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

24 papers, page 1 of 1

1. ICML 2025CateKV: On Sequential Consistency for Long-Context LLM Inference Acceleration
2. ICML 2025Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM’s Reasoning Capability
3. ICML 2025Demystifying Singular Defects in Large Language Models
4. ICML 2025Exploring Criteria of Loss Reweighting to Enhance LLM Unlearning
5. ICML 2025FlatQuant: Flatness Matters for LLM Quantization
6. ICML 2025From Crowdsourced Data to High-quality Benchmarks: Arena-Hard and Benchbuilder Pipeline
7. ICML 2025From Jack of All Trades to Master of One: Specializing LLM-based Autoraters to a Test Set
8. ICML 2025La RoSA: Enhancing LLM Efficiency via Layerwise Rotated Sparse Activation
9. ICML 2025Large Language-Geometry Model: When LLM meets Equivariance
10. ICML 2025LongRoPE2: Near-Lossless LLM Context Window Scaling
11. ICML 2025Memorization Sinks: Isolating Memorization during LLM Training
12. ICML 2025Minerva: A Programmable Memory Test Benchmark for Language Models
13. ICML 2025Overestimation in LLM Evaluation: A Controlled Large-Scale Study on Data Contamination’s Impact on Machine Translation
14. ICML 2025Position: Don't Use the CLT in LLM Evals With Fewer Than a Few Hundred Datapoints
15. ICML 2025Position: Medical Large Language Model Benchmarks Should Prioritize Construct Validity
16. ICML 2025Position: Principles of Animal Cognition to Improve LLM Evaluations
17. ICML 2025Position: Scaling LLM Agents Requires Asymptotic Analysis with LLM Primitives
18. ICML 2025Position: The Most Expensive Part of an LLM *should* be its Training Data
19. ICML 2025RBench: Graduate-level Multi-disciplinary Benchmarks for LLM & MLLM Complex Reasoning Evaluation
20. ICML 2025RE-Bench: Evaluating Frontier AI R&D Capabilities of Language Model Agents against Human Experts
21. ICML 2025Reward-Augmented Data Enhances Direct Preference Alignment of LLMs
22. ICML 2025RZ-NAS: Enhancing LLM-guided Neural Architecture Search via Reflective Zero-Cost Strategy
23. ICML 2025Sketch to Adapt: Fine-Tunable Sketches for Efficient LLM Adaptation
24. ICML 2025TruthFlow: Truthful LLM Generation via Representation Flow Correction

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.