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

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751. ICML 2023Evidential Interactive Learning for Medical Image Captioning
752. ICML 2023FaDIn: Fast Discretized Inference for Hawkes Processes with General Parametric Kernels
753. ICML 2023Fair and Optimal Classification via Post-Processing
754. ICML 2023Fair and Robust Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects for Policy Learning
755. ICML 2023Fair yet Asymptotically Equal Collaborative Learning
756. ICML 2023Fast, Differentiable and Sparse Top-k: a Convex Analysis Perspective
757. ICML 2023Flexible Phase Dynamics for Bio-Plausible Contrastive Learning
758. ICML 2023FREDIS: A Fusion Framework of Refinement and Disambiguation for Unreliable Partial Label Learning
759. ICML 2023From Noisy Fixed-Point Iterations to Private ADMM for Centralized and Federated Learning
760. ICML 2023From Robustness to Privacy and Back
761. ICML 2023Fully Dynamic Submodular Maximization over Matroids
762. ICML 2023Fundamental Tradeoffs in Learning with Prior Information
763. ICML 2023Future-conditioned Unsupervised Pretraining for Decision Transformer
764. ICML 2023General Covariance Data Augmentation for Neural PDE Solvers
765. ICML 2023General Sequential Episodic Memory Model
766. ICML 2023Generalization Bounds using Data-Dependent Fractal Dimensions
767. ICML 2023Generalized Disparate Impact for Configurable Fairness Solutions in ML
768. ICML 2023Generalized Reductions: Making any Hierarchical Clustering Fair and Balanced with Low Cost
769. ICML 2023GNOT: A General Neural Operator Transformer for Operator Learning
770. ICML 2023Gradient Descent in Neural Networks as Sequential Learning in Reproducing Kernel Banach Space
771. ICML 2023GRAFENNE: Learning on Graphs with Heterogeneous and Dynamic Feature Sets
772. ICML 2023Hardness of Independent Learning and Sparse Equilibrium Computation in Markov Games
773. ICML 2023Hyperbolic Representation Learning: Revisiting and Advancing
774. ICML 2023Hyperparameters in Reinforcement Learning and How To Tune Them
775. ICML 2023Hypothesis Transfer Learning with Surrogate Classification Losses: Generalization Bounds through Algorithmic Stability
776. ICML 2023Identifiability and Generalizability in Constrained Inverse Reinforcement Learning
777. ICML 2023Inflow, Outflow, and Reciprocity in Machine Learning
778. ICML 2023JAWS-X: Addressing Efficiency Bottlenecks of Conformal Prediction Under Standard and Feedback Covariate Shift
779. ICML 2023Learning Compiler Pass Orders using Coreset and Normalized Value Prediction
780. ICML 2023Learning Control-Oriented Dynamical Structure from Data
781. ICML 2023Learning Distributions over Quantum Measurement Outcomes
782. ICML 2023Learning Rate Schedules in the Presence of Distribution Shift
783. ICML 2023Learning Representations without Compositional Assumptions
784. ICML 2023Learning to Boost Training by Periodic Nowcasting Near Future Weights
785. ICML 2023Learning to Initiate and Reason in Event-Driven Cascading Processes
786. ICML 2023Learning to Learn from APIs: Black-Box Data-Free Meta-Learning
787. ICML 2023Learning useful representations for shifting tasks and distributions
788. ICML 2023Learning-Rate-Free Learning by D-Adaptation
789. ICML 2023Likelihood Adjusted Semidefinite Programs for Clustering Heterogeneous Data
790. ICML 2023Lower Bounds for Learning in Revealing POMDPs
791. ICML 2023Machine Learning Force Fields with Data Cost Aware Training
792. ICML 2023Mastering the Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning Benchmark from Pixels
793. ICML 2023Maximum Optimality Margin: A Unified Approach for Contextual Linear Programming and Inverse Linear Programming
794. ICML 2023Mixture Proportion Estimation Beyond Irreducibility
795. ICML 2023Model-Aware Contrastive Learning: Towards Escaping the Dilemmas
796. ICML 2023Monotonicity and Double Descent in Uncertainty Estimation with Gaussian Processes
797. ICML 2023Multiply Robust Off-policy Evaluation and Learning under Truncation by Death
798. ICML 2023Near-Optimal $\Phi$-Regret Learning in Extensive-Form Games
799. ICML 2023No One Idles: Efficient Heterogeneous Federated Learning with Parallel Edge and Server Computation
800. ICML 2023Non-stationary Reinforcement Learning under General Function Approximation

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.