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 3 of 21

101. ICLR 2026Adaptive Scaling of Policy Constraints for Offline Reinforcement Learning
102. ICLR 2026Adaptive Thinking: Large Language Models Know When to Think in Latent Space
103. ICLR 2026Adaptive Width Neural Networks
104. ICLR 2026AdaRank: Adaptive Rank Pruning for Enhanced Model Merging
105. ICLR 2026AdaSpec: Adaptive Spectrum for Enhanced Node Distinguishability
106. ICLR 2026ADEPT: Continual Pretraining via Adaptive Expansion and Dynamic Decoupled Tuning
107. ICLR 2026AFTER: Mitigating the Object Hallucination of LVLM via Adaptive Factual-Guided Activation Editing
108. ICLR 2026APC-RL: Exceeding data-driven behavior priors with adaptive policy composition
109. ICLR 2026ARMOR: High-Performance Semi-Structured Pruning via Adaptive Matrix Factorization
110. ICLR 2026ASTGI: Adaptive Spatio-Temporal Graph Interactions for Irregular Multivariate Time Series Forecasting
111. ICLR 2026Automated Stateful Specialization for Adaptive Agent Systems
112. ICLR 2026ByteFlow: Language Modeling through Adaptive Byte Compression without a Tokenizer
113. ICLR 2026Code Driven Planning with Domain-Adaptive Selector
114. ICLR 2026CooperTrim: Adaptive Data Selection for Uncertainty-Aware Cooperative Perception
115. ICLR 2026COSMOS: A Hybrid Adaptive Optimizer for Efficient Training of Large Language Models
116. ICLR 2026d$^2$Cache: Accelerating Diffusion-Based LLMs via Dual Adaptive Caching
117. ICLR 2026Deep Hierarchical Learning with Nested Subspace Networks
118. ICLR 2026DES-LOC: Desynced Low Communication Adaptive Optimizers for Foundation Models
119. ICLR 2026Dynamic-dLLM: Dynamic Cache-Budget and Adaptive Parallel Decoding for Training-Free Acceleration of Diffusion LLM
120. ICLR 2026E²LoRA: Efficient and Effective Low-Rank Adaptation with Entropy-Guided Adaptive Sharing
121. ICLR 2026Expressive yet Efficient Feature Expansion with Adaptive Cross-Hadamard Products
122. ICLR 2026Fairness-Aware Multi-view Evidential Learning with Adaptive Prior
123. ICLR 2026Fast Frank–Wolfe Algorithms with Adaptive Bregman Step-Size for Weakly Convex Functions
124. ICLR 2026FutureMind: Equipping Small Language Models with Strategic Thinking-Pattern Priors via Adaptive Knowledge Distillation
125. ICLR 2026FZOO: Fast Zeroth-Order Optimizer for Fine‑Tuning Large Language Models towards Adam‑Scale Speed
126. ICLR 2026Graph Signal Processing Meets Mamba2: Adaptive Filter Bank via Delta Modulation
127. ICLR 2026High-dimensional limit theorems for SGD: Momentum and Adaptive Step-sizes
128. ICLR 2026Implicit Bias of Per-sample Adam on Separable Data: Departure from the Full-batch Regime
129. ICLR 2026Instance-wise Adaptive Scheduling via Derivative-Free Meta-Learning
130. ICLR 2026JAPAN: Joint Adaptive Prediction Areas with Normalising Flow
131. ICLR 2026Learn to Reason Efficiently with Adaptive Length-based Reward Shaping
132. ICLR 2026Learning To Draft: Adaptive Speculative Decoding with Reinforcement Learning
133. ICLR 2026Learning to Parallel: Accelerating Diffusion Large Language Models via Adaptive Parallel Decoding
134. ICLR 2026LogART: Pushing the Limit of Efficient Logarithmic Post-Training Quantization
135. ICLR 2026Look Carefully: Adaptive Visual Reinforcements in Multimodal Large Language Models for Hallucination Mitigation
136. ICLR 2026MambaSL: Exploring Single-Layer Mamba for Time Series Classification
137. ICLR 2026MaRS: Memory-Adaptive Routing for Reliable Capacity Expansion and Knowledge Retention
138. ICLR 2026MIRACLE: Model-free Imitation and Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Cut-Selection
139. ICLR 2026Multi-LLM Adaptive Conformal Inference for Reliable LLM Response
140. ICLR 2026NAB: Neural Adaptive Binning for Sparse-View CT reconstruction
141. ICLR 2026Native Adaptive Solution Expansion for Diffusion-based Combinatorial Optimization
142. ICLR 2026Nesterov Finds GRAAL: Optimal and Adaptive Gradient Method for Convex Optimization
143. ICLR 2026Noise-Adaptive Diffusion Sampling for Inverse Problems Without Task-Specific Tuning
144. ICLR 2026Offline Reinforcement Learning with Adaptive Feature Fusion
145. ICLR 2026Optimizer Choice Matters For The Emergence of Neural Collapse
146. ICLR 2026Overlap-Adaptive Regularization for Conditional Average Treatment Effect Estimation
147. ICLR 2026Robust Equation Structure learning with Adaptive Refinement
148. ICLR 2026SAES-SVD: Self-Adaptive Suppression of Accumulated and Local Errors for SVD-based LLM Compression
149. ICLR 2026Scalable and Adaptive Trust-Region Learning via Projection Convex Hull
150. ICLR 2026SDErasure: Concept-Specific Trajectory Shifting for Concept Erasure via Adaptive Diffusion Classifier

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.