Adaptive Methods papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Adaptive Methods went from 143 papers in 2023 to 410 in 2026, roughly 2.9x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Adaptive Methods work: 365 papers from 2023 to 2026, 36% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Theory · optimization: papers tagged with both rose from 1 in 2023 to 29 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Optimization and Scaling, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Scaling Laws, is up 4.1x versus 2.9x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026AcceleGrad#: Adaptive Geometry-Aware Acceleration
• ICML 2026Adaptive Bandit Algorithms for Contextual Matching Markets
• ICLR 2026Adaptive Width Neural Networks
• CVPR 2026Active Inference for Micro-Gesture Recognition EFE-Guided Temporal Sampling and Adaptive
• NeurIPS 2025AC-DiT: Adaptive Coordination Diffusion Transformer for Mobile Manipulation
• ICML 2025Adaptive Data Collection for Robust Learning Across Multiple Distributions
• ICLR 2025Adaptive Length Image Tokenization via Recurrent Allocation
• CVPR 2025A Universal Scale-Adaptive Deformable Transformer for Image Restoration across Diverse Artifacts
• NeurIPS 2024Semi-Discrete Optimal Transport: Nearly Minimax Estimation With Stochastic Gradient Descent and Adaptive Entropic Regularization
• ICML 2024A New Linear Scaling Rule for Private Adaptive Hyperparameter Optimization
• ICLR 2024Learning Adaptive Multiresolution Transforms via Meta-Framelet-based Graph Convolutional Network
• CVPR 2024HybridNeRF: Efficient Neural Rendering via Adaptive Volumetric Surfaces
• NeurIPS 2023A Bounded Ability Estimation for Computerized Adaptive Testing
• ICML 2023A/B Testing in Network Data with Covariate-Adaptive Randomization
• ICLR 2023An Adaptive Policy to Employ Sharpness-Aware Minimization
• CVPR 2023Adaptive Annealing for Robust Geometric Estimation
• NeurIPS 2026AdapMatch: Adaptive Bias Decoupling for Semi-Supervised Partial Label Learning under Unknown Class Distributions
• ICML 2026Adaptive Batch Sizes Using Non-Euclidean Gradient Noise Scales for Stochastic Sign and Spectral Descent
• ICLR 2026ARMOR: High-Performance Semi-Structured Pruning via Adaptive Matrix Factorization
• CVPR 2026Adaptive Learned Image Compression with Graph Neural Networks

