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

544 papers, page 7 of 11

301. NeurIPS 2026We Need to Improve Benchmarks in AI for Mathematics
302. NeurIPS 2026What Claims Do LLM Benchmark Scores Support?
303. NeurIPS 2026What Should Remain After Forgetting? Rethinking LLM Unlearning as Predictive Posterior Correction
304. NeurIPS 2026When Does Online Imitation Learning Help in LLM Post-Training? The Role of (Non-)Realizability Beyond Horizon
305. NeurIPS 2026When Expert Disagreement Hurts: Auditing Prestige-Sensitive Revision in LLM Decision Pipelines
306. NeurIPS 2026When LLM Routers Overpay: Strong-Model Over-Selection under Loose Budgets
307. NeurIPS 2026XBRIDGE: Entity-Grounded Latent Bridge for Heterogeneous LLM Communication
308. CVPR 2025LiveCC: Learning Video LLM with Streaming Speech Transcription at Scale
309. CVPR 2025M-LLM Based Video Frame Selection for Efficient Video Understanding
310. CVPR 2025Period-LLM: Extending the Periodic Capability of Multimodal Large Language Model
311. CVPR 2025Separation of Powers: On Segregating Knowledge from Observation in LLM-enabled Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering
312. CVPR 2025StoryGPT-V: Large Language Models as Consistent Story Visualizers
313. CVPR 2025Video-3D LLM: Learning Position-Aware Video Representation for 3D Scene Understanding
314. CVPR 2025VideoRefer Suite: Advancing Spatial-Temporal Object Understanding with Video LLM
315. CVPR 2025VideoTree: Adaptive Tree-based Video Representation for LLM Reasoning on Long Videos
316. ICLR 2025AI Sandbagging: Language Models can Strategically Underperform on Evaluations
317. ICLR 2025An Empirical Analysis of Uncertainty in Large Language Model Evaluations
318. ICLR 2025Better than Your Teacher: LLM Agents that learn from Privileged AI Feedback
319. ICLR 2025BingoGuard: LLM Content Moderation Tools with Risk Levels
320. ICLR 2025Catastrophic Failure of LLM Unlearning via Quantization
321. ICLR 2025Cheating Automatic LLM Benchmarks: Null Models Achieve High Win Rates
322. ICLR 2025Combatting Dimensional Collapse in LLM Pre-Training Data via Submodular File Selection
323. ICLR 2025Controlled LLM Decoding via Discrete Auto-regressive Biasing
324. ICLR 2025Cut the Crap: An Economical Communication Pipeline for LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems
325. ICLR 2025Determine-Then-Ensemble: Necessity of Top-k Union for Large Language Model Ensembling
326. ICLR 2025Diversity Empowers Intelligence: Integrating Expertise of Software Engineering Agents
327. ICLR 2025Do LLMs have Consistent Values?
328. ICLR 2025Do LLMs Recognize Your Preferences? Evaluating Personalized Preference Following in LLMs
329. ICLR 2025DON’T STOP ME NOW: EMBEDDING BASED SCHEDULING FOR LLMS
330. ICLR 2025ELICIT: LLM Augmentation Via External In-context Capability
331. ICLR 2025Faster Cascades via Speculative Decoding
332. ICLR 2025ForecastBench: A Dynamic Benchmark of AI Forecasting Capabilities
333. ICLR 2025Fourier Head: Helping Large Language Models Learn Complex Probability Distributions
334. ICLR 2025From Commands to Prompts: LLM-based Semantic File System for AIOS
335. ICLR 2025GameArena: Evaluating LLM Reasoning through Live Computer Games
336. ICLR 2025Herald: A Natural Language Annotated Lean 4 Dataset
337. ICLR 2025HShare: Fast LLM Decoding by Hierarchical Key-Value Sharing
338. ICLR 2025Improving Large Language Model Planning with Action Sequence Similarity
339. ICLR 2025Instruct-SkillMix: A Powerful Pipeline for LLM Instruction Tuning
340. ICLR 2025Instructional Segment Embedding: Improving LLM Safety with Instruction Hierarchy
341. ICLR 2025Language Models Are Implicitly Continuous
342. ICLR 2025Large Language Models can Become Strong Self-Detoxifiers
343. ICLR 2025Law of the Weakest Link: Cross Capabilities of Large Language Models
344. ICLR 2025Lawma: The Power of Specialization for Legal Annotation
345. ICLR 2025LiveBench: A Challenging, Contamination-Limited LLM Benchmark
346. ICLR 2025LLM Unlearning via Loss Adjustment with Only Forget Data
347. ICLR 2025Logical Consistency of Large Language Models in Fact-Checking
348. ICLR 2025MM1.5: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Fine-tuning
349. ICLR 2025Omni-MATH: A Universal Olympiad Level Mathematic Benchmark for Large Language Models
350. ICLR 2025On Calibration of LLM-based Guard Models for Reliable Content Moderation

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.