Blog/NeurIPS Atlas/2026

All NeurIPS 2026 topics

All 9,110 papers in 20 areas and 150 topics. Each box is an area, sized by its number of papers. The colour shows how its share of the papers changed since 2025: red grew, blue shrank. Select an area to see its topics, and select the bar at the top to go back. Hover over or tap a topic for its numbers.

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All areas

From the area whose share of the papers grew most to the one whose share fell most: papers in 2026, then the share of all papers in 2025 and 2026. Select a name to open it in the chart.

1. LLM Agents620 · 2.9% → 6.8%
2. LLM Behavior & Safety796 · 7.8% → 8.7%
3. Robotics & Embodied AI405 · 3.7% → 4.4%
4. Diffusion, Flows & Inference417 · 3.9% → 4.6%
5. LLM Post-Training335 · 3.1% → 3.7%
6. PDEs & Dynamical Systems173 · 1.5% → 1.9%
7. Biomolecules & Causal Discovery345 · 3.5% → 3.8%
8. Time Series & Forecasting219 · 2.2% → 2.4%
9. Video Generation & Understanding370 · 4.0% → 4.1%
10. Efficient LLMs & Architectures771 · 8.4% → 8.5%
11. DL Theory & Neuroscience635 · 7.1% → 7.0%
12. Reinforcement Learning419 · 4.8% → 4.6%
13. LLM Reasoning & Retrieval523 · 6.1% → 5.7%
14. Bandits, Games & Mechanisms234 · 3.0% → 2.6%
15. Vision-Language & Speech Models550 · 6.7% → 6.0%
16. Optimization & Statistics336 · 4.4% → 3.7%
17. Graph Learning & Recommendation195 · 3.0% → 2.1%
18. Trustworthy & Statistical ML611 · 7.8% → 6.7%
19. Image & 3D Generation375 · 5.6% → 4.1%
20. Vision & Perception781 · 10.4% → 8.6%