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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201. ICLR 2026Polynomial, trigonometric, and tropical activations
202. ICLR 2026Pose Prior Learner: Unsupervised Categorical Prior Learning for Pose Estimation
203. ICLR 2026PredNext: Explicit Cross-View Temporal Prediction for Unsupervised Learning in Spiking Neural Networks
204. ICLR 2026Preventing Model Collapse Under Overparametrization: Optimal Mixing Ratios for Interpolation Learning and Ridge Regression
205. ICLR 2026PRISM: Partial-label Relational Inference with Spatial and Spectral Cues
206. ICLR 2026Probing in the Dark: State Entropy Maximization for POMDPs
207. ICLR 2026Pseudo-Non-Linear Data Augmentation: A Constrained Energy Minimization Viewpoint
208. ICLR 2026PU-BENCH: A UNIFIED BENCHMARK FOR RIGOROUS AND REPRODUCIBLE PU LEARNING
209. ICLR 2026Rectified Decoupled Dataset Distillation: A Closer Look for Fair and Comprehensive Evaluation
210. ICLR 2026Reducing Class-Wise Performance Disparity via Margin Regularization
211. ICLR 2026Resurfacing the Instance-only Dependent Label Noise Model through Loss Correction
212. ICLR 2026Rethinking Consistent Multi-Label Classification under Inexact Supervision
213. ICLR 2026Rethinking Unsupervised Cross-modal Flow Estimation: Learning from Decoupled Optimization and Consistency Constraint
214. ICLR 2026Revela: Dense Retriever Learning via Language Modeling
215. ICLR 2026Revisiting [CLS] and Patch Token Interaction in Vision Transformers
216. ICLR 2026Robustify Spiking Neural Networks via Dominant Singular Deflation under Heterogeneous Training Vulnerability
217. ICLR 2026Sample Lottery: Unsupervised Discovery of Critical Instances for LLM Reasoning
218. ICLR 2026Samples Are Not Equal: A Sample Selection Approach for Deep Clustering
219. ICLR 2026Selective Rotary Position Embedding
220. ICLR 2026Separable Neural Networks: Approximation Theory, NTK Regime, and Preconditioned Gradient Descent
221. ICLR 2026Sequential Information Bottleneck Fusion: Towards Robust and Generalizable Multi-Modal Brain Tumor Segmentation
222. ICLR 2026Sharp asymptotic theory for Q-learning with \texttt{LD2Z} learning rate and its generalization
223. ICLR 2026sleep2vec: Unified Cross-Modal Alignment for Heterogeneous Nocturnal Biosignals
224. ICLR 2026SNAPHARD CONTRAST LEARNING
225. ICLR 2026Softmax is not Enough (for Adaptive Conformal Classification)
226. ICLR 2026Spatial Structure and Selective Text Jointly Facilitate Image Clustering
227. ICLR 2026Spectral Attention Steering for Prompt Highlighting
228. ICLR 2026SpectralGCD: Spectral Concept Selection and Cross-modal Representation Learning for Generalized Category Discovery
229. ICLR 2026SpikeGen: Decoupled “Rods and Cones” Visual Representation Processing with Latent Generative Framework
230. ICLR 2026Splat and Distill: Augmenting Teachers with Feed-Forward 3D Reconstruction For 3D-Aware Distillation
231. ICLR 2026Steering Language Models with Weight Arithmetic
232. ICLR 2026Summaries as Centroids for Interpretable and Scalable Text Clustering
233. ICLR 2026Supporting Multimodal Intermediate Fusion with Informatic Constraint and Distribution Coherence
234. ICLR 2026SUSD: Structured Unsupervised Skill Discovery through State Factorization
235. ICLR 2026t-SNE Exaggerates Clusters, Provably
236. ICLR 2026The Logical Expressiveness of Topological Neural Networks
237. ICLR 2026Thicker and Quicker: The Jumbo Token for Fast Plain Vision Transformers
238. ICLR 2026Token Distillation: Attention-Aware Input Embeddings for New Tokens
239. ICLR 2026Topology and geometry of the learning space of ReLU networks: connectivity and singularities
240. ICLR 2026Towards Improved Sentence Representations using Token Graphs
241. ICLR 2026TrainRef: Curating Data with Label Distribution and Minimal Reference for Accurate Prediction and Reliable Confidence
242. ICLR 2026Transformers as Unsupervised Learning Algorithms: A study on Gaussian Mixtures
243. ICLR 2026TS-DDAE: A novel Temporal-Spectral Denoising Diffusion AutoEncoder for Wireless Signal Recognition Model Pre-training
244. ICLR 2026Tucker-FNO: Tensor Tucker-Fourier Neural Operator and its Universal Approximation Theory
245. ICLR 2026Tversky Neural Networks: Psychologically Plausible Deep Learning with Differentiable Tversky Similarity
246. ICLR 2026Understanding and Improving Length Generalization in Hierarchical Sparse Attention Models
247. ICLR 2026Unified and Efficient Multi-view Clustering from Probabilistic Perspective
248. ICLR 2026UNIVERSAL AND EFFICIENT LOADING BALANCING FOR RL TRAINING OF LARGE MULTIMODAL MODELS
249. ICLR 2026Universal Beta Splatting
250. ICLR 2026Unlearning Evaluation through Subset Statistical Independence

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.