Public Policy Analytics papers, 2023–2026
Policy data analysis
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 84 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Public Policy Analytics went from 16 papers in 2023 to 29 in 2026, roughly 1.8x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Public Policy Analytics work: 45 papers from 2023 to 2026, 54% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Reinforcement Learning: papers tagged with both rose from 6 in 2023 to 18 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under AI for Social Good, it ranks #2 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Energy Grid Optimization, is up 2.6x versus 1.8x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 16 |
| 2024 | 5 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 21 |
| 2025 | 11 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
| 2026 | 22 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 29 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026Co-Evolving Policy Distillation
- ICML 2026Partial Identification of Policy Values under Network Interference
- ICLR 2026Joint Selection for Large-Scale Pre-Training Data via Policy Gradient-based Mask Learning
- CVPR 2026Real-Time Long Horizon Air Quality Forecasting via Group-Relative Policy Optimization
- NeurIPS 2025Real-Time Hyper-Personalized Generative AI Should Be Regulated to Prevent the Rise of "Digital Heroin"
- ICML 2025Improving Value Estimation Critically Enhances Vanilla Policy Gradient
- CVPR 2025AffordDP: Generalizable Diffusion Policy with Transferable Affordance
- NeurIPS 2024SafeWorld: Geo-Diverse Safety Alignment
- ICML 2024Optimal Differentially Private Model Training with Public Data
- NeurIPS 2023Creating a Public Repository for Joining Private Data
- ICML 2023Exponential Smoothing for Off-Policy Learning
- ICLR 2023Linear Convergence of Natural Policy Gradient Methods with Log-Linear Policies
- NeurIPS 2026Distributionally-Robust Policy Learning from Observational Data
- ICML 2026Personalized Policy Learning through Discrete Experimentation
- NeurIPS 2025$\textit{Hyper-GoalNet}$: Goal-Conditioned Manipulation Policy Learning with HyperNetworks
- ICML 2025Theoretical guarantees on the best-of-n alignment policy
- NeurIPS 2024Improved off-policy training of diffusion samplers
- ICML 2024Position: Considerations for Differentially Private Learning with Large-Scale Public Pretraining
- NeurIPS 2023Global Optimality and Finite Sample Analysis of Softmax Off-Policy Actor Critic under State Distribution Mismatch
- ICML 2023On Many-Actions Policy Gradient
All Public Policy Analytics papers
22 papers, page 1 of 1
- NeurIPS 2026Beyond SFT-to-RL: Pre-alignment via Black-box On-policy Distillation for Multimodal RL
- NeurIPS 2026Boosting Off-Policy RLVR with Data-Centric Replay
- NeurIPS 2026Co-Evolving Policy Distillation
- NeurIPS 2026Compose Your Oracles: Off Policy Improvement with Aggregated Guidance
- NeurIPS 2026Cornerstones or Stumbling Blocks? Deciphering the Rock Tokens in On-Policy Distillation
- NeurIPS 2026Distributionally-Robust Policy Learning from Observational Data
- NeurIPS 2026Don’t Let Gains FADE: Breaking Down Policy Gradient Weights in RL
- NeurIPS 2026Feedback World Model Enables Precise Guidance of Diffusion Policy
- NeurIPS 2026FLAG: Flow Policy MaxEnt-RL by Latent Augmented Guidance
- NeurIPS 2026Global linear convergence of entropy-regularized softmax policy gradient beyond tabular MDPs
- NeurIPS 2026Jump Start Your Policy Learning with Lessons from 145,000 Training Runs
- NeurIPS 2026Learning Multimodal One-step Flow Policy via Value-weighted Optimal Transport
- NeurIPS 2026METAFORGET: Audit-Driven Update-Policy Learning for Reliable Language Model Unlearning
- NeurIPS 2026Off-policy Learning with Excursion Policies
- NeurIPS 2026Policy Gradient Algorithms in Average-Reward Multichain MDPs
- NeurIPS 2026Policy Regret Minimization in Partially Observable Markov Games
- NeurIPS 2026Proposing Better Rollouts for On-Policy Distillation
- NeurIPS 2026Reverse to Advance: Teleoperation-Cost Effective Hard Policy Learning from Reversed Easy Tasks
- NeurIPS 2026Selective Off-Policy Reference Tuning with Plan Guidance
- NeurIPS 2026The AI Observatory: A Public Measure of Real-World AI Use
- NeurIPS 2026Trust Region Policy Distillation
- NeurIPS 2026Your Teacher Can’t Help You Here: Combating Supervision Fidelity Decay in On-Policy Distillation
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FAQ
- How many Public Policy Analytics papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 84 in total: 16 in 2023, 21 in 2024, 18 in 2025, 29 in 2026.
- How many Public Policy Analytics papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 22 Public Policy Analytics papers, versus 11 the year before.
- How many Public Policy Analytics papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 1 Public Policy Analytics papers.
- How many Public Policy Analytics papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 5 Public Policy Analytics papers, versus 6 the year before.
- How many Public Policy Analytics papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 1 Public Policy Analytics papers, versus 1 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Public Policy Analytics papers?
- NeurIPS, with 45 papers from 2023 to 2026.