Domain Adaptation papers, 2023–2026
Cross-domain transfer
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 866 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Domain Adaptation went from 174 papers in 2023 to 263 in 2026, roughly 1.5x in three years.
- CVPR publishes the most Domain Adaptation work: 268 papers from 2023 to 2026, 31% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Multimodal LLMs: papers tagged with both rose from 7 in 2023 to 38 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Meta-Learning and Transfer, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Foundation Model Adaptation, is up 3.8x versus 1.5x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 36 | 35 | 16 | 87 | 174 |
| 2024 | 67 | 40 | 37 | 65 | 209 |
| 2025 | 81 | 45 | 48 | 46 | 220 |
| 2026 | 78 | 46 | 69 | 70 | 263 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026A Dual-Domain Vision Transformer with Spectral Positional Bias
- ICML 2026Bayesian Meta-Learning with Expert Feedback for Task-Shift Adaptation through Causal Embeddings
- ICLR 2026Bayesian Evidence-Driven Prototype Evolution for Federated Domain Adaptation
- CVPR 2026Anatomical Domain Shifts Test-time Heterogeneous Adaptation for 3D Human Pose
- NeurIPS 20253DPE-Gaze:Unlocking the Potential of 3D Facial Priors for Generalized Gaze Estimation
- ICML 2025A General Representation-Based Approach to Multi-Source Domain Adaptation
- ICLR 2025Adaptive Energy Alignment for Accelerating Test-Time Adaptation
- CVPR 2025A4A: Adapter for Adapter Transfer via All-for-All Mapping for Cross-Architecture Models
- NeurIPS 2024A Cross-Domain Benchmark for Active Learning
- ICML 2024Batch Singular Value Polarization and Weighted Semantic Augmentation for Universal Domain Adaptation
- ICLR 2024Adapting Large Language Models via Reading Comprehension
- CVPR 2024Day-Night Cross-domain Vehicle Re-identification
- NeurIPS 2023(Almost) Provable Error Bounds Under Distribution Shift via Disagreement Discrepancy
- ICML 2023In Search for a Generalizable Method for Source Free Domain Adaptation
- ICLR 2023Addressing Parameter Choice Issues in Unsupervised Domain Adaptation by Aggregation
- CVPR 2023A New Benchmark: On the Utility of Synthetic Data With Blender for Bare Supervised Learning and Downstream Domain Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2026A unified pairwise distribution matching framework for graph domain adaptation under structure shift
- ICML 2026Content-Style Identification via Differential Independence
- ICLR 2026Beyond In-Domain Detection: SpikeScore for Cross-Domain Hallucination Detection
- CVPR 2026Bridge Basis-Driven Causal Inference Marries VFMs for Domain Generalization
All Domain Adaptation papers
166 papers, page 1 of 4
- ICLR 2026Adapt Data to Model: Adaptive Transformation Optimization for Domain-shared Time Series Foundation Models
- ICLR 2026Adaptive Debiasing Tsallis Entropy for Test-Time Adaptation
- ICLR 2026Adaptive Domain Shift in Diffusion Models for Cross-Modality Image Translation
- ICLR 2026Adaptive Test-Time Training for Predicting Need for Invasive Mechanical Ventilation in Multi-Center Cohorts
- ICLR 2026Architecture-Agnostic Test-Time Adaptation via Backprop-Free Embedding Alignment
- ICLR 2026Bayesian Evidence-Driven Prototype Evolution for Federated Domain Adaptation
- ICLR 2026Beyond In-Domain Detection: SpikeScore for Cross-Domain Hallucination Detection
- ICLR 2026CGSA: Class-Guided Slot-Aware Adaptation for Source-Free Object Detections
- ICLR 2026CoMem: Compositional Concept-Graph Memory for Vision–Language Adaptation
- ICLR 2026Conformalized Hierarchical Calibration for Uncertainty-Aware Adaptive Hashing
- ICLR 2026Cross-Domain Policy Optimization via Bellman Consistency and Hybrid Critics
- ICLR 2026DADA: Dual Averaging with Distance Adaptation
- ICLR 2026Distributionally Robust Classification for Multi-source Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
- ICLR 2026Dual-Robust Cross-Domain Offline Reinforcement Learning Against Dynamics Shifts
