LLM Benchmarks papers, 2023–2026
Capability benchmarks
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 544 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 24 | 13 | 21 | 3 | 61 |
| 2025 | 92 | 50 | 24 | 8 | 174 |
| 2026 | 138 | 103 | 60 | 6 | 307 |
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
174 papers, page 4 of 4
- NeurIPS 2025Shape it Up! Restoring LLM Safety during Finetuning
- NeurIPS 2025Sheetpedia: A 300K-Spreadsheet Corpus for Spreadsheet Intelligence and LLM Fine-Tuning
- NeurIPS 2025Silencer: From Discovery to Mitigation of Self-Bias in LLM-as-Benchmark-Generator
- NeurIPS 2025SmallKV: Small Model Assisted Compensation of KV Cache Compression for Efficient LLM Inference
- NeurIPS 2025SmartCache: Context-aware Semantic Cache for Efficient Multi-turn LLM Inference
- NeurIPS 2025Spatially-aware Weights Tokenization for NeRF-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Stackelberg Self-Annotation: A Robust Approach to Data-Efficient LLM Alignment
- NeurIPS 2025SuperGPQA: Scaling LLM Evaluation across 285 Graduate Disciplines
- NeurIPS 2025Superposition Yields Robust Neural Scaling
- NeurIPS 2025SWE-bench Goes Live!
- NeurIPS 2025Tail-Optimized Caching for LLM Inference
- NeurIPS 2025The Automated LLM Speedrunning Benchmark: Reproducing NanoGPT Improvements
- NeurIPS 2025The Leaderboard Illusion
- NeurIPS 2025The Lighthouse of Language: Enhancing LLM Agents via Critique-Guided Improvement
- NeurIPS 2025TheAgentCompany: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Consequential Real World Tasks
- NeurIPS 2025Thinkless: LLM Learns When to Think
- NeurIPS 2025Toward Engineering AGI: Benchmarking the Engineering Design Capabilities of LLMs
- NeurIPS 2025Towards Fully FP8 GEMM LLM Training at Scale
- NeurIPS 2025Towards Thinking-Optimal Scaling of Test-Time Compute for LLM Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2025Trajectory Bellman Residual Minimization: A Simple Value-Based Method for LLM Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2025Transformer Copilot: Learning from The Mistake Log in LLM Fine-tuning
- NeurIPS 2025WALL-E: World Alignment by NeuroSymbolic Learning improves World Model-based LLM Agents
- NeurIPS 2025WritingBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Generative Writing
- NeurIPS 2025Your Pre-trained LLM is Secretly an Unsupervised Confidence Calibrator
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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.