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

485 papers, page 7 of 10

301. CVPR 2025CityWalker: Learning Embodied Urban Navigation from Web-Scale Videos
302. CVPR 2025Closed-Loop Supervised Fine-Tuning of Tokenized Traffic Models
303. CVPR 2025Critic-V: VLM Critics Help Catch VLM Errors in Multimodal Reasoning
304. CVPR 2025Curriculum Direct Preference Optimization for Diffusion and Consistency Models
305. CVPR 2025CustAny: Customizing Anything from A Single Example
306. CVPR 2025Decision SpikeFormer: Spike-Driven Transformer for Decision Making
307. CVPR 2025Dispider: Enabling Video LLMs with Active Real-Time Interaction via Disentangled Perception, Decision, and Reaction
308. CVPR 2025Dyn-HaMR: Recovering 4D Interacting Hand Motion from a Dynamic Camera
309. CVPR 2025EventFly: Event Camera Perception from Ground to the Sky
310. CVPR 2025Focal Split: Untethered Snapshot Depth from Differential Defocus
311. CVPR 2025Forming Auxiliary High-confident Instance-level Loss to Promote Learning from Label Proportions
312. CVPR 2025FRESA: Feedforward Reconstruction of Personalized Skinned Avatars from Few Images
313. CVPR 2025From Alexnet to Transformers: Measuring the Non-linearity of Deep Neural Networks with Affine Optimal Transport
314. CVPR 2025From Poses to Identity: Training-Free Person Re-Identification via Feature Centralization
315. CVPR 2025Gazing at Rewards: Eye Movements as a Lens into Human and AI Decision-Making in Hybrid Visual Foraging
316. CVPR 2025GFlowVLM: Enhancing Multi-step Reasoning in Vision-Language Models with Generative Flow Networks
317. CVPR 2025GROVE: A Generalized Reward for Learning Open-Vocabulary Physical Skill
318. CVPR 2025Hand-held Object Reconstruction from RGB Video with Dynamic Interaction
319. CVPR 2025HaWoR: World-Space Hand Motion Reconstruction from Egocentric Videos
320. CVPR 2025Hearing Hands: Generating Sounds from Physical Interactions in 3D Scenes
321. CVPR 2025High-Fidelity Lightweight Mesh Reconstruction from Point Clouds
322. CVPR 2025Homogeneous Dynamics Space for Heterogeneous Humans
323. CVPR 2025LATTE-MV: Learning to Anticipate Table Tennis Hits from Monocular Videos
324. CVPR 2025Learning Bijective Surface Parameterization for Inferring Signed Distance Functions from Sparse Point Clouds with Grid Deformation
325. CVPR 2025Learning Person-Specific Animatable Face Models from In-the-Wild Images via a Shared Base Model
326. CVPR 2025Learning to Sample Effective and Diverse Prompts for Text-to-Image Generation
327. CVPR 2025Let Humanoids Hike! Integrative Skill Development on Complex Trails
328. CVPR 2025Leveraging Global Stereo Consistency for Category-Level Shape and 6D Pose Estimation from Stereo Images
329. CVPR 2025ManipTrans: Efficient Dexterous Bimanual Manipulation Transfer via Residual Learning
330. CVPR 2025MultiMorph: On-demand Atlas Construction
331. CVPR 2025Neural Motion Simulator Pushing the Limit of World Models in Reinforcement Learning
332. CVPR 2025PICO: Reconstructing 3D People In Contact with Objects
333. CVPR 2025Plug-and-Play PPO: An Adaptive Point Prompt Optimizer Making SAM Greater
334. CVPR 2025Pose Priors from Language Models
335. CVPR 2025Practical Solutions to the Relative Pose of Three Calibrated Cameras
336. CVPR 2025Provoking Multi-modal Few-Shot LVLM via Exploration-Exploitation In-Context Learning
337. CVPR 2025RaSS: Improving Denoising Diffusion Samplers with Reinforced Active Sampling Scheduler
338. CVPR 2025Removing Reflections from RAW Photos
339. CVPR 2025Revisiting Fairness in Multitask Learning: A Performance-Driven Approach for Variance Reduction
340. CVPR 2025Reward Fine-Tuning Two-Step Diffusion Models via Learning Differentiable Latent-Space Surrogate Reward
341. CVPR 2025RL-RC-DoT: A Block-level RL agent for Task-Aware Video Compression
342. CVPR 2025Scenario Dreamer: Vectorized Latent Diffusion for Generating Driving Simulation Environments
343. CVPR 2025Schedule On the Fly: Diffusion Time Prediction for Faster and Better Image Generation
344. CVPR 2025SegAgent: Exploring Pixel Understanding Capabilities in MLLMs by Imitating Human Annotator Trajectories
345. CVPR 2025SeqMvRL: A Sequential Fusion Framework for Multi-view Representation Learning
346. CVPR 2025Seurat: From Moving Points to Depth
347. CVPR 2025SkillMimic: Learning Basketball Interaction Skills from Demonstrations
348. CVPR 2025SmartEraser: Remove Anything from Images using Masked-Region Guidance
349. CVPR 2025Spk2SRImgNet: Super-Resolve Dynamic Scene from Spike Stream via Motion Aligned Collaborative Filtering
350. CVPR 2025Stabilizing and Accelerating Autofocus with Expert Trajectory Regularized Deep 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.