Deep learning · large language models papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Deep learning · large language models went from 488 papers in 2023 to 1,131 in 2026, roughly 2.3x in three years.
• ICML publishes the most Deep learning · large language models work: 1,608 papers from 2023 to 2026, 69% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with AI Agents: papers tagged with both rose from 5 in 2023 to 184 in 2026.
• Among the 11 topics under Deep Learning, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Diffusion Models, is up 4.1x versus 2.3x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• ICML 2026“very likely” Means “uncertain”? How LLMs Diverge from Humans in Linguistic Uncertainty Quantification
• ICML 2025(How) Do Language Models Track State?
• ICLR 2025AdvWave: Stealthy Adversarial Jailbreak Attack against Large Audio-Language Models
• NeurIPS 2024$\beta$-DPO: Direct Preference Optimization with Dynamic $\beta$
• NeurIPS 20233D-LLM: Injecting the 3D World into Large Language Models
• ICML 2023Are Large Kernels Better Teachers than Transformers for ConvNets?
• ICML 2026$f$-Divergence Self-Play for Tabular Anomaly Detection via Large Language Models
• ICML 2025A Tale of Two Structures: Do LLMs Capture the Fractal Complexity of Language?
• ICLR 2025Emergence of a High-Dimensional Abstraction Phase in Language Transformers
• NeurIPS 2024$\textit{Trans-LoRA}$: towards data-free Transferable Parameter Efficient Finetuning
• NeurIPS 2023A fast heuristic to optimize time-space tradeoff for large models
• ICML 2023Arithmetic Sampling: Parallel Diverse Decoding for Large Language Models
• ICML 2026$L^3$: Large Lookup Layers
• ICML 2025Accelerating LLM Inference with Lossless Speculative Decoding Algorithms for Heterogeneous Vocabularies
• ICLR 2025Holistically Evaluating the Environmental Impact of Creating Language Models
• NeurIPS 2024A distributional simplicity bias in the learning dynamics of transformers
• NeurIPS 2023A Pseudo-Semantic Loss for Autoregressive Models with Logical Constraints
• ICML 2023Auto-Differentiation of Relational Computations for Very Large Scale Machine Learning
• ICML 2026$V_0$: A Generalist Value Model for Any Policy at State Zero
• ICML 2025Accelerating Unbiased LLM Evaluation via Synthetic Feedback

