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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51. ICLR 2025Distilling Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for In-Context Model-Based Planning
52. ICLR 2025Don't flatten, tokenize! Unlocking the key to SoftMoE's efficacy in deep RL
53. ICLR 2025DOPL: Direct Online Preference Learning for Restless Bandits with Preference Feedback
54. ICLR 2025Doubly Optimal Policy Evaluation for Reinforcement Learning
55. ICLR 2025Drama: Mamba-Enabled Model-Based Reinforcement Learning Is Sample and Parameter Efficient
56. ICLR 2025Dynamic Contrastive Skill Learning with State-Transition Based Skill Clustering and Dynamic Length Adjustment
57. ICLR 2025Efficient Action-Constrained Reinforcement Learning via Acceptance-Rejection Method and Augmented MDPs
58. ICLR 2025Efficient Active Imitation Learning with Random Network Distillation
59. ICLR 2025Efficient Discovery of Pareto Front for Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning
60. ICLR 2025Efficient Exploration and Discriminative World Model Learning with an Object-Centric Abstraction
61. ICLR 2025Efficient Imitation under Misspecification
62. ICLR 2025Efficient Model-Based Reinforcement Learning Through Optimistic Thompson Sampling
63. ICLR 2025Efficient Off-Policy Learning for High-Dimensional Action Spaces
64. ICLR 2025Efficient Online Reinforcement Learning Fine-Tuning Need Not Retain Offline Data
65. ICLR 2025Efficient Policy Evaluation with Safety Constraint for Reinforcement Learning
66. ICLR 2025Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Model Priors
67. ICLR 2025Enabling Realtime Reinforcement Learning at Scale with Staggered Asynchronous Inference
68. ICLR 2025Energy-Weighted Flow Matching for Offline Reinforcement Learning
69. ICLR 2025Episodic Novelty Through Temporal Distance
70. ICLR 2025Epistemic Monte Carlo Tree Search
71. ICLR 2025eQMARL: Entangled Quantum Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Distributed Cooperation over Quantum Channels
72. ICLR 2025Expected Return Symmetries
73. ICLR 2025Exploiting Structure in Offline Multi-Agent RL: The Benefits of Low Interaction Rank
74. ICLR 2025Exponential Topology-enabled Scalable Communication in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
75. ICLR 2025Fat-to-Thin Policy Optimization: Offline Reinforcement Learning with Sparse Policies
76. ICLR 2025Feature-Based Online Bilateral Trade
77. ICLR 2025Federated $Q$-Learning with Reference-Advantage Decomposition: Almost Optimal Regret and Logarithmic Communication Cost
78. ICLR 2025Fewer May Be Better: Enhancing Offline Reinforcement Learning with Reduced Dataset
79. ICLR 2025Finally Rank-Breaking Conquers MNL Bandits: Optimal and Efficient Algorithms for MNL Assortment
80. ICLR 2025Flat Reward in Policy Parameter Space Implies Robust Reinforcement Learning
81. ICLR 2025FlickerFusion: Intra-trajectory Domain Generalizing Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
82. ICLR 2025FOSP: Fine-tuning Offline Safe Policy through World Models
83. ICLR 2025Gap-Dependent Bounds for Q-Learning using Reference-Advantage Decomposition
84. ICLR 2025Geometry of Neural Reinforcement Learning in Continuous State and Action Spaces
85. ICLR 2025Geometry-aware RL for Manipulation of Varying Shapes and Deformable Objects
86. ICLR 2025Global Convergence of Policy Gradient in Average Reward MDPs
87. ICLR 2025Grammar Reinforcement Learning: path and cycle counting in graphs with a Context-Free Grammar and Transformer approach
88. ICLR 2025GROOT-2: Weakly Supervised Multimodal Instruction Following Agents
89. ICLR 2025Grounding by Trying: LLMs with Reinforcement Learning-Enhanced Retrieval
90. ICLR 2025Handling Delay in Real-Time Reinforcement Learning
91. ICLR 2025Hierarchical World Models as Visual Whole-Body Humanoid Controllers
92. ICLR 2025Highly Efficient Self-Adaptive Reward Shaping for Reinforcement Learning
93. ICLR 2025Horizon Generalization in Reinforcement Learning
94. ICLR 2025How to Find the Exact Pareto Front for Multi-Objective MDPs?
95. ICLR 2025INS: Interaction-aware Synthesis to Enhance Offline Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
96. ICLR 2025Integral Performance Approximation for Continuous-Time Reinforcement Learning Control
97. ICLR 2025Iterative Nash Policy Optimization: Aligning LLMs with General Preferences via No-Regret Learning
98. ICLR 2025Kinetix: Investigating the Training of General Agents through Open-Ended Physics-Based Control Tasks
99. ICLR 2025Langevin Soft Actor-Critic: Efficient Exploration through Uncertainty-Driven Critic Learning
100. ICLR 2025Language Guided Skill Discovery

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.