Ideas gaining ground
Each idea's share of new AI papers, the last 3 months against the 3 before.
Rising
#Idea2 yearsShare of papersChange
1Evaluation and benchmarking9.7% → 10.6%+0.8 pts2Robotics and embodied control3.1% → 3.9%+0.8 pts3Agentic systems and tool use4.7% → 5.5%+0.8 pts4Recommender systems1.4% → 2.0%+0.6 pts5Efficient inference and compression5.2% → 5.8%+0.5 pts6Retrieval augmented generation and search2.7% → 3.0%+0.3 pts7Speech and audio processing1.3% → 1.5%+0.2 pts8Quantum machine learning0.7% → 0.9%+0.2 pts9Vision-language grounding and navigation0.7% → 0.9%+0.2 pts10Agent benchmark1.4% → 1.6%+0.2 pts11World action model0.1% → 0.3%+0.2 pts12Generative recommendation0.2% → 0.4%+0.2 pts13Medical AI2.0% → 2.2%+0.2 pts14Knowledge graphs and neuro-symbolic reasoning1.0% → 1.1%+0.1 pts15Self improving agent0.1% → 0.2%+0.1 ptsFading
#Idea2 yearsShare of papersChange
1Reinforcement learning4.7% → 3.9%-0.7 pts2LLM alignment and post-training2.4% → 1.8%-0.6 pts3LLM reasoning and prompting2.6% → 2.1%-0.5 pts4Generative modeling methods2.3% → 1.9%-0.5 pts5Multi-agent systems2.8% → 2.4%-0.5 pts6Synthetic data and data curation1.8% → 1.4%-0.4 pts7Image and video generation2.5% → 2.1%-0.3 pts8Learning theory and representation methods2.2% → 1.9%-0.3 pts9Optimization and automated machine learning2.6% → 2.4%-0.2 pts10Uncertainty and selective prediction1.6% → 1.4%-0.2 pts11Adversarial robustness and AI security4.7% → 4.5%-0.2 pts12Multimodal language models2.3% → 2.2%-0.2 pts13Time series learning1.0% → 0.8%-0.2 pts14Neural architectures and conditional computation1.2% → 1.1%-0.1 pts15Text to image generation0.3% → 0.2%-0.1 pts