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 8 of 21

351. NeurIPS 2026Horizon Adaptive Offline Policy Learning via Value Stitching
352. NeurIPS 2026ICAT: Incident-Case–Grounded Adaptive Testing for Physical-Risk Prediction in Embodied World Models
353. NeurIPS 2026Improving the Efficiency of Language Agent Teams with Adaptive Task Graphs
354. NeurIPS 2026Information Bottleneck-Guided Adaptive Hypergraph Transformer for Brain Disease Diagnosis
355. NeurIPS 2026Inner Product Aware Quantization: Provably Fast, Accurate, and Adaptive Algorithms
356. NeurIPS 2026Instance-Adaptive Online Multicalibration
357. NeurIPS 2026Isotropic Activation Functions Enable Deindividuated Neurons and Adaptive Topologies
358. NeurIPS 2026Large Language Models Enhanced Covariate-adjusted Response-adaptive Randomization Design
359. NeurIPS 2026Learning a Task-Adaptive Low-Dimensional Semantic Space for Improved Visual Classification
360. NeurIPS 2026Learning When to Denoise: Optimizing Asynchronous Schedules for Latent Diffusion
361. NeurIPS 2026Learning When to Think: Adaptive Internal Computation for Reinforcement Learning
362. NeurIPS 2026Lemon: Evidence-Risk-Aware Adaptive Organization for Long-Horizon LLM Agents
363. NeurIPS 2026Magnifying What Matters: Attention-Guided Adaptive Rendering for Visual Text Comprehension
364. NeurIPS 2026MARS: Harmonizing Multimodal Convergence via Adaptive Rank Search
365. NeurIPS 2026MARS: Multi-resolution Adaptive Routing for Sequential Recommendation
366. NeurIPS 2026Matrix-Free Stochastic Training of Low-Rank Spectral Graph Learning via Randomized Adaptive Spectral Estimation
367. NeurIPS 2026Mesh Invaiant Infinite Dimensional Adaptive MCMC for Latent Gaussian Processes
368. NeurIPS 2026MIRAGE: Adaptive Multimodal Gating for Whole-Brain fMRI Encoding
369. NeurIPS 2026MoBiQuant: Mixture-of-Bits Quantization for Token-Adaptive Any-Precision LLM
370. NeurIPS 2026Model-Adaptive Tool Necessity Reveals the Knowing-Doing Gap in LLM Tool Use
371. NeurIPS 2026Network of Theseus (Like the ship)
372. NeurIPS 2026Objective-Aligned Amortized Inference for Offline Bayes-Adaptive MDP Model Learning
373. NeurIPS 2026Online Active Testing: Adaptive Importance Sampling for Unbiased Risk Estimation in Data Streams
374. NeurIPS 2026Online Minimum Description Length Passive-Aggressive Algorithms
375. NeurIPS 2026Optimal Rates for Adaptive Private $k$-PCA
376. NeurIPS 2026Orthogonal Updates for the Win: Towards Accelerated Adaptive Minimax Optimization
377. NeurIPS 2026PACE: Pareto-Adaptive Compression for Efficient Native MLLMs
378. NeurIPS 2026Path Dependence under Adaptive AI Delegation
379. NeurIPS 2026Phase-Adaptive Fusion: Spatio-Temporal Modulation for VLA Models
380. NeurIPS 2026Phases of Muon: When Muon Eclipses SignSGD
381. NeurIPS 2026Precision As You Need: Stochastic Computing Is a Dense Adaptive Quantizer
382. NeurIPS 2026RAPTOR: Ridge-Adaptive Logistic Probes
383. NeurIPS 2026Recovering Evolving User Preference State via Adaptive Interaction-aware Representation Correction
384. NeurIPS 2026Reference-Guided Training: Adaptive Gradient Scaling via Per-Sample Loss Comparisons
385. NeurIPS 2026Reinforcement Learning for View-Adaptive Distillation in 3D Gaussian Compression
386. NeurIPS 2026Safety Geometry Collapse in Multimodal LLMs and Adaptive Drift Correction
387. NeurIPS 2026Same Signal, Opposite Meaning: Direction-Informed Adaptive Learning for LLM Agents
388. NeurIPS 2026SDHilb: Schrödinger Dynamics-Guided Neural Network with Adaptive Multi-Scale Hilbert Transform for Time Series Forecasting
389. NeurIPS 2026SP$^2$ec: Adaptive Self-Speculative Decoding for Vision-Language Models
390. NeurIPS 2026SPA-Q: Structure-Preserving Adaptive Post-Training Quantization for Monocular Depth Estimation
391. NeurIPS 2026SpanFormer: Multi-Level Adaptive Sparsity for Object Detection in High-Resolution Wide Shots
392. NeurIPS 2026Spectral Adaptive Repositioning for Flow-Based Single-Cell Perturbation Modeling
393. NeurIPS 2026Spike-to-Field Mechanisms of Turbulence-Like Dynamics in Spatial Spiking Neural Networks
394. NeurIPS 2026Stable GFlowNets with Probabilistic Guarantees
395. NeurIPS 2026STABLE: A Continual Learning Optimizer with Adaptive Drift Control
396. NeurIPS 2026Stop the Sampler! Classifier-Based Adaptive Stopping for Sampling Kernels
397. NeurIPS 2026Strengthen Out-of-Distribution Detection via Adaptive Mahalanobis Gap
398. NeurIPS 2026Strongly Adaptive Online Learning with Time-Varying Movement Cost
399. NeurIPS 2026T$^2$-Splat: Adaptive Topology Mesh Splatting with Texture Residuals
400. NeurIPS 2026Taking the Road Less Scheduled with Adaptive Polyak Steps

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.