Low-Rank Adaptation papers, 2023–2026
LoRA and parameter-efficient tuning
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 2,273 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Low-Rank Adaptation went from 282 papers in 2023 to 841 in 2026, roughly 3.0x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Low-Rank Adaptation work: 781 papers from 2023 to 2026, 34% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Diffusion Models: papers tagged with both rose from 4 in 2023 to 61 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Optimization and Scaling, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Scaling Laws, is up 4.1x versus 3.0x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 78 | 76 | 65 | 63 | 282 |
| 2024 | 193 | 95 | 124 | 106 | 518 |
| 2025 | 241 | 152 | 136 | 103 | 632 |
| 2026 | 269 | 184 | 240 | 148 | 841 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026$\delta$-Mem: : Efficient Online Memory For Large Language Models
- ICML 2026A3: an Analytical Low-Rank Approximation Framework for Attention
- ICLR 2026A Guardrail for Safety Preservation: When Safety-Sensitive Subspace Meets Harmful-Resistant Null-Space
- CVPR 20262-Shots in the Dark Low-Light Denoising with Minimal Data Acquisition
- NeurIPS 2025A geometric framework for momentum-based optimizers for low-rank training
- ICML 2025Beyond Low-rank Decomposition: A Shortcut Approach for Efficient On-Device Learning
- ICLR 2025A Quantum Circuit-Based Compression Perspective for Parameter-Efficient Learning
- CVPR 2025AdaDARE-gamma: Balancing Stability and Plasticity in Multi-modal LLMs through Efficient Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2024Bridging The Gap between Low-rank and Orthogonal Adaptation via Householder Reflection Adaptation
- ICML 2024A Tensor Decomposition Perspective on Second-order RNNs
- ICLR 2024A Hard-to-Beat Baseline for Training-free CLIP-based Adaptation
- CVPR 2024DePT: Decoupled Prompt Tuning
- NeurIPS 2023A Theoretical Analysis of the Test Error of Finite-Rank Kernel Ridge Regression
- ICML 2023A Three-regime Model of Network Pruning
- ICLR 2023A General Rank Preserving Framework for Asymmetric Image Retrieval
- CVPR 20231% VS 100%: Parameter-Efficient Low Rank Adapter for Dense Predictions
- NeurIPS 2026A low-rank decoder bottleneck bounds reliability in foundation-model perturbation prediction
- ICML 2026Adaptive Utilization of Low-Rank Adaptation via Conditioned Gating
- ICLR 2026ABBA-Adapters: Efficient and Expressive Fine-Tuning of Foundation Models
- CVPR 2026Basis-Oriented Low-rank Transfer for Few-Shot and Test-Time Adaptation
All Low-Rank Adaptation papers
632 papers, page 13 of 13
- NeurIPS 2025SNAP: Low-Latency Test-Time Adaptation with Sparse Updates
- NeurIPS 2025Sparse MeZO: Less Parameters for Better Performance in Zeroth-Order LLM Fine-Tuning
- NeurIPS 2025Spectral Perturbation Bounds for Low-Rank Approximation with Applications to Privacy
- NeurIPS 2025Spike-RetinexFormer: Rethinking Low-light Image Enhancement with Spiking Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2025SplashNet: Split‑and‑Share Encoders for Accurate and Efficient Typing with Surface Electromyography
- NeurIPS 2025STAR: Efficient Preference-based Reinforcement Learning via Dual Regularization
- NeurIPS 2025StelLA: Subspace Learning in Low-rank Adaptation using Stiefel Manifold
- NeurIPS 2025SubTrack++ : Gradient Subspace Tracking for Scalable LLM Training
- NeurIPS 2025SUMO: Subspace-Aware Moment-Orthogonalization for Accelerating Memory-Efficient LLM Training
- NeurIPS 2025Tensor Product Attention Is All You Need
- NeurIPS 2025Test-Time Adaptation by Causal Trimming
- NeurIPS 2025The Best Instruction-Tuning Data are Those That Fit
- NeurIPS 2025The First Few Tokens Are All You Need: An Efficient and Effective Unsupervised Prefix Fine-Tuning Method for Reasoning Models
- NeurIPS 2025The Nuclear Route: Sharp Asymptotics of ERM in Overparameterized Quadratic Networks
- NeurIPS 2025The Persistence of Neural Collapse Despite Low-Rank Bias
- NeurIPS 2025The Primacy of Magnitude in Low-Rank Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2025Time-Masked Transformers with Lightweight Test-Time Adaptation for Neural Speech Decoding
- NeurIPS 2025Towards Robust Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Federated Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Towards the Resistance of Neural Network Fingerprinting to Fine-tuning
- NeurIPS 2025Training-Free Bayesianization for Low-Rank Adapters of Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025TransMLA: Migrating GQA Models to MLA with Full DeepSeek Compatibility and Speedup
- NeurIPS 2025TRUST: Test-Time Refinement using Uncertainty-Guided SSM Traverses
- NeurIPS 2025Turning the Tables: Enabling Backward Transfer via Causal-Aware LoRA in Continual Learning
- NeurIPS 2025UltraLED: Learning to See Everything in Ultra-High Dynamic Range Scenes
- NeurIPS 2025Understanding Prompt Tuning and In-Context Learning via Meta-Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Uni-LoRA: One Vector is All You Need
- NeurIPS 2025VESSA: Video-based objEct-centric Self-Supervised Adaptation for Visual Foundation Models
- NeurIPS 2025Vicinity-Guided Discriminative Latent Diffusion for Privacy-Preserving Domain Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2025VIPAMIN: Visual Prompt Initialization via Embedding Selection and Subspace Expansion
- NeurIPS 2025World Models as Reference Trajectories for Rapid Motor Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2025You Only Communicate Once: One-shot Federated Low-Rank Adaptation of MLLM
- NeurIPS 2025Zebra-Llama: Towards Extremely Efficient Hybrid Models
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FAQ
- How many Low-Rank Adaptation papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 2,273 in total: 282 in 2023, 518 in 2024, 632 in 2025, 841 in 2026.
- How many Low-Rank Adaptation papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 269 Low-Rank Adaptation papers, versus 241 the year before.
- How many Low-Rank Adaptation papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 184 Low-Rank Adaptation papers, versus 152 the year before.
- How many Low-Rank Adaptation papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 240 Low-Rank Adaptation papers, versus 136 the year before.
- How many Low-Rank Adaptation papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 148 Low-Rank Adaptation papers, versus 103 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Low-Rank Adaptation papers?
- NeurIPS, with 781 papers from 2023 to 2026.