General ML · evaluation papers, 2023–2026

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.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• 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

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201. NeurIPS 2026Intra-Option Fitted Q-Evaluation: Evaluating Hierarchical Policies from Non-Hierarchical Data
202. NeurIPS 2026Looking Under the Streetlight: Evaluation in Generative Molecular Dynamics
203. NeurIPS 2026MapShift: Controlled Post-Intervention Evaluation for Embodied World Models
204. NeurIPS 2026MIND: Monge Inception Distance for Generative Models Evaluation
205. NeurIPS 2026Mini-batch kernel $k$-means
206. NeurIPS 2026MinSteer: Minimal-Pair Steering via Two-Stage Cached Continuation
207. NeurIPS 2026MMSkills: Towards Multimodal Skills for General Visual Agents
208. NeurIPS 2026Neural Field Thermal Tomography: A Differentiable Physics Framework for Non-Destructive Evaluation
209. NeurIPS 2026Offline Preference-Based Trajectory Evaluation
210. NeurIPS 2026Online Evaluation of LLMs via Dyadic Designs
211. NeurIPS 2026Optimal Convergence Analysis of DDPM for General Distributions
212. NeurIPS 2026OTROPE: Optimal Transport-based Robust Off-policy Evaluation for Large Language Models
213. NeurIPS 2026OWCE: Revealing Language Model Complementarity via Online Weakness-Conditioned Evaluation
214. NeurIPS 2026PepSpecBench: A Unified Evaluation Benchmark for Peptide Tandem Mass Spectrometry Prediction
215. NeurIPS 2026Persistent-Transient Policy Evaluation for Markov Chains via Minimal Peripheral Quotients
216. NeurIPS 2026Post-Selection Distributional Model Evaluation
217. NeurIPS 2026PotARCin: Multi-Dimensional Evaluation of Skill Acquisition in Abstract Reasoning Tasks
218. NeurIPS 2026quanda: An Interpretability Toolkit for Training Data Attribution Evaluation
219. NeurIPS 2026RA-ClipScore: Making Generative Model Evaluation More Interpretable
220. NeurIPS 2026Reporting Practice Matters: The Impact of Reference Choice on Chest X-ray Report Evaluation
221. NeurIPS 2026Safe, or Simply Incapable? Rethinking Safety Evaluation for Phone-Use Agents
222. NeurIPS 2026Select Smarter, Not More? Prompt-Aware Evaluation Scheduling with Submodular Guarantees
223. NeurIPS 2026SGNNBench: A Holistic Evaluation of Spiking Graph Neural Networks on Large-scale Graphs
224. NeurIPS 2026Testable Learning of General Halfspaces under Massart Noise
225. NeurIPS 2026The Alien Space of Science: Sampling Coherent but Cognitively Unavailable Research Directions
226. NeurIPS 2026TreeWalker: Partial Evaluation for Grouped Tree-Ensemble Inference
227. NeurIPS 2026TRL-Bench: Standardizing Cross-Paradigm Representation-Level Evaluation of Tabular Encoders
228. NeurIPS 2026What Gets Measured Gets Managed: Sign-aware Recommendation Needs Sign-aware Evaluation
229. NeurIPS 2026When Are Predictions Enough? An Evaluation Protocol for Frozen Expert Composition
230. NeurIPS 2026When Stored Evidence Stops Being Usable: Scale-Conditioned Evaluation of Agent Memory

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.