Verification papers, 2023–2026
Formal methods and verification
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 111 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Verification went from 8 papers in 2023 to 48 in 2026, roughly 6.0x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Verification work: 45 papers from 2023 to 2026, 41% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Reasoning Models: papers tagged with both rose from 0 in 2023 to 8 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Security and Trust, it ranks #4 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Watermarking, is up 9.3x versus 6.0x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| 2024 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 22 |
| 2025 | 15 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 33 |
| 2026 | 19 | 14 | 12 | 3 | 48 |
Representative papers
Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up
- NeurIPS 2026Affine-Image Propagation for Tight and Scalable $\ell_{2}$ Neural Network Verification
- ICML 2026Euclean: Automated Geometry Problem Formalization with Unified Verification in Lean
- ICLR 2026Parameterized Hardness of Zonotope Containment and Neural Network Verification
- CVPR 2026Goldilocks Test Sets for Face Verification
- NeurIPS 2025Self-Verification Provably Prevents Model Collapse in Recursive Synthetic Training
- ICML 2025SDP-CROWN: Efficient Bound Propagation for Neural Network Verification with Tightness of Semidefinite Programming
- ICLR 2025Beyond Model Collapse: Scaling Up with Synthesized Data Requires Verification
- CVPR 2025PHGC: Procedural Heterogeneous Graph Completion for Natural Language Task Verification in Egocentric Videos
- NeurIPS 2024Critically Assessing the State of the Art in Neural Network Verification
- ICML 2024Compact Optimality Verification for Optimization Proxies
- ICLR 2024CRITIC: Large Language Models Can Self-Correct with Tool-Interactive Critiquing
- CVPR 2024Towards General Robustness Verification of MaxPool-based Convolutional Neural Networks via Tightening Linear Approximation
- NeurIPS 2023[Re] On the Reproducibility of “FairCal: Fairness Calibration for Face Verification”
- ICML 2023Trapdoor Normalization with Irreversible Ownership Verification
- ICLR 2023Fundamental Limits in Formal Verification of Message-Passing Neural Networks
- CVPR 2023Efficient Verification of Neural Networks Against LVM-Based Specifications
- NeurIPS 2026End-to-End Verification of Neuro-symbolic Automata via Contrastive Logit-Gaps
- ICML 2026The Latent Guardian: Defending Collaborative Perception via Feature-Level Consistency Verification
- ICLR 2026Test-time Verification via Optimal Transport: Coverage, ROC, & Sub-optimality
- CVPR 2026Lipschitz Optimization for Formal Verification of Homographies
All Verification papers
12 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICML 20263D Scene Assertion Verification
- ICML 2026AnalogVerifier: A Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Analog Circuit Verification
- ICML 2026Beyond Theorem Proving: Formulation, Framework and Benchmark for Formal Problem-Solving
- ICML 2026Delegation and Verification under AI
- ICML 2026Euclean: Automated Geometry Problem Formalization with Unified Verification in Lean
- ICML 2026Formally Exploring Visual Anomaly Detection Evaluation Metrics
- ICML 2026Probabilistic Robustness Certificates against Adversarial Attacks
- ICML 2026Stop the Flip-Flop: Context-Preserving Verification for Fast Revocable Diffusion Decoding
- ICML 2026The Latent Guardian: Defending Collaborative Perception via Feature-Level Consistency Verification
- ICML 2026Vegas: Self-Speculative Decoding with Verification-Guided Sparse Attention
- ICML 2026VIA-SD: Verification via Intra-Model Routing for Speculative Decoding
- ICML 2026When to Trust the Cheap Check: Weak and Strong Verification for Reasoning
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FAQ
- How many Verification papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 111 in total: 8 in 2023, 22 in 2024, 33 in 2025, 48 in 2026.
- How many Verification papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 19 Verification papers, versus 15 the year before.
- How many Verification papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 14 Verification papers, versus 6 the year before.
- How many Verification papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 12 Verification papers, versus 8 the year before.
- How many Verification papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 3 Verification papers, versus 4 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Verification papers?
- NeurIPS, with 45 papers from 2023 to 2026.