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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51. CVPR 2025Scene-Centric Unsupervised Panoptic Segmentation
52. CVPR 2025ShapeShifter: 3D Variations Using Multiscale and Sparse Point-Voxel Diffusion
53. CVPR 2025Shift the Lens: Environment-Aware Unsupervised Camouflaged Object Detection
54. CVPR 2025Soft Self-labeling and Potts Relaxations for Weakly-supervised Segmentation
55. CVPR 2025SSHNet: Unsupervised Cross-modal Homography Estimation via Problem Reformulation and Split Optimization
56. CVPR 2025TailedCore: Few-Shot Sampling for Unsupervised Long-Tail Noisy Anomaly Detection
57. CVPR 2025Temporally Consistent Object-Centric Learning by Contrasting Slots
58. CVPR 2025Towards General Visual-Linguistic Face Forgery Detection
59. CVPR 2025UCOD-DPL: Unsupervised Camouflaged Object Detection via Dynamic Pseudo-label Learning
60. CVPR 2025UMFN: Unified Multi-Domain Face Normalization for Joint Cross-domain Prototype Learning and Heterogeneous Face Recognition
61. CVPR 2025UniHOPE: A Unified Approach for Hand-Only and Hand-Object Pose Estimation
62. CVPR 2025Unsupervised Continual Domain Shift Learning with Multi-Prototype Modeling
63. CVPR 2025Unsupervised Discovery of Facial Landmarks and Head Pose
64. CVPR 2025Unsupervised Foundation Model-Agnostic Slide-Level Representation Learning
65. CVPR 2025UPME: An Unsupervised Peer Review Framework for Multimodal Large Language Model Evaluation
66. CVPR 2025Volume Tells: Dual Cycle-Consistent Diffusion for 3D Fluorescence Microscopy De-noising and Super-Resolution
67. ICLR 2025A General Framework for Off-Policy Learning with Partially-Observed Reward
68. ICLR 2025A General Framework for Producing Interpretable Semantic Text Embeddings
69. ICLR 2025A Percolation Model of Emergence: Analyzing Transformers Trained on a Formal Language
70. ICLR 2025A Simple yet Effective $\Delta\Delta G$ Predictor is An Unsupervised Antibody Optimizer and Explainer
71. ICLR 2025A Theoretically-Principled Sparse, Connected, and Rigid Graph Representation of Molecules
72. ICLR 2025Advancing Out-of-Distribution Detection via Local Neuroplasticity
73. ICLR 2025Advancing Prompt-Based Methods for Replay-Independent General Continual Learning
74. ICLR 2025Affine Steerable Equivariant Layer for Canonicalization of Neural Networks
75. ICLR 2025Approaching Rate-Distortion Limits in Neural Compression with Lattice Transform Coding
76. ICLR 2025Ask, and it shall be given: On the Turing completeness of prompting
77. ICLR 2025Associative memory and dead neurons
78. ICLR 2025AutoUAD: Hyper-parameter Optimization for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection
79. ICLR 2025Beyond Random Augmentations: Pretraining with Hard Views
80. ICLR 2025Boost Self-Supervised Dataset Distillation via Parameterization, Predefined Augmentation, and Approximation
81. ICLR 2025Breaking the Reclustering Barrier in Centroid-based Deep Clustering
82. ICLR 2025Can a MISL Fly? Analysis and Ingredients for Mutual Information Skill Learning
83. ICLR 2025Captured by Captions: On Memorization and its Mitigation in CLIP Models
84. ICLR 2025CLIBD: Bridging Vision and Genomics for Biodiversity Monitoring at Scale
85. ICLR 2025Conformalized Survival Analysis for General Right-Censored Data
86. ICLR 2025ConMix: Contrastive Mixup at Representation Level for Long-tailed Deep Clustering
87. ICLR 2025Content-Style Learning from Unaligned Domains: Identifiability under Unknown Latent Dimensions
88. ICLR 2025COPER: Correlation-based Permutations for Multi-View Clustering
89. ICLR 2025CoRNStack: High-Quality Contrastive Data for Better Code Retrieval and Reranking
90. ICLR 2025Cross-Entropy Is All You Need To Invert the Data Generating Process
91. ICLR 2025CtD: Composition through Decomposition in Emergent Communication
92. ICLR 2025Deep Weight Factorization: Sparse Learning Through the Lens of Artificial Symmetries
93. ICLR 2025Difference-of-submodular Bregman Divergence
94. ICLR 2025Differentiable Integer Linear Programming
95. ICLR 2025DiffGAD: A Diffusion-based Unsupervised Graph Anomaly Detector
96. ICLR 2025Diffusion Bridge AutoEncoders for Unsupervised Representation Learning
97. ICLR 2025Discovering Temporally Compositional Neural Manifolds with Switching Infinite GPFA
98. ICLR 2025Discrete Latent Plans via Semantic Skill Abstractions
99. ICLR 2025Disentangled Representation Learning with the Gromov-Monge Gap
100. ICLR 2025Distance-Based Tree-Sliced Wasserstein Distance

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.