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title: "Top AI conferences (CORE A*/A) 2024–2026"
description: "45 conferences rated A* or A by the CORE ICORE2026 ranking are listed for AI; OpenAlex lists 86,571 papers from 2024–2026 for the 39 it can tell apart. The largest are AAAI (11,266), NeurIPS (10,131) and EMNLP (6,321)."
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share_text: "45 conferences rated A* or A by the CORE ICORE2026 ranking are listed for AI; OpenAlex lists 86,571 papers from 2024–2026 for the 39 it can tell apart. The largest are AAAI (11,266), NeurIPS (10,131) and EMNLP (6,321). (as of 2026-11-02)"
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# AI conference proceedings: CORE A* and A conferences, 2024–2026

The conferences rated A* or A by the CORE Conference Rankings (ICORE2026) that relate to AI: the conferences CORE files under artificial intelligence, computer vision and multimedia computation and machine learning. A conference can be listed under several categories. Ranks are those of the CORE Conference Rankings, edition ICORE2026 (portal.core.edu.au), applied to every year shown. Papers are the works OpenAlex lists for the conference's proceedings, or for the issues of a conference-linked journal that publishes its papers (such as PACMPL, PVLDB or ACM TOG), by publication year; workshops, companion volumes, posters and Findings are left out. A paper counts once for each institution and country among its authors' affiliations as OpenAlex assigns them; papers without affiliations in OpenAlex count for none. For conferences published in book series that OpenAlex files as one source (LNCS, LIPIcs, SIAM and IOS Press proceedings), the papers are found by DOI: those of the volumes with the conference's title in Crossref, or LIPIcs DOIs, which name the conference. Conferences without DOIs (PMLR, USENIX, OpenReview) are listed without counts. A dash (–) for a year means OpenAlex has no papers of the conference for it yet: the proceedings are not published or indexed yet, or the conference did not meet that year (some meet every other year). 2026 counts what OpenAlex had indexed by 2026-11-02.

All conferences: https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings.md · AI journals dashboard: https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md

## Key findings

- 45 conferences rated A* or A by the CORE ICORE2026 ranking are listed for AI; OpenAlex lists 86,571 papers from 2024–2026 for the 39 it can tell apart.
- The largest are AAAI (11,266), NeurIPS (10,131) and EMNLP (6,321).
- The most-cited paper is “DETRs Beat YOLOs on Real-time Object Detection” (CVPR, 2024), with 5,020 citations.

## Conferences

*CORE A* and A conferences for AI: papers per publication year, 2024–2026 (–: not in OpenAlex yet)*

| Conference | Name | Rank | Field | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2024–2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [AAAI](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/aaai.md) | National Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence | A* | Artificial intelligence, Computer vision and multimedia computation, Machine learning | 2,867 | 3,486 | 4,913 | 11,266 |
| [NeurIPS](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/neurips.md) | Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (was NIPS) | A* | Machine learning | 4,312 | 5,819 | – | 10,131 |
| [EMNLP](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/emnlp.md) | Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing | A* | Artificial intelligence | 1,391 | 2,003 | 2,927 | 6,321 |
| [ACL](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/acl.md) | Association for Computational Linguistics | A* | Artificial intelligence | 1,036 | 1,971 | 2,655 | 5,662 |
| [CVPR](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/cvpr.md) | IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | A* | Computer vision and multimedia computation | 2,724 | 2,876 | – | 5,600 |
| [ICRA](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/icra.md) | IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation | A* | Artificial intelligence, Computer science (general) | 1,766 | 1,610 | 1,771 | 5,147 |
| [ECCV](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/eccv.md) | European Conference on Computer Vision | A* | Computer vision and multimedia computation | 1,962 | 2 | 2,337 | 4,301 |
| [IJCAI](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/ijcai.md) | International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence | A* | Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Computer vision and multimedia computation | 1,236 | 1,278 | 961 | 3,475 |
| [KDD](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/kdd.md) | ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining | A* | Data management and data science, Machine learning | 642 | 844 | 1,475 | 2,961 |
| [ACMMM](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/acmmm.md) | ACM Multimedia | A* | Computer vision and multimedia computation | 1,237 | 1,575 | – | 2,812 |
| [ICCV](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/iccv.md) | IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision | A* | Computer vision and multimedia computation | – | 2,709 | – | 2,709 |
| [HRI](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/hri.md) | ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction | A* | Human-centred computing, Artificial intelligence | 414 | 337 | 465 | 1,216 |
| [SIGGRAPH Asia](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/siggraph-asia.md) | SIGGRAPH Asia | A* | Graphics, augmented reality and games, Computer vision and multimedia computation, Human-centred computing | 265 | 300 | – | 565 |
| [EC](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/ec.md) | ACM Conference on Economics and Computation | A* | Artificial intelligence, Theory of computation | 203 | 204 | – | 407 |
| [SIGGRAPH](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/siggraph.md) | ACM SIG International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques | A* | Graphics, augmented reality and games, Computer vision and multimedia computation, Human-centred computing | 118 | 132 | 133 | 383 |
| [ICDM](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/icdm.md) | IEEE International Conference on Data Mining | A* | Data management and data science, Machine learning | 123 | 187 | – | 310 |
| [KR](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/kr.md) | International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning | A* | Artificial intelligence, Theory of computation | 91 | 85 | 111 | 287 |
| [ICAPS](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/icaps.md) | International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling | A* | Artificial intelligence | 82 | 51 | 91 | 224 |
| [IROS](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/iros.md) | IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems | A | Artificial intelligence, Computer science (general) | 1,587 | 1,988 | – | 3,575 |
| [MICCAI](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/miccai.md) | Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention | A | Applied computing, Computer vision and multimedia computation | 862 | 943 | 1,165 | 2,970 |
| [WACV](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/wacv.md) | IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision | A | Computer vision and multimedia computation | 852 | 940 | 840 | 2,632 |
| [Interspeech](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/interspeech.md) | Interspeech (combined EuroSpeech and ICSLP in 2000) | A | Artificial intelligence | 1,026 | 1,151 | – | 2,177 |
| [ICME](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/icme.md) | IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo | A | Computer vision and multimedia computation | 664 | 1,004 | – | 1,668 |
| [NAACL](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/naacl.md) | North American Association for Computational Linguistics | A | Artificial intelligence | 662 | 909 | – | 1,571 |
| [AAMAS](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/aamas.md) | International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (previously the International Conference on Multiagent Systems, ICMAS, changed in 2000) | A | Artificial intelligence | 434 | 464 | 652 | 1,550 |
| [CIKM](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/cikm.md) | ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management | A | Data management and data science, Artificial intelligence | 697 | 852 | – | 1,549 |
| [ECAI](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/ecai.md) | European Conference on Artificial Intelligence | A | Artificial intelligence, Computer vision and multimedia computation, Machine learning | 606 | 696 | – | 1,302 |
| [EACL](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/eacl.md) | European Association for Computational Linguistics | A | Artificial intelligence | 250 | – | 641 | 891 |
| [ECML PKDD](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/ecml-pkdd.md) | European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Database (PKDD and ECML combined from 2008) | A | Machine learning, Data management and data science | 270 | 200 | 316 | 786 |
| [WSDM](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/wsdm.md) | ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining | A | Data management and data science, Machine learning | 175 | 150 | 216 | 541 |
| [GECCO](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/gecco.md) | Genetic and Evolutionary Computations | A | Artificial intelligence | 181 | 170 | 153 | 504 |
| [SIGSPATIAL](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/sigspatial.md) | ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems | A | Applied computing, Machine learning, Data management and data science | 112 | 193 | – | 305 |
| [PPSN](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/ppsn.md) | Parallel Problem Solving from Nature | A | Machine learning | 101 | – | 165 | 266 |
| [MMSys](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/mmsys.md) | ACM Multimedia Systems Conference | A | Distributed computing and systems software, Computer vision and multimedia computation, Graphics, augmented reality and games | 69 | 41 | 60 | 170 |
| [IJCAR](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/ijcar.md) | International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning | A | Artificial intelligence, Software engineering, Theory of computation | 48 | – | 49 | 97 |
| [CP](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/cp.md) | International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming | A | Artificial intelligence | 18 | 15 | 62 | 95 |
| [SAT](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/sat.md) | International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing | A | Artificial intelligence, Theory of computation | 16 | 18 | 45 | 79 |
| [CADE](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/cade.md) | International Conference on Automated Deduction | A | Artificial intelligence | – | 39 | – | 39 |
| [FOGA](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/foga.md) | Foundations of Genetic Algorithms | A | Artificial intelligence | – | 27 | – | 27 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers of these conferences, 2024–2026 (citations counted by OpenAlex)*

