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
69 papers, page 1 of 2
- ICML 2026AvAtar: Learning to Align via Active Optimal Transport
- ICML 2026Bayesian Meta-Learning with Expert Feedback for Task-Shift Adaptation through Causal Embeddings
- ICML 2026BioFormer: Rethinking Cross-Subject Generalization via Spectral Structural Alignment in Biomedical Time-Series
- ICML 2026Breaking the Scale Barrier: One-Shot Knowledge Transfer via Frequency Transform
- ICML 2026CELL: A Causal Perspective for Fairness-aware Graph Adaptation
- ICML 2026COBRA: Contribution-Based Bayesian Rank Allocation for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
- ICML 2026Content-Style Identification via Differential Independence
- ICML 2026DADP: Domain Adaptive Diffusion Policy
- ICML 2026Diffract: Spectral View of LLM Domain Adaptation
- ICML 2026Discretized Density-Guided Source-Free Domain Adaptation for Regression
- ICML 2026Domain Adaptation with Adaptive $f$-Divergence: Tighter Variational Representation and Generalization Bounds
- ICML 2026Domain Adaptive Object Detection via Dynamic Causal Refinement
- ICML 2026Domain Transfer Becomes Identifiable via a Single Alignment
- ICML 2026Domain-Shift-Aware Conformal Prediction for Large Language Models
- ICML 2026DomED: Redesigning Ensemble Distillation for Domain Generalization
- ICML 2026Energy-Structured Low-Rank Adaptation for Continual Learning
- ICML 2026Entangled No More: Multi-Domain Decoupling for Robust Dynamic Graph Neural Networks
- ICML 2026Estimating Continuous Treatment Effects with Two-Stage Kernel Ridge Regression
- ICML 2026Exploring Accurate and Transparent Domain Adaptation in Predictive Healthcare via Concept-Grounded Orthogonal Inference
- ICML 2026Federated Manifold Learning (FML): Tackling Domain Heterogeneity with Structural Knowledge Transfer
- ICML 2026FiSeR: Fine-Grained Source Representations for Cross-Domain AI Image Detection
- ICML 2026Geometric Rate–Distortion Invariance for Domain Generalization
- ICML 2026GP2F: Cross-Domain Graph Prompting with Adaptive Fusion of Pre-trained Graph Neural Networks
- ICML 2026GR-LoRA: Gradient-Recycling Low-Rank Adaptation for Class-Incremental Learning
- ICML 2026Hedging on the Frontier: Learning New Tasks with Few Samples
- ICML 2026HEDP: A Hybrid Energy-Distance Prompt-based Framework for Domain Incremental Learning
- ICML 2026Identifying dependent components from multi-domain linear mixtures
- ICML 2026Improving CLIP Adaptation by Breaking Tail Alignment for Source-Free Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning
- ICML 2026Incorporating Importance Weighting in Optimal Transport Based Domain Alignment
- ICML 2026Learning the ESG Geometry with Domain Aware Language Models
- ICML 2026LoRA-DA: Data-Aware Initialization for Low-Rank Adaptation via Asymptotic Analysis
- ICML 2026MDGMIX: Boundary-Aware Subgraph Mixing for Multi-Domain Graph Pre-Training
- ICML 2026Mining Useful General Data for Low-Resource Domain Adaptation
- ICML 2026Negatives-Dominant Contrastive Learning for Generalization in Imbalanced Domains
- ICML 2026OnePO: Direct One-stage Policy Optimization for SFT-free Domain Adaptation
- ICML 2026Parameter-Masked Decoupled Optimization for Cross-Domain Class-Incremental Learning
- ICML 2026Progressive Graph Structure Adjustment for Homophily Shift Adaptation
- ICML 2026Prototype-Based Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models
- ICML 2026Q-CLIP: Unleashing the Power of Vision-Language Models for Video Quality Assessment through Unified Cross-Modal Adaptation
- ICML 2026Quantifying Cross-Domain Knowledge Distillation in the Presence of Domain Shift
- ICML 2026Regularized Discriminative Alignment for Deep Representations under Label Shift
- ICML 2026Rethinking Feature Alignment in Generalist Graph Anomaly Detection: A Relational Fingerprint-based Approach
- ICML 2026Rethinking the Flow-based Gradual Domain Adaptation: A Semi-Dual Optimal Transport Perspective
- ICML 2026Return of Frustratingly Easy Unsupervised Video Domain Adaptation
- ICML 2026Robust Cross-Modal Retrieval via Generative Semantic Refinement and Exclusion-Guided Adaptation
- ICML 2026RoCA: Robust Cross-Domain End-to-End Autonomous Driving
- ICML 2026SaTeen: Learning Structural Alignment for Continual Test-Time Adaptation
- ICML 2026Scale-Aware Domain Harmonization for Domain Adaptation Person Search
- ICML 2026Scaling Unsupervised Multi-Source Federated Domain Adaptation through Group-Wise Discrepancy Minimization
- ICML 2026SCoA: Revisiting Domain Generalized Object Detection with Style-Conditioned Adaptation
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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.