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

2,985 papers, page 1 of 60

1. CVPR 2026A Causal Marriage between VLM and IRM from Understanding to
2. CVPR 2026AceTone Bridging Words and Colors for Conditional Image Grading
3. CVPR 2026AdaptVision Efficient Vision-Language Models via Adaptive Visual Acquisition
4. CVPR 2026Aesthetic Camera Viewpoint Suggestion with 3D Aesthetic Field
5. CVPR 2026All Roads Lead to Rome Incentivizing Divergent Thinking in Vision-Language
6. CVPR 2026Any2Any 3D Diffusion Models with Knowledge Transfer A Radiotherapy Planning
7. CVPR 2026AnyDoc Enhancing Document Generation via Large-Scale HTMLCSS Data Synthesis and
8. CVPR 2026AnyID Ultra-Fidelity Universal Identity-Preserving Video Generation from Any Visual References
9. CVPR 2026APEX A Decoupled Memory-based Explorer for Asynchronous Aerial Object Goal
10. CVPR 2026APPO Attention-guided Perception Policy Optimization for Video Reasoning
11. CVPR 2026Are We Ready for RL in Text-to-3D Generation A Progressive
12. CVPR 2026ARM-Thinker Reinforcing Multimodal Generative Reward Models with Agentic Tool Use
13. CVPR 2026Attack for Defense Adversarial Agents for Point Prompt Optimization Empowering
14. CVPR 2026Attend Before Attention Efficient and Scalable Video Understanding via Autoregressive
15. CVPR 2026AV-Reasoner Improving and Benchmarking Clue-Grounded Audio-Visual Counting for MLLMs
16. CVPR 2026AVA-VLA Improving Vision-Language-Action models with Active Visual Attention
17. CVPR 2026AVATAR Reinforcement Learning to See Hear and Reason Over Video
18. CVPR 2026BackSplit The Importance of Sub-dividing the Background in Biomedical Lesion
19. CVPR 2026BeautyGRPO Aesthetic Alignment for Face Retouching via Dynamic Path Guidance
20. CVPR 2026Beyond Mimicry Learning Whole-Body Human-Humanoid Interaction from Human-Human Demonstrations
21. CVPR 2026Beyond Perceptual Shortcuts Causal-Inspired Debiasing Optimization for Generalizable Video Reasoning
22. CVPR 2026BHCast Unlocking Black Hole Plasma Dynamics from a Single Blurry
23. CVPR 2026Boosting Reasoning in Large Multimodal Models via Activation Replay
24. CVPR 2026BridgeEQA Virtual Embodied Agents for Real Bridge Inspections
25. CVPR 2026BuildingGPT Auto-Regressive Building Wireframe Reconstruction Model with Reinforcement Learning
26. CVPR 2026CARE What Fails Contrastive Anchored-REflection for Verifiable Multimodal Reasoning
27. CVPR 2026CCCaption Dual-Reward Reinforcement Learning for Complete and Correct Image Captioning
28. CVPR 2026CGL Advancing Continual GUI Learning via Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
29. CVPR 2026Chart-FR1 Visual Focus-Driven Fine-Grained Reasoning on Dense Charts
30. CVPR 2026CME-CAD Heterogeneous Collaborative Multi-Expert Reinforcement Learning for CAD Code Generation
31. CVPR 2026CMR-RD Long-Tailed Adaptive VLM for Explainable CMR Diagnosis
32. CVPR 2026Coded-E2LF Coded Aperture Light Field Imaging from Events
33. CVPR 2026Conan Progressive Learning to Reason Like a Detective over Multi-Scale
34. CVPR 2026Consensus vs. Controversy Mapping the Decision Space Where Architectures Diverge
35. CVPR 2026Continual Distillation of Teachers from Different Domains
36. CVPR 2026COPO Causal-Oriented Policy Optimization for Hallucinations of MLLMs
37. CVPR 2026CRAFT Aligning Diffusion Models with Fine-Tuning Is Easier Than You
38. CVPR 2026Cross-modal Identity Mapping Minimizing Information Loss in Modality Conversion via
39. CVPR 2026Curriculum Group Policy Optimization Adaptive Sampling for Unleashing the Potential
40. CVPR 2026Dark3R Learning Structure from Motion in the Dark
41. CVPR 2026Decouple to Generalize Context-First Self-Evolving Learning for Data-Scarce Vision-Language Reasoning
42. CVPR 2026Dejavu Towards Experience Feedback Learning for Embodied Intelligence
43. CVPR 2026DemoFunGrasp Universal Dexterous Functional Grasping via Demonstration-Editing Reinforcement Learning
44. CVPR 2026DEVA Fine-tuning Multimodal Large Language Models for Visual Perception Tasks
45. CVPR 2026Differences That Matter Auditing Models for Capability Gap Discovery and
46. CVPR 2026Discriminative Perception via Anchored Description for Reasoning Segmentation
47. CVPR 2026Disentangling to Re-couple Resolving the Similarity-Controllability Paradox in Subject-Driven Text-to-Image
48. CVPR 2026Distilling Balanced Knowledge from a Biased Teacher
49. CVPR 2026Distilling Unsigned Distance Function for Surface Reconstruction from 3D Gaussian
50. CVPR 2026DiverseGRPO Mitigating Mode Collapse in Image Generation via Diversity-Aware GRPO

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.