Adaptive Methods papers, 2023–2026
Adam-like methods and schedules
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 1,012 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 54 | 24 | 22 | 43 | 143 |
| 2024 | 64 | 22 | 51 | 46 | 183 |
| 2025 | 109 | 47 | 68 | 52 | 276 |
| 2026 | 138 | 80 | 109 | 83 | 410 |
Representative papers
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- 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
64 papers, page 1 of 2
- NeurIPS 2024A PID Controller Approach for Adaptive Probability-dependent Gradient Decay in Model Calibration
- NeurIPS 2024Ada-MSHyper: Adaptive Multi-Scale Hypergraph Transformer for Time Series Forecasting
- NeurIPS 2024AdaFlow: Imitation Learning with Variance-Adaptive Flow-Based Policies
- NeurIPS 2024Adaptive $Q$-Aid for Conditional Supervised Learning in Offline Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2024Adaptive and Optimal Second-order Optimistic Methods for Minimax Optimization
- NeurIPS 2024Adaptive Depth Networks with Skippable Sub-Paths
- NeurIPS 2024Adaptive Experimentation When You Can't Experiment
- NeurIPS 2024Adaptive Important Region Selection with Reinforced Hierarchical Search for Dense Object Detection
- NeurIPS 2024Adaptive Layer Sparsity for Large Language Models via Activation Correlation Assessment
- NeurIPS 2024Adaptive Passive-Aggressive Framework for Online Regression with Side Information
- NeurIPS 2024Adaptive Preference Scaling for Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback
- NeurIPS 2024Adaptive Proximal Gradient Method for Convex Optimization
- NeurIPS 2024Adaptive Sampling for Efficient Softmax Approximation
- NeurIPS 2024Adaptive Variance Reduction for Stochastic Optimization under Weaker Assumptions
- NeurIPS 2024ADOPT: Modified Adam Can Converge with Any $\beta_2$ with the Optimal Rate
- NeurIPS 2024An Adaptive Approach for Infinitely Many-armed Bandits under Generalized Rotting Constraints
- NeurIPS 2024ANT: Adaptive Noise Schedule for Time Series Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024Boosting Generalization in Parametric PDE Neural Solvers through Adaptive Conditioning
- NeurIPS 2024CLAVE: An Adaptive Framework for Evaluating Values of LLM Generated Responses
- NeurIPS 2024Cluster-Learngene: Inheriting Adaptive Clusters for Vision Transformers
- NeurIPS 2024Clustering with Non-adaptive Subset Queries
- NeurIPS 2024CoMERA: Computing- and Memory-Efficient Training via Rank-Adaptive Tensor Optimization
- NeurIPS 2024Computerized Adaptive Testing via Collaborative Ranking
- NeurIPS 2024Constrained Adaptive Attack: Effective Adversarial Attack Against Deep Neural Networks for Tabular Data
- NeurIPS 2024D-LLM: A Token Adaptive Computing Resource Allocation Strategy for Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024DAPE: Data-Adaptive Positional Encoding for Length Extrapolation
- NeurIPS 2024DARG: Dynamic Evaluation of Large Language Models via Adaptive Reasoning Graph
- NeurIPS 2024DHA: Learning Decoupled-Head Attention from Transformer Checkpoints via Adaptive Heads Fusion
- NeurIPS 2024Diffusion Models With Learned Adaptive Noise
- NeurIPS 2024DiGRAF: Diffeomorphic Graph-Adaptive Activation Function
- NeurIPS 2024Dynamic Subgroup Identification in Covariate-adjusted Response-adaptive Randomization Experiments
- NeurIPS 2024Efficient Centroid-Linkage Clustering
- NeurIPS 2024Enabling Adaptive Agent Training in Open-Ended Simulators by Targeting Diversity
- NeurIPS 2024Enhancing Feature Diversity Boosts Channel-Adaptive Vision Transformers
- NeurIPS 2024Enhancing Large Language Models through Adaptive Tokenizers
- NeurIPS 2024FASTopic: Pretrained Transformer is a Fast, Adaptive, Stable, and Transferable Topic Model
- NeurIPS 2024Frequency Adaptive Normalization For Non-stationary Time Series Forecasting
- NeurIPS 2024Gradient-Variation Online Learning under Generalized Smoothness
- NeurIPS 2024GRANOLA: Adaptive Normalization for Graph Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2024Heavy-Tailed Class Imbalance and Why Adam Outperforms Gradient Descent on Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024High-Resolution Image Harmonization with Adaptive-Interval Color Transformation
- NeurIPS 2024Improving Neural ODE Training with Temporal Adaptive Batch Normalization
- NeurIPS 2024Layer-Adaptive State Pruning for Deep State Space Models
- NeurIPS 2024Learning to Understand: Identifying Interactions via the Möbius Transform
- NeurIPS 2024Local and Adaptive Mirror Descents in Extensive-Form Games
- NeurIPS 2024Localized Adaptive Risk Control
- NeurIPS 2024MAGNET: Improving the Multilingual Fairness of Language Models with Adaptive Gradient-Based Tokenization
- NeurIPS 2024MicroAdam: Accurate Adaptive Optimization with Low Space Overhead and Provable Convergence
- NeurIPS 2024Mixture of Scales: Memory-Efficient Token-Adaptive Binarization for Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024Optimal and Approximate Adaptive Stochastic Quantization
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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.