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

2,079 papers, page 41 of 42

2001. ICML 2023Reinforcement Learning from Passive Data via Latent Intentions
2002. ICML 2023Reinforcement Learning in Low-rank MDPs with Density Features
2003. ICML 2023Reinforcement Learning with General Utilities: Simpler Variance Reduction and Large State-Action Space
2004. ICML 2023Reinforcement Learning with History Dependent Dynamic Contexts
2005. ICML 2023ReLOAD: Reinforcement Learning with Optimistic Ascent-Descent for Last-Iterate Convergence in Constrained MDPs
2006. ICML 2023Reparameterized Policy Learning for Multimodal Trajectory Optimization
2007. ICML 2023Representation Learning with Multi-Step Inverse Kinematics: An Efficient and Optimal Approach to Rich-Observation RL
2008. ICML 2023Representation-Driven Reinforcement Learning
2009. ICML 2023Representations and Exploration for Deep Reinforcement Learning using Singular Value Decomposition
2010. ICML 2023Retrosynthetic Planning with Dual Value Networks
2011. ICML 2023Revisiting Bellman Errors for Offline Model Selection
2012. ICML 2023Revisiting Domain Randomization via Relaxed State-Adversarial Policy Optimization
2013. ICML 2023Revisiting the Linear-Programming Framework for Offline RL with General Function Approximation
2014. ICML 2023Reward-Mixing MDPs with Few Latent Contexts are Learnable
2015. ICML 2023RLang: A Declarative Language for Describing Partial World Knowledge to Reinforcement Learning Agents
2016. ICML 2023Robust Collaborative Learning with Linear Gradient Overhead
2017. ICML 2023Robust Satisficing MDPs
2018. ICML 2023Robust Situational Reinforcement Learning in Face of Context Disturbances
2019. ICML 2023Robust Subtask Learning for Compositional Generalization
2020. ICML 2023Robustly Learning a Single Neuron via Sharpness
2021. ICML 2023Safe Offline Reinforcement Learning with Real-Time Budget Constraints
2022. ICML 2023SAM operates far from home: eigenvalue regularization as a dynamical phenomenon
2023. ICML 2023Sample Complexity Bounds for Learning High-dimensional Simplices in Noisy Regimes
2024. ICML 2023Scalable Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning through Intelligent Information Aggregation
2025. ICML 2023Scalable Safe Policy Improvement via Monte Carlo Tree Search
2026. ICML 2023Scaling Laws for Reward Model Overoptimization
2027. ICML 2023Searching Large Neighborhoods for Integer Linear Programs with Contrastive Learning
2028. ICML 2023SeMAIL: Eliminating Distractors in Visual Imitation via Separated Models
2029. ICML 2023Semi-Offline Reinforcement Learning for Optimized Text Generation
2030. ICML 2023Semi-Supervised Offline Reinforcement Learning with Action-Free Trajectories
2031. ICML 2023Semiparametrically Efficient Off-Policy Evaluation in Linear Markov Decision Processes
2032. ICML 2023Set-membership Belief State-based Reinforcement Learning for POMDPs
2033. ICML 2023Sharp Variance-Dependent Bounds in Reinforcement Learning: Best of Both Worlds in Stochastic and Deterministic Environments
2034. ICML 2023Shortest Edit Path Crossover: A Theory-driven Solution to the Permutation Problem in Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search
2035. ICML 2023Simple Embodied Language Learning as a Byproduct of Meta-Reinforcement Learning
2036. ICML 2023Simplified Temporal Consistency Reinforcement Learning
2037. ICML 2023SNeRL: Semantic-aware Neural Radiance Fields for Reinforcement Learning
2038. ICML 2023Social learning spontaneously emerges by searching optimal heuristics with deep reinforcement learning
2039. ICML 2023STEERING : Stein Information Directed Exploration for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
2040. ICML 2023Stein Variational Goal Generation for adaptive Exploration in Multi-Goal Reinforcement Learning
2041. ICML 2023STEP: Learning N:M Structured Sparsity Masks from Scratch with Precondition
2042. ICML 2023StriderNet: A Graph Reinforcement Learning Approach to Optimize Atomic Structures on Rough Energy Landscapes
2043. ICML 2023Subequivariant Graph Reinforcement Learning in 3D Environments
2044. ICML 2023Supported Trust Region Optimization for Offline Reinforcement Learning
2045. ICML 2023Target-based Surrogates for Stochastic Optimization
2046. ICML 2023TGRL: An Algorithm for Teacher Guided Reinforcement Learning
2047. ICML 2023The Benefits of Model-Based Generalization in Reinforcement Learning
2048. ICML 2023The Dormant Neuron Phenomenon in Deep Reinforcement Learning
2049. ICML 2023The Optimal Approximation Factors in Misspecified Off-Policy Value Function Estimation
2050. ICML 2023The Regret of Exploration and the Control of Bad Episodes in Reinforcement Learning

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.