Deep learning · foundation models papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Deep learning · foundation models went from 72 papers in 2023 to 177 in 2026, roughly 2.5x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Deep learning · foundation models work: 299 papers from 2023 to 2026, 56% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Foundation Model Adaptation: papers tagged with both rose from 7 in 2023 to 66 in 2026.
• Among the 11 topics under Deep Learning, it ranks #8 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Diffusion Models, is up 4.1x versus 2.5x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026Inferotemporal Cortex Collaborates Before It Codes: Non-Serial Inter-Area Synergy in the Macaque Ventral Stream
• ICML 2026ACO-MoE-LoRA: Evolving-while-Training for Adapting Segment Anything Model 2 to Specialized Domains
• ICLR 2026Qronos: Correcting the Past by Shaping the Future... in Post-Training Quantization
• CVPR 2026Adapting a Pre-trained Single-Cell Foundation Model to Spatial Gene Expression
• NeurIPS 2025An Investigation of Memorization Risk in Healthcare Foundation Models
• ICML 2025Contrastive Localized Language-Image Pre-Training
• ICLR 2025Revisiting Convolution Architecture in the Realm of DNA Foundation Models
• CVPR 2025DEFOM-Stereo: Depth Foundation Model Based Stereo Matching
• NeurIPS 2024$\textit{Read-ME}$: Refactorizing LLMs as Router-Decoupled Mixture of Experts with System Co-Design
• ICML 2024Position: On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models
• CVPR 20243D-LFM: Lifting Foundation Model
• NeurIPS 2023Bridging the Domain Gap: Self-Supervised 3D Scene Understanding with Foundation Models
• ICML 2023Improving Hyperparameter Learning under Approximate Inference in Gaussian Process Models
• NeurIPS 2026Do Pathology Foundation Models Encode Disease Progression? A Pseudotime Analysis of Visual Representations
• ICML 2026Alethia: a Foundational Encoder for Voice Deepfakes
• ICLR 2026DND: Boosting Large Language Models with Dynamic Nested Depth
• CVPR 2026UniSER A Foundation Model for Unified Soft Effects Removal
• NeurIPS 2025ChromFound: Towards A Universal Foundation Model for Single-Cell Chromatin Accessibiltiy Data
• ICML 2025Exploring Criteria of Loss Reweighting to Enhance LLM Unlearning
• ICLR 2025Recite, Reconstruct, Recollect: Memorization in LMs as a Multifaceted Phenomenon

