General ML · generalization papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• General ML · generalization went from 136 papers in 2023 to 152 in 2026, roughly 1.1x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most General ML · generalization work: 207 papers from 2023 to 2026, 35% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Theory · learning theory: papers tagged with both rose from 3 in 2023 to 20 in 2026.
• Among the 6 topics under General Machine Learning, it ranks #5 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, General ML · evaluation, is up 4.3x versus 1.1x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026Asymmetric Generalization in Deep CTR Models: A Block-wise Diagnosis
• ICML 2026Anti-causal domain generalization: Leveraging unlabeled data
• ICLR 2026Generalization Below the Edge of Stability: The Role of Data Geometry
• CVPR 2026PriVi Towards a General-Purpose Video Model for Primate Behavior in
• NeurIPS 2025Automatic Visual Instrumental Variable Learning for Confounding-Resistant Domain Generalization
• ICML 2025Causality Inspired Federated Learning for OOD Generalization
• ICLR 2025Federated Domain Generalization with Data-free On-server Matching Gradient
• CVPR 2025Balanced Direction from Multifarious Choices: Arithmetic Meta-Learning for Domain Generalization
• NeurIPS 2024Benchmarking Out-of-Distribution Generalization Capabilities of DNN-based Encoding Models for the Ventral Visual Cortex.
• ICML 2024Algorithmic Stability Unleashed: Generalization Bounds with Unbounded Losses
• ICLR 2024Adaptive Sharpness-Aware Pruning for Robust Sparse Networks
• CVPR 2024Disentangled Prompt Representation for Domain Generalization
• NeurIPS 2023A unified framework for information-theoretic generalization bounds
• ICML 2023Algorithmic Stability of Heavy-Tailed SGD with General Loss Functions
• ICLR 2023ArCL: Enhancing Contrastive Learning with Augmentation-Robust Representations
• CVPR 2023AltFreezing for More General Video Face Forgery Detection
• NeurIPS 2026Beyond Average Flatness: Domain-wise Flatness for Domain Generalization
• ICML 2026Are Object-Centric Representations Better at Compositional Generalization?
• ICLR 2026Temporal Generalization: A Reality Check
• CVPR 2026The Golden Subspace Where Efficiency Meets Generalization in Continual Test-Time

All General ML · generalization papers

174 papers, page 4 of 4

151. ICML 2023Generalization Analysis for Contrastive Representation Learning
152. ICML 2023Generalization Bounds using Data-Dependent Fractal Dimensions
153. ICML 2023How much does Initialization Affect Generalization?
154. ICML 2023Hypothesis Transfer Learning with Surrogate Classification Losses: Generalization Bounds through Algorithmic Stability
155. ICML 2023Learning to Boost Training by Periodic Nowcasting Near Future Weights
156. ICML 2023MAGANet: Achieving Combinatorial Generalization by Modeling a Group Action
157. ICML 2023Model-agnostic Measure of Generalization Difficulty
158. ICML 2023Moderately Distributional Exploration for Domain Generalization
159. ICML 2023Monotonic Location Attention for Length Generalization
160. ICML 2023On the Complexity of Bayesian Generalization
161. ICML 2023On the Generalization of Multi-modal Contrastive Learning
162. ICML 2023Out-of-Distribution Generalization of Federated Learning via Implicit Invariant Relationships
163. ICML 2023PAC Generalization via Invariant Representations
164. ICML 2023Robust Subtask Learning for Compositional Generalization
165. ICML 2023Test-Time Style Shifting: Handling Arbitrary Styles in Domain Generalization
166. ICML 2023The Benefits of Model-Based Generalization in Reinforcement Learning
167. ICML 2023Theory on Forgetting and Generalization of Continual Learning
168. ICML 2023Tighter Information-Theoretic Generalization Bounds from Supersamples
169. ICML 2023Toward Large Kernel Models
170. ICML 2023Towards Understanding Generalization of Graph Neural Networks
171. ICML 2023Towards Understanding Generalization of Macro-AUC in Multi-label Learning
172. ICML 2023Transformers as Algorithms: Generalization and Stability in In-context Learning
173. ICML 2023Wasserstein Barycenter Matching for Graph Size Generalization of Message Passing Neural Networks
174. ICML 2023What is Essential for Unseen Goal Generalization of Offline Goal-conditioned RL?

FAQ

How many General ML · generalization papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

592 in total: 136 in 2023, 135 in 2024, 169 in 2025, 152 in 2026.

How many General ML · generalization papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 58 General ML · generalization papers, versus 61 the year before.

How many General ML · generalization papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 38 General ML · generalization papers, versus 33 the year before.

How many General ML · generalization papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 47 General ML · generalization papers, versus 61 the year before.

How many General ML · generalization papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 9 General ML · generalization papers, versus 14 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most General ML · generalization papers?

NeurIPS, with 207 papers from 2023 to 2026.