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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1. NeurIPS 2024A Nearly Optimal and Low-Switching Algorithm for Reinforcement Learning with General Function Approximation
2. NeurIPS 2024Accelerating Greedy Coordinate Gradient and General Prompt Optimization via Probe Sampling
3. NeurIPS 2024Active Learning of General Halfspaces: Label Queries vs Membership Queries
4. NeurIPS 2024Adaptive Exploration for Data-Efficient General Value Function Evaluations
5. NeurIPS 2024Adversarial Representation Engineering: A General Model Editing Framework for Large Language Models
6. NeurIPS 2024Aligning Embeddings and Geometric Random Graphs: Informational Results and Computational Approaches for the Procrustes-Wasserstein Problem
7. NeurIPS 2024Approximately Equivariant Neural Processes
8. NeurIPS 2024ARC: A Generalist Graph Anomaly Detector with In-Context Learning
9. NeurIPS 2024Are Graph Neural Networks Optimal Approximation Algorithms?
10. NeurIPS 2024Articulate your NeRF: Unsupervised articulated object modeling via conditional view synthesis
11. NeurIPS 2024Beyond Redundancy: Information-aware Unsupervised Multiplex Graph Structure Learning
12. NeurIPS 2024CodeRosetta: Pushing the Boundaries of Unsupervised Code Translation for Parallel Programming
13. NeurIPS 2024Compositional PAC-Bayes: Generalization of GNNs with persistence and beyond
14. NeurIPS 2024Contextual Multinomial Logit Bandits with General Value Functions
15. NeurIPS 2024Corruption-Robust Linear Bandits: Minimax Optimality and Gap-Dependent Misspecification
16. NeurIPS 2024DA-Ada: Learning Domain-Aware Adapter for Domain Adaptive Object Detection
17. NeurIPS 2024Data-Efficient Operator Learning via Unsupervised Pretraining and In-Context Learning
18. NeurIPS 2024Differential Privacy in Scalable General Kernel Learning via $K$-means Nystr{\"o}m Random Features
19. NeurIPS 2024Diffusion-based Layer-wise Semantic Reconstruction for Unsupervised Out-of-Distribution Detection
20. NeurIPS 2024Directional Smoothness and Gradient Methods: Convergence and Adaptivity
21. NeurIPS 2024Discovering plasticity rules that organize and maintain neural circuits
22. NeurIPS 2024Disentangled Unsupervised Skill Discovery for Efficient Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
23. NeurIPS 2024Dissect Black Box: Interpreting for Rule-Based Explanations in Unsupervised Anomaly Detection
24. NeurIPS 2024Do's and Don'ts: Learning Desirable Skills with Instruction Videos
25. NeurIPS 2024Embedding Dimension of Contrastive Learning and $k$-Nearest Neighbors
26. NeurIPS 2024Energy-Guided Continuous Entropic Barycenter Estimation for General Costs
27. NeurIPS 2024Expected Probabilistic Hierarchies
28. NeurIPS 2024Factorized Diffusion Architectures for Unsupervised Image Generation and Segmentation
29. NeurIPS 2024FedNE: Surrogate-Assisted Federated Neighbor Embedding for Dimensionality Reduction
30. NeurIPS 2024Flatten Anything: Unsupervised Neural Surface Parameterization
31. NeurIPS 2024From Unstructured Data to In-Context Learning: Exploring What Tasks Can Be Learned and When
32. NeurIPS 2024General Articulated Objects Manipulation in Real Images via Part-Aware Diffusion Process
33. NeurIPS 2024General bounds on the quality of Bayesian coresets
34. NeurIPS 2024General Detection-based Text Line Recognition
35. NeurIPS 2024GLinSAT: The General Linear Satisfiability Neural Network Layer By Accelerated Gradient Descent
36. NeurIPS 2024GlotCC: An Open Broad-Coverage CommonCrawl Corpus and Pipeline for Minority Languages
37. NeurIPS 2024GMAI-MMBench: A Comprehensive Multimodal Evaluation Benchmark Towards General Medical AI
38. NeurIPS 2024Graph Edit Distance with General Costs Using Neural Set Divergence
39. NeurIPS 2024Graph-based Unsupervised Disentangled Representation Learning via Multimodal Large Language Models
40. NeurIPS 2024GTA: A Benchmark for General Tool Agents
41. NeurIPS 2024How Does Variance Shape the Regret in Contextual Bandits?
42. NeurIPS 2024Identify Then Recommend: Towards Unsupervised Group Recommendation
43. NeurIPS 2024Identifying General Mechanism Shifts in Linear Causal Representations
44. NeurIPS 2024Identifying Selections for Unsupervised Subtask Discovery
45. NeurIPS 2024ImageNet3D: Towards General-Purpose Object-Level 3D Understanding
46. NeurIPS 2024Improved Guarantees for Fully Dynamic $k$-Center Clustering with Outliers in General Metric Spaces
47. NeurIPS 2024Improving Environment Novelty Quantification for Effective Unsupervised Environment Design
48. NeurIPS 2024IncomeSCM: From tabular data set to time-series simulator and causal estimation benchmark
49. NeurIPS 2024Injecting Undetectable Backdoors in Obfuscated Neural Networks and Language Models
50. NeurIPS 2024InversionView: A General-Purpose Method for Reading Information from Neural Activations

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.