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. NeurIPS 2026Online Active Testing: Adaptive Importance Sampling for Unbiased Risk Estimation in Data Streams
102. NeurIPS 2026Online Minimum Description Length Passive-Aggressive Algorithms
103. NeurIPS 2026Optimal Rates for Adaptive Private $k$-PCA
104. NeurIPS 2026Orthogonal Updates for the Win: Towards Accelerated Adaptive Minimax Optimization
105. NeurIPS 2026PACE: Pareto-Adaptive Compression for Efficient Native MLLMs
106. NeurIPS 2026Path Dependence under Adaptive AI Delegation
107. NeurIPS 2026Phase-Adaptive Fusion: Spatio-Temporal Modulation for VLA Models
108. NeurIPS 2026Phases of Muon: When Muon Eclipses SignSGD
109. NeurIPS 2026Precision As You Need: Stochastic Computing Is a Dense Adaptive Quantizer
110. NeurIPS 2026RAPTOR: Ridge-Adaptive Logistic Probes
111. NeurIPS 2026Recovering Evolving User Preference State via Adaptive Interaction-aware Representation Correction
112. NeurIPS 2026Reference-Guided Training: Adaptive Gradient Scaling via Per-Sample Loss Comparisons
113. NeurIPS 2026Reinforcement Learning for View-Adaptive Distillation in 3D Gaussian Compression
114. NeurIPS 2026Safety Geometry Collapse in Multimodal LLMs and Adaptive Drift Correction
115. NeurIPS 2026Same Signal, Opposite Meaning: Direction-Informed Adaptive Learning for LLM Agents
116. NeurIPS 2026SDHilb: Schrödinger Dynamics-Guided Neural Network with Adaptive Multi-Scale Hilbert Transform for Time Series Forecasting
117. NeurIPS 2026SP$^2$ec: Adaptive Self-Speculative Decoding for Vision-Language Models
118. NeurIPS 2026SPA-Q: Structure-Preserving Adaptive Post-Training Quantization for Monocular Depth Estimation
119. NeurIPS 2026SpanFormer: Multi-Level Adaptive Sparsity for Object Detection in High-Resolution Wide Shots
120. NeurIPS 2026Spectral Adaptive Repositioning for Flow-Based Single-Cell Perturbation Modeling
121. NeurIPS 2026Spike-to-Field Mechanisms of Turbulence-Like Dynamics in Spatial Spiking Neural Networks
122. NeurIPS 2026Stable GFlowNets with Probabilistic Guarantees
123. NeurIPS 2026STABLE: A Continual Learning Optimizer with Adaptive Drift Control
124. NeurIPS 2026Stop the Sampler! Classifier-Based Adaptive Stopping for Sampling Kernels
125. NeurIPS 2026Strengthen Out-of-Distribution Detection via Adaptive Mahalanobis Gap
126. NeurIPS 2026Strongly Adaptive Online Learning with Time-Varying Movement Cost
127. NeurIPS 2026T$^2$-Splat: Adaptive Topology Mesh Splatting with Texture Residuals
128. NeurIPS 2026Taking the Road Less Scheduled with Adaptive Polyak Steps
129. NeurIPS 2026The Price of Choosing Examples: Context Overfitting in Adaptive In-Context Learning
130. NeurIPS 2026To Copy or Not to Copy: Controlling Speculative Decoding via Intrinsic Model Signals
131. NeurIPS 2026Towards Reliable LLM Evaluation: Correcting the Winner’s Curse in Adaptive Benchmarking
132. NeurIPS 2026TPRL: Adaptive Visual Token Pruning in LVLMs via Language-Guided Reinforcement Learning
133. NeurIPS 2026TrustFlow: Adaptive Trust Calibration for Language Model Guided Reinforcement Learning
134. NeurIPS 2026Universal Adaptive Proximal Gradient Methods via Gradient Mapping Accumulation
135. NeurIPS 2026Variance-Adaptive Optimal Algorithm for Reinforcement Learning with MNL Function Approximation
136. NeurIPS 2026vExpert: Virtualizing Expert Storage for Adaptive Load Balancing in Distributed MoE Inference
137. NeurIPS 2026WaveSem: Frequency-Adaptive Tokenization for Disentangling Semantics and Noise in Genomics
138. NeurIPS 2026Wayfinder: Adaptive Resource Routing from Agent Citations

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.