Deep learning · representation learning papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Deep learning · representation learning fell from 259 papers in 2023 to 214 in 2026, so interest is cooling.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Deep learning · representation learning work: 279 papers from 2023 to 2026, 35% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Multimodal LLMs: papers tagged with both rose from 11 in 2023 to 28 in 2026.
• Among the 11 topics under Deep Learning, it ranks #7 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Diffusion Models, is up 4.1x versus 0.8x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026Active Learning as Nullspace Regulation: A Spectral Representation Perspective
• ICML 2026Addressing Instrument-Outcome Confounding in Mendelian Randomization through Representation Learning
• ICLR 2026Boosting Open Set Recognition Performance through Modulated Representation Learning
• CVPR 2026CanonCGT Reference-Based Color Grading via Canonical Pivot Representation
• NeurIPS 2025Causality-Induced Positional Encoding for Transformer-Based Representation Learning of Non-Sequential Features
• ICML 2025Banyan: Improved Representation Learning with Explicit Structure
• ICLR 2025Edge-aware Image Smoothing with Relative Wavelet Domain Representation
• CVPR 20253D-SLNR: A Super Lightweight Neural Representation for Large-scale 3D Mapping
• NeurIPS 2024GV-Rep: A Large-Scale Dataset for Genetic Variant Representation Learning
• ICML 2024Data-free Neural Representation Compression with Riemannian Neural Dynamics
• ICLR 2024$\texttt{NAISR}$: A 3D Neural Additive Model for Interpretable Shape Representation
• CVPR 2024Disentangled Prompt Representation for Domain Generalization
• NeurIPS 2023[Re] CrossWalk: Fairness-enhanced Node Representation Learning
• ICML 2023A theory of representation learning gives a deep generalisation of kernel methods
• ICLR 2023Bispectral Neural Networks
• CVPR 2023AnyFlow: Arbitrary Scale Optical Flow With Implicit Neural Representation
• NeurIPS 2026Approximation in Contrastive Representation Learning
• ICML 2026Amortized Maximum Inner Product Search with Learned Support Functions
• ICLR 2026Decoupling Dynamical Richness from Representation Learning: Towards Practical Measurement
• CVPR 2026Enhancing Visual Representation with Textual Semantics Textual Semantics-Powered Prototypes for

All Deep learning · representation learning papers

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101. NeurIPS 2025Anti-Aliased 2D Gaussian Splatting
102. NeurIPS 2025Auto-Compressing Networks
103. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Modality Collapse: Representation Blending for Multimodal Dataset Distillation
104. NeurIPS 2025Causality-Induced Positional Encoding for Transformer-Based Representation Learning of Non-Sequential Features
105. NeurIPS 2025Conditional Representation Learning for Customized Tasks
106. NeurIPS 2025Connecting Neural Models Latent Geometries with Relative Geodesic Representations
107. NeurIPS 2025DISCO: Disentangled Communication Steering for Large Language Models
108. NeurIPS 2025Disentangled Cross-Modal Representation Learning with Enhanced Mutual Supervision
109. NeurIPS 2025Disentangled Representation Learning via Modular Compositional Bias
110. NeurIPS 2025Equivariance by Contrast: Identifiable Equivariant Embeddings from Unlabeled Finite Group Actions
111. NeurIPS 2025EventMG: Efficient Multilevel Mamba-Graph Learning for Spatiotemporal Event Representation
112. NeurIPS 2025FORLA: Federated Object-centric Representation Learning with Slot Attention
113. NeurIPS 2025GAMMA: Gated Multi-hop Message Passing for Homophily-Agnostic Node Representation in GNNs
114. NeurIPS 2025Global Minimizers of Sigmoid Contrastive Loss
115. NeurIPS 2025Grids Often Outperform Implicit Neural Representation at Compressing Dense Signals
116. NeurIPS 2025H3D-DGS: Exploring Heterogeneous 3D Motion Representation for Deformable 3D Gaussian Splatting
117. NeurIPS 2025How Many Tokens Do 3D Point Cloud Transformer Architectures Really Need?
118. NeurIPS 2025Kernel-based Equalized Odds: A Quantification of Accuracy-Fairness Trade-off in Fair Representation Learning
119. NeurIPS 2025Learning Differential Pyramid Representation for Tone Mapping
120. NeurIPS 2025Learning Generalizable Shape Completion with SIM(3) Equivariance
121. NeurIPS 2025Learning Without Augmenting: Unsupervised Time Series Representation Learning via Frame Projections
122. NeurIPS 2025LLM Interpretability with Identifiable Temporal-Instantaneous Representation
123. NeurIPS 2025MaxSup: Overcoming Representation Collapse in Label Smoothing
124. NeurIPS 2025Measure-Theoretic Anti-Causal Representation Learning
125. NeurIPS 2025Mitigating Spurious Features in Contrastive Learning with Spectral Regularization
126. NeurIPS 2025More of the Same: Persistent Representational Harms Under Increased Representation
127. NeurIPS 2025NegoCollab: A Common Representation Negotiation Approach for Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception
128. NeurIPS 2025On the Value of Cross-Modal Misalignment in Multimodal Representation Learning
129. NeurIPS 2025Permutation Equivariant Neural Controlled Differential Equations for Dynamic Graph Representation Learning
130. NeurIPS 2025PhysioWave: A Multi-Scale Wavelet-Transformer for Physiological Signal Representation
131. NeurIPS 2025Point or Line? Using Line-based Representation for Panoptic Symbol Spotting in CAD Drawings
132. NeurIPS 2025PoLAR: Polar-Decomposed Low-Rank Adapter Representation
133. NeurIPS 2025Provable Sample-Efficient Transfer Learning Conditional Diffusion Models via Representation Learning
134. NeurIPS 2025Random Forest Autoencoders for Guided Representation Learning
135. NeurIPS 2025REPA Works Until It Doesn’t: Early-Stopped, Holistic Alignment Supercharges Diffusion Training
136. NeurIPS 2025Reward-oriented Causal Representation Learning
137. NeurIPS 2025S-Crescendo: A Nested Transformer Weaving Framework for Scalable Nonlinear System in S-Domain Representation
138. NeurIPS 2025Scaling Language-centric Omnimodal Representation Learning
139. NeurIPS 2025Symmetry-Preserving Conformer Ensemble Networks for Molecular Representation Learning
140. NeurIPS 2025Temporal Representation Alignment: Successor Features Enable Emergent Compositionality in Robot Instruction Following
141. NeurIPS 2025The Indra Representation Hypothesis
142. NeurIPS 2025Theory-Driven Label-Specific Representation for Incomplete Multi-View Multi-Label Learning
143. NeurIPS 2025Token Bottleneck: One Token to Remember Dynamics
144. NeurIPS 2025TopER: Topological Embeddings in Graph Representation Learning
145. NeurIPS 2025Toward Artificial Palpation: Representation Learning of Touch on Soft Bodies
146. NeurIPS 2025Towards Implicit Aggregation: Robust Image Representation for Place Recognition in the Transformer Era
147. NeurIPS 2025Tracing the Representation Geometry of Language Models from Pretraining to Post-training
148. NeurIPS 2025U-REPA: Aligning Diffusion U-Nets to ViTs
149. NeurIPS 2025VA-GS: Enhancing the Geometric Representation of Gaussian Splatting via View Alignment
150. NeurIPS 2025VQToken: Neural Discrete Token Representation Learning for Extreme Token Reduction in Video Large Language Models

FAQ

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

802 in total: 259 in 2023, 177 in 2024, 152 in 2025, 214 in 2026.

How many Deep learning · representation learning papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 59 Deep learning · representation learning papers, versus 54 the year before.

How many Deep learning · representation learning papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 39 Deep learning · representation learning papers, versus 37 the year before.

How many Deep learning · representation learning papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 74 Deep learning · representation learning papers, versus 35 the year before.

How many Deep learning · representation learning papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 42 Deep learning · representation learning papers, versus 26 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Deep learning · representation learning papers?

NeurIPS, with 279 papers from 2023 to 2026.