Learning to Rank papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Learning to Rank fell from 142 papers in 2023 to 55 in 2026, so interest is cooling.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Learning to Rank work: 154 papers from 2023 to 2026, 60% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Low-Rank Adaptation: papers tagged with both rose from 39 in 2023 to 43 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Information Retrieval, it ranks #4 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Cross-Encoder Reranking, is up 3.0x versus 0.4x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026Don't Pay Attention, PLANT It: Pretraining Attention via Learning-to-Rank
• ICML 2026From Per-Image Low-Rank to Encoding Mismatch: Rethinking Feature Distillation in Vision Transformers
• ICLR 2026Designing Rules to Pick a Rule: Aggregation by Consistency
• CVPR 2026LRDUN A Low-Rank Deep Unfolding Network for Efficient Spectral Compressive
• NeurIPS 2025From Condensation to Rank Collapse: A Two-Stage Analysis of Transformer Training Dynamics
• ICML 2025Guarantees of a Preconditioned Subgradient Algorithm for Overparameterized Asymmetric Low-rank Matrix Recovery
• ICLR 2025Palu: KV-Cache Compression with Low-Rank Projection
• CVPR 2025Breaking the Low-Rank Dilemma of Linear Attention
• NeurIPS 2024Efficient LLM Scheduling by Learning to Rank
• ICML 2024Identifiability Matters: Revealing the Hidden Recoverable Condition in Unbiased Learning to Rank
• ICLR 2024LQ-LoRA: Low-rank plus Quantized Matrix Decomposition for Efficient Language Model Finetuning
• CVPR 2024Tuning Stable Rank Shrinkage: Aiming at the Overlooked Structural Risk in Fine-tuning
• NeurIPS 2023A Finite-Sample Analysis of Payoff-Based Independent Learning in Zero-Sum Stochastic Games
• ICML 2023Chameleon: Adapting to Peer Images for Planting Durable Backdoors in Federated Learning
• ICLR 2023Implicit Bias of Large Depth Networks: a Notion of Rank for Nonlinear Functions
• CVPR 20231% VS 100%: Parameter-Efficient Low Rank Adapter for Dense Predictions
• NeurIPS 2026Matrix Recovery Via Symmetric Rank-one Measurements With Random Unit-modulus Vectors
• ICML 2026The Generalization Spectrum: A Chromatographic Approach to Evaluating Learning Algorithms
• ICLR 2026Revisiting Weight Regularization for Low-Rank Continual Learning
• CVPR 2026Low-Rank Residual Diffusion Models

All Learning to Rank papers

23 papers, page 1 of 1

1. ICLR 2026Consistent Low-Rank Approximation
2. ICLR 2026Designing Rules to Pick a Rule: Aggregation by Consistency
3. ICLR 2026GlowQ: Group-Shared LOw-Rank Approximation for Quantized LLMs
4. ICLR 2026Revisiting Weight Regularization for Low-Rank Continual Learning
5. ICLR 2026Sequences of Logits Reveal the Low Rank Structure of Language Models
6. ICLR 2026SERQ: Saliency-Aware Low-Rank Error Reconstruction for LLM Quantization
7. ICLR 2026Taming Momentum: Rethinking Optimizer States Through Low-Rank Approximation
8. ICLR 2026The Power of Small Initialization in Noisy Low-Tubal-Rank Tensor Recovery
9. ICLR 2026Why High-rank Neural Networks Generalize?: An Algebraic Framework with RKHSs
10. ICLR 2025Efficient Learning with Sine-Activated Low-Rank Matrices
11. ICLR 2025Ensembles of Low-Rank Expert Adapters
12. ICLR 2025Lambda-Skip Connections: the architectural component that prevents Rank Collapse
13. ICLR 2025LoLCATs: On Low-Rank Linearizing of Large Language Models
14. ICLR 2025LoRA-Pro: Are Low-Rank Adapters Properly Optimized?
15. ICLR 2025Palu: KV-Cache Compression with Low-Rank Projection
16. ICLR 2025SEPARATE: A Simple Low-rank Projection for Gradient Compression in Modern Large-scale Model Training Process
17. ICLR 2025SLoPe: Double-Pruned Sparse Plus Lazy Low-Rank Adapter Pretraining of LLMs
18. ICLR 2024LQ-LoRA: Low-rank plus Quantized Matrix Decomposition for Efficient Language Model Finetuning
19. ICLR 2024Statistically Optimal $K$-means Clustering via Nonnegative Low-rank Semidefinite Programming
20. ICLR 2023Implicit Bias of Large Depth Networks: a Notion of Rank for Nonlinear Functions
21. ICLR 2023Learning the Positions in CountSketch
22. ICLR 2023Spatio-temporal point processes with deep non-stationary kernels
23. ICLR 2023Tensor-Based Sketching Method for the Low-Rank Approximation of Data Streams.

FAQ

How many Learning to Rank papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

257 in total: 142 in 2023, 28 in 2024, 32 in 2025, 55 in 2026.

How many Learning to Rank papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 18 Learning to Rank papers, versus 13 the year before.

How many Learning to Rank papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 9 Learning to Rank papers, versus 8 the year before.

How many Learning to Rank papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 26 Learning to Rank papers, versus 10 the year before.

How many Learning to Rank papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 2 Learning to Rank papers, versus 1 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Learning to Rank papers?

NeurIPS, with 154 papers from 2023 to 2026.