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

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51. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Imputation: Mask-Adaptive Conformal Prediction via Tree Embeddings on General Missing Data Mechanisms
52. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Uniform Detection: Adaptive Hallucination Detection for RAG Across Response Regimes
53. NeurIPS 2026BLADE: Scalable Bi-level Adaptive Data Selection for LLM Training
54. NeurIPS 2026Breaking the $\sqrt{d}$ Communication Barrier in Federated Sampling with Adaptive Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
55. NeurIPS 2026CAM: Question Answering on Entity-Centric Videos with Continuous Extraction and Adaptive Querying
56. NeurIPS 2026Catch Your Breath: Adaptive Computation for Self-Paced Sequence Production
57. NeurIPS 2026Categorical Bayes filtering for computational phenotyping in adaptive learning
58. NeurIPS 2026CATS: Acceptance-Oriented Critical Token Adaptive Selection for Multimodal Speculative Decoding
59. NeurIPS 2026Class Adaptive Conformal Training
60. NeurIPS 2026COMET: Codebook-based Online-adaptive Multi-scale Embedding for Time-series Anomaly Detection
61. NeurIPS 2026CompilerKV: Risk-Adaptive KV Cache Compression via Offline Experience Compilation
62. NeurIPS 2026CoScan: Multi-Scale Content-Adaptive Space-Filling Scans for Causal State-Space Image Restoration
63. NeurIPS 2026DashAttention: Differentiable and Adaptive Sparse Hierarchical Attention
64. NeurIPS 2026Diffusion Transformers with Residual Adaptive Layer Normalization
65. NeurIPS 2026Distribution-Adaptive Policy Optimization
66. NeurIPS 2026Efficient Adaptive Data Acquisition via Pretrained Belief Representations
67. NeurIPS 2026Energy-Adaptive Equivariant State Space Models for Noise-Robust Protein Structure Representation
68. NeurIPS 2026FAVLA: A Force-Adaptive Multi-Rate VLA model for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation
69. NeurIPS 2026FedAdaVR: Adaptive Variance Reduction for Robust Federated Learning under Limited Client Participation
70. NeurIPS 2026Fixed-Point Reasoning: Stable and Adaptive Deep Looped Models
71. NeurIPS 2026ForecastCompass: Guiding Agentic Forecasting with Adaptive Factor Memory
72. NeurIPS 2026From SGD to Muon: Adaptive Optimization via Schatten-p Norms
73. NeurIPS 2026Functional Gradient Descent with Adaptive Representations
74. NeurIPS 2026GEAR: Generator-Adaptive State Space Models for Associative Recall
75. NeurIPS 2026Generalized Adaptive Boosting and the Geometry of Mistakes
76. NeurIPS 2026Geometry-Adaptive Explainer for Faithful Dictionary-Based Interpretability under Distribution Shift
77. NeurIPS 2026Hierarchical Adaptive Frame Sampling For Video Understanding
78. NeurIPS 2026HiLoRA: Adaptive Hierarchical LoRA Routing for Training-Free Domain Generalization
79. NeurIPS 2026Horizon Adaptive Offline Policy Learning via Value Stitching
80. NeurIPS 2026ICAT: Incident-Case–Grounded Adaptive Testing for Physical-Risk Prediction in Embodied World Models
81. NeurIPS 2026Improving the Efficiency of Language Agent Teams with Adaptive Task Graphs
82. NeurIPS 2026Information Bottleneck-Guided Adaptive Hypergraph Transformer for Brain Disease Diagnosis
83. NeurIPS 2026Inner Product Aware Quantization: Provably Fast, Accurate, and Adaptive Algorithms
84. NeurIPS 2026Instance-Adaptive Online Multicalibration
85. NeurIPS 2026Isotropic Activation Functions Enable Deindividuated Neurons and Adaptive Topologies
86. NeurIPS 2026Large Language Models Enhanced Covariate-adjusted Response-adaptive Randomization Design
87. NeurIPS 2026Learning a Task-Adaptive Low-Dimensional Semantic Space for Improved Visual Classification
88. NeurIPS 2026Learning When to Denoise: Optimizing Asynchronous Schedules for Latent Diffusion
89. NeurIPS 2026Learning When to Think: Adaptive Internal Computation for Reinforcement Learning
90. NeurIPS 2026Lemon: Evidence-Risk-Aware Adaptive Organization for Long-Horizon LLM Agents
91. NeurIPS 2026Magnifying What Matters: Attention-Guided Adaptive Rendering for Visual Text Comprehension
92. NeurIPS 2026MARS: Harmonizing Multimodal Convergence via Adaptive Rank Search
93. NeurIPS 2026MARS: Multi-resolution Adaptive Routing for Sequential Recommendation
94. NeurIPS 2026Matrix-Free Stochastic Training of Low-Rank Spectral Graph Learning via Randomized Adaptive Spectral Estimation
95. NeurIPS 2026Mesh Invaiant Infinite Dimensional Adaptive MCMC for Latent Gaussian Processes
96. NeurIPS 2026MIRAGE: Adaptive Multimodal Gating for Whole-Brain fMRI Encoding
97. NeurIPS 2026MoBiQuant: Mixture-of-Bits Quantization for Token-Adaptive Any-Precision LLM
98. NeurIPS 2026Model-Adaptive Tool Necessity Reveals the Knowing-Doing Gap in LLM Tool Use
99. NeurIPS 2026Network of Theseus (Like the ship)
100. NeurIPS 2026Objective-Aligned Amortized Inference for Offline Bayes-Adaptive MDP Model Learning

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.