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 16 of 17
- NeurIPS 2026PGSB: Pretrained-Guided Shared Basis for LoRA Model Merging
- NeurIPS 2026Pixels to Tokens: Token Space Efficient Active Learning for Low-Budget Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2026PM-LoRA: Scalable Continual Learning via Progressive Merging of Low Rank Adapters
- NeurIPS 2026PoEM: Predicting New RL Outcomes from Existing Policies
- NeurIPS