Deep learning · foundation models papers, 2023–2026
Deep learning area: foundation_models
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 536 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 65 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 72 |
| 2024 | 192 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 209 |
| 2025 | 15 | 6 | 53 | 4 | 78 |
| 2026 | 27 | 8 | 135 | 7 | 177 |
Representative papers
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- 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
209 papers, page 5 of 5
- NeurIPS 2024UNIT: Unifying Image and Text Recognition in One Vision Encoder
- NeurIPS 2024UniTS: A Unified Multi-Task Time Series Model
- NeurIPS 2024Universal Neural Functionals
- NeurIPS 2024Unveiling the Hidden Structure of Self-Attention via Kernel Principal Component Analysis
- NeurIPS 2024VB-LoRA: Extreme Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning with Vector Banks
- NeurIPS 2024Vision Transformer Neural Architecture Search for Out-of-Distribution Generalization: Benchmark and Insights
- NeurIPS 2024xLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory
- NeurIPS 2024YOLOv10: Real-Time End-to-End Object Detection
- NeurIPS 2024You Only Cache Once: Decoder-Decoder Architectures for Language Models
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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.
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