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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101. ICLR 2025Convergence of Distributed Adaptive Optimization with Local Updates
102. ICLR 2025CoTFormer: A Chain of Thought Driven Architecture with Budget-Adaptive Computation Cost at Inference
103. ICLR 2025Data-adaptive Differentially Private Prompt Synthesis for In-Context Learning
104. ICLR 2025DenoiseVAE: Learning Molecule-Adaptive Noise Distributions for Denoising-based 3D Molecular Pre-training
105. ICLR 2025Dynamic Neural Fortresses: An Adaptive Shield for Model Extraction Defense
106. ICLR 2025Ensembling Diffusion Models via Adaptive Feature Aggregation
107. ICLR 2025Faster Cascades via Speculative Decoding
108. ICLR 2025FedLWS: Federated Learning with Adaptive Layer-wise Weight Shrinking
109. ICLR 2025From Attention to Activation: Unraveling the Enigmas of Large Language Models
110. ICLR 2025From Decoupling to Adaptive Transformation: a Wider Optimization Space for PTQ
111. ICLR 2025InstaTrain: Adaptive Training via Ultra-Fast Natural Annealing within Dynamical Systems
112. ICLR 2025Learning How Hard to Think: Input-Adaptive Allocation of LM Computation
113. ICLR 2025MatryoshkaKV: Adaptive KV Compression via Trainable Orthogonal Projection
114. ICLR 2025MIND over Body: Adaptive Thinking using Dynamic Computation
115. ICLR 2025Neural ODE Transformers: Analyzing Internal Dynamics and Adaptive Fine-tuning
116. ICLR 2025NExUME: Adaptive Training and Inference for DNNs under Intermittent Power Environments
117. ICLR 2025PEARL: Parallel Speculative Decoding with Adaptive Draft Length
118. ICLR 2025PIG: Physics-Informed Gaussians as Adaptive Parametric Mesh Representations
119. ICLR 2025Refine Knowledge of Large Language Models via Adaptive Contrastive Learning
120. ICLR 2025Revisit Micro-batch Clipping: Adaptive Data Pruning via Gradient Manipulation
121. ICLR 2025Scalable Universal T-Cell Receptor Embeddings from Adaptive Immune Repertoires
122. ICLR 2025SparsyFed: Sparse Adaptive Federated Learning
123. ICLR 2025Swift4D: Adaptive divide-and-conquer Gaussian Splatting for compact and efficient reconstruction of dynamic scene
124. ICLR 2025TAID: Temporally Adaptive Interpolated Distillation for Efficient Knowledge Transfer in Language Models
125. ICLR 2025Towards a General Time Series Anomaly Detector with Adaptive Bottlenecks and Dual Adversarial Decoders
126. ICLR 2025Towards Domain Adaptive Neural Contextual Bandits
127. ICLR 2025Towards Generalizable Reinforcement Learning via Causality-Guided Self-Adaptive Representations
128. ICLR 2024AdaMerging: Adaptive Model Merging for Multi-Task Learning
129. ICLR 2024Adaptive Chameleon or Stubborn Sloth: Revealing the Behavior of Large Language Models in Knowledge Conflicts
130. ICLR 2024Adaptive Federated Learning with Auto-Tuned Clients
131. ICLR 2024Adaptive Instrument Design for Indirect Experiments
132. ICLR 2024Adaptive Rational Activations to Boost Deep Reinforcement Learning
133. ICLR 2024Adaptive Regret for Bandits Made Possible: Two Queries Suffice
134. ICLR 2024Adaptive Window Pruning for Efficient Local Motion Deblurring
135. ICLR 2024Adversarial Adaptive Sampling: Unify PINN and Optimal Transport for the Approximation of PDEs
136. ICLR 2024ARM: Refining Multivariate Forecasting with Adaptive Temporal-Contextual Learning
137. ICLR 2024Beyond Worst-case Attacks: Robust RL with Adaptive Defense via Non-dominated Policies
138. ICLR 2024Chameleon: Increasing Label-Only Membership Leakage with Adaptive Poisoning
139. ICLR 2024Efficient Backpropagation with Variance Controlled Adaptive Sampling
140. ICLR 2024FedDA: Faster Adaptive Gradient Methods for Federated Constrained Optimization
141. ICLR 2024Generalization in diffusion models arises from geometry-adaptive harmonic representations
142. ICLR 2024Implicit Maximum a Posteriori Filtering via Adaptive Optimization
143. ICLR 2024Learning Adaptive Multiresolution Transforms via Meta-Framelet-based Graph Convolutional Network
144. ICLR 2024Only Pay for What Is Uncertain: Variance-Adaptive Thompson Sampling
145. ICLR 2024Pathformer: Multi-scale Transformers with Adaptive Pathways for Time Series Forecasting
146. ICLR 2024SAFLEX: Self-Adaptive Augmentation via Feature Label Extrapolation
147. ICLR 2024Scalable Modular Network: A Framework for Adaptive Learning via Agreement Routing
148. ICLR 2024Scale-Adaptive Diffusion Model for Complex Sketch Synthesis
149. ICLR 2024Towards Green AI in Fine-tuning Large Language Models via Adaptive Backpropagation
150. ICLR 2023Adaptive Budget Allocation for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

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.