- ICLR 2026Elastic Optimal Transport: Theory, Application, and Empirical Evaluation
- ICLR 2026Exploring Mode Connectivity in Krylov Subspace for Domain Generalization
- ICLR 2026FlexLoRA: Entropy-Guided Flexible Low-Rank Adaptation
- ICLR 2026GAPrune: Gradient-Alignment Pruning for Domain-Aware Embeddings
- ICLR 2026GOOD: Geometry-guided Out-of-Distribution Modeling for Open-set Test-time Adaptation in Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation
- ICLR 2026HEEGNet: Hyperbolic Embeddings for EEG
- ICLR 2026HSIC Bottleneck for Cross-Generator and Domain-Incremental Synthetic Image Detection
- ICLR 2026Latent Adaptation of Foundation Policies for Sim-to-Real Transfer
- ICLR 2026LDT: Layer-Decomposition Training Makes Networks More Generalizable
- ICLR 2026Learning Adaptive Distribution Alignment with Neural Characteristic Function for Graph Domain Adaptation
- ICLR 2026Learning Structure-Semantic Evolution Trajectories for Graph Domain Adaptation
- ICLR 2026LLaVA-FA: Learning Fourier Approximation for Compressing Large Multimodal Models
- ICLR 2026LoFT: Low-Rank Adaptation That Behaves Like Full Fine-Tuning
- ICLR 2026Merge before Forget: A Single LoRA Continual Learning via Continual Merging
- ICLR 2026Minimax-Optimal Aggregation for Density Ratio Estimation
- ICLR 2026MOBODY: Model-Based Off-Dynamics Offline Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2026MoSA: Mosaic Shared Adaptation of Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026NEO — No-Optimization Test-Time Adaptation through Latent Re-Centering
- ICLR 2026PARD: Accelerating LLM Inference with Low‑Cost PARallel Draft Model Adaptation
- ICLR 2026PAS: Estimating the target accuracy before domain adaptation
- ICLR 2026Personalized Feature Translation for Expression Recognition: An Efficient Source-Free Domain Adaptation Method
- ICLR 2026Prior-free Tabular Test-time Adaptation
- ICLR 2026Reasoning-Driven Multimodal LLM for Domain Generalization
- ICLR 2026S2R-HDR: A Large-Scale Rendered Dataset for HDR Fusion
- ICLR 2026SAE as a Crystal Ball: Interpretable Features Predict Cross-domain Transferability of LLMs without Training
- ICLR 2026SAGA: Structural Aggregation Guided Alignment with Dynamic View and Neighborhood Order Selection for Multiview Graph Domain Adaptation
- ICLR 2026Test-Time Adaptation without Source Data for Out-of-Domain Bioactivity Prediction
- ICLR 2026TRAC: Tensor-Train based Across-layer Compression for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
- ICLR 2026TRIDENT: Cross-Domain Trajectory Spatio-Temporal Representation via Distance-Preserving Triplet Learning
- ICLR 2026Unlearning during Training: Domain-Specific Gradient Ascent for Domain Generalization
- ICLR 2026VeriTrail: Closed-Domain Hallucination Detection with Traceability
- ICLR 2026XIL: Cross-Expanding Incremental Learning
- ICLR 2025A new framework for evaluating model out-of-distribution generalisation for the biochemical domain
- ICLR 2025Adaptive Energy Alignment for Accelerating Test-Time Adaptation
- ICLR 2025Auto-GDA: Automatic Domain Adaptation for Efficient Grounding Verification in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
- ICLR 2025Binary Losses for Density Ratio Estimation
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FAQ
- How many Domain Adaptation papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 866 in total: 174 in 2023, 209 in 2024, 220 in 2025, 263 in 2026.
- How many Domain Adaptation papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 78 Domain Adaptation papers, versus 81 the year before.
- How many Domain Adaptation papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 46 Domain Adaptation papers, versus 45 the year before.
- How many Domain Adaptation papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 69 Domain Adaptation papers, versus 48 the year before.
- How many Domain Adaptation papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 70 Domain Adaptation papers, versus 46 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Domain Adaptation papers?
- CVPR, with 268 papers from 2023 to 2026.