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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301. ICML 2026Branching Diffusion for Point Processes in Time and Space
302. ICML 2026Bridging Functional and Representational Similarity via Usable Information
303. ICML 2026BTSP-CAM: A Brain-Inspired Geometric Memory for Class-Incremental Learning
304. ICML 2026Budgeted Active Experimentation for Treatment Effect Estimation from Observational and Randomized Data
305. ICML 2026Capacitated Fair-Range Clustering: Hardness and Approximation Algorithms
306. ICML 2026Causal Dependency-Aware Unsupervised Routing for Large Reasoning Models
307. ICML 2026Causal discovery for time series with endogenous context variables
308. ICML 2026Causal Identification from Counterfactual Data: Completeness and Bounding Results
309. ICML 2026Causal Representation Learning with Optimal Compression and Complex Treatments
310. ICML 2026CausalProfiler: Generating Synthetic Benchmarks for Rigorous and Transparent Evaluation of Causal Machine Learning
311. ICML 2026CE$^4$L: Continual Ego, Exo, and Ego-Exo Learning
312. ICML 2026CHB: A Diagnostic Toolkit for Hardness-Aware Clustering Evaluation
313. ICML 2026CL-GCL: Comprehensive and Lightweight Graph Contrastive Learning
314. ICML 2026CLARITree: Cholesky and Lookahead Accelerations for Regression with Interpretable Piecewise Linear Trees
315. ICML 2026CLASP: Online learning algorithms for Convex Losses And Squared Penalties
316. ICML 2026Class-Grouped Normalized Momentum and Faster Hyperparameter Exploration to Tackle Class Imbalance in Federated Learning
317. ICML 2026Class-Prior Perturbation-Robust Regularization for Imbalanced Unreliable Partial Label Learning
318. ICML 2026CLoVE: Personalized Federated Learning through Clustering of Loss Vector Embeddings
319. ICML 2026Clustered Influence Functions
320. ICML 2026CoCoQuant: Breaking the Bandwidth Wall via Co-Optimized Communication and Computation Quantization
321. ICML 2026CodeClash: Benchmarking Goal-Oriented Software Engineering
322. ICML 2026COGNOS: Universal Enhancement for Time Series Anomaly Detection via Constrained Gaussian-Noise Optimization and Smoothing
323. ICML 2026Collaborative Learning for Semi-Supervised LiDAR Semantic Segmentation
324. ICML 2026Component-Wise Composite Likelihood Distillation for Censored Time-to-Event Data
325. ICML 2026Conditional Distributional Treatment Effects: Doubly Robust Estimation and Testing
326. ICML 2026Conditional Quantile Adjusted Conformal Prediction for Time Series
327. ICML 2026Conf-Gen: Conformal Uncertainty Quantification for Generative Models
328. ICML 2026Conformal Reliability: A New Evaluation Metric for Conditional Generation
329. ICML 2026CONGA:Confidence-and-Gradient-Aware Learning Rate Schedule for Test Time Adaptation
330. ICML 2026Continual Learning of Domain-Invariant Representations
331. ICML 2026CONTINUUM: Restoring the Contiguous Tensor Abstraction Efficiently for Dynamic AI Workloads via Hardware Virtualization
332. ICML 2026Contrastive Order Learning: A General Framework for Ordinal Regression
333. ICML 2026Contrastive Symbolic Regression: Aligned Representations, Adaptive Prediction, and Diverse Ensembles
334. ICML 2026Convergence of Steepest Descent and Adam under Non-Uniform Smoothness
335. ICML 2026Correcting Split Selection in Online Decision Trees via Anytime-Valid Inference
336. ICML 2026Coupled Trigger Optimization and Vulnerable Parameter Alignment for Persistent Backdoor Attacks on Federated Learning
337. ICML 2026Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation without Paired Data: Theoretical Foundation and Algorithm
338. ICML 2026Cross-View Lewis Weight Fusion Empowering Exemplar Replay for Federated Class-Incremental Learning
339. ICML 2026cuRegOT: A GPU-Accelerated Solver for Entropic-Regularized Optimal Transport
340. ICML 2026DAG: A Dual Correlation Network for Time Series Forecasting with Exogenous Variables
341. ICML 2026DAL: A Practical Prior-Free Black-Box Framework for Piecewise Stationary Bandits
342. ICML 2026Deep Multi-view Graph Clustering via Attribute-aware Bidirectional Structural Refinement and Pseudo-label Guided Multi-level Fusion
343. ICML 2026Demystifying Mergeability: Interpretable Properties to Predict Model Merging Success
344. ICML 2026Design-Based Anytime-Valid Inference for Randomized Experiments with Delayed Outcomes and Staggered Entry
345. ICML 2026DiL: Discrete-anchored Representation Alignment for Semi-Supervised Continual Learning
346. ICML 2026Dimensionality Reduction with Point-distributions Similarity Invariant
347. ICML 2026DISCO: Mitigating Bias in Deep Learning with Conditional Distance Correlation
348. ICML 2026DiScoFormer: Plug-In Density and Score Estimation with Transformers
349. ICML 2026Discretized Density-Guided Source-Free Domain Adaptation for Regression
350. ICML 2026Dissecting Causal Mechanism Shifts via FANS: Function And Noise Separation

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.