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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201. NeurIPS 2025GoRA: Gradient-driven Adaptive Low Rank Adaptation
202. NeurIPS 2025Graph Few-Shot Learning via Adaptive Spectrum Experts and Cross-Set Distribution Calibration
203. NeurIPS 2025HeroFilter: Adaptive Spectral Graph Filter for Varying Heterophilic Relations
204. NeurIPS 2025How Memory in Optimization Algorithms Implicitly Modifies the Loss
205. NeurIPS 2025Hybrid-Collaborative Augmentation and Contrastive Sample Adaptive-Differential Awareness for Robust Attributed Graph Clustering
206. NeurIPS 2025In Search of Adam’s Secret Sauce
207. NeurIPS 2025Kernel Learning with Adversarial Features: Numerical Efficiency and Adaptive Regularization
208. NeurIPS 2025Know What You Don't Know: Uncertainty Calibration of Process Reward Models
209. NeurIPS 2025Language‑Bias‑Resilient Visual Question Answering via Adaptive Multi‑Margin Collaborative Debiasing
210. NeurIPS 2025LaRes: Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning with LLM-based Adaptive Reward Search
211. NeurIPS 2025Learn2Mix: Training Neural Networks Using Adaptive Data Integration
212. NeurIPS 2025Learning the Plasticity: Plasticity-Driven Learning Framework in Spiking Neural Networks
213. NeurIPS 2025Learning to Route: Per-Sample Adaptive Routing for Multimodal Multitask Prediction
214. NeurIPS 2025Learning to Specialize: Joint Gating-Expert Training for Adaptive MoEs in Decentralized Settings
215. NeurIPS 2025Less but More: Linear Adaptive Graph Learning Empowering Spatiotemporal Forecasting
216. NeurIPS 2025Local Curvature Descent: Squeezing More Curvature out of Standard and Polyak Gradient Descent
217. NeurIPS 2025MAESTRO : Adaptive Sparse Attention and Robust Learning for Multimodal Dynamic Time Series
218. NeurIPS 2025MATCH: Multi-faceted Adaptive Topo-Consistency for Semi-Supervised Histopathology Segmentation
219. NeurIPS 2025Minimax Adaptive Online Nonparametric Regression over Besov spaces
220. NeurIPS 2025Mixture-of-Recursions: Learning Dynamic Recursive Depths for Adaptive Token-Level Computation
221. NeurIPS 2025MultiNet: Adaptive Multi-Viewed Subgraph Convolutional Networks for Graph Classification
222. NeurIPS 2025MutualVPR: A Mutual Learning Framework for Resolving Supervision Inconsistencies via Adaptive Clustering
223. NeurIPS 2025Near-Exponential Savings for Population Mean Estimation with Active Learning
224. NeurIPS 2025No Loss, No Gain: Gated Refinement and Adaptive Compression for Prompt Optimization
225. NeurIPS 2025Non-Asymptotic Guarantees for Average-Reward Q-Learning with Adaptive Stepsizes
226. NeurIPS 2025On the necessity of adaptive regularisation: Optimal anytime online learning on $\boldsymbol{\ell_p}$-balls
227. NeurIPS 2025Pattern-Guided Adaptive Prior for Structure Learning
228. NeurIPS 2025PINN Balls: Scaling Second-Order Methods for PINNs with Domain Decomposition and Adaptive Sampling
229. NeurIPS 2025Position: AI Should Sense Better, Not Just Scale Bigger: Adaptive Sensing as a Paradigm Shift
230. NeurIPS 2025Private Online Learning against an Adaptive Adversary: Realizable and Agnostic Settings
231. NeurIPS 2025Purifying Shampoo: Investigating Shampoo's Heuristics by Decomposing its Preconditioner
232. NeurIPS 2025QuARI: Query Adaptive Retrieval Improvement
233. NeurIPS 2025RCCDA: Adaptive Model Updates in the Presence of Concept Drift under a Constrained Resource Budget
234. NeurIPS 2025Reinforced Context Order Recovery for Adaptive Reasoning and Planning
235. NeurIPS 2025RepGuard: Adaptive Feature Decoupling for Robust Backdoor Defense in Large Language Models
236. NeurIPS 2025Robust Hallucination Detection in LLMs via Adaptive Token Selection
237. NeurIPS 2025Scalable and adaptive prediction bands with kernel sum-of-squares
238. NeurIPS 2025Simulation-Based Inference for Adaptive Experiments
239. NeurIPS 2025Sparse Polyak: an adaptive step size rule for high-dimensional M-estimation
240. NeurIPS 2025Spatiotemporal Consensus with Scene Prior for Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Person Search
241. NeurIPS 2025Structured Spectral Reasoning for Frequency-Adaptive Multimodal Recommendation
242. NeurIPS 2025The Adaptive Complexity of Minimizing Relative Fisher Information
243. NeurIPS 2025Theoretically Grounded Framework for LLM Watermarking: A Distribution-Adaptive Approach
244. NeurIPS 2025Tight Bounds for Answering Adaptively Chosen Concentrated Queries
245. NeurIPS 2025TITAN: A Trajectory-Informed Technique for Adaptive Parameter Freezing in Large-Scale VQE
246. NeurIPS 2025Twilight: Adaptive Attention Sparsity with Hierarchical Top-$p$ Pruning
247. NeurIPS 2025When Lower-Order Terms Dominate: Adaptive Expert Algorithms for Heavy-Tailed Losses
248. NeurIPS 2024A PID Controller Approach for Adaptive Probability-dependent Gradient Decay in Model Calibration
249. NeurIPS 2024Ada-MSHyper: Adaptive Multi-Scale Hypergraph Transformer for Time Series Forecasting
250. NeurIPS 2024AdaFlow: Imitation Learning with Variance-Adaptive Flow-Based Policies

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.