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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251. CVPR 2023HyperCUT: Video Sequence From a Single Blurry Image Using Unsupervised Ordering
252. CVPR 2023Learning Emotion Representations From Verbal and Nonverbal Communication
253. CVPR 2023Learning Weather-General and Weather-Specific Features for Image Restoration Under Multiple Adverse Weather Conditions
254. CVPR 2023Leveraging Hidden Positives for Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation
255. CVPR 2023Masked Scene Contrast: A Scalable Framework for Unsupervised 3D Representation Learning
256. CVPR 2023Meta Omnium: A Benchmark for General-Purpose Learning-To-Learn
257. CVPR 2023MIANet: Aggregating Unbiased Instance and General Information for Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation
258. CVPR 2023MMANet: Margin-Aware Distillation and Modality-Aware Regularization for Incomplete Multimodal Learning
259. CVPR 2023NeRF-RPN: A General Framework for Object Detection in NeRFs
260. CVPR 2023Network-Free, Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation With Synthetic Images
261. CVPR 2023Neural Rate Estimator and Unsupervised Learning for Efficient Distributed Image Analytics in Split-DNN Models
262. CVPR 2023Neuralizer: General Neuroimage Analysis Without Re-Training
263. CVPR 2023Non-Contrastive Unsupervised Learning of Physiological Signals From Video
264. CVPR 2023OmniAL: A Unified CNN Framework for Unsupervised Anomaly Localization
265. CVPR 2023On the Stability-Plasticity Dilemma of Class-Incremental Learning
266. CVPR 2023OSAN: A One-Stage Alignment Network To Unify Multimodal Alignment and Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
267. CVPR 2023Parallel Diffusion Models of Operator and Image for Blind Inverse Problems
268. CVPR 2023Patch-Mix Transformer for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation: A Game Perspective
269. CVPR 2023PointClustering: Unsupervised Point Cloud Pre-Training Using Transformation Invariance in Clustering
270. CVPR 2023Promoting Semantic Connectivity: Dual Nearest Neighbors Contrastive Learning for Unsupervised Domain Generalization
271. CVPR 2023Prototypical Residual Networks for Anomaly Detection and Localization
272. CVPR 2023Re-IQA: Unsupervised Learning for Image Quality Assessment in the Wild
273. CVPR 2023Robust Unsupervised StyleGAN Image Restoration
274. CVPR 2023SDC-UDA: Volumetric Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Framework for Slice-Direction Continuous Cross-Modality Medical Image Segmentation
275. CVPR 2023SE-ORNet: Self-Ensembling Orientation-Aware Network for Unsupervised Point Cloud Shape Correspondence
276. CVPR 2023Shakes on a Plane: Unsupervised Depth Estimation From Unstabilized Photography
277. CVPR 2023Shepherding Slots to Objects: Towards Stable and Robust Object-Centric Learning
278. CVPR 2023SQUID: Deep Feature In-Painting for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection
279. CVPR 2023Symmetric Shape-Preserving Autoencoder for Unsupervised Real Scene Point Cloud Completion
280. CVPR 2023Temporal Attention Unit: Towards Efficient Spatiotemporal Predictive Learning
281. CVPR 2023Text-Guided Unsupervised Latent Transformation for Multi-Attribute Image Manipulation
282. CVPR 2023Texture-Guided Saliency Distilling for Unsupervised Salient Object Detection
283. CVPR 2023Towards Modality-Agnostic Person Re-Identification With Descriptive Query
284. CVPR 2023Towards Stable Human Pose Estimation via Cross-View Fusion and Foot Stabilization
285. CVPR 2023Towards Unsupervised Object Detection From LiDAR Point Clouds
286. CVPR 2023Uncertainty-Aware Unsupervised Image Deblurring With Deep Residual Prior
287. CVPR 2023Uni-Perceiver v2: A Generalist Model for Large-Scale Vision and Vision-Language Tasks
288. CVPR 2023Unifying Short and Long-Term Tracking With Graph Hierarchies
289. CVPR 2023Unsupervised 3D Shape Reconstruction by Part Retrieval and Assembly
290. CVPR 2023Unsupervised Continual Semantic Adaptation Through Neural Rendering
291. CVPR 2023Unsupervised Contour Tracking of Live Cells by Mechanical and Cycle Consistency Losses
292. CVPR 2023Unsupervised Cumulative Domain Adaptation for Foggy Scene Optical Flow
293. CVPR 2023Unsupervised Deep Asymmetric Stereo Matching With Spatially-Adaptive Self-Similarity
294. CVPR 2023Unsupervised Deep Probabilistic Approach for Partial Point Cloud Registration
295. CVPR 2023Unsupervised Domain Adaption With Pixel-Level Discriminator for Image-Aware Layout Generation
296. CVPR 2023Unsupervised Inference of Signed Distance Functions From Single Sparse Point Clouds Without Learning Priors
297. CVPR 2023Unsupervised Intrinsic Image Decomposition With LiDAR Intensity
298. CVPR 2023Unsupervised Object Localization: Observing the Background To Discover Objects
299. CVPR 2023Unsupervised Sampling Promoting for Stochastic Human Trajectory Prediction
300. CVPR 2023Unsupervised Space-Time Network for Temporally-Consistent Segmentation of Multiple Motions

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.