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

174 papers, page 4 of 4

151. ICLR 2025Tight Lower Bounds under Asymmetric High-Order Hölder Smoothness and Uniform Convexity
152. ICLR 2025TimeMixer++: A General Time Series Pattern Machine for Universal Predictive Analysis
153. ICLR 2025Towards a General Time Series Anomaly Detector with Adaptive Bottlenecks and Dual Adversarial Decoders
154. ICLR 2025Towards Calibrated Deep Clustering Network
155. ICLR 2025Towards General-Purpose Model-Free Reinforcement Learning
156. ICLR 2025Towards Out-of-Modal Generalization without Instance-level Modal Correspondence
157. ICLR 2025Towards Self-Supervised Covariance Estimation in Deep Heteroscedastic Regression
158. ICLR 2025Training Neural Networks as Recognizers of Formal Languages
159. ICLR 2025Training One-Dimensional Graph Neural Networks is NP-Hard
160. ICLR 2025Understanding the Stability-based Generalization of Personalized Federated Learning
161. ICLR 2025UniCO: On Unified Combinatorial Optimization via Problem Reduction to Matrix-Encoded General TSP
162. ICLR 2025Unifying Unsupervised Graph-Level Anomaly Detection and Out-of-Distribution Detection: A Benchmark
163. ICLR 2025Universal Image Restoration Pre-training via Degradation Classification
164. ICLR 2025Unsupervised Disentanglement of Content and Style via Variance-Invariance Constraints
165. ICLR 2025Unsupervised Meta-Learning via In-Context Learning
166. ICLR 2025Unsupervised Model Tree Heritage Recovery
167. ICLR 2025Unsupervised Multiple Kernel Learning for Graphs via Ordinality Preservation
168. ICLR 2025Unsupervised Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning via Dual-Value Forward-Backward Representation
169. ICLR 2025URLOST: Unsupervised Representation Learning without Stationarity or Topology
170. ICLR 2025Vector-ICL: In-context Learning with Continuous Vector Representations
171. ICLR 2025WardropNet: Traffic Flow Predictions via Equilibrium-Augmented Learning
172. ICLR 2025Wasserstein-Regularized Conformal Prediction under General Distribution Shift
173. ICLR 2025What Does It Mean to Be a Transformer? Insights from a Theoretical Hessian Analysis
174. ICLR 2025What to align in multimodal contrastive 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.