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

2,682 papers, page 44 of 54

2151. ICLR 2023GNNDelete: A General Strategy for Unlearning in Graph Neural Networks
2152. ICLR 2023Hebbian Deep Learning Without Feedback
2153. ICLR 2023Heterogeneous Neuronal and Synaptic Dynamics for Spike-Efficient Unsupervised Learning: Theory and Design Principles
2154. ICLR 2023How Does Semi-supervised Learning with Pseudo-labelers Work? A Case Study
2155. ICLR 2023How robust is unsupervised representation learning to distribution shift?
2156. ICLR 2023How to Train your HIPPO: State Space Models with Generalized Orthogonal Basis Projections
2157. ICLR 2023Indiscriminate Poisoning Attacks on Unsupervised Contrastive Learning
2158. ICLR 2023Information-Theoretic Analysis of Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
2159. ICLR 2023Kernel Neural Optimal Transport
2160. ICLR 2023Learning What and Where: Disentangling Location and Identity Tracking Without Supervision
2161. ICLR 2023Learning where and when to reason in neuro-symbolic inference
2162. ICLR 2023Memorization Capacity of Neural Networks with Conditional Computation
2163. ICLR 2023Minimalistic Unsupervised Representation Learning with the Sparse Manifold Transform
2164. ICLR 2023Modelling Long Range Dependencies in $N$D: From Task-Specific to a General Purpose CNN
2165. ICLR 2023NERDS: A General Framework to Train Camera Denoisers from Raw-RGB Noisy Image Pairs
2166. ICLR 2023Neural Systematic Binder
2167. ICLR 2023Offline Congestion Games: How Feedback Type Affects Data Coverage Requirement
2168. ICLR 2023On Achieving Optimal Adversarial Test Error
2169. ICLR 2023On the Word Boundaries of Emergent Languages Based on Harris's Articulation Scheme
2170. ICLR 2023One Transformer Can Understand Both 2D & 3D Molecular Data
2171. ICLR 2023Optimal Conservative Offline RL with General Function Approximation via Augmented Lagrangian
2172. ICLR 2023PandA: Unsupervised Learning of Parts and Appearances in the Feature Maps of GANs
2173. ICLR 2023Parametrizing Product Shape Manifolds by Composite Networks
2174. ICLR 2023Partial Label Unsupervised Domain Adaptation with Class-Prototype Alignment
2175. ICLR 2023Proposal-Contrastive Pretraining for Object Detection from Fewer Data
2176. ICLR 2023Pseudoinverse-Guided Diffusion Models for Inverse Problems
2177. ICLR 2023Restricted Strong Convexity of Deep Learning Models with Smooth Activations
2178. ICLR 2023RGI: robust GAN-inversion for mask-free image inpainting and unsupervised pixel-wise anomaly detection
2179. ICLR 2023Robust and Controllable Object-Centric Learning through Energy-based Models
2180. ICLR 2023Rotamer Density Estimator is an Unsupervised Learner of the Effect of Mutations on Protein-Protein Interaction
2181. ICLR 2023Self-Supervised Set Representation Learning for Unsupervised Meta-Learning
2182. ICLR 2023Semi-Parametric Inducing Point Networks and Neural Processes
2183. ICLR 2023Sign and Basis Invariant Networks for Spectral Graph Representation Learning
2184. ICLR 2023Simple and Scalable Nearest Neighbor Machine Translation
2185. ICLR 2023Single-shot General Hyper-parameter Optimization for Federated Learning
2186. ICLR 2023SlotFormer: Unsupervised Visual Dynamics Simulation with Object-Centric Models
2187. ICLR 2023Solving Constrained Variational Inequalities via a First-order Interior Point-based Method
2188. ICLR 2023Statistical Guarantees for Consensus Clustering
2189. ICLR 2023Stay Moral and Explore: Learn to Behave Morally in Text-based Games
2190. ICLR 2023Stochastic No-regret Learning for General Games with Variance Reduction
2191. ICLR 2023STUNT: Few-shot Tabular Learning with Self-generated Tasks from Unlabeled Tables
2192. ICLR 2023Symmetries, Flat Minima, and the Conserved Quantities of Gradient Flow
2193. ICLR 2023The hidden uniform cluster prior in self-supervised learning
2194. ICLR 2023The Provable Benefit of Unsupervised Data Sharing for Offline Reinforcement Learning
2195. ICLR 2023The Tilted Variational Autoencoder: Improving Out-of-Distribution Detection
2196. ICLR 2023TimesNet: Temporal 2D-Variation Modeling for General Time Series Analysis
2197. ICLR 2023Token Merging: Your ViT But Faster
2198. ICLR 2023Towards One-shot Neural Combinatorial Solvers: Theoretical and Empirical Notes on the Cardinality-Constrained Case
2199. ICLR 2023UNICORN: A Unified Backdoor Trigger Inversion Framework
2200. ICLR 2023Unsupervised 3D Object Learning through Neuron Activity aware Plasticity

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.