Probing papers, 2023–2026
Representation probing
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 43 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 13 |
| 2026 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 15 |
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
12 papers, page 1 of 1
- CVPR 2026Do VLMs Perceive or Recall Probing Visual Perception vs. Memory
- CVPR 2026Faithful Contouring Near-Lossless 3D Voxel Representation Free from Iso-surface
- CVPR 2025MetricGrids: Arbitrary Nonlinear Approximation with Elementary Metric Grids based Implicit Neural Representation
- CVPR 2025PolarNeXt: Rethink Instance Segmentation with Polar Representation
- CVPR 2025STINR: Deciphering Spatial Transcriptomics via Implicit Neural Representation
- CVPR 2025Towards Lossless Implicit Neural Representation via Bit Plane Decomposition
- CVPR 2024Improved Implicit Neural Representation with Fourier Reparameterized Training
- CVPR 2023DINER: Disorder-Invariant Implicit Neural Representation
- CVPR 2023Im2Hands: Learning Attentive Implicit Representation of Interacting Two-Hand Shapes
- CVPR 2023Probing Neural Representations of Scene Perception in a Hippocampally Dependent Task Using Artificial Neural Networks
- CVPR 2023Regularize Implicit Neural Representation by Itself
- CVPR 2023Superclass Learning With Representation Enhancement
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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.