| # | Citations | Title | Conference | Published |
|---:|---:|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5,020 | [DETRs Beat YOLOs on Real-time Object Detection](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr52733.2024.01605) | CVPR | 2024-06-16 |
| 2 | 4,836 | [YOLOv9: Learning What You Want to Learn Using Programmable Gradient Information](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72751-1_1) | ECCV | 2024-10-25 |
| 3 | 3,032 | [YOLOv10: Real-Time End-to-End Object Detection](https://doi.org/10.52202/079017-3429) | NeurIPS | 2024-01-01 |
| 4 | 2,082 | [Grounding DINO: Marrying DINO with Grounded Pre-training for Open-Set Object Detection](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72970-6_3) | ECCV | 2024-11-22 |
| 5 | 1,738 | [Improved Baselines with Visual Instruction Tuning](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr52733.2024.02484) | CVPR | 2024-06-16 |
| 6 | 1,734 | [VMamba: Visual State Space Model](https://doi.org/10.52202/079017-3273) | NeurIPS | 2024-01-01 |
| 7 | 1,299 | [Depth Anything: Unleashing the Power of Large-Scale Unlabeled Data](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr52733.2024.00987) | CVPR | 2024-06-16 |
| 8 | 957 | [T2I-Adapter: Learning Adapters to Dig Out More Controllable Ability for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models](https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v38i5.28226) | AAAI | 2024-03-24 |
| 9 | 903 | [YOLOv12: Attention-Centric Real-Time Object Detectors](https://doi.org/10.52202/085713-2627) | NeurIPS | 2025-01-01 |
| 10 | 840 | [4D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic Scene Rendering](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr52733.2024.01920) | CVPR | 2024-06-16 |

## Not counted

*Conferences for AI that OpenAlex does not tell apart*

| Conference | Name | Rank | Why not counted |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLT | Conference on Learning Theory | A* | Published in PMLR (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research), which OpenAlex indexes as one source |
| ICLR | International Conference on Learning Representations | A* | Published on OpenReview; OpenAlex's source for the conference has no papers since 2024 |
| ICML | International Conference on Machine Learning | A* | Published in PMLR (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research), which OpenAlex indexes as one source |
| AISTATS | International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics | A | Published in PMLR (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research), which OpenAlex indexes as one source |
| BMVC | British Machine Vision Conference | A | Published on the conference's own website; OpenAlex has no source for it |
| UAI | Conference in Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence | A | Published in PMLR (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research), which OpenAlex indexes as one source |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). AI conference proceedings: CORE A* and A conferences, 2024–2026. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/categories/ai

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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).