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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351. NeurIPS 2023A Unified Generalization Analysis of Re-Weighting and Logit-Adjustment for Imbalanced Learning
352. NeurIPS 2023A Unified Model and Dimension for Interactive Estimation
353. NeurIPS 2023A Unified Solution for Privacy and Communication Efficiency in Vertical Federated Learning
354. NeurIPS 2023Accelerating Reinforcement Learning with Value-Conditional State Entropy Exploration
355. NeurIPS 2023Accessing Higher Dimensions for Unsupervised Word Translation
356. NeurIPS 2023Active representation learning for general task space with applications in robotics
357. NeurIPS 2023Adaptive Linear Estimating Equations
358. NeurIPS 2023Adaptive Topological Feature via Persistent Homology: Filtration Learning for Point Clouds
359. NeurIPS 2023Additive Decoders for Latent Variables Identification and Cartesian-Product Extrapolation
360. NeurIPS 2023Adversarial Training for Graph Neural Networks: Pitfalls, Solutions, and New Directions
361. NeurIPS 2023Adversarially Robust Learning with Uncertain Perturbation Sets
362. NeurIPS 2023Aleatoric and Epistemic Discrimination: Fundamental Limits of Fairness Interventions
363. NeurIPS 2023An Adaptive Algorithm for Learning with Unknown Distribution Drift
364. NeurIPS 2023Architecture Matters: Uncovering Implicit Mechanisms in Graph Contrastive Learning
365. NeurIPS 2023Auditing for Human Expertise
366. NeurIPS 2023Balancing memorization and generalization in RNNs for high performance brain-machine Interfaces
367. NeurIPS 2023Balancing Risk and Reward: A Batched-Bandit Strategy for Automated Phased Release
368. NeurIPS 2023Batchnorm Allows Unsupervised Radial Attacks
369. NeurIPS 2023Bayesian Learning via Q-Exponential Process
370. NeurIPS 2023Benchmark of Machine Learning Force Fields for Semiconductor Simulations: Datasets, Metrics, and Comparative Analysis
371. NeurIPS 2023Beyond Black-Box Advice: Learning-Augmented Algorithms for MDPs with Q-Value Predictions
372. NeurIPS 2023Beyond Myopia: Learning from Positive and Unlabeled Data through Holistic Predictive Trends
373. NeurIPS 2023Beyond Normal: On the Evaluation of Mutual Information Estimators
374. NeurIPS 2023Bicriteria Multidimensional Mechanism Design with Side Information
375. NeurIPS 2023Bilevel Coreset Selection in Continual Learning: A New Formulation and Algorithm
376. NeurIPS 2023Black-Box Differential Privacy for Interactive ML
377. NeurIPS 2023Block-Coordinate Methods and Restarting for Solving Extensive-Form Games
378. NeurIPS 2023Bounding the Invertibility of Privacy-preserving Instance Encoding using Fisher Information
379. NeurIPS 2023BubbleML: A Multiphase Multiphysics Dataset and Benchmarks for Machine Learning
380. NeurIPS 2023CADet: Fully Self-Supervised Out-Of-Distribution Detection With Contrastive Learning
381. NeurIPS 2023Calibrated Stackelberg Games: Learning Optimal Commitments Against Calibrated Agents
382. NeurIPS 2023Causal Context Connects Counterfactual Fairness to Robust Prediction and Group Fairness
383. NeurIPS 2023Causal Fairness for Outcome Control
384. NeurIPS 2023Causes and Effects of Unanticipated Numerical Deviations in Neural Network Inference Frameworks
385. NeurIPS 2023CEIL: Generalized Contextual Imitation Learning
386. NeurIPS 2023Certification of Distributional Individual Fairness
387. NeurIPS 2023Certified Minimax Unlearning with Generalization Rates and Deletion Capacity
388. NeurIPS 2023Classical Simulation of Quantum Circuits: Parallel Environments and Benchmark
389. NeurIPS 2023ClimateLearn: Benchmarking Machine Learning for Weather and Climate Modeling
390. NeurIPS 2023ClimateSet: A Large-Scale Climate Model Dataset for Machine Learning
391. NeurIPS 2023ClimSim: A large multi-scale dataset for hybrid physics-ML climate emulation
392. NeurIPS 2023Clustering the Sketch: Dynamic Compression for Embedding Tables
393. NeurIPS 2023CODA: Generalizing to Open and Unseen Domains with Compaction and Disambiguation
394. NeurIPS 2023CoLA: Exploiting Compositional Structure for Automatic and Efficient Numerical Linear Algebra
395. NeurIPS 2023Comparing Causal Frameworks: Potential Outcomes, Structural Models, Graphs, and Abstractions
396. NeurIPS 2023Complementary Benefits of Contrastive Learning and Self-Training Under Distribution Shift
397. NeurIPS 2023Complex-valued Neurons Can Learn More but Slower than Real-valued Neurons via Gradient Descent
398. NeurIPS 2023Computational Complexity of Learning Neural Networks: Smoothness and Degeneracy
399. NeurIPS 2023Consensus and Subjectivity of Skin Tone Annotation for ML Fairness
400. NeurIPS 2023Contrast, Attend and Diffuse to Decode High-Resolution Images from Brain Activities

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.