Reinforcement Learning papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Reinforcement Learning went from 1,070 papers in 2023 to 2,985 in 2026, roughly 2.8x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Reinforcement Learning work: 2,494 papers from 2023 to 2026, 36% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Reasoning Models: papers tagged with both rose from 9 in 2023 to 437 in 2026.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026\texttt{FEROM}: Frontier Endogenous Reveal-Order Marginal Policy Optimization for Masked Diffusion LMs
• ICML 2026$\text{DT}^\text{2}$: Decision-Targeted Digital Twins
• ICLR 2026$\nabla$-Reasoner: LLM Reasoning via Test-Time Gradient Descent in Textual Space
• CVPR 2026A Causal Marriage between VLM and IRM from Understanding to
• NeurIPS 2025$\texttt{G1}$: Teaching LLMs to Reason on Graphs with Reinforcement Learning
• ICML 2025A Computationally Efficient Algorithm for Infinite-Horizon Average-Reward Linear MDPs
• ICLR 2025$\phi$-Update: A Class of Policy Update Methods with Policy Convergence Guarantee
• CVPR 2025All-Optical Nonlinear Diffractive Deep Network for Ultrafast Image Denoising
• NeurIPS 2024A Critical Evaluation of AI Feedback for Aligning Large Language Models
• ICML 2024${\rm E}(3)$-Equivariant Actor-Critic Methods for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
• ICLR 2024A Black-box Approach for Non-stationary Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
• CVPR 2024DMR: Decomposed Multi-Modality Representations for Frames and Events Fusion in Visual Reinforcement Learning
• NeurIPS 2023“Why Not Looking backward?” A Robust Two-Step Method to Automatically Terminate Bayesian Optimization
• ICML 2023A Connection between One-Step RL and Critic Regularization in Reinforcement Learning
• ICLR 2023$O(T^{-1})$ Convergence of Optimistic-Follow-the-Regularized-Leader in Two-Player Zero-Sum Markov Games
• CVPR 2023"Seeing" Electric Network Frequency From Events
• NeurIPS 2026$\varphi$TD: Distributional Reinforcement Learning using Characteristic Functions
• ICML 2026$\textit{S}$-SPPO: Semantic-Calibrated Self-Play Preference Optimization
• ICLR 2026$AutoDrive\text{-}P^3$: Unified Chain of Perception–Prediction–Planning Thought via Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
• CVPR 2026AdaptVision Efficient Vision-Language Models via Adaptive Visual Acquisition

All Reinforcement Learning papers

1,070 papers, page 22 of 22

1051. NeurIPS 2023Unified Off-Policy Learning to Rank: a Reinforcement Learning Perspective
1052. NeurIPS 2023Unsupervised Behavior Extraction via Random Intent Priors
1053. NeurIPS 2023Unsupervised Learning for Solving the Travelling Salesman Problem
1054. NeurIPS 2023Use perturbations when learning from explanations
1055. NeurIPS 2023Variance-Reduced Gradient Estimation via Noise-Reuse in Online Evolution Strategies
1056. NeurIPS 2023Video Prediction Models as Rewards for Reinforcement Learning
1057. NeurIPS 2023VOCE: Variational Optimization with Conservative Estimation for Offline Safe Reinforcement Learning
1058. NeurIPS 2023VTaC: A Benchmark Dataset of Ventricular Tachycardia Alarms from ICU Monitors
1059. NeurIPS 2023Wasserstein Gradient Flows for Optimizing Gaussian Mixture Policies
1060. NeurIPS 2023Waymax: An Accelerated, Data-Driven Simulator for Large-Scale Autonomous Driving Research
1061. NeurIPS 2023Waypoint Transformer: Reinforcement Learning via Supervised Learning with Intermediate Targets
1062. NeurIPS 2023WCLD: Curated Large Dataset of Criminal Cases from Wisconsin Circuit Courts
1063. NeurIPS 2023Weakly Coupled Deep Q-Networks
1064. NeurIPS 2023Weitzman's Rule for Pandora's Box with Correlations
1065. NeurIPS 2023When Demonstrations meet Generative World Models: A Maximum Likelihood Framework for Offline Inverse Reinforcement Learning
1066. NeurIPS 2023When Do Transformers Shine in RL? Decoupling Memory from Credit Assignment
1067. NeurIPS 2023When is Agnostic Reinforcement Learning Statistically Tractable?
1068. NeurIPS 2023Where are we in the search for an Artificial Visual Cortex for Embodied Intelligence?
1069. NeurIPS 2023Winner Takes It All: Training Performant RL Populations for Combinatorial Optimization
1070. NeurIPS 2023Would I have gotten that reward? Long-term credit assignment by counterfactual contribution analysis

FAQ

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

6,885 in total: 1,070 in 2023, 1,190 in 2024, 1,640 in 2025, 2,985 in 2026.

How many Reinforcement Learning papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 760 Reinforcement Learning papers, versus 784 the year before.

How many Reinforcement Learning papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 911 Reinforcement Learning papers, versus 379 the year before.

How many Reinforcement Learning papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 1,021 Reinforcement Learning papers, versus 405 the year before.

How many Reinforcement Learning papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 293 Reinforcement Learning papers, versus 72 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Reinforcement Learning papers?

NeurIPS, with 2,494 papers from 2023 to 2026.