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
840 papers, page 14 of 17
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient Algorithms For Fully Dynamic Bipartite Matching In Metric Spaces
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient algorithms for linear regression with heteroskedastic errors
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient Collaborative LLM Fine-Tuning over Heterogeneous Mobile Devices via Many Backbones to One Side-Network Tuning
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient Diffusion Policy Fine Tuning with Latent Noise Representation Bridging
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient Fine-Tuning for Structured Sparsity Under Group Repartitioning
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient Learning of Truncated Boolean Product Distributions: Influence to the Rescue
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient LLM Adaptation with Forward-Only Passes
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient Pre-Training with Token Superposition
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient SAM 3 Adaptation for Multi-Class Semantic Segmentation via Dense Competitive Representations
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient Test-Time Adaptation For Robot Policies
- NeurIPS 2026Efficiently Aligning Draft Models via Parameter- and Data-Efficient Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2026Escaping Parameter Space: Tight Generalization Bounds via Representation Quality
- NeurIPS 2026ESSAM: A Novel Competitive Evolution Strategies Approach to Reinforcement Learning for Memory Efficient LLMs Fine-Tuning
- NeurIPS 2026EVA-0: Test-Time Model Evolution with Only Two Forward Passes per Sample
- NeurIPS 2026Exploring Lifelong Adaptation: In-Context Reinforcement Learning in Non-Stationary Environments
- NeurIPS 2026Extending 3D Reconstruction Models to Any Camera
- NeurIPS 2026FacePhys: State of the Heart Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Fast-Slow Evolutionary Occupancy Prediction via Controlled Dynamics
- NeurIPS 2026FAUST: Federated Asynchronous Update with Staggered Timescales for Low-Communication Foundation Model Training
- NeurIPS 2026FedIBS: Federated Vision-Language Adaptation via Intrinsic Bias Selection
- NeurIPS 2026FedLoVA: Value-Only Aggregation for Federated LoRA Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026FedReCall: Recalling Client-Specific Directions in Federated LoRA Fine-tuning
- NeurIPS 2026FELPS: Fair and Efficient Scheduling for Multi-LoRA Serving System
- NeurIPS 2026FiLoRA: Focus-and-Ignore LoRA for Controllable Feature Reliance
- NeurIPS 2026Filter Banks: from Low-Rank Representations to Deep Models for Efficient Time Series Forecasting
- NeurIPS 2026Flash-KMeans: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact K-Means
- NeurIPS 2026FLoRA-Chef: Making A Good LoRA Recipe in Federated Generalization
- NeurIPS 2026Follow the Mean: Reference-Guided Flow Matching
- NeurIPS 2026Frank-LoRA: Federated Rank-Aware LoRA for Fine-Tuning Large Models
- NeurIPS 2026From Experts to Sub-experts: Fine-grained Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for MoE LLMs
- NeurIPS 2026From Next-Token to Next-Block: A Principled Adaptation Path for Diffusion LLMs
- NeurIPS 2026From sequences to schemas: low-rank recurrent dynamics underlie abstract relational representations
- NeurIPS 2026From Weeks to Hours: Fast and Principled SFT Curation for LLM
- NeurIPS 2026Full Fine-Tuning Is Not the Problem: Why Adam Fails and SGD Succeeds in Few-Shot CLIP Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2026FuRA: Full-Rank Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning with Spectral Preconditioning
- NeurIPS 2026Generalizing the Geometry of Model Merging Through Fréchet Averages
- NeurIPS 2026Grokking or Glitching? How Low-Precision Drives Slingshot Loss Spikes
- NeurIPS 2026GSQ: Highly-Accurate Low-Precision Scalar Quantization for LLMs via Gumbel-Softmax Sampling
- NeurIPS 2026Hadamard Representation: Scaffolding Performance Across Model-free RL
- NeurIPS 2026HAPS: Hierarchical LLM Routing with Joint Architecture and Parameter Search
- NeurIPS 2026Heavy-Tailed Flow Matching via Random Clocks
- NeurIPS 2026HESTIA: A Hessian-Guided Differentiable Quantization-Aware Training Framework for Extremely Low-Bit LLMs
- NeurIPS 2026HiLoRA: Adaptive Hierarchical LoRA Routing for Training-Free Domain Generalization
- NeurIPS 2026Hint Tuning: Less Data Makes Better Reasoners
- NeurIPS 2026How Finite-Rank Bottleneck Shape the Low-Rank Adaptation Landscape
- NeurIPS 2026Hybrid-LoRA: Bridging Full Fine-Tuning and Low-Rank Adaptation for Post-Training
- NeurIPS 2026Hyperbolic Displacement-Constrained Adaptation for CLIP-Based Class-Incremental Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Improving Quantized Zeroth-Order Optimization through Reconstructed Low-Rank Structures
- NeurIPS 2026InduceKV: Fixed-Footprint Continual Adaptation of Multimodal LLMs via Inducing KV Memories
- NeurIPS 2026Kairos: Toward Adaptive and Parameter-Efficient Time Series Foundation 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.