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Interactive map reveals shift in NeurIPS 2026 paper topics, with LLM agents surging

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A new interactive map visualizes all 9,110 papers from NeurIPS 2026, comparing them to the 2025 conference. The analysis reveals a significant increase in papers on LLM agents, which grew from 2.9% in 2025 to 6.8% in 2026. Additionally, 38% of abstracts now mention benchmarks, up from 32% in the previous year, while graph neural network papers saw a decline. AI

IMPACT Provides insights into emerging research trends and the increasing focus on benchmarks within the AI community.

RANK_REASON Analysis of academic papers from a major conference. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Interactive map reveals shift in NeurIPS 2026 paper topics, with LLM agents surging

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  1. r/MachineLearning TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/hadimh93 ·

    An interactive map of all 9,110 NeurIPS 2026 papers, and what changed since 2025 [P]

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I embedded the title and abstract of every NeurIPS 2026 paper (and every 2025 paper) with Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B, grouped them into 150 topics and 20 areas, and put them on one map with DataMapPlot. Both years are measured on the same topics, so yo…

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