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

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1. CVPR 2026Conditional Factuality Controlled LLMs with Generalization Certificates via Conformal Sampling
2. CVPR 2026Data-Centric Meta-Learning for Robust Few-Shot Generalization
3. CVPR 2026GenSplat Bridging the Generalization Gap in 3DGS Language Comprehension
4. CVPR 2026Improving Diffusion Generalization with Weak-to-Strong Segmented Guidance
5. CVPR 2026PoseAnything General Pose-guided Video Generation with Part-aware Temporal Coherence
6. CVPR 2026PriVi Towards a General-Purpose Video Model for Primate Behavior in
7. CVPR 2026See Through the Noise Improving Domain Generalization in Gaze Estimation
8. CVPR 2026Smoothing the Score Function to Enhance Generalization in Diffusion Models
9. CVPR 2026The Golden Subspace Where Efficiency Meets Generalization in Continual Test-Time
10. ICLR 2026$\mu$LO: Compute-Efficient Meta-Generalization of Learned Optimizers
11. ICLR 2026A Theoretical Analysis of Mamba’s Training Dynamics: Filtering Relevant Features for Generalization in State Space Models
12. ICLR 2026Beyond Spectra: Eigenvector Overlaps in Loss Geometry
13. ICLR 2026Block-Sample MAC-Bayes Generalization Bounds
14. ICLR 2026Bound by semanticity: universal laws governing the generalization-identification tradeoff
15. ICLR 2026Bridging Generalization Gap of Heterogeneous Federated Clients Using Generative Models
16. ICLR 2026Can Transformers Really Do It All? On the Compatibility of Inductive Biases Across Tasks
17. ICLR 2026Covariate-Guided Clusterwise Linear Regression for Generalization to Unseen Data
18. ICLR 2026Demystifying Supervision Data Generalization in Multimodal LMs
19. ICLR 2026Diagnosing Failures in Generalization from Task-Relevant Representational Geometry
20. ICLR 2026Does Weak-to-strong Generalization Happen under Spurious Correlations?
21. ICLR 2026Efficient Offline Reinforcement Learning via Peer-Influenced Constraint
22. ICLR 2026Exploring Mode Connectivity in Krylov Subspace for Domain Generalization
23. ICLR 2026Generalization Below the Edge of Stability: The Role of Data Geometry
24. ICLR 2026Graph Representational Learning: When Does More Expressivity Hurt Generalization?
25. ICLR 2026GTM: A General Time-series Model for Enhanced Representation Learning of Time-Series data
26. ICLR 2026Implicit Regularisation in Diffusion Models: An Algorithm-Dependent Generalisation Analysis
27. ICLR 2026LDT: Layer-Decomposition Training Makes Networks More Generalizable
28. ICLR 2026LiteGuard: Efficient Task-Agnostic Model Fingerprinting with Enhanced Generalization
29. ICLR 2026Long-Context Generalization with Sparse Attention
30. ICLR 2026Memorizing Long-tail Data Can Help Generalization Through Composition
31. ICLR 2026Monotone Near-Zero-Sum Games: A Generalization of Convex-Concave Minimax
32. ICLR 2026On the Generalization of SFT: A Reinforcement Learning Perspective with Reward Rectification
33. ICLR 2026Operator Learning with Domain Decomposition for Geometry Generalization in PDE Solving
34. ICLR 2026PAC-Bayes bounds for cumulative loss in Continual Learning
35. ICLR 2026Pretrain–Test Task Alignment Governs Generalization in In-Context Learning
36. ICLR 2026Quantitative Bounds for Length Generalization in Transformers
37. ICLR 2026Rényi Sharpness: A Novel Sharpness that Strongly Correlates with Generalization
38. ICLR 2026Rote Learning Considered Useful: Generalizing over Memorized Data in LLMs
39. ICLR 2026Self-Predictive Representations for Combinatorial Generalization in Behavioral Cloning
40. ICLR 2026Sharp asymptotic theory for Q-learning with \texttt{LD2Z} learning rate and its generalization
41. ICLR 2026Symmetric Space Learning for Combinatorial Generalization
42. ICLR 2026Temporal Generalization: A Reality Check
43. ICLR 2026The Imitation Game: Turing Machine Imitator is Length Generalizable Reasoner
44. ICLR 2026Training-Free Determination of Network Width via Neural Tangent Kernel
45. ICLR 2026Unlearning during Training: Domain-Specific Gradient Ascent for Domain Generalization
46. ICLR 2026When Shift Happens - Confounding Is to Blame
47. ICLR 2026Why is Your Language Model a Poor Implicit Reward Model?
48. ICML 2026Anti-causal domain generalization: Leveraging unlabeled data
49. ICML 2026Are Object-Centric Representations Better at Compositional Generalization?
50. ICML 2026Branch Scaling Manifests as Implicit Architectural Regularization for Improving Generalization in Overparameterized ResNets

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.