General ML · reinforcement learning papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• General ML · reinforcement learning went from 287 papers in 2023 to 575 in 2026, roughly 2.0x in three years.
• ICLR publishes the most General ML · reinforcement learning work: 847 papers from 2023 to 2026, 51% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Diffusion Models: papers tagged with both rose from 2 in 2023 to 34 in 2026.
• Among the 6 topics under General Machine Learning, it ranks #2 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, General ML · evaluation, is up 4.3x versus 2.0x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026The Sample Complexity of Multiple Change Point Identification under Bandit Feedback
• ICML 2026De-attribute to Forget for LLM Unlearning
• ICLR 2026AbstRaL: Augmenting LLMs' Reasoning by Reinforcing Abstract Thinking
• CVPR 2026Dynamic Important Example Mining for Reinforcement Finetuning
• NeurIPS 2025RULE: Reinforcement UnLEarning Achieves Forget-retain Pareto Optimality
• ICML 2025The Number of Trials Matters in Infinite-Horizon General-Utility Markov Decision Processes
• ICLR 2025A General Framework for Off-Policy Learning with Partially-Observed Reward
• CVPR 2025Automated Proof of Polynomial Inequalities via Reinforcement Learning
• NeurIPS 2024Learning General Parameterized Policies for Infinite Horizon Average Reward Constrained MDPs via Primal-Dual Policy Gradient Algorithm
• ICML 2024Provable Risk-Sensitive Distributional Reinforcement Learning with General Function Approximation
• ICLR 2024Bandits with Replenishable Knapsacks: the Best of both Worlds
• CVPR 2024Improving Unsupervised Hierarchical Representation with Reinforcement Learning
• NeurIPS 2023General Munchausen Reinforcement Learning with Tsallis Kullback-Leibler Divergence
• ICML 2023Non-stationary Reinforcement Learning under General Function Approximation
• ICLR 2023A General Framework for Sample-Efficient Function Approximation in Reinforcement Learning
• CVPR 2023Frustratingly Easy Regularization on Representation Can Boost Deep Reinforcement Learning
• NeurIPS 2026Learning When to Stop: Selective Imitation Learning Under Arbitrary Dynamics Shift
• ICML 2026Fox in the Henhouse: Supply-Chain Backdoor Attacks Against Reinforcement Learning
• ICLR 2026APPLE: Toward General Active Perception via Reinforcement Learning
• CVPR 2026Reinforcement-Guided Synthetic Data Generation for Privacy-Sensitive Identity Recognition

