General ML · reinforcement learning papers, 2023–2026
General machine learning: reinforcement_learning
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 1,676 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 146 | 66 | 72 | 3 | 287 |
| 2024 | 101 | 216 | 82 | 4 | 403 |
| 2025 | 108 | 230 | 71 | 2 | 411 |
| 2026 | 113 | 335 | 113 | 14 | 575 |
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
411 papers, page 9 of 9
- NeurIPS 2025Towards Large-Scale In-Context Reinforcement Learning by Meta-Training in Randomized Worlds
- NeurIPS 2025Towards Provable Emergence of In-Context Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Trajectory Graph Learning: Aligning with Long Trajectories in Reinforcement Learning Without Reward Design
- NeurIPS 2025TTRL: Test-Time Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Uncertainty-Sensitive Privileged Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Unified Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reward Model through Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
- NeurIPS 2025Value Diffusion Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Value Improved Actor Critic Algorithms
- NeurIPS 2025Videos are Sample-Efficient Supervisions: Behavior Cloning from Videos via Latent Representations
- NeurIPS 2025WHAT MAKES MATH PROBLEMS HARD FOR REINFORCEMENT LEARNING: A CASE STUDY
- NeurIPS 2025When Can Model-Free Reinforcement Learning be Enough for Thinking?
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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.