluation of Quickest Changepoint Detectors via Non-parametric Survival Analysis
- ICML 2026Activation Oracles: Training and Evaluating LLMs as General-Purpose Activation Explainers
- ICML 2026ActiveScope: Actively Seeking and Correcting Perception for MLLMs
- ICML 2026Adaptive Testing for LLM Evaluation: A Psychometric Alternative to Static Benchmarks
- ICML 2026AI Cartography: Mapping the Latent Landscape of AI Benchmark Ecosystems
- ICML 2026Align Your Trajectory Tangent: Training Better Consistency Models via Manifold-Aligned Tangents
- ICML 2026Ambient Dataloops: Generative Models for Dataset Refinement
- ICML 2026Amortized Simulation-Based Inference in Generalized Bayes via Neural Posterior Estimation
- ICML 2026An Evidential Route to Asymptotic Bayes Optimality under Sparsity
- ICML 2026An Exploration of Non-Euclidean Gradient Descent: Muon and its Many Variants
- ICML 2026Analytic Bijections for Smooth and Interpretable Normalizing Flows
- ICML 2026Approximation Error Upper and Lower Bounds for Hölder Class with Transformers
- ICML 2026Arboreal Neural Network
- ICML 2026Are Two Datasets Close Enough With Statistical Significance? A Kernel Distributional Closeness Testing Approach
- ICML 2026Are We Overconfident in Models and Results for Semi-Supervised 3D Medical Image Segmentation?
- ICML 2026Ariadne's Thread of LipSync: Unraveling Forgeries via Inconsistency between Lip Motions and Head Poses
- ICML 2026Attention Hijacking: Backdooring Text Dataset Distillation via Semantic Anchors
- ICML 2026AutoBaxBuilder: Bootstrapping Code Security Benchmarking
- ICML 2026BASIL: Scalable Bayesian Semi-supervised Clustering with Feature Selection and Adaptive Constraint Weighting
- ICML 2026BEAR: Dissecting Embodied Abilities in Multimodal Language Models through Skill-level Evaluation and Diagnosis
- ICML 2026BEST: Benchmarking Efficiency in Space and Time for LLM-Generated Code
- ICML 2026Beyond Benchmarks: Toward Causally Faithful Evaluation of Large Language Models
- ICML 2026Beyond Rational Illusion: Behaviorally Realistic Strategic Classification
- ICML 2026Beyond ReLU: Bifurcation, Oversmoothing, and Topological Priors
- ICML 2026Beyond the Proxy: Trajectory-Distilled Guidance for Offline GFlowNet Training
- ICML 2026Biased Generalization in Diffusion Models
- ICML 2026Bits That Count: Quantifying and Predicting Capabilities of Language Models
- ICML 2026Bounded Hyperbolic Tangent: A Stable and Efficient Alternative to Pre-Layer Normalization in Large Language Models
- ICML 2026Bridging Spherical Black-Box Optimizers
- ICML 2026Bridging the Gap Between Average and Discounted TD Learning
- ICML 2026Calibrated Multimodal Representation Learning with Missing Modalities
- ICML 2026CauchyNet: Compact and Data-Efficient Learning using Holomorphic Activation Functions
- ICML 2026Causal Identification from Counterfactual Data: Completeness and Bounding Results
- ICML 2026Causes and Consequences of Representational Similarity in Machine Learning Models
- ICML 2026Certifying Graph Neural Networks Against Label and Structure Poisoning
- ICML 2026CHB: A Diagnostic Toolkit for Hardness-Aware Clustering Evaluation
- ICML 2026Class-Grouped Normalized Momentum and Faster Hyperparameter Exploration to Tackle Class Imbalance in Federated Learning
- ICML 2026Connecting Independently Trained Modes via Layer-Wise Connectivity
- ICML 2026Convex Dataset Valuation for Post-Training
- ICML 2026Convex Distance Operator Transport: A Convex and Geometry-Preserving Formulation
- ICML 2026Cooperative Variance Estimation and Bayesian Neural Networks for Disentangling Aleatoric and Epistemic Uncertainties
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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.