LLM Benchmarks papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• LLM Benchmarks went from 2 papers in 2023 to 307 in 2026, roughly 154x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most LLM Benchmarks work: 256 papers from 2023 to 2026, 47% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with AI Agents: papers tagged with both rose from 1 in 2023 to 116 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Evaluation and Benchmarks, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, LLM-as-Judge, is up 27x versus 154x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026A Free Lunch in LLM Compression: Revisiting Retraining after Pruning
• ICML 2026Controlled LLM Training on Spectral Sphere
• ICLR 2026Hey, That's My Model! Introducing Chain & Hash, An LLM Fingerprinting Technique
• CVPR 20263DrawAgent Teaching LLM to Draw in 3D with Early Contrastive
• NeurIPS 2025ACCO: Accumulate While You Communicate for Communication-Overlapped Sharded LLM Training
• ICML 2025Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM’s Reasoning Capability
• ICLR 2025Catastrophic Failure of LLM Unlearning via Quantization
• CVPR 2025Period-LLM: Extending the Periodic Capability of Multimodal Large Language Model
• NeurIPS 2024Large Language Models' Expert-level Global History Knowledge Benchmark (HiST-LLM)
• ICML 2024Characterizing ResNet's Universal Approximation Capability
• ICLR 2024Faithful Explanations of Black-box NLP Models Using LLM-generated Counterfactuals
• CVPR 2024Koala: Key Frame-Conditioned Long Video-LLM
• NeurIPS 2023Quantizable Transformers: Removing Outliers by Helping Attention Heads Do Nothing
• NeurIPS 2026Accelerating LLM Pre-Training through Flat-Direction Dynamics Enhancement
• ICML 2026LLM Priors for ERM over Programs
• ICLR 2026How Learning Rate Decay Wastes Your Best Data in Curriculum-Based LLM Pretraining
• CVPR 20263D-VCD Hallucination Mitigation in 3D-LLM Embodied Agents through Visual Contrastive
• NeurIPS 2025BrainEC-LLM: Brain Effective Connectivity Estimation by Multiscale Mixing LLM
• ICML 2025Position: Medical Large Language Model Benchmarks Should Prioritize Construct Validity
• ICLR 2025Cheating Automatic LLM Benchmarks: Null Models Achieve High Win Rates

