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

338 papers, page 7 of 7

301. ICML 2023Non-stationary Reinforcement Learning under General Function Approximation
302. ICML 2023Offline Reinforcement Learning with Closed-Form Policy Improvement Operators
303. ICML 2023Optimal Goal-Reaching Reinforcement Learning via Quasimetric Learning
304. ICML 2023Parallel $Q$-Learning: Scaling Off-policy Reinforcement Learning under Massively Parallel Simulation
305. ICML 2023Performative Reinforcement Learning
306. ICML 2023Policy Regularization with Dataset Constraint for Offline Reinforcement Learning
307. ICML 2023Posterior Sampling for Deep Reinforcement Learning
308. ICML 2023Principled Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback from Pairwise or K-wise Comparisons
309. ICML 2023Provable Reset-free Reinforcement Learning by No-Regret Reduction
310. ICML 2023Provably Efficient Offline Reinforcement Learning with Perturbed Data Sources
311. ICML 2023Reachability-Aware Laplacian Representation in Reinforcement Learning
312. ICML 2023Reinforcement Learning Can Be More Efficient with Multiple Rewards
313. ICML 2023Reinforcement Learning from Passive Data via Latent Intentions
314. ICML 2023Reinforcement Learning in Low-rank MDPs with Density Features
315. ICML 2023Reinforcement Learning with General Utilities: Simpler Variance Reduction and Large State-Action Space
316. ICML 2023Reinforcement Learning with History Dependent Dynamic Contexts
317. ICML 2023ReLOAD: Reinforcement Learning with Optimistic Ascent-Descent for Last-Iterate Convergence in Constrained MDPs
318. ICML 2023Representation-Driven Reinforcement Learning
319. ICML 2023Revisiting the Linear-Programming Framework for Offline RL with General Function Approximation
320. ICML 2023Robust Situational Reinforcement Learning in Face of Context Disturbances
321. ICML 2023Semi-Supervised Offline Reinforcement Learning with Action-Free Trajectories
322. ICML 2023Set-membership Belief State-based Reinforcement Learning for POMDPs
323. ICML 2023Simple Embodied Language Learning as a Byproduct of Meta-Reinforcement Learning
324. ICML 2023Simplified Temporal Consistency Reinforcement Learning
325. ICML 2023SNeRL: Semantic-aware Neural Radiance Fields for Reinforcement Learning
326. ICML 2023Subequivariant Graph Reinforcement Learning in 3D Environments
327. ICML 2023Supported Trust Region Optimization for Offline Reinforcement Learning
328. ICML 2023TGRL: An Algorithm for Teacher Guided Reinforcement Learning
329. ICML 2023The Benefits of Model-Based Generalization in Reinforcement Learning
330. ICML 2023The Dormant Neuron Phenomenon in Deep Reinforcement Learning
331. ICML 2023The Statistical Benefits of Quantile Temporal-Difference Learning for Value Estimation
332. ICML 2023The Unintended Consequences of Discount Regularization: Improving Regularization in Certainty Equivalence Reinforcement Learning
333. ICML 2023Towards Theoretical Understanding of Inverse Reinforcement Learning
334. ICML 2023Trajectory-Aware Eligibility Traces for Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning
335. ICML 2023Truncating Trajectories in Monte Carlo Reinforcement Learning
336. ICML 2023Variance Control for Distributional Reinforcement Learning
337. ICML 2023What can online reinforcement learning with function approximation benefit from general coverage conditions?
338. ICML 2023When is Realizability Sufficient for Off-Policy 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.