Probing papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Probing went from 10 papers in 2023 to 15 in 2026, roughly 1.5x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Probing work: 12 papers from 2023 to 2026, 28% of the four-venue total.
• Among the 5 topics under Interpretability, it ranks #5 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Mechanistic Interpretability, is up 8.1x versus 1.5x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026Optimal Representation Size: High-Dimensional Analysis of Pretraining and Linear Probing
• ICML 2026Logit Distance Bounds Representational Similarity
• ICLR 2026Probing Rotary Position Embeddings through Frequency Entropy
• CVPR 2026Do VLMs Perceive or Recall Probing Visual Perception vs. Memory
• NeurIPS 2025SparseMVC: Probing Cross-view Sparsity Variations for Multi-view Clustering
• ICML 2025ViTally Consistent: Scaling Biological Representation Learning for Cell Microscopy
• ICLR 2025Breaking Free from MMI: A New Frontier in Rationalization by Probing Input Utilization
• CVPR 2025MetricGrids: Arbitrary Nonlinear Approximation with Elementary Metric Grids based Implicit Neural Representation
• NeurIPS 2024EMVP: Embracing Visual Foundation Model for Visual Place Recognition with Centroid-Free Probing
• ICML 2024Position: The Platonic Representation Hypothesis
• ICLR 2024LiDAR: Sensing Linear Probing Performance in Joint Embedding SSL Architectures
• CVPR 2024Improved Implicit Neural Representation with Fourier Reparameterized Training
• ICML 2023Defects of Convolutional Decoder Networks in Frequency Representation
• ICLR 2023Can BERT Refrain from Forgetting on Sequential Tasks? A Probing Study
• CVPR 2023Probing Neural Representations of Scene Perception in a Hippocampally Dependent Task Using Artificial Neural Networks
• NeurIPS 2026Towards Precise Knowledge Distillation for Large Language Models via Knowledge Probing
• ICML 2026Probing the Inductive Bias of Neural Networks through Learning Random Cellular Automata
• ICLR 2026Rethinking LLM-as-a-Judge: Representation-as-a-Judge with Small Language Models via Semantic Capacity Asymmetry
• CVPR 2026Faithful Contouring Near-Lossless 3D Voxel Representation Free from Iso-surface
• NeurIPS 2025MaxSup: Overcoming Representation Collapse in Label Smoothing

All Probing papers

43 papers, page 1 of 1

1. CVPR 2026Do VLMs Perceive or Recall Probing Visual Perception vs. Memory
2. CVPR 2026Faithful Contouring Near-Lossless 3D Voxel Representation Free from Iso-surface
3. ICLR 2026Attention, Please! Revisiting Attentive Probing Through the Lens of Efficiency
4. ICLR 2026Probing Rotary Position Embeddings through Frequency Entropy
5. ICLR 2026Rethinking LLM-as-a-Judge: Representation-as-a-Judge with Small Language Models via Semantic Capacity Asymmetry
6. ICML 2026Logit Distance Bounds Representational Similarity
7. ICML 2026Probing the Geometry of Diffusion Models with the String Method
8. ICML 2026Probing the Inductive Bias of Neural Networks through Learning Random Cellular Automata
9. ICML 2026The Perception–Physics Paradox: Probing Scientific Alignment with TC-Bench
10. NeurIPS 2026Is a Linear Probe Evidence of a Linear Representation?
11. NeurIPS 2026Optimal Representation Size: High-Dimensional Analysis of Pretraining and Linear Probing
12. NeurIPS 2026Probing the Trajectories of Reasoning Traces in Large Language Models
13. NeurIPS 2026Prototypes of the Mind: A Unified Framework for Probing the Visual Brain
14. NeurIPS 2026Towards Precise Knowledge Distillation for Large Language Models via Knowledge Probing
15. NeurIPS 2026Value Entanglement: Conflation Between Different Kinds of Good In (Some) Large Language Models
16. CVPR 2025MetricGrids: Arbitrary Nonlinear Approximation with Elementary Metric Grids based Implicit Neural Representation
17. CVPR 2025PolarNeXt: Rethink Instance Segmentation with Polar Representation
18. CVPR 2025STINR: Deciphering Spatial Transcriptomics via Implicit Neural Representation
19. CVPR 2025Towards Lossless Implicit Neural Representation via Bit Plane Decomposition
20. ICLR 2025Breaking Free from MMI: A New Frontier in Rationalization by Probing Input Utilization
21. ICLR 2025Do LLMs ``know'' internally when they follow instructions?
22. ICLR 2025LLMs Know More Than They Show: On the Intrinsic Representation of LLM Hallucinations
23. ICLR 2025Probe Pruning: Accelerating LLMs through Dynamic Pruning via Model-Probing
24. ICML 2025ViTally Consistent: Scaling Biological Representation Learning for Cell Microscopy
25. NeurIPS 2025Head Pursuit: Probing Attention Specialization in Multimodal Transformers
26. NeurIPS 2025MaxSup: Overcoming Representation Collapse in Label Smoothing
27. NeurIPS 2025Probing Hidden Knowledge Holes in Unlearned LLMs
28. NeurIPS 2025SparseMVC: Probing Cross-view Sparsity Variations for Multi-view Clustering
29. CVPR 2024Improved Implicit Neural Representation with Fourier Reparameterized Training
30. ICLR 2024LiDAR: Sensing Linear Probing Performance in Joint Embedding SSL Architectures
31. ICML 2024Position: The Platonic Representation Hypothesis
32. NeurIPS 2024EMVP: Embracing Visual Foundation Model for Visual Place Recognition with Centroid-Free Probing
33. NeurIPS 2024Probing the Decision Boundaries of In-context Learning in Large Language Models
34. CVPR 2023DINER: Disorder-Invariant Implicit Neural Representation
35. CVPR 2023Im2Hands: Learning Attentive Implicit Representation of Interacting Two-Hand Shapes
36. CVPR 2023Probing Neural Representations of Scene Perception in a Hippocampally Dependent Task Using Artificial Neural Networks
37. CVPR 2023Regularize Implicit Neural Representation by Itself
38. CVPR 2023Superclass Learning With Representation Enhancement
39. ICLR 2023Can BERT Refrain from Forgetting on Sequential Tasks? A Probing Study
40. ICLR 2023Does Deep Learning Learn to Abstract? A Systematic Probing Framework
41. ICML 2023Defects of Convolutional Decoder Networks in Frequency Representation
42. ICML 2023Detecting Adversarial Data by Probing Multiple Perturbations Using Expected Perturbation Score
43. ICML 2023Stochastic Gradient Descent-Induced Drift of Representation in a Two-Layer Neural Network

FAQ

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

43 in total: 10 in 2023, 5 in 2024, 13 in 2025, 15 in 2026.

How many Probing papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 6 Probing papers, versus 4 the year before.

How many Probing papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 3 Probing papers, versus 4 the year before.

How many Probing papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 4 Probing papers, versus 1 the year before.

How many Probing papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 2 Probing papers, versus 4 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Probing papers?

NeurIPS, with 12 papers from 2023 to 2026.