General ML · unsupervised and semisupervised learning papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• General ML · unsupervised and semisupervised learning went from 649 papers in 2023 to 799 in 2026, roughly 1.2x in three years.
• ICML publishes the most General ML · unsupervised and semisupervised learning work: 859 papers from 2023 to 2026, 32% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Deep learning · self supervised learning: papers tagged with both rose from 23 in 2023 to 86 in 2026.
• Among the 6 topics under General Machine Learning, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, General ML · evaluation, is up 4.3x versus 1.2x here.

Representative papers

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• NeurIPS 2026A general kernel framework for non-CND distance measures using $|\mathcal{D}|$-dimensional sparse landmark embeddings
• ICML 2026$\mu$pscaling small models: Principled warm starts and hyperparameter transfer
• ICLR 2026A Generalized Geometric Theoretical Framework of Centroid Discriminant Analysis for Linear Classification of Multi-dimensional Data
• CVPR 2026COG Confidence-aware Optimal Geometric Correspondence for Unsupervised Single-reference Novel Object
• NeurIPS 2025$O(\sqrt{T})$ Static Regret and Instance Dependent Constraint Violation for Constrained Online Convex Optimization
• ICML 2025A Square Peg in a Square Hole: Meta-Expert for Long-Tailed Semi-Supervised Learning
• ICLR 2025A General Framework for Producing Interpretable Semantic Text Embeddings
• CVPR 2025A General Adaptive Dual-level Weighting Mechanism for Remote Sensing Pansharpening
• NeurIPS 2024GlotCC: An Open Broad-Coverage CommonCrawl Corpus and Pipeline for Minority Languages
• ICML 2024CKGConv: General Graph Convolution with Continuous Kernels
• ICLR 2024A Graph is Worth 1-bit Spikes: When Graph Contrastive Learning Meets Spiking Neural Networks
• CVPR 2024Dual Prototype Attention for Unsupervised Video Object Segmentation
• NeurIPS 2023$H$-Consistency Bounds: Characterization and Extensions
• ICML 2023A Mathematical Model for Curriculum Learning for Parities
• ICLR 2023A General Framework For Proving The Equivariant Strong Lottery Ticket Hypothesis
• CVPR 2023A General Regret Bound of Preconditioned Gradient Method for DNN Training
• NeurIPS 2026Attention-based PCA
• ICML 2026A Control-Theoretic View of Mamba on Stability and Robustness
• ICLR 2026A Single Architecture for Representing Invariance Under Any Space Group
• CVPR 2026CROWn A Unified Framework for Anti-Aliased Downsampling and Phase-Calibrated Fusion