All Adaptive Methods papers

1,012 papers, page 10 of 21

451. CVPR 2025Q-PART: Quasi-Periodic Adaptive Regression with Test-time Training for Pediatric Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Regression
452. CVPR 2025Rate-In: Information-Driven Adaptive Dropout Rates for Improved Inference-Time Uncertainty Estimation
453. CVPR 2025Sampling Innovation-Based Adaptive Compressive Sensing
454. CVPR 2025SAT-HMR: Real-Time Multi-Person 3D Mesh Estimation via Scale-Adaptive Tokens
455. CVPR 2025SeCap: Self-Calibrating and Adaptive Prompts for Cross-view Person Re-Identification in Aerial-Ground Networks
456. CVPR 2025Self-Learning Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Fusion via Adaptive Residual Guided Subspace Diffusion Model
457. CVPR 2025Steering Away from Harm: An Adaptive Approach to Defending Vision Language Model Against Jailbreaks
458. CVPR 2025SURGEON: Memory-Adaptive Fully Test-Time Adaptation via Dynamic Activation Sparsity
459. CVPR 2025Towards Generalizable Trajectory Prediction using Dual-Level Representation Learning and Adaptive Prompting
460. CVPR 2025Tra-MoE: Learning Trajectory Prediction Model from Multiple Domains for Adaptive Policy Conditioning
461. CVPR 2025WAVE: Weight Templates for Adaptive Initialization of Variable-sized Models
462. CVPR 2025When Domain Generalization meets Generalized Category Discovery: An Adaptive Task-Arithmetic Driven Approach
463. ICLR 2025AdaFisher: Adaptive Second Order Optimization via Fisher Information
464. ICLR 2025AdaGrad under Anisotropic Smoothness
465. ICLR 2025Adam Exploits $\ell_\infty$-geometry of Loss Landscape via Coordinate-wise Adaptivity
466. ICLR 2025ADAM Optimization with Adaptive Batch Selection
467. ICLR 2025Adaptive $Q$-Network: On-the-fly Target Selection for Deep Reinforcement Learning
468. ICLR 2025Adaptive backtracking line search
469. ICLR 2025Adaptive Batch Size for Privately Finding Second-Order Stationary Points
470. ICLR 2025Adaptive Length Image Tokenization via Recurrent Allocation
471. ICLR 2025Adaptive Methods through the Lens of SDEs: Theoretical Insights on the Role of Noise
472. ICLR 2025Adaptive Pruning of Pretrained Transformer via Differential Inclusions
473. ICLR 2025Adaptive Rank Allocation: Speeding Up Modern Transformers with RaNA Adapters
474. ICLR 2025Adaptive Shrinkage Estimation for Personalized Deep Kernel Regression in Modeling Brain Trajectories
475. ICLR 2025Adaptive teachers for amortized samplers
476. ICLR 2025Adaptive Transformer Programs: Bridging the Gap Between Performance and Interpretability in Transformers
477. ICLR 2025ASTrA: Adversarial Self-supervised Training with Adaptive-Attacks
478. ICLR 2025Breaking the $\log(1/\Delta_2)$ Barrier: Better Batched Best Arm Identification with Adaptive Grids
479. ICLR 2025Budgeted Online Continual Learning by Adaptive Layer Freezing and Frequency-based Sampling
480. ICLR 2025CAKE: Cascading and Adaptive KV Cache Eviction with Layer Preferences
481. ICLR 2025Complexity Lower Bounds of Adaptive Gradient Algorithms for Non-convex Stochastic Optimization under Relaxed Smoothness
482. ICLR 2025CONDA: Adaptive Concept Bottleneck for Foundation Models Under Distribution Shifts
483. ICLR 2025Convergence of Distributed Adaptive Optimization with Local Updates
484. ICLR 2025CoTFormer: A Chain of Thought Driven Architecture with Budget-Adaptive Computation Cost at Inference
485. ICLR 2025Data-adaptive Differentially Private Prompt Synthesis for In-Context Learning
486. ICLR 2025DenoiseVAE: Learning Molecule-Adaptive Noise Distributions for Denoising-based 3D Molecular Pre-training
487. ICLR 2025Dynamic Neural Fortresses: An Adaptive Shield for Model Extraction Defense
488. ICLR 2025Ensembling Diffusion Models via Adaptive Feature Aggregation
489. ICLR 2025Faster Cascades via Speculative Decoding
490. ICLR 2025FedLWS: Federated Learning with Adaptive Layer-wise Weight Shrinking
491. ICLR 2025From Attention to Activation: Unraveling the Enigmas of Large Language Models
492. ICLR 2025From Decoupling to Adaptive Transformation: a Wider Optimization Space for PTQ
493. ICLR 2025InstaTrain: Adaptive Training via Ultra-Fast Natural Annealing within Dynamical Systems
494. ICLR 2025Learning How Hard to Think: Input-Adaptive Allocation of LM Computation
495. ICLR 2025MatryoshkaKV: Adaptive KV Compression via Trainable Orthogonal Projection
496. ICLR 2025MIND over Body: Adaptive Thinking using Dynamic Computation
497. ICLR 2025Neural ODE Transformers: Analyzing Internal Dynamics and Adaptive Fine-tuning
498. ICLR 2025NExUME: Adaptive Training and Inference for DNNs under Intermittent Power Environments
499. ICLR 2025PEARL: Parallel Speculative Decoding with Adaptive Draft Length
500. ICLR 2025PIG: Physics-Informed Gaussians as Adaptive Parametric Mesh Representations

FAQ

How many Adaptive Methods papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

1,012 in total: 143 in 2023, 183 in 2024, 276 in 2025, 410 in 2026.

How many Adaptive Methods papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 138 Adaptive Methods papers, versus 109 the year before.

How many Adaptive Methods papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 80 Adaptive Methods papers, versus 47 the year before.

How many Adaptive Methods papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 109 Adaptive Methods papers, versus 68 the year before.

How many Adaptive Methods papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 83 Adaptive Methods papers, versus 52 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Adaptive Methods papers?

NeurIPS, with 365 papers from 2023 to 2026.