All Deep learning · foundation models papers

177 papers, page 2 of 4

51. ICML 2026From Kepler to Newton: Inductive Biases Guide Learned World Models in Transformers
52. ICML 2026From Noise to Intent: Anchoring Generative VLA Policies with Residual Bridges
53. ICML 2026From Zero to Hero: Advancing Zero-Shot Foundation Models for Tabular Outlier Detection
54. ICML 2026Genome-Factory: A Library for Tuning, Deploying, and Interpreting Genomic Foundation Models
55. ICML 2026GePBench: Evaluating Fundamental Geometric Perception for Multimodal Large Language Models
56. ICML 2026GFMate: Empowering Graph Foundation Models with Test-time Prompt Tuning
57. ICML 2026Giving Sensors a Voice: Multimodal JEPA for Semantic Time-Series Embeddings
58. ICML 2026Graph is a Substrate Across Data Modalities
59. ICML 2026GraphPFN: A Prior-Data Fitted Graph Foundation Model
60. ICML 2026h1: Bootstrapping LLMs to Reason over Longer Horizons via Reinforcement Learning
61. ICML 2026HaloProbe: Bayesian Detection and Mitigation of Object Hallucinations in Vision-Language Models
62. ICML 2026Head-in-Head in Linear Attention
63. ICML 2026Heterogeneous Customizable Personalized Federated Fine-Tuning Approach for Large Language Models
64. ICML 2026Hierarchical Procedural Meta-Reasoning for Generalizable Multimodal Agents
65. ICML 2026Holi-Spatial: Evolving Video Streams into Holistic 3D Spatial Intelligence
66. ICML 2026InfoAtlas: A Foundation Model for Zero-Shot Statistical Dependence Estimate
67. ICML 2026InfoDLM: an Information-Adaptive Framework for Discrete Diffusion Language Model Pretraining
68. ICML 2026INT vs. FP: A Comprehensive Study of Fine-Grained Low-bit Quantization Formats
69. ICML 2026Interpretable Discovery of One-parameter Subgroups: A Modular Framework for Elliptical, Hyperbolic, and Parabolic Symmetries
70. ICML 2026Is One Layer Enough? Understanding Inference Dynamics in Tabular Foundation Models
71. ICML 2026IsoCompute Playbook: Optimally Scaling Sampling Compute for LLM RL
72. ICML 2026Just Y-Prediction: Enabling Historical Cumulative Inconsistency in Label Diffusion for Learning with Noisy Label
73. ICML 2026KAST-BAR: Knowledge-Anchored Semantically-Dynamic Topology Brain Autoregressive Modeling for Universal Neural Interpretation
74. ICML 2026KromHC: Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections with Kronecker-Product Residual Matrices
75. ICML 2026Learning 3D-Gaussian Simulators from RGB Videos
76. ICML 2026Learning Rewrite-Invariant Reasoning with Targeted Alternation Training
77. ICML 2026LEC: Linear Expectation Constraints for Selection-Conditioned Risk Control in Selective Prediction and Routing Systems
78. ICML 2026LiftQuant: Continuous Bit-Width LLM via Dimensional Lifting and Projection
79. ICML 2026LimiX-2M: Mitigating Low-Rank Collapse and Attention Bottlenecks in Tabular Foundation Models
80. ICML 2026Long Grounded Thoughts: Synthesizing Visual Problems and Reasoning Chains at Scale
81. ICML 2026LUCID: Attention with Preconditioned Representations
82. ICML 2026MemoryLLM: Plug-n-Play Interpretable Feed-Forward Memory for Transformers
83. ICML 2026MentisOculi: Revealing the Limits of Reasoning with Mental Imagery
84. ICML 2026Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models via Causal Route Gating
85. ICML 2026Mitigating Label Shift in Tabular In-Context Learning via Test-Time Posterior Adjustment
86. ICML 2026Mitigating Mask Prior Drift and Positional Attention Collapse in Large Diffusion Vision-Language Models
87. ICML 2026mmBERT: A Modern Multilingual Encoder with Annealed Language Learning
88. ICML 2026MODEL SOUPS NEED ONLY ONE INGREDIENT
89. ICML 2026Model-Dowser: Data-Free Importance Probing to Mitigate Catastrophic Forgetting in Multimodal Large Language Models
90. ICML 2026Model-Preserving Adaptive Rounding
91. ICML 2026MODUS: Decoder-only Any-to-Any Modeling of Diverse Modalities
92. ICML 2026MORE: A Multilingual Document Parsing Benchmark and Evaluation
93. ICML 2026Multimodal Latent Language Modeling with Next-Token Diffusion
94. ICML 2026NanoFLUX: Distillation-Driven Compression of Large Text-to-Image Generation Models for Mobile Devices
95. ICML 2026No Need to Train Your RDB Foundation Model
96. ICML 2026Olivia: Harmonizing Time Series Foundation Models with Power Spectral Density
97. ICML 2026Omni-fMRI: A Universal Atlas-Free fMRI Foundation Model
98. ICML 2026PluRel: Synthetic Data unlocks Scaling Laws for Relational Foundation Models
99. ICML 2026Preconditioning Neural Tangent Kernel for Adaptive Optimization
100. ICML 2026Preference Goal Tuning: Post-Training as Latent Control for Frozen Policies

FAQ

How many Deep learning · foundation models papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

536 in total: 72 in 2023, 209 in 2024, 78 in 2025, 177 in 2026.

How many Deep learning · foundation models papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 27 Deep learning · foundation models papers, versus 15 the year before.

How many Deep learning · foundation models papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 8 Deep learning · foundation models papers, versus 6 the year before.

How many Deep learning · foundation models papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 135 Deep learning · foundation models papers, versus 53 the year before.

How many Deep learning · foundation models papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 7 Deep learning · foundation models papers, versus 4 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Deep learning · foundation models papers?

NeurIPS, with 299 papers from 2023 to 2026.