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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351. NeurIPS 2023Cross-Episodic Curriculum for Transformer Agents
352. NeurIPS 2023De novo Drug Design using Reinforcement Learning with Multiple GPT Agents
353. NeurIPS 2023Decision Stacks: Flexible Reinforcement Learning via Modular Generative Models
354. NeurIPS 2023Decision-Aware Actor-Critic with Function Approximation and Theoretical Guarantees
355. NeurIPS 2023Deep Reinforcement Learning with Plasticity Injection
356. NeurIPS 2023Discovering General Reinforcement Learning Algorithms with Adversarial Environment Design
357. NeurIPS 2023Discovering Hierarchical Achievements in Reinforcement Learning via Contrastive Learning
358. NeurIPS 2023Distributional Model Equivalence for Risk-Sensitive Reinforcement Learning
359. NeurIPS 2023Double Pessimism is Provably Efficient for Distributionally Robust Offline Reinforcement Learning: Generic Algorithm and Robust Partial Coverage
360. NeurIPS 2023Doubly Robust Augmented Transfer for Meta-Reinforcement Learning
361. NeurIPS 2023Effectively Learning Initiation Sets in Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
362. NeurIPS 2023Efficient Exploration in Continuous-time Model-based Reinforcement Learning
363. NeurIPS 2023Efficient Potential-based Exploration in Reinforcement Learning using Inverse Dynamic Bisimulation Metric
364. NeurIPS 2023Elastic Decision Transformer
365. NeurIPS 2023ELDEN: Exploration via Local Dependencies
366. NeurIPS 2023f-Policy Gradients: A General Framework for Goal-Conditioned RL using f-Divergences
367. NeurIPS 2023General Munchausen Reinforcement Learning with Tsallis Kullback-Leibler Divergence
368. NeurIPS 2023Generative Modelling of Stochastic Actions with Arbitrary Constraints in Reinforcement Learning
369. NeurIPS 2023Gigastep - One Billion Steps per Second Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
370. NeurIPS 2023Goal-Conditioned Predictive Coding for Offline Reinforcement Learning
371. NeurIPS 2023HIQL: Offline Goal-Conditioned RL with Latent States as Actions
372. NeurIPS 2023Hybrid Policy Optimization from Imperfect Demonstrations
373. NeurIPS 2023Hybrid Search for Efficient Planning with Completeness Guarantees
374. NeurIPS 2023Hyperbolic VAE via Latent Gaussian Distributions
375. NeurIPS 2023Importance Weighted Actor-Critic for Optimal Conservative Offline Reinforcement Learning
376. NeurIPS 2023Improved Bayesian Regret Bounds for Thompson Sampling in Reinforcement Learning
377. NeurIPS 2023Information Design in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
378. NeurIPS 2023Instructing Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning Agents with Temporal Logic Objectives
379. NeurIPS 2023Inverse Preference Learning: Preference-based RL without a Reward Function
380. NeurIPS 2023Inverse Reinforcement Learning with the Average Reward Criterion
381. NeurIPS 2023Is RLHF More Difficult than Standard RL? A Theoretical Perspective
382. NeurIPS 2023Iterative Reachability Estimation for Safe Reinforcement Learning
383. NeurIPS 2023Keep Various Trajectories: Promoting Exploration of Ensemble Policies in Continuous Control
384. NeurIPS 2023Kernelized Reinforcement Learning with Order Optimal Regret Bounds
385. NeurIPS 2023KuaiSim: A Comprehensive Simulator for Recommender Systems
386. NeurIPS 2023Latent exploration for Reinforcement Learning
387. NeurIPS 2023Learning Better with Less: Effective Augmentation for Sample-Efficient Visual Reinforcement Learning
388. NeurIPS 2023Learning Generalizable Agents via Saliency-guided Features Decorrelation
389. NeurIPS 2023Learning Regularized Monotone Graphon Mean-Field Games
390. NeurIPS 2023Learning Score-based Grasping Primitive for Human-assisting Dexterous Grasping
391. NeurIPS 2023Learning to Influence Human Behavior with Offline Reinforcement Learning
392. NeurIPS 2023LightZero: A Unified Benchmark for Monte Carlo Tree Search in General Sequential Decision Scenarios
393. NeurIPS 2023Long-Term Fairness with Unknown Dynamics
394. NeurIPS 2023Look Beneath the Surface: Exploiting Fundamental Symmetry for Sample-Efficient Offline RL
395. NeurIPS 2023Loss Dynamics of Temporal Difference Reinforcement Learning
396. NeurIPS 2023MIMEx: Intrinsic Rewards from Masked Input Modeling
397. NeurIPS 2023Minigrid & Miniworld: Modular & Customizable Reinforcement Learning Environments for Goal-Oriented Tasks
398. NeurIPS 2023Model-Free Active Exploration in Reinforcement Learning
399. NeurIPS 2023Model-free Posterior Sampling via Learning Rate Randomization
400. NeurIPS 2023Model-Free Reinforcement Learning with the Decision-Estimation Coefficient

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.