Materials Discovery papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Materials Discovery went from 30 papers in 2023 to 77 in 2026, roughly 2.6x in three years.
• ICML publishes the most Materials Discovery work: 70 papers from 2023 to 2026, 34% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Applications · chemistry physics and earth sciences: papers tagged with both rose from 1 in 2023 to 8 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Climate and Physical Sciences, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Weather Forecasting, is up 6.1x versus 2.6x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026AMGenC: Generating Charge Balanced Amorphous Materials
• ICML 2026Adaptive Symmetry Discovery for Dynamical System Identification
• ICLR 2026Bures Generalized Category Discovery
• CVPR 2026TAR Token-Aware Refinement for Fine-grained Generalized Category Discovery
• NeurIPS 2025Generalized Category Discovery under Domain Shift: A Frequency Domain Perspective
• ICML 2025Neural Discovery in Mathematics: Do Machines Dream of Colored Planes?
• ICLR 2025DebGCD: Debiased Learning with Distribution Guidance for Generalized Category Discovery
• CVPR 2025Adaptive Part Learning for Fine-Grained Generalized Category Discovery: A Plug-and-Play Enhancement
• NeurIPS 2024WelQrate: Defining the Gold Standard in Small Molecule Drug Discovery Benchmarking
• ICML 2024Amortized Equation Discovery in Hybrid Dynamical Systems
• ICLR 2024Towards Faithful Explanations: Boosting Rationalization with Shortcuts Discovery
• CVPR 2024Eclipse: Disambiguating Illumination and Materials using Unintended Shadows
• NeurIPS 2023An Optimization-based Approach To Node Role Discovery in Networks: Approximating Equitable Partitions
• ICML 2023Deep Temporal Sets with Evidential Reinforced Attentions for Unique Behavioral Pattern Discovery
• ICLR 2023Improving the imputation of missing data with Markov Blanket discovery
• CVPR 2023Bootstrap Your Own Prior: Towards Distribution-Agnostic Novel Class Discovery
• NeurIPS 2026Ballad: Bandit-Based LLM Routing for Automated Heuristic Discovery
• ICML 2026CURE: Consistency-under-Unified Semantic Regularization for Generalized Category Discovery
• ICLR 2026From Concepts to Components: Concept-Agnostic Attention Module Discovery in Transformers
• CVPR 2026Decouple Your Discovery and Memory in Continual Generalized Category Discovery

All Materials Discovery papers

40 papers, page 1 of 1

1. CVPR 2026A Polynomial Chaos Framework for Causal Discovery in Nonlinear Uncertain
2. CVPR 2026Decouple Your Discovery and Memory in Continual Generalized Category Discovery
3. CVPR 2026Differences That Matter Auditing Models for Capability Gap Discovery and
4. CVPR 2026Learning Like Humans Analogical Concept Learning for Generalized Category Discovery
5. CVPR 2026Seeing Through the Shift Causality-Inspired Robust Generalized Category Discovery
6. CVPR 2026TAR Token-Aware Refinement for Fine-grained Generalized Category Discovery
7. CVPR 2025Adaptive Part Learning for Fine-Grained Generalized Category Discovery: A Plug-and-Play Enhancement
8. CVPR 2025AnomalyNCD: Towards Novel Anomaly Class Discovery in Industrial Scenarios
9. CVPR 2025DiSciPLE: Learning Interpretable Programs for Scientific Visual Discovery
10. CVPR 2025Factored-NeuS: Reconstructing Surfaces, Illumination, and Materials of Possibly Glossy Objects
11. CVPR 2025Hyperbolic Category Discovery
12. CVPR 2025Joint Out-of-Distribution Filtering and Data Discovery Active Learning
13. CVPR 2025Less Attention is More: Prompt Transformer for Generalized Category Discovery
14. CVPR 2025LIRM: Large Inverse Rendering Model for Progressive Reconstruction of Shape, Materials and View-dependent Radiance Fields
15. CVPR 2025Material Anything: Generating Materials for Any 3D Object via Diffusion
16. CVPR 2025Multi-modal Contrastive Learning with Negative Sampling Calibration for Phenotypic Drug Discovery
17. CVPR 2025Towards Human-Understandable Multi-Dimensional Concept Discovery
18. CVPR 2025UNICL-SAM: Uncertainty-Driven In-Context Segmentation with Part Prototype Discovery
19. CVPR 2025Unsupervised Discovery of Facial Landmarks and Head Pose
20. CVPR 2024Active Generalized Category Discovery
21. CVPR 2024Contrastive Mean-Shift Learning for Generalized Category Discovery
22. CVPR 2024Eclipse: Disambiguating Illumination and Materials using Unintended Shadows
23. CVPR 2024Federated Generalized Category Discovery
24. CVPR 2024MatSynth: A Modern PBR Materials Dataset
25. CVPR 2024Novel Class Discovery for Ultra-Fine-Grained Visual Categorization
26. CVPR 2024Practical Measurements of Translucent Materials with Inter-Pixel Translucency Prior
27. CVPR 2024QUADify: Extracting Meshes with Pixel-level Details and Materials from Images
28. CVPR 2024Solving the Catastrophic Forgetting Problem in Generalized Category Discovery
29. CVPR 2024Understanding Video Transformers via Universal Concept Discovery
30. CVPR 2024Visual Concept Connectome (VCC): Open World Concept Discovery and their Interlayer Connections in Deep Models
31. CVPR 2023BKinD-3D: Self-Supervised 3D Keypoint Discovery From Multi-View Videos
32. CVPR 2023Bootstrap Your Own Prior: Towards Distribution-Agnostic Novel Class Discovery
33. CVPR 2023Dynamic Conceptional Contrastive Learning for Generalized Category Discovery
34. CVPR 2023Hi-LASSIE: High-Fidelity Articulated Shape and Skeleton Discovery From Sparse Image Ensemble
35. CVPR 2023Object Discovery From Motion-Guided Tokens
36. CVPR 2023On-the-Fly Category Discovery
37. CVPR 2023PartMix: Regularization Strategy To Learn Part Discovery for Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification
38. CVPR 2023PromptCAL: Contrastive Affinity Learning via Auxiliary Prompts for Generalized Novel Category Discovery
39. CVPR 2023SuperDisco: Super-Class Discovery Improves Visual Recognition for the Long-Tail
40. CVPR 2023The Differentiable Lens: Compound Lens Search Over Glass Surfaces and Materials for Object Detection

FAQ

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

208 in total: 30 in 2023, 48 in 2024, 53 in 2025, 77 in 2026.

How many Materials Discovery papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 33 Materials Discovery papers, versus 15 the year before.

How many Materials Discovery papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 11 Materials Discovery papers, versus 12 the year before.

How many Materials Discovery papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 27 Materials Discovery papers, versus 13 the year before.

How many Materials Discovery papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 6 Materials Discovery papers, versus 13 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Materials Discovery papers?

ICML, with 70 papers from 2023 to 2026.