All General ML · unsupervised and semisupervised learning papers

684 papers, page 12 of 14

551. ICLR 2024Self-Supervised Heterogeneous Graph Learning: a Homophily and Heterogeneity View
552. ICLR 2024SemiReward: A General Reward Model for Semi-supervised Learning
553. ICLR 2024Set Learning for Accurate and Calibrated Models
554. ICLR 2024SetCSE: Set Operations using Contrastive Learning of Sentence Embeddings
555. ICLR 2024Simplifying Transformer Blocks
556. ICLR 2024Source-Free and Image-Only Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Category Level Object Pose Estimation
557. ICLR 2024Sparse Autoencoders Find Highly Interpretable Features in Language Models
558. ICLR 2024Sparse Model Soups: A Recipe for Improved Pruning via Model Averaging
559. ICLR 2024Sparse Spiking Neural Network: Exploiting Heterogeneity in Timescales for Pruning Recurrent SNN
560. ICLR 2024Sparse Weight Averaging with Multiple Particles for Iterative Magnitude Pruning
561. ICLR 2024Spurious Feature Diversification Improves Out-of-distribution Generalization
562. ICLR 2024Stable Neural Stochastic Differential Equations in Analyzing Irregular Time Series Data
563. ICLR 2024STARC: A General Framework For Quantifying Differences Between Reward Functions
564. ICLR 2024State Representation Learning Using an Unbalanced Atlas
565. ICLR 2024StructComp: Substituting propagation with Structural Compression in Training Graph Contrastive Learning
566. ICLR 2024Structuring Representation Geometry with Rotationally Equivariant Contrastive Learning
567. ICLR 2024SWAP: Sparse Entropic Wasserstein Regression for Robust Network Pruning
568. ICLR 2024Symmetric Neural-Collapse Representations with Supervised Contrastive Loss: The Impact of ReLU and Batching
569. ICLR 2024Task Adaptation from Skills: Information Geometry, Disentanglement, and New Objectives for Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning
570. ICLR 2024Teaching Arithmetic to Small Transformers
571. ICLR 2024The Alignment Problem from a Deep Learning Perspective
572. ICLR 2024The Expressive Power of Transformers with Chain of Thought
573. ICLR 2024The mechanistic basis of data dependence and abrupt learning in an in-context classification task
574. ICLR 2024Time-Varying Propensity Score to Bridge the Gap between the Past and Present
575. ICLR 2024To Grok or not to Grok: Disentangling Generalization and Memorization on Corrupted Algorithmic Datasets
576. ICLR 2024Topological data analysis on noisy quantum computers
577. ICLR 2024Towards domain-invariant Self-Supervised Learning with Batch Styles Standardization
578. ICLR 2024Towards Identifiable Unsupervised Domain Translation: A Diversified Distribution Matching Approach
579. ICLR 2024Towards LLM4QPE: Unsupervised Pretraining of Quantum Property Estimation and A Benchmark
580. ICLR 2024Towards Lossless Dataset Distillation via Difficulty-Aligned Trajectory Matching
581. ICLR 2024Towards Meta-Pruning via Optimal Transport
582. ICLR 2024Transferring Learning Trajectories of Neural Networks
583. ICLR 2024Transformer Fusion with Optimal Transport
584. ICLR 2024Transformers can optimally learn regression mixture models
585. ICLR 2024Unconstrained Stochastic CCA: Unifying Multiview and Self-Supervised Learning
586. ICLR 2024Understanding Augmentation-based Self-Supervised Representation Learning via RKHS Approximation and Regression
587. ICLR 2024Understanding In-Context Learning in Transformers and LLMs by Learning to Learn Discrete Functions
588. ICLR 2024Understanding Reconstruction Attacks with the Neural Tangent Kernel and Dataset Distillation
589. ICLR 2024UNR-Explainer: Counterfactual Explanations for Unsupervised Node Representation Learning Models
590. ICLR 2024Unsupervised Order Learning
591. ICLR 2024Unsupervised Pretraining for Fact Verification by Language Model Distillation
592. ICLR 2024Video Decomposition Prior: Editing Videos Layer by Layer
593. ICLR 2024VONet: Unsupervised Video Object Learning With Parallel U-Net Attention and Object-wise Sequential VAE
594. ICLR 2024Waxing-and-Waning: a Generic Similarity-based Framework for Efficient Self-Supervised Learning
595. ICLR 2024What does automatic differentiation compute for neural networks?
596. ICLR 2024When Do Prompting and Prefix-Tuning Work? A Theory of Capabilities and Limitations
597. ICLR 2024Zero-Mean Regularized Spectral Contrastive Learning: Implicitly Mitigating Wrong Connections in Positive-Pair Graphs
598. ICLR 2023A General Framework For Proving The Equivariant Strong Lottery Ticket Hypothesis
599. ICLR 2023A General Rank Preserving Framework for Asymmetric Image Retrieval
600. ICLR 2023A Multi-Grained Self-Interpretable Symbolic-Neural Model For Single/Multi-Labeled Text Classification

FAQ

How many General ML · unsupervised and semisupervised learning papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

2,683 in total: 649 in 2023, 553 in 2024, 682 in 2025, 799 in 2026.

How many General ML · unsupervised and semisupervised learning papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 194 General ML · unsupervised and semisupervised learning papers, versus 203 the year before.

How many General ML · unsupervised and semisupervised learning papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 187 General ML · unsupervised and semisupervised learning papers, versus 174 the year before.

How many General ML · unsupervised and semisupervised learning papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 348 General ML · unsupervised and semisupervised learning papers, versus 239 the year before.

How many General ML · unsupervised and semisupervised learning papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 70 General ML · unsupervised and semisupervised learning papers, versus 66 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most General ML · unsupervised and semisupervised learning papers?

ICML, with 859 papers from 2023 to 2026.