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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201. ICLR 2025Stabilizing Reinforcement Learning in Differentiable Multiphysics Simulation
202. ICLR 2025Stable Hadamard Memory: Revitalizing Memory-Augmented Agents for Reinforcement Learning
203. ICLR 2025Student-Informed Teacher Training
204. ICLR 2025Studying the Interplay Between the Actor and Critic Representations in Reinforcement Learning
205. ICLR 2025Synthesizing Programmatic Reinforcement Learning Policies with Large Language Model Guided Search
206. ICLR 2025Tackling Data Corruption in Offline Reinforcement Learning via Sequence Modeling
207. ICLR 2025Temporal Difference Learning: Why It Can Be Fast and How It Will Be Faster
208. ICLR 2025The Value of Sensory Information to a Robot
209. ICLR 2025TOP-ERL: Transformer-based Off-Policy Episodic Reinforcement Learning
210. ICLR 2025Toward Efficient Multi-Agent Exploration With Trajectory Entropy Maximization
211. ICLR 2025Towards Empowerment Gain through Causal Structure Learning in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
212. ICLR 2025Towards General-Purpose Model-Free Reinforcement Learning
213. ICLR 2025Towards Generalizable Reinforcement Learning via Causality-Guided Self-Adaptive Representations
214. ICLR 2025TPO: Aligning Large Language Models with Multi-branch & Multi-step Preference Trees
215. ICLR 2025Training Language Models to Self-Correct via Reinforcement Learning
216. ICLR 2025Training Large Language Models for Retrieval-Augmented Question Answering through Backtracking Correction
217. ICLR 2025Trajectory-Class-Aware Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
218. ICLR 2025Transformers Can Learn Temporal Difference Methods for In-Context Reinforcement Learning
219. ICLR 2025Uncertainty and Influence aware Reward Model Refinement for Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
220. ICLR 2025Understanding Constraint Inference in Safety-Critical Inverse Reinforcement Learning
221. ICLR 2025UniCO: On Unified Combinatorial Optimization via Problem Reduction to Matrix-Encoded General TSP
222. ICLR 2025Utilitarian Algorithm Configuration for Infinite Parameter Spaces
223. ICLR 2025UTILITY: Utilizing Explainable Reinforcement Learning to Improve Reinforcement Learning
224. ICLR 2025Value-aligned Behavior Cloning for Offline Reinforcement Learning via Bi-level Optimization
225. ICLR 2025Value-Incentivized Preference Optimization: A Unified Approach to Online and Offline RLHF
226. ICLR 2025VICtoR: Learning Hierarchical Vision-Instruction Correlation Rewards for Long-horizon Manipulation
227. ICLR 2025What Makes a Good Diffusion Planner for Decision Making?
228. ICLR 2025XLand-100B: A Large-Scale Multi-Task Dataset for In-Context Reinforcement Learning
229. ICLR 2025Zero-Shot Whole-Body Humanoid Control via Behavioral Foundation Models
230. ICLR 2025Zeroth-Order Policy Gradient for Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback without Reward Inference

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.