General ML · evaluation papers, 2023–2026
General machine learning: evaluation
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 606 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- General ML · evaluation went from 53 papers in 2023 to 230 in 2026, roughly 4.3x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most General ML · evaluation work: 270 papers from 2023 to 2026, 45% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with AI Agents: papers tagged with both rose from 0 in 2023 to 47 in 2026.
- Among the 6 topics under General Machine Learning, it ranks #4 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, General ML · reinforcement learning, is up 2.0x versus 4.3x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 18 | 17 | 11 | 7 | 53 |
| 2024 | 71 | 16 | 22 | 6 | 115 |
| 2025 | 124 | 19 | 58 | 7 | 208 |
| 2026 | 57 | 19 | 148 | 6 | 230 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026AI Construct Lexis: An Ontology of the Hidden Assumptions in AI Evaluation
- ICML 2026A Computational Framework for Evaluating Human-likeness in LLMs' Open-ended Human Behaviors
- ICLR 2026Unlearning Evaluation through Subset Statistical Independence
- CVPR 2026Bridging the Perception Gap in Image Super-Resolution Evaluation
- NeurIPS 2025Adaptive Distraction: Probing LLM Contextual Robustness with Automated Tree Search
- ICML 2025AKRMap: Adaptive Kernel Regression for Trustworthy Visualization of Cross-Modal Embeddings
- ICLR 2025On Speeding Up Language Model Evaluation
- CVPR 2025ODE: Open-Set Evaluation of Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024Accuracy is Not All You Need
- ICML 2024A Fine-grained Analysis of Fitted Q-evaluation: Beyond Parametric Models
- ICLR 2024BatchPrompt: Accomplish more with less
- CVPR 2024Animating General Image with Large Visual Motion Model
- NeurIPS 2023AQuA: A Benchmarking Tool for Label Quality Assessment
- ICML 2023Regions of Reliability in the Evaluation of Multivariate Probabilistic Forecasts
- ICLR 2023Beyond calibration: estimating the grouping loss of modern neural networks
- CVPR 2023GeneCIS: A Benchmark for General Conditional Image Similarity
- NeurIPS 2026AMUSE: Anytime Muon with Stable Gradient Evaluation
- ICML 2026A Two-Tier Perspective on Inference-Time Parallelism in Multi-Agent LLM Systems
- ICLR 2026Choices Speak Louder than Questions
- CVPR 2026Towards Reliable Evaluation of Adversarial Robustness for Spiking Neural Networks
All General ML · evaluation papers
606 papers, page 5 of 13
- NeurIPS 2026Intra-Option Fitted Q-Evaluation: Evaluating Hierarchical Policies from Non-Hierarchical Data
- NeurIPS 2026Looking Under the Streetlight: Evaluation in Generative Molecular Dynamics
- NeurIPS 2026MapShift: Controlled Post-Intervention Evaluation for Embodied World Models
- NeurIPS 2026MIND: Monge Inception Distance for Generative Models Evaluation
- NeurIPS 2026Mini-batch kernel $k$-means
- NeurIPS 2026MinSteer: Minimal-Pair Steering via Two-Stage Cached Continuation
- NeurIPS 2026MMSkills: Towards Multimodal Skills for General Visual Agents
- NeurIPS 2026Neural Field Thermal Tomography: A Differentiable Physics Framework for Non-Destructive Evaluation
- NeurIPS 2026Offline Preference-Based Trajectory Evaluation
- NeurIPS 2026Online Evaluation of LLMs via Dyadic Designs
- NeurIPS 2026Optimal Convergence Analysis of DDPM for General Distributions
- NeurIPS 2026OTROPE: Optimal Transport-based Robust Off-policy Evaluation for Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026OWCE: Revealing Language Model Complementarity via Online Weakness-Conditioned Evaluation
- NeurIPS 2026PepSpecBench: A Unified Evaluation Benchmark for Peptide Tandem Mass Spectrometry Prediction
- NeurIPS 2026Persistent-Transient Policy Evaluation for Markov Chains via Minimal Peripheral Quotients
- NeurIPS 2026Post-Selection Distributional Model Evaluation
