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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2401. NeurIPS 2023Batchnorm Allows Unsupervised Radial Attacks
2402. NeurIPS 2023Bayesian Learning via Q-Exponential Process
2403. NeurIPS 2023Benchmark of Machine Learning Force Fields for Semiconductor Simulations: Datasets, Metrics, and Comparative Analysis
2404. NeurIPS 2023Beyond Black-Box Advice: Learning-Augmented Algorithms for MDPs with Q-Value Predictions
2405. NeurIPS 2023Beyond Myopia: Learning from Positive and Unlabeled Data through Holistic Predictive Trends
2406. NeurIPS 2023Beyond Normal: On the Evaluation of Mutual Information Estimators
2407. NeurIPS 2023Bicriteria Multidimensional Mechanism Design with Side Information
2408. NeurIPS 2023Bilevel Coreset Selection in Continual Learning: A New Formulation and Algorithm
2409. NeurIPS 2023Black-Box Differential Privacy for Interactive ML
2410. NeurIPS 2023Block-Coordinate Methods and Restarting for Solving Extensive-Form Games
2411. NeurIPS 2023Bounding the Invertibility of Privacy-preserving Instance Encoding using Fisher Information
2412. NeurIPS 2023BubbleML: A Multiphase Multiphysics Dataset and Benchmarks for Machine Learning
2413. NeurIPS 2023CADet: Fully Self-Supervised Out-Of-Distribution Detection With Contrastive Learning
2414. NeurIPS 2023Calibrated Stackelberg Games: Learning Optimal Commitments Against Calibrated Agents
2415. NeurIPS 2023Causal Context Connects Counterfactual Fairness to Robust Prediction and Group Fairness
2416. NeurIPS 2023Causal Fairness for Outcome Control
2417. NeurIPS 2023Causes and Effects of Unanticipated Numerical Deviations in Neural Network Inference Frameworks
2418. NeurIPS 2023CEIL: Generalized Contextual Imitation Learning
2419. NeurIPS 2023Certification of Distributional Individual Fairness
2420. NeurIPS 2023Certified Minimax Unlearning with Generalization Rates and Deletion Capacity
2421. NeurIPS 2023Classical Simulation of Quantum Circuits: Parallel Environments and Benchmark
2422. NeurIPS 2023ClimateLearn: Benchmarking Machine Learning for Weather and Climate Modeling
2423. NeurIPS 2023ClimateSet: A Large-Scale Climate Model Dataset for Machine Learning
2424. NeurIPS 2023ClimSim: A large multi-scale dataset for hybrid physics-ML climate emulation
2425. NeurIPS 2023Clustering the Sketch: Dynamic Compression for Embedding Tables
2426. NeurIPS 2023CODA: Generalizing to Open and Unseen Domains with Compaction and Disambiguation
2427. NeurIPS 2023CoLA: Exploiting Compositional Structure for Automatic and Efficient Numerical Linear Algebra
2428. NeurIPS 2023Comparing Causal Frameworks: Potential Outcomes, Structural Models, Graphs, and Abstractions
2429. NeurIPS 2023Complementary Benefits of Contrastive Learning and Self-Training Under Distribution Shift
2430. NeurIPS 2023Complex-valued Neurons Can Learn More but Slower than Real-valued Neurons via Gradient Descent
2431. NeurIPS 2023Computational Complexity of Learning Neural Networks: Smoothness and Degeneracy
2432. NeurIPS 2023Consensus and Subjectivity of Skin Tone Annotation for ML Fairness
2433. NeurIPS 2023Contrast, Attend and Diffuse to Decode High-Resolution Images from Brain Activities
2434. NeurIPS 2023Contrastive Moments: Unsupervised Halfspace Learning in Polynomial Time
2435. NeurIPS 2023Convex and Non-convex Optimization Under Generalized Smoothness
2436. NeurIPS 2023Convolutional Neural Operators for robust and accurate learning of PDEs
2437. NeurIPS 2023Corruption-Robust Offline Reinforcement Learning with General Function Approximation
2438. NeurIPS 2023Creating a Public Repository for Joining Private Data
2439. NeurIPS 2023CS-Isolate: Extracting Hard Confident Examples by Content and Style Isolation
2440. NeurIPS 2023CSLP-AE: A Contrastive Split-Latent Permutation Autoencoder Framework for Zero-Shot Electroencephalography Signal Conversion
2441. NeurIPS 2023D$^2$CSG: Unsupervised Learning of Compact CSG Trees with Dual Complements and Dropouts
2442. NeurIPS 2023Data-Informed Geometric Space Selection
2443. NeurIPS 2023Debiased and Denoised Entity Recognition from Distant Supervision
2444. NeurIPS 2023Decision-Aware Actor-Critic with Function Approximation and Theoretical Guarantees
2445. NeurIPS 2023Decompose Novel into Known: Part Concept Learning For 3D Novel Class Discovery
2446. NeurIPS 2023Deconstructing Data Reconstruction: Multiclass, Weight Decay and General Losses
2447. NeurIPS 2023Delegated Classification
2448. NeurIPS 2023Direction-oriented Multi-objective Learning: Simple and Provable Stochastic Algorithms
2449. NeurIPS 2023Disambiguated Attention Embedding for Multi-Instance Partial-Label Learning
2450. NeurIPS 2023DISCO-10M: A Large-Scale Music Dataset

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.