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

276 papers, page 6 of 6

251. NeurIPS 2025MutualVPR: A Mutual Learning Framework for Resolving Supervision Inconsistencies via Adaptive Clustering
252. NeurIPS 2025Near-Exponential Savings for Population Mean Estimation with Active Learning
253. NeurIPS 2025No Loss, No Gain: Gated Refinement and Adaptive Compression for Prompt Optimization
254. NeurIPS 2025Non-Asymptotic Guarantees for Average-Reward Q-Learning with Adaptive Stepsizes
255. NeurIPS 2025On the necessity of adaptive regularisation: Optimal anytime online learning on $\boldsymbol{\ell_p}$-balls
256. NeurIPS 2025Pattern-Guided Adaptive Prior for Structure Learning
257. NeurIPS 2025PINN Balls: Scaling Second-Order Methods for PINNs with Domain Decomposition and Adaptive Sampling
258. NeurIPS 2025Position: AI Should Sense Better, Not Just Scale Bigger: Adaptive Sensing as a Paradigm Shift
259. NeurIPS 2025Private Online Learning against an Adaptive Adversary: Realizable and Agnostic Settings
260. NeurIPS 2025Purifying Shampoo: Investigating Shampoo's Heuristics by Decomposing its Preconditioner
261. NeurIPS 2025QuARI: Query Adaptive Retrieval Improvement
262. NeurIPS 2025RCCDA: Adaptive Model Updates in the Presence of Concept Drift under a Constrained Resource Budget
263. NeurIPS 2025Reinforced Context Order Recovery for Adaptive Reasoning and Planning
264. NeurIPS 2025RepGuard: Adaptive Feature Decoupling for Robust Backdoor Defense in Large Language Models
265. NeurIPS 2025Robust Hallucination Detection in LLMs via Adaptive Token Selection
266. NeurIPS 2025Scalable and adaptive prediction bands with kernel sum-of-squares
267. NeurIPS 2025Simulation-Based Inference for Adaptive Experiments
268. NeurIPS 2025Sparse Polyak: an adaptive step size rule for high-dimensional M-estimation
269. NeurIPS 2025Spatiotemporal Consensus with Scene Prior for Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Person Search
270. NeurIPS 2025Structured Spectral Reasoning for Frequency-Adaptive Multimodal Recommendation
271. NeurIPS 2025The Adaptive Complexity of Minimizing Relative Fisher Information
272. NeurIPS 2025Theoretically Grounded Framework for LLM Watermarking: A Distribution-Adaptive Approach
273. NeurIPS 2025Tight Bounds for Answering Adaptively Chosen Concentrated Queries
274. NeurIPS 2025TITAN: A Trajectory-Informed Technique for Adaptive Parameter Freezing in Large-Scale VQE
275. NeurIPS 2025Twilight: Adaptive Attention Sparsity with Hierarchical Top-$p$ Pruning
276. NeurIPS 2025When Lower-Order Terms Dominate: Adaptive Expert Algorithms for Heavy-Tailed Losses

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.