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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801. ICML 2023Nonparametric Iterative Machine Teaching
802. ICML 2023NUNO: A General Framework for Learning Parametric PDEs with Non-Uniform Data
803. ICML 2023Offline Learning in Markov Games with General Function Approximation
804. ICML 2023On Balancing Bias and Variance in Unsupervised Multi-Source-Free Domain Adaptation
805. ICML 2023On the Importance of Feature Decorrelation for Unsupervised Representation Learning in Reinforcement Learning
806. ICML 2023On the Occupancy Measure of Non-Markovian Policies in Continuous MDPs
807. ICML 2023On the Privacy-Robustness-Utility Trilemma in Distributed Learning
808. ICML 2023Optimal Arms Identification with Knapsacks
809. ICML 2023Optimal randomized multilevel Monte Carlo for repeatedly nested expectations
810. ICML 2023Optimal Sets and Solution Paths of ReLU Networks
811. ICML 2023PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model
812. ICML 2023Parallel Neurosymbolic Integration with Concordia
813. ICML 2023Policy Evaluation and Temporal-Difference Learning in Continuous Time and Space: A Martingale Approach
814. ICML 2023Policy Mirror Ascent for Efficient and Independent Learning in Mean Field Games
815. ICML 2023Predictable MDP Abstraction for Unsupervised Model-Based RL
816. ICML 2023Principled Acceleration of Iterative Numerical Methods Using Machine Learning
817. ICML 2023Prototype-oriented unsupervised anomaly detection for multivariate time series
818. ICML 2023Provably and Practically Efficient Neural Contextual Bandits
819. ICML 2023Provably Invariant Learning without Domain Information
820. ICML 2023Random Matrix Analysis to Balance between Supervised and Unsupervised Learning under the Low Density Separation Assumption
821. ICML 2023Random Teachers are Good Teachers
822. ICML 2023Regret Minimization and Convergence to Equilibria in General-sum Markov Games
823. ICML 2023Reinforcement Learning with General Utilities: Simpler Variance Reduction and Large State-Action Space
824. ICML 2023Representation Learning with Multi-Step Inverse Kinematics: An Efficient and Optimal Approach to Rich-Observation RL
825. ICML 2023Rethinking Backdoor Attacks
826. ICML 2023Rethinking Weak Supervision in Helping Contrastive Learning
827. ICML 2023Revisiting Discriminative vs. Generative Classifiers: Theory and Implications
828. ICML 2023Revisiting Gradient Clipping: Stochastic bias and tight convergence guarantees
829. ICML 2023Revisiting the Linear-Programming Framework for Offline RL with General Function Approximation
830. ICML 2023Reward-Mixing MDPs with Few Latent Contexts are Learnable
831. ICML 2023Rockmate: an Efficient, Fast, Automatic and Generic Tool for Re-materialization in PyTorch
832. ICML 2023Sample and Predict Your Latent: Modality-free Sequential Disentanglement via Contrastive Estimation
833. ICML 2023Sample Complexity Bounds for Learning High-dimensional Simplices in Noisy Regimes
834. ICML 2023Sampling-Based Accuracy Testing of Posterior Estimators for General Inference
835. ICML 2023Scalable Set Encoding with Universal Mini-Batch Consistency and Unbiased Full Set Gradient Approximation
836. ICML 2023Self-Repellent Random Walks on General Graphs - Achieving Minimal Sampling Variance via Nonlinear Markov Chains
837. ICML 2023SGD with AdaGrad Stepsizes: Full Adaptivity with High Probability to Unknown Parameters, Unbounded Gradients and Affine Variance
838. ICML 2023Shape-Guided Dual-Memory Learning for 3D Anomaly Detection
839. ICML 2023Sharper Bounds for $\ell_p$ Sensitivity Sampling
840. ICML 2023SmoothQuant: Accurate and Efficient Post-Training Quantization for Large Language Models
841. ICML 2023SOM-CPC: Unsupervised Contrastive Learning with Self-Organizing Maps for Structured Representations of High-Rate Time Series
842. ICML 2023Stable and Consistent Prediction of 3D Characteristic Orientation via Invariant Residual Learning
843. ICML 2023State and parameter learning with PARIS particle Gibbs
844. ICML 2023STEP: Learning N:M Structured Sparsity Masks from Scratch with Precondition
845. ICML 2023Tensor Decompositions Meet Control Theory: Learning General Mixtures of Linear Dynamical Systems
846. ICML 2023The Edge of Orthogonality: A Simple View of What Makes BYOL Tick
847. ICML 2023Theory on Forgetting and Generalization of Continual Learning
848. ICML 2023Toward Large Kernel Models
849. ICML 2023Towards Understanding Generalization of Macro-AUC in Multi-label Learning
850. ICML 2023Transformers as Algorithms: Generalization and Stability in In-context Learning

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.