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 4 of 21

151. ICLR 2026SGD with Adaptive Preconditioning: Unified Analysis and Momentum Acceleration
152. ICLR 2026Softmax is not Enough (for Adaptive Conformal Classification)
153. ICLR 2026SONATA: Synergistic Coreset Informed Adaptive Temporal Tensor Factorization
154. ICLR 2026SPREAD: Sampling-based Pareto front Refinement via Efficient Adaptive Diffusion
155. ICLR 2026Stabilizing Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for LLMs via Balanced Policy Optimization with Adaptive Clipping
156. ICLR 2026STAT: Skill-Targeted Adaptive Training
157. ICLR 2026Sysformer: Safeguarding Frozen Large Language Models with Adaptive System Prompts
158. ICLR 2026Tackling the XAI Disagreement Problem with Adaptive Feature Grouping
159. ICLR 2026Task-free Adaptive Meta Black-box Optimization
160. ICLR 2026Temperature as a Meta-Policy: Adaptive Temperature in LLM Reinforcement Learning
161. ICLR 2026ThinKV: Thought-Adaptive KV Cache Compression for Efficient Reasoning Models
162. ICLR 2026Trust but Verify: Adaptive Conditioning for Reference-Based Diffusion Super-Resolution via Implicit Reference Correlation Modeling
163. ICLR 2026UniQL: Unified Quantization and Low-rank Compression for Adaptive Edge LLMs
164. ICML 2026A KL-regularization framework for learning to plan with adaptive priors
165. ICML 2026Achieving Structurally Robust Gromov Wasserstein Distance via Adaptive Dual-Mask
166. ICML 2026Active Attacks: Red-teaming LLMs via Adaptive Environments
167. ICML 2026AD-BTS: Adaptive Dual-Branch Token Sparsification via Spatial Information Density
168. ICML 2026AdaGC: Enhancing LLM Pretraining Stability via Adaptive Gradient Clipping
169. ICML 2026AdaHC: Accelerating Multi-Token Prediction with Adaptive Head Chunking with Pipeline Parallelism
170. ICML 2026Adalina: Adaptive Linear Approximation for the Shapley Value and Beyond
171. ICML 2026Adaptive Bandit Algorithms for Contextual Matching Markets
172. ICML 2026Adaptive Batch Sizes Using Non-Euclidean Gradient Noise Scales for Stochastic Sign and Spectral Descent
173. ICML 2026Adaptive Coding Emerges in Stabilized Supralinear Networks Trained with Local Plasticity
174. ICML 2026Adaptive Contracts for Cost-Effective AI Delegation
175. ICML 2026Adaptive DNA Sequence Modeling via Synergistic Plasticity Units
176. ICML 2026Adaptive Estimation and Inference in Semi-parametric Heterogeneous Clustered Multitask Learning via Neyman Orthogonality
177. ICML 2026Adaptive Momentum and Nonlinear Damping for Neural Network Training
178. ICML 2026Adaptive Multi-Round Allocation with Stochastic Arrivals
179. ICML 2026Adaptive Multiscale Binary Expansion Tests for Independence
180. ICML 2026Adaptive Node Feature Selection for Graph Neural Networks
181. ICML 2026Adaptive Physics Transformer with Fused Global-Local Attention for Subsurface Energy Systems
182. ICML 2026Adaptive Policy Backbone via Shared Network
183. ICML 2026Adaptive Preconditioners Trigger Loss Spikes in Adam
184. ICML 2026Adaptive Probe-based Steering for Robust LLM Jailbreaking
185. ICML 2026Adaptive Protein Tokenization
186. ICML 2026Adaptive Quasimetric Mapping : Principled Topological Abstraction for Robust Offline Goal-Conditioned Navigation
187. ICML 2026Adaptive Querying with AI Persona Priors
188. ICML 2026Adaptive Reinforcement Learning for Unobservable Random Delays
189. ICML 2026Adaptive Sharpness-Aware Minimization with a Polyak-type Step size: A Theory-Grounded Scheduler
190. ICML 2026Adaptive Symmetry Discovery for Dynamical System Identification
191. ICML 2026Adaptive Visual Autoregressive Acceleration via Dual-Linkage Entropy Analysis
192. ICML 2026AdaS: Adaptive Gradient Descent for Spiking Transformers
193. ICML 2026AdaSCALE: Adaptive Scaling for OOD Detection
194. ICML 2026Adversarially Robust Approximate Furthest Neighbor
195. ICML 2026ANTiC: Adaptive Neural Temporal In Situ Compressor
196. ICML 2026AnyEdit++: Adaptive Long-Form Knowledge Editing via Bayesian Surprise
197. ICML 2026API: Adaptive Prototype Imputation for Incomplete Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
198. ICML 2026BAS: Bridging Adam and SignSGD for Memory-Efficient LLM Training
199. ICML 2026BASIL: Scalable Bayesian Semi-supervised Clustering with Feature Selection and Adaptive Constraint Weighting
200. ICML 2026Bootstrapped Exploration with Causal Reasoning: A Training Paradigm for Adaptive Forecasting Agent

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.