Cross-conference topic trend analysis across 8 major ML conferences, 2019–2025.
Year-over-year change in topic prevalence across all conferences
Fraction of papers at each conference covering each topic
| Topic | CVPR | NeurIPS | ICML | ICLR | AAAI | ECCV | ICCV | WACV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3D Generation | 1.3% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.5% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.3% |
| Active Learning | 0.3% | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.5% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.9% |
| Adversarial Robustness | 22.4% | 25.0% | 15.0% | 11.1% | 20.5% | 4.7% | 0.0% | 24.2% |
| Continual Learning | 2.6% | 1.5% | 1.6% | 1.4% | 1.9% | 0.9% | 0.0% | 2.9% |
| Curriculum Learning | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Document Understanding | 0.7% | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.6% |
| Efficient Inference | 7.0% | 1.5% | 3.5% | 2.9% | 3.9% | 1.9% | 0.0% | 5.7% |
| Explainability | 3.3% | 1.5% | 5.1% | 3.4% | 6.4% | 0.9% | 0.0% | 4.6% |
| Face Analysis | 5.1% | 1.5% | 1.0% | 1.0% | 3.5% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 4.8% |
| Federated Learning | 0.9% | 2.9% | 2.1% | 1.7% | 3.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.9% |
| GANs | 0.8% | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.9% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.0% |
| Image Classification | 1.6% | 2.9% | 0.7% | 1.1% | 1.5% | 0.9% | 0.0% | 4.3% |
| Image Editing | 2.2% | 0.0% | 0.4% | 0.2% | 0.6% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.3% |
| Image Generation | 7.5% | 0.0% | 2.2% | 2.4% | 2.9% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 6.6% |
| Knowledge Distillation | 1.7% | 0.0% | 0.8% | 0.9% | 2.5% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.3% |
| Medical Imaging | 3.3% | 0.0% | 1.0% | 0.9% | 3.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 8.0% |
| Mixture of Experts | 0.6% | 0.0% | 1.1% | 0.4% | 0.5% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.6% |
| Multimodal Learning | 17.2% | 0.0% | 5.1% | 5.8% | 11.4% | 2.8% | 0.0% | 9.7% |
| Neural Architecture Search | 0.2% | 1.5% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.3% |
| Neural Network Pruning | 1.7% | 0.0% | 1.7% | 1.6% | 1.4% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.7% |
| Optical Flow | 1.8% | 1.5% | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.9% |
| Privacy | 2.4% | 4.4% | 2.9% | 1.8% | 4.2% | 0.9% | 0.0% | 3.1% |
| State Space Models | 2.8% | 0.0% | 0.9% | 1.4% | 2.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.1% |
| Text-to-Image | 4.5% | 0.0% | 1.1% | 1.4% | 1.4% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.3% |
| World Models | 0.6% | 0.0% | 0.9% | 0.6% | 0.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.3% |
Novel bigrams discovered via TF-IDF with >3× year-over-year growth