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Emerging terms in paper titles across the indexed venues

2026 2025 2024 2023 2022

2026 is still being ingested. At least one venue's 2026 paper count is far below its 2025 count - whether because it hasn't published yet or its proceedings are only partly scraped - so counts below are lower across the board, especially for terms concentrated in that venue. Read "Declining" as "not indexed yet", not as a shrinking research area.

Rising (2026)

large reasoning 11 → 35 titles +218% dimensional 15 → 39 titles +160% feed-forward 16 → 36 titles +125% diffusion language 12 → 24 titles +100% verifiable 16 → 31 titles +94% geometry-aware 15 → 29 titles +93% spatial reasoning 17 → 32 titles +88% gui agents 13 → 24 titles +85% radar 17 → 30 titles +76% proposal 12 → 21 titles +75% visual token 12 → 21 titles +75% uav 14 → 24 titles +71% humor 20 → 34 titles +70% video reasoning 10 → 17 titles +70% agentic 82 → 139 titles +70% abductive 13 → 22 titles +69% underwater 16 → 27 titles +69% semantic alignment 13 → 21 titles +62% geo-localization 10 → 16 titles +60% clarity 12 → 19 titles +58%

No 2025 baseline (2026)

Terms with no 2025 titles, so there is no growth rate to compute. Ranked by 2026 volume. Most are returning after a gap year rather than appearing for the first time.

dimensional aspect-based sentiment 24 titles narrative similarity 23 titles humor generation 21 titles marker extraction 16 titles story similarity 12 titles extraction and detection 11 titles parseme 11 titles narrative story 10 titles emotional valence 7 titles everyday knowledge 7 titles task dimensional 7 titles adaptive memory 6 titles evasion detection 6 titles hyperscale 6 titles mwe 6 titles 3d foundation 5 titles against ai 5 titles codebert 5 titles dimensional sentiment 5 titles document layout 5 titles

Declining (2026)

shared task 218 → 22 titles -90% state space models 49 → 5 titles -90% bangla 55 → 6 titles -89% simplification 44 → 5 titles -89% acoustic 69 → 8 titles -88% grammatical error 40 → 5 titles -88% speech recognition 128 → 16 titles -88% position 127 → 16 titles -87% automatic speech 39 → 5 titles -87% language modeling 62 → 8 titles -87%