All Deep learning · large language models papers

2,334 papers, page 31 of 47

1501. ICML 2025The Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL): From Tool Use to Agentic Evaluation of Large Language Models
1502. ICML 2025The Best of Both Worlds: Bridging Quality and Diversity in Data Selection with Bipartite Graph
1503. ICML 2025The Canary’s Echo: Auditing Privacy Risks of LLM-Generated Synthetic Text
1504. ICML 2025The Emperor's New Clothes in Benchmarking? A Rigorous Examination of Mitigation Strategies for LLM Benchmark Data Contamination
1505. ICML 2025The Energy Loss Phenomenon in RLHF: A New Perspective on Mitigating Reward Hacking
1506. ICML 2025The Geometry of Refusal in Large Language Models: Concept Cones and Representational Independence
1507. ICML 2025The Hidden Dimensions of LLM Alignment: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Orthogonal Safety Directions
1508. ICML 2025The Missing Alignment Link of In-context Learning on Sequences
1509. ICML 2025The Surprising Effectiveness of Test-Time Training for Few-Shot Learning
1510. ICML 2025The Synergy of LLMs & RL Unlocks Offline Learning of Generalizable Language-Conditioned Policies with Low-fidelity Data
1511. ICML 2025Think Smarter not Harder: Adaptive Reasoning with Inference Aware Optimization
1512. ICML 2025Thinking LLMs: General Instruction Following with Thought Generation
1513. ICML 2025To Steer or Not to Steer? Mechanistic Error Reduction with Abstention for Language Models
1514. ICML 2025Token Assorted: Mixing Latent and Text Tokens for Improved Language Model Reasoning
1515. ICML 2025Token Cleaning: Fine-Grained Data Selection for LLM Supervised Fine-Tuning
1516. ICML 2025Token Signature: Predicting Chain-of-Thought Gains with Token Decoding Feature in Large Language Models
1517. ICML 2025TokenSwift: Lossless Acceleration of Ultra Long Sequence Generation
1518. ICML 2025Towards Cost-Effective Reward Guided Text Generation
1519. ICML 2025Towards Lifelong Model Editing via Simulating Ideal Editor
1520. ICML 2025Towards LLM Unlearning Resilient to Relearning Attacks: A Sharpness-Aware Minimization Perspective and Beyond
1521. ICML 2025Training a Generally Curious Agent
1522. ICML 2025Training Software Engineering Agents and Verifiers with SWE-Gym
1523. ICML 2025TruthFlow: Truthful LLM Generation via Representation Flow Correction
1524. ICML 2025TuCo: Measuring the Contribution of Fine-Tuning to Individual Responses of LLMs
1525. ICML 2025Tuning LLM Judge Design Decisions for 1/1000 of the Cost
1526. ICML 2025UDora: A Unified Red Teaming Framework against LLM Agents by Dynamically Hijacking Their Own Reasoning
1527. ICML 2025Unbiased Evaluation of Large Language Models from a Causal Perspective
1528. ICML 2025Understanding Bias Reinforcement in LLM Agents Debate
1529. ICML 2025Understanding Chain-of-Thought in LLMs through Information Theory
1530. ICML 2025Understanding Multimodal LLMs Under Distribution Shifts: An Information-Theoretic Approach
1531. ICML 2025Understanding Synthetic Context Extension via Retrieval Heads
1532. ICML 2025Understanding the Skill Gap in Recurrent Language Models: The Role of the Gather-and-Aggregate Mechanism
1533. ICML 2025Unlocking Post-hoc Dataset Inference with Synthetic Data
1534. ICML 2025Unnatural Languages Are Not Bugs but Features for LLMs
1535. ICML 2025VersaPRM: Multi-Domain Process Reward Model via Synthetic Reasoning Data
1536. ICML 2025VinePPO: Refining Credit Assignment in RL Training of LLMs
1537. ICML 2025Vulnerability-Aware Alignment: Mitigating Uneven Forgetting in Harmful Fine-Tuning
1538. ICML 2025What Do Learning Dynamics Reveal About Generalization in LLM Mathematical Reasoning?
1539. ICML 2025What Limits Bidirectional Model's Generative Capabilities? A Uni-Bi-Directional Mixture-of-Expert Method For Bidirectional Fine-tuning
1540. ICML 2025What Makes In-context Learning Effective for Mathematical Reasoning
1541. ICML 2025When Bad Data Leads to Good Models
1542. ICML 2025Why Has Predicting Downstream Capabilities of Frontier AI Models with Scale Remained Elusive?
1543. ICML 2025Why Is Spatial Reasoning Hard for VLMs? An Attention Mechanism Perspective on Focus Areas
1544. ICML 2025WikiBigEdit: Understanding the Limits of Lifelong Knowledge Editing in LLMs
1545. ICML 2025XAttention: Block Sparse Attention with Antidiagonal Scoring
1546. ICML 2025xLSTM 7B: A Recurrent LLM for Fast and Efficient Inference
1547. ICML 2025ZebraLogic: On the Scaling Limits of LLMs for Logical Reasoning
1548. ICML 2025µnit Scaling: Simple and Scalable FP8 LLM Training
1549. NeurIPS 2024$\beta$-DPO: Direct Preference Optimization with Dynamic $\beta$
1550. NeurIPS 2024$\textit{Trans-LoRA}$: towards data-free Transferable Parameter Efficient Finetuning

FAQ

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

2,334 in total: 488 in 2023, 298 in 2024, 417 in 2025, 1,131 in 2026.

How many Deep learning · large language models papers are at NeurIPS 2024?

NeurIPS 2024 has 298 Deep learning · large language models papers, versus 415 the year before.

How many Deep learning · large language models papers are at ICLR 2025?

ICLR 2025 has 13 Deep learning · large language models papers.

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

ICML 2026 has 1,131 Deep learning · large language models papers, versus 404 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Deep learning · large language models papers?

ICML, with 1,608 papers from 2023 to 2026.