ICML 2024 accepted papers by research area
2,610 papers were accepted at ICML 2024 (+745 vs 2023). Here is how they split across 20 research areas, and which topics gained the most ground.
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Research areas
| Area | Papers | Share | Change in share vs 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Probabilistic and scientific modeling | 320 | 12.3% | -1.4 pts |
| Large language models | 310 | 11.9% | +9.5 pts |
| Learning theory and algorithms | 303 | 11.6% | -3.6 pts |
| Architectures and efficiency | 243 | 9.3% | +1.6 pts |
| Reinforcement learning | 228 | 8.7% | -1.5 pts |
| Label-efficient and robust learning | 219 | 8.4% | -1.3 pts |
| Optimization | 146 | 5.6% | -1.6 pts |
| Graph learning | 141 | 5.4% | -0.8 pts |
| Image generation | 135 | 5.2% | +1.1 pts |
| Vision-language and multimodal | 106 | 4.1% | +1.9 pts |
| Federated learning and privacy | 100 | 3.8% | -1.0 pts |
| Bandits and online learning | 79 | 3.0% | -2.6 pts |
| Adversarial robustness and security | 64 | 2.5% | -0.6 pts |
| Multi-agent systems and games | 53 | 2.0% | -0.3 pts |
| Time series | 52 | 2.0% | +0.5 pts |
| 3D vision | 28 | 1.1% | +0.4 pts |
| Continual learning | 25 | 1.0% | -0.2 pts |
| Detection and segmentation | 23 | 0.9% | -0.5 pts |
| Video | 23 | 0.9% | +0.3 pts |
| Point clouds | 12 | 0.5% | steady |
Fastest-growing topics at ICML 2024
Change in share of ICML papers from 2023 to 2024, topics with at least 10 papers.
- Language, safety and interpretability (Large language models): 19 → 100 papers
- AI and society (Large language models): 2 → 42 papers
- Attention and transformers (Architectures and efficiency): 31 → 80 papers
- Agents, code and math (Large language models): 10 → 46 papers
- Alignment and preferences (Large language models): 2 → 32 papers
- Reasoning and chain of thought (Large language models): 3 → 33 papers
- Instruction and fine-tuning (Large language models): 6 → 36 papers
- RL from feedback (Reinforcement learning): 4 → 26 papers
- Multimodal LLMs (Vision-language and multimodal): 0 → 20 papers
- Molecules and proteins (Probabilistic and scientific modeling): 36 → 69 papers
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