- NeurIPS 2026PotARCin: Multi-Dimensional Evaluation of Skill Acquisition in Abstract Reasoning Tasks
- NeurIPS 2026quanda: An Interpretability Toolkit for Training Data Attribution Evaluation
- NeurIPS 2026RA-ClipScore: Making Generative Model Evaluation More Interpretable
- NeurIPS 2026Reporting Practice Matters: The Impact of Reference Choice on Chest X-ray Report Evaluation
- NeurIPS 2026Safe, or Simply Incapable? Rethinking Safety Evaluation for Phone-Use Agents
- NeurIPS 2026Select Smarter, Not More? Prompt-Aware Evaluation Scheduling with Submodular Guarantees
- NeurIPS 2026SGNNBench: A Holistic Evaluation of Spiking Graph Neural Networks on Large-scale Graphs
- NeurIPS 2026Testable Learning of General Halfspaces under Massart Noise
- NeurIPS 2026The Alien Space of Science: Sampling Coherent but Cognitively Unavailable Research Directions
- NeurIPS 2026TreeWalker: Partial Evaluation for Grouped Tree-Ensemble Inference
- NeurIPS 2026TRL-Bench: Standardizing Cross-Paradigm Representation-Level Evaluation of Tabular Encoders
- NeurIPS 2026What Gets Measured Gets Managed: Sign-aware Recommendation Needs Sign-aware Evaluation
- NeurIPS 2026When Are Predictions Enough? An Evaluation Protocol for Frozen Expert Composition
- NeurIPS 2026When Stored Evidence Stops Being Usable: Scale-Conditioned Evaluation of Agent Memory
- CVPR 2025AnyMap: Learning a General Camera Model for Structure-from-Motion with Unknown Distortion in Dynamic Scenes
- CVPR 2025Decoupled Distillation to Erase: A General Unlearning Method for Any Class-centric Tasks
- CVPR 2025Gen3DEval: Using vLLMs for Automatic Evaluation of Generated 3D Objects
- CVPR 2025ODE: Open-Set Evaluation of Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2025PhD: A ChatGPT-Prompted Visual Hallucination Evaluation Dataset
- CVPR 2025Samba: A Unified Mamba-based Framework for General Salient Object Detection
- CVPR 2025Video-MME: The First-Ever Comprehensive Evaluation Benchmark of Multi-modal LLMs in Video Analysis
- ICLR 2025AgentStudio: A Toolkit for Building General Virtual Agents
- ICLR 2025AutoBencher: Towards Declarative Benchmark Construction
- ICLR 2025Conformalized Survival Analysis for General Right-Censored Data
- ICLR 2025Do LLMs estimate uncertainty well in instruction-following?
- ICLR 2025Has the Deep Neural Network learned the Stochastic Process? An Evaluation Viewpoint
- ICLR 2025Limits to scalable evaluation at the frontier: LLM as judge won’t beat twice the data
- ICLR 2025MathGAP: Out-of-Distribution Evaluation on Problems with Arbitrarily Complex Proofs
- ICLR 2025McEval: Massively Multilingual Code Evaluation
- ICLR 2025MixEval-X: Any-to-any Evaluations from Real-world Data Mixture
- ICLR 2025MUSE: Machine Unlearning Six-Way Evaluation for Language Models
- ICLR 2025On Speeding Up Language Model Evaluation
- ICLR 2025PerturboLLaVA: Reducing Multimodal Hallucinations with Perturbative Visual Training
- ICLR 2025ProteinBench: A Holistic Evaluation of Protein Foundation Models
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FAQ
- How many General ML · evaluation papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 606 in total: 53 in 2023, 115 in 2024, 208 in 2025, 230 in 2026.
- How many General ML · evaluation papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 57 General ML · evaluation papers, versus 124 the year before.
- How many General ML · evaluation papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 19 General ML · evaluation papers, versus 19 the year before.
- How many General ML · evaluation papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 148 General ML · evaluation papers, versus 58 the year before.
- How many General ML · evaluation papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 6 General ML · evaluation papers, versus 7 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most General ML · evaluation papers?
- NeurIPS, with 270 papers from 2023 to 2026.