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

410 papers, page 7 of 9

301. NeurIPS 2026Adaptive Stepsizes for Eligibility Traces in Deep Reinforcement Learning
302. NeurIPS 2026Adaptive Target-Charging with Privacy Filters and Individual Accounting
303. NeurIPS 2026Adaptive-Margin Masking and Restoration for Balanced Multimodal Learning
304. NeurIPS 2026AdaptNC: Adaptive Nonconformity Scores for Conformal Prediction under Distribution Shift
305. NeurIPS 2026AdapToPASS: Ambiguity-aware Adaptive Spherical Transformer for Panoramic Semantic Segmentation
306. NeurIPS 2026AdaSRU: Adaptive Source-Free Recommendation Unlearning via Gradient-Constrained Optimization
307. NeurIPS 2026AdaST: Adaptive Coupling for Spatial-Temporal Forecasting
308. NeurIPS 2026AdaTree: Serving-Aware Adaptive Tree Construction for Speculative Decoding
309. NeurIPS 2026AdERA: Adaptive Exponent Reuse for Lossless Allgather in Sharded MoE Training
310. NeurIPS 2026ADKV: A Low-Overhead Adaptive Delta Quantization for KV Cache in LLM Inference
311. NeurIPS 2026AEM: Adaptive Entropy Modulation for Multi-Turn Agentic Reinforcement Learning
312. NeurIPS 2026AHPA: Adaptive Hierarchical Prior Alignment for Diffusion Transformers
313. NeurIPS 2026AMARIS: Merging Generalist and Specialist LLMs via Adaptive Subspace Inheritance
314. NeurIPS 2026AMPS: Adaptive Modality Preference Steering via Functional Entropy
315. NeurIPS 2026ANCRe: Adaptive Neural Connection Reassignment for Efficient Depth Scaling
316. NeurIPS 2026Anytime-Valid PAC-Bayes Certificates for Adaptive Test-Time Scaling
317. NeurIPS 2026AOT-POT: Adaptive Operator Transformation for Large-Scale PDE Pre-training
318. NeurIPS 2026ASAP: Fast Adaptive Sliding Agnostic Poisoning Attack on Federated Learning
319. NeurIPS 2026Attention-Discounted Adaptive Sampler for Masked Diffusion Language Models
320. NeurIPS 2026AVSD: Adaptive-View Self-Distillation by Balancing Consensus and Teacher-Specific Privileged Signals
321. NeurIPS 2026BACE: Behavior-Adaptive Connectivity Estimation from Multi-Region Neural Recordings
322. NeurIPS 2026BAT3R: Robust Online 3D Reconstruction with Bayesian Adaptive State Updates
323. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Imputation: Mask-Adaptive Conformal Prediction via Tree Embeddings on General Missing Data Mechanisms
324. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Uniform Detection: Adaptive Hallucination Detection for RAG Across Response Regimes
325. NeurIPS 2026BLADE: Scalable Bi-level Adaptive Data Selection for LLM Training
326. NeurIPS 2026Breaking the $\sqrt{d}$ Communication Barrier in Federated Sampling with Adaptive Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
327. NeurIPS 2026CAM: Question Answering on Entity-Centric Videos with Continuous Extraction and Adaptive Querying
328. NeurIPS 2026Catch Your Breath: Adaptive Computation for Self-Paced Sequence Production
329. NeurIPS 2026Categorical Bayes filtering for computational phenotyping in adaptive learning
330. NeurIPS 2026CATS: Acceptance-Oriented Critical Token Adaptive Selection for Multimodal Speculative Decoding
331. NeurIPS 2026Class Adaptive Conformal Training
332. NeurIPS 2026COMET: Codebook-based Online-adaptive Multi-scale Embedding for Time-series Anomaly Detection
333. NeurIPS 2026CompilerKV: Risk-Adaptive KV Cache Compression via Offline Experience Compilation
334. NeurIPS 2026CoScan: Multi-Scale Content-Adaptive Space-Filling Scans for Causal State-Space Image Restoration
335. NeurIPS 2026DashAttention: Differentiable and Adaptive Sparse Hierarchical Attention
336. NeurIPS 2026Diffusion Transformers with Residual Adaptive Layer Normalization
337. NeurIPS 2026Distribution-Adaptive Policy Optimization
338. NeurIPS 2026Efficient Adaptive Data Acquisition via Pretrained Belief Representations
339. NeurIPS 2026Energy-Adaptive Equivariant State Space Models for Noise-Robust Protein Structure Representation
340. NeurIPS 2026FAVLA: A Force-Adaptive Multi-Rate VLA model for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation
341. NeurIPS 2026FedAdaVR: Adaptive Variance Reduction for Robust Federated Learning under Limited Client Participation
342. NeurIPS 2026Fixed-Point Reasoning: Stable and Adaptive Deep Looped Models
343. NeurIPS 2026ForecastCompass: Guiding Agentic Forecasting with Adaptive Factor Memory
344. NeurIPS 2026From SGD to Muon: Adaptive Optimization via Schatten-p Norms
345. NeurIPS 2026Functional Gradient Descent with Adaptive Representations
346. NeurIPS 2026GEAR: Generator-Adaptive State Space Models for Associative Recall
347. NeurIPS 2026Generalized Adaptive Boosting and the Geometry of Mistakes
348. NeurIPS 2026Geometry-Adaptive Explainer for Faithful Dictionary-Based Interpretability under Distribution Shift
349. NeurIPS 2026Hierarchical Adaptive Frame Sampling For Video Understanding
350. NeurIPS 2026HiLoRA: Adaptive Hierarchical LoRA Routing for Training-Free Domain Generalization

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.