Human Evaluation papers, 2023–2026
Human eval protocols
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 271 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Human Evaluation went from 33 papers in 2023 to 108 in 2026, roughly 3.3x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Human Evaluation work: 90 papers from 2023 to 2026, 33% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Datasets and Benchmarks: papers tagged with both rose from 3 in 2023 to 31 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Evaluation and Benchmarks, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, LLM Benchmarks, is up 154x versus 3.3x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 17 | 33 |
| 2024 | 25 | 11 | 13 | 21 | 70 |
| 2025 | 17 | 16 | 14 | 13 | 60 |
| 2026 | 39 | 29 | 21 | 19 | 108 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026Ad-Hoc Teamwork from Human Demonstrations
- ICML 2026SWE-IF: Aligning Code Evaluation with Human Preference
- ICLR 2026Human-LLM Collaborative Feature Engineering for Tabular Data
- CVPR 2026Bridging Human Evaluation to Infrared and Visible Image Fusion
- NeurIPS 2025Deep Edge Filter: Return of the Human-Crafted Layer in Deep Learning
- ICML 2025Position: When Incentives Backfire, Data Stops Being Human
- ICLR 2025Eliciting Human Preferences with Language Models
- CVPR 2025DynPose: Largely Improving the Efficiency of Human Pose Estimation by a Simple Dynamic Framework
- NeurIPS 2024DART-Eval: A Comprehensive DNA Language Model Evaluation Benchmark on Regulatory DNA
- ICML 2024A Fine-grained Analysis of Fitted Q-evaluation: Beyond Parametric Models
- ICLR 2024Human Feedback is not Gold Standard
- CVPR 2024LocLLM: Exploiting Generalizable Human Keypoint Localization via Large Language Model
- NeurIPS 2023Privacy Assessment on Reconstructed Images: Are Existing Evaluation Metrics Faithful to Human Perception?
- ICML 2023Regions of Reliability in the Evaluation of Multivariate Probabilistic Forecasts
- ICLR 2023Beyond calibration: estimating the grouping loss of modern neural networks
- CVPR 20233D Human Keypoints Estimation From Point Clouds in the Wild Without Human Labels
- NeurIPS 2026AI Construct Lexis: An Ontology of the Hidden Assumptions in AI Evaluation
- ICML 2026Rethinking Evaluation Paradigms in IBP-based Certified Training
- ICLR 2026Multi-turn Evaluation of Anthropomorphic Behaviours in Large Language Models
- CVPR 2026Ground Reaction Inertial Poser Physics-based Human Motion Capture from Sparse
All Human Evaluation papers
21 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICML 2026A Computational Framework for Evaluating Human-likeness in LLMs' Open-ended Human Behaviors
- ICML 2026AppWorld-UL: Benchmarking Diverse Agent-User Interactions for Tool-Use
- ICML 2026Benchmarking World-Model Learning with Environment-Level Queries
- ICML 2026Certifying Capabilities from Finite Tests: When Is It Possible?
- ICML 2026Conversation for Non-verifiable Learning: Self-Evolving Large Language Models through Meta-Evaluation
- ICML 2026Efficient Inference for Noisy LLM-as-a-Judge Evaluation
- ICML 2026Expectation Alignment of Language Models for Real-World User Expectations
- ICML 2026Explanations are a Means to an End: Decision Theoretic Explanation Evaluation
- ICML 2026FiRE: Fine-grained Ranking Evaluation for Machine Translation
- ICML 2026GICDM: Mitigating Hubness for Reliable Distance-Based Generative Model Evaluation
- ICML 2026Hair-Trigger Alignment: Black-Box Evaluation Cannot Guarantee Post-Update Alignment
- ICML 2026LiveOIBench: Can Large Language Models Outperform Human Contestants in Informatics Olympiads?
- ICML 2026Moving Out: Physically-grounded Human-AI Collaboration
- ICML 2026Nonparametric LLM Evaluation from Preference Data
- ICML 2026PerceptionRubrics: Calibrating Multimodal Evaluation to Human Perception
- ICML 2026QEDBench: Quantifying the Alignment Gap in Automated Evaluation of University-Level Mathematical Proofs
- ICML 2026Query-efficient model evaluation using cached responses
- ICML 2026Rethinking Evaluation Paradigms in IBP-based Certified Training
- ICML 2026Reward Modeling from Natural Language Human Feedback
- ICML 2026STABLEVAL: Disagreement-Aware and Stable Evaluation of AI Systems
- ICML 2026SWE-IF: Aligning Code Evaluation with Human Preference
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FAQ
- How many Human Evaluation papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 271 in total: 33 in 2023, 70 in 2024, 60 in 2025, 108 in 2026.
- How many Human Evaluation papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 39 Human Evaluation papers, versus 17 the year before.
- How many Human Evaluation papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 29 Human Evaluation papers, versus 16 the year before.
- How many Human Evaluation papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 21 Human Evaluation papers, versus 14 the year before.
- How many Human Evaluation papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 19 Human Evaluation papers, versus 13 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Human Evaluation papers?
- NeurIPS, with 90 papers from 2023 to 2026.