All General ML · reinforcement learning papers

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501. ICLR 2025POTEC: Off-Policy Contextual Bandits for Large Action Spaces via Policy Decomposition
502. ICLR 2025Preference Elicitation for Offline Reinforcement Learning
503. ICLR 2025Prevalence of Negative Transfer in Continual Reinforcement Learning: Analyses and a Simple Baseline
504. ICLR 2025Prioritized Generative Replay
505. ICLR 2025PWM: Policy Learning with Multi-Task World Models
506. ICLR 2025Q-Adapter: Customizing Pre-trained LLMs to New Preferences with Forgetting Mitigation
507. ICLR 2025Q-SFT: Q-Learning for Language Models via Supervised Fine-Tuning
508. ICLR 2025QMP: Q-switch Mixture of Policies for Multi-Task Behavior Sharing
509. ICLR 2025Reconstruction-Guided Policy: Enhancing Decision-Making through Agent-Wise State Consistency
510. ICLR 2025REGENT: A Retrieval-Augmented Generalist Agent That Can Act In-Context in New Environments
511. ICLR 2025Regressing the Relative Future: Efficient Policy Optimization for Multi-turn RLHF
512. ICLR 2025Reinforcement Learning from Imperfect Corrective Actions and Proxy Rewards
513. ICLR 2025Reinforcement learning with combinatorial actions for coupled restless bandits
514. ICLR 2025Residual Kernel Policy Network: Enhancing Stability and Robustness in RKHS-Based Reinforcement Learning
515. ICLR 2025Revisiting a Design Choice in Gradient Temporal Difference Learning
516. ICLR 2025REvolve: Reward Evolution with Large Language Models using Human Feedback
517. ICLR 2025Reward Dimension Reduction for Scalable Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning
518. ICLR 2025Reward Learning from Multiple Feedback Types
519. ICLR 2025Risk-Sensitive Variational Actor-Critic: A Model-Based Approach
520. ICLR 2025Robust Transfer of Safety-Constrained Reinforcement Learning Agents
521. ICLR 2025RTDiff: Reverse Trajectory Synthesis via Diffusion for Offline Reinforcement Learning
522. ICLR 2025Safety Representations for Safer Policy Learning
523. ICLR 2025Safety-Prioritizing Curricula for Constrained Reinforcement Learning
524. ICLR 2025Scalable Decision-Making in Stochastic Environments through Learned Temporal Abstraction
525. ICLR 2025Scaling Offline Model-Based RL via Jointly-Optimized World-Action Model Pretraining
526. ICLR 2025Scrutinize What We Ignore: Reining In Task Representation Shift Of Context-Based Offline Meta Reinforcement Learning
527. ICLR 2025Select before Act: Spatially Decoupled Action Repetition for Continuous Control
528. ICLR 2025SELF-EVOLVED REWARD LEARNING FOR LLMS
529. ICLR 2025Semantic Temporal Abstraction via Vision-Language Model Guidance for Efficient Reinforcement Learning
530. ICLR 2025SEMDICE: Off-policy State Entropy Maximization via Stationary Distribution Correction Estimation
531. ICLR 2025SimBa: Simplicity Bias for Scaling Up Parameters in Deep Reinforcement Learning
532. ICLR 2025Simple, Good, Fast: Self-Supervised World Models Free of Baggage
533. ICLR 2025Simplifying Deep Temporal Difference Learning
534. ICLR 2025SmartRAG: Jointly Learn RAG-Related Tasks From the Environment Feedback
535. ICLR 2025Solving New Tasks by Adapting Internet Video Knowledge
536. ICLR 2025Stabilizing Reinforcement Learning in Differentiable Multiphysics Simulation
537. ICLR 2025Stable Hadamard Memory: Revitalizing Memory-Augmented Agents for Reinforcement Learning
538. ICLR 2025Student-Informed Teacher Training
539. ICLR 2025Studying the Interplay Between the Actor and Critic Representations in Reinforcement Learning
540. ICLR 2025Synthesizing Programmatic Reinforcement Learning Policies with Large Language Model Guided Search
541. ICLR 2025Tackling Data Corruption in Offline Reinforcement Learning via Sequence Modeling
542. ICLR 2025Temporal Difference Learning: Why It Can Be Fast and How It Will Be Faster
543. ICLR 2025The Value of Sensory Information to a Robot
544. ICLR 2025TOP-ERL: Transformer-based Off-Policy Episodic Reinforcement Learning
545. ICLR 2025Toward Efficient Multi-Agent Exploration With Trajectory Entropy Maximization
546. ICLR 2025Towards Empowerment Gain through Causal Structure Learning in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
547. ICLR 2025Towards General-Purpose Model-Free Reinforcement Learning
548. ICLR 2025Towards Generalizable Reinforcement Learning via Causality-Guided Self-Adaptive Representations
549. ICLR 2025TPO: Aligning Large Language Models with Multi-branch & Multi-step Preference Trees
550. ICLR 2025Training Language Models to Self-Correct via Reinforcement Learning

FAQ

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

1,676 in total: 287 in 2023, 403 in 2024, 411 in 2025, 575 in 2026.

How many General ML · reinforcement learning papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 113 General ML · reinforcement learning papers, versus 108 the year before.

How many General ML · reinforcement learning papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 335 General ML · reinforcement learning papers, versus 230 the year before.

How many General ML · reinforcement learning papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 113 General ML · reinforcement learning papers, versus 71 the year before.

How many General ML · reinforcement learning papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 14 General ML · reinforcement learning papers, versus 2 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most General ML · reinforcement learning papers?

ICLR, with 847 papers from 2023 to 2026.