All LLM Benchmarks papers

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51. ICML 2026Token-Level LLM Collaboration via FusionRoute
52. ICML 2026Toward Cybersecurity-Expert Small Language Models
53. ICML 2026Training-Free Hashing-Based Attention via Binary Principal Components
54. ICML 2026TwinQuant: Learnable Subspace Decomposition for 4-Bit LLM Quantization
55. ICML 2026UltraHorizon: Benchmarking LLM-Agent Capabilities in Ultra Long-Horizon Scenarios
56. ICML 2026Unveiling the Potential of Quantization with MXFP4: Strategies for Quantization Error Reduction
57. ICML 2026Utility-Diversity Aware Online Batch Selection for LLM Supervised Fine-tuning
58. ICML 2026What Do Agents Learn from Trajectory-SFT: Semantics or Interfaces?
59. ICML 2026When Single Answer Is Not Enough: Rethinking Single-Step Retrosynthesis Benchmarks for LLMs
60. ICML 2026Zero Sum SVD: Balancing Loss Sensitivity for Low Rank LLM Compression
61. ICML 2025CateKV: On Sequential Consistency for Long-Context LLM Inference Acceleration
62. ICML 2025Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM’s Reasoning Capability
63. ICML 2025Demystifying Singular Defects in Large Language Models
64. ICML 2025Exploring Criteria of Loss Reweighting to Enhance LLM Unlearning
65. ICML 2025FlatQuant: Flatness Matters for LLM Quantization
66. ICML 2025From Crowdsourced Data to High-quality Benchmarks: Arena-Hard and Benchbuilder Pipeline
67. ICML 2025From Jack of All Trades to Master of One: Specializing LLM-based Autoraters to a Test Set
68. ICML 2025La RoSA: Enhancing LLM Efficiency via Layerwise Rotated Sparse Activation
69. ICML 2025Large Language-Geometry Model: When LLM meets Equivariance
70. ICML 2025LongRoPE2: Near-Lossless LLM Context Window Scaling
71. ICML 2025Memorization Sinks: Isolating Memorization during LLM Training
72. ICML 2025Minerva: A Programmable Memory Test Benchmark for Language Models
73. ICML 2025Overestimation in LLM Evaluation: A Controlled Large-Scale Study on Data Contamination’s Impact on Machine Translation
74. ICML 2025Position: Don't Use the CLT in LLM Evals With Fewer Than a Few Hundred Datapoints
75. ICML 2025Position: Medical Large Language Model Benchmarks Should Prioritize Construct Validity
76. ICML 2025Position: Principles of Animal Cognition to Improve LLM Evaluations
77. ICML 2025Position: Scaling LLM Agents Requires Asymptotic Analysis with LLM Primitives
78. ICML 2025Position: The Most Expensive Part of an LLM *should* be its Training Data
79. ICML 2025RBench: Graduate-level Multi-disciplinary Benchmarks for LLM & MLLM Complex Reasoning Evaluation
80. ICML 2025RE-Bench: Evaluating Frontier AI R&D Capabilities of Language Model Agents against Human Experts
81. ICML 2025Reward-Augmented Data Enhances Direct Preference Alignment of LLMs
82. ICML 2025RZ-NAS: Enhancing LLM-guided Neural Architecture Search via Reflective Zero-Cost Strategy
83. ICML 2025Sketch to Adapt: Fine-Tunable Sketches for Efficient LLM Adaptation
84. ICML 2025TruthFlow: Truthful LLM Generation via Representation Flow Correction
85. ICML 2024An LLM Compiler for Parallel Function Calling
86. ICML 2024Any-Precision LLM: Low-Cost Deployment of Multiple, Different-Sized LLMs
87. ICML 2024Auto-Encoding Morph-Tokens for Multimodal LLM
88. ICML 2024Break the Sequential Dependency of LLM Inference Using Lookahead Decoding
89. ICML 2024Characterizing ResNet's Universal Approximation Capability
90. ICML 2024CLLMs: Consistency Large Language Models
91. ICML 2024Embodied CoT Distillation From LLM To Off-the-shelf Agents
92. ICML 2024ExCP: Extreme LLM Checkpoint Compression via Weight-Momentum Joint Shrinking
93. ICML 2024Executable Code Actions Elicit Better LLM Agents
94. ICML 2024Exploring the LLM Journey from Cognition to Expression with Linear Representations
95. ICML 2024Is DPO Superior to PPO for LLM Alignment? A Comprehensive Study
96. ICML 2024LLM Maybe LongLM: SelfExtend LLM Context Window Without Tuning
97. ICML 2024LongRoPE: Extending LLM Context Window Beyond 2 Million Tokens
98. ICML 2024Medusa: Simple LLM Inference Acceleration Framework with Multiple Decoding Heads
99. ICML 2024MLLM-as-a-Judge: Assessing Multimodal LLM-as-a-Judge with Vision-Language Benchmark
100. ICML 2024MuxServe: Flexible Spatial-Temporal Multiplexing for Multiple LLM Serving

FAQ

How many LLM Benchmarks papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

544 in total: 2 in 2023, 61 in 2024, 174 in 2025, 307 in 2026.

How many LLM Benchmarks papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 138 LLM Benchmarks papers, versus 92 the year before.

How many LLM Benchmarks papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 103 LLM Benchmarks papers, versus 50 the year before.

How many LLM Benchmarks papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 60 LLM Benchmarks papers, versus 24 the year before.

How many LLM Benchmarks papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 6 LLM Benchmarks papers, versus 8 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most LLM Benchmarks papers?

NeurIPS, with 256 papers from 2023 to 2026.