2026 AI/ML Conference Papers — Master Index

Conference	Papers	Topics
ICLR 2026	5,355 (27.4% acceptance)	21 — highlights
CVPR 2026	4,068	18 — highlights
ACL 2026	2,303	15 — highlights

🏆 Highlights

ICLR 2026 Outstanding Papers:

Transformers are Inherently Succinct — details
LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation
The Polar Express: Optimal Matrix Sign Methods

Largest topic (ICLR): LLMs & Foundation Models — 1,535 papers Largest topic (CVPR): Vision-Language & Multimodal — 1,160 papers Largest topic (ACL): LLMs & Foundation Models — 985 papers

Browse by Conference

Conference	Highlights	Topics
ICLR 2026	→ highlights	LLMs · Vision · Diffusion · RL · Efficiency · all 21
CVPR 2026	→ highlights	Vision-Language · Generative · Video · Detection · 3D · all 18
ACL 2026	→ highlights	LLMs · Reasoning · IR · Datasets · Agents · all 15

Pending (add when proceedings drop)

ECCV 2026 (Sep), NeurIPS 2026 (Dec), ICML 2026 (happening now), EMNLP 2026 (Oct), AAAI 2026 (paywalled), AISTATS 2026, ICRA 2026, COLM 2026, KDD 2026, UAI 2026, IROS 2026, CoRL 2026, MICCAI 2026, IJCAI 2026.

Last updated: July 6, 2026