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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401. NeurIPS 2023Monte Carlo Tree Search with Boltzmann Exploration
402. NeurIPS 2023Multi-Modal Inverse Constrained Reinforcement Learning from a Mixture of Demonstrations
403. NeurIPS 2023Mutual Information Regularized Offline Reinforcement Learning
404. NeurIPS 2023Natural Actor-Critic for Robust Reinforcement Learning with Function Approximation
405. NeurIPS 2023ODE-based Recurrent Model-free Reinforcement Learning for POMDPs
406. NeurIPS 2023OFCOURSE: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Environment for Order Fulfillment
407. NeurIPS 2023Offline Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Implicit Global-to-Local Value Regularization
408. NeurIPS 2023Offline Reinforcement Learning for Mixture-of-Expert Dialogue Management
409. NeurIPS 2023Offline Reinforcement Learning with Differential Privacy
410. NeurIPS 2023On Dynamic Programming Decompositions of Static Risk Measures in Markov Decision Processes
411. NeurIPS 2023On the Importance of Exploration for Generalization in Reinforcement Learning
412. NeurIPS 2023One Risk to Rule Them All: A Risk-Sensitive Perspective on Model-Based Offline Reinforcement Learning
413. NeurIPS 2023Optimal Convergence Rate for Exact Policy Mirror Descent in Discounted Markov Decision Processes
414. NeurIPS 2023Optimistic Active Exploration of Dynamical Systems
415. NeurIPS 2023Optimistic Exploration in Reinforcement Learning Using Symbolic Model Estimates
416. NeurIPS 2023Parameterizing Non-Parametric Meta-Reinforcement Learning Tasks via Subtask Decomposition
417. NeurIPS 2023Performance Bounds for Policy-Based Average Reward Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
418. NeurIPS 2023Pgx: Hardware-Accelerated Parallel Game Simulators for Reinforcement Learning
419. NeurIPS 2023PID-Inspired Inductive Biases for Deep Reinforcement Learning in Partially Observable Control Tasks
420. NeurIPS 2023Pitfall of Optimism: Distributional Reinforcement Learning by Randomizing Risk Criterion
421. NeurIPS 2023Policy Finetuning in Reinforcement Learning via Design of Experiments using Offline Data
422. NeurIPS 2023Posterior Sampling with Delayed Feedback for Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Approximation
423. NeurIPS 2023Prioritizing Samples in Reinforcement Learning with Reducible Loss
424. NeurIPS 2023Provably Efficient Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning with General Function Approximation and Single-Policy Concentrability
425. NeurIPS 2023Provably Efficient Offline Reinforcement Learning in Regular Decision Processes
426. NeurIPS 2023Provably Robust Temporal Difference Learning for Heavy-Tailed Rewards
427. NeurIPS 2023Provably Safe Reinforcement Learning with Step-wise Violation Constraints
428. NeurIPS 2023Recovering from Out-of-sample States via Inverse Dynamics in Offline Reinforcement Learning
429. NeurIPS 2023Reduced Policy Optimization for Continuous Control with Hard Constraints
430. NeurIPS 2023Reflexion: language agents with verbal reinforcement learning
431. NeurIPS 2023Regret Minimization via Saddle Point Optimization
432. NeurIPS 2023Reinforcement Learning with Simple Sequence Priors
433. NeurIPS 2023Reinforcement-Enhanced Autoregressive Feature Transformation: Gradient-steered Search in Continuous Space for Postfix Expressions
434. NeurIPS 2023Reining Generalization in Offline Reinforcement Learning via Representation Distinction
435. NeurIPS 2023Replicability in Reinforcement Learning
436. NeurIPS 2023Replicable Reinforcement Learning
437. NeurIPS 2023Revisiting the Minimalist Approach to Offline Reinforcement Learning
438. NeurIPS 2023Reward Scale Robustness for Proximal Policy Optimization via DreamerV3 Tricks
439. NeurIPS 2023Reward-agnostic Fine-tuning: Provable Statistical Benefits of Hybrid Reinforcement Learning
440. NeurIPS 2023Rewiring Neurons in Non-Stationary Environments
441. NeurIPS 2023RL-ViGen: A Reinforcement Learning Benchmark for Visual Generalization
442. NeurIPS 2023Safety Gymnasium: A Unified Safe Reinforcement Learning Benchmark
443. NeurIPS 2023Sample Complexity of Goal-Conditioned Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
444. NeurIPS 2023Scalable Primal-Dual Actor-Critic Method for Safe Multi-Agent RL with General Utilities
445. NeurIPS 2023Seeing is not Believing: Robust Reinforcement Learning against Spurious Correlation
446. NeurIPS 2023Self-Predictive Universal AI
447. NeurIPS 2023Sequential Preference Ranking for Efficient Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
448. NeurIPS 2023SMACv2: An Improved Benchmark for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
449. NeurIPS 2023Small batch deep reinforcement learning
450. NeurIPS 2023SPQR: Controlling Q-ensemble Independence with Spiked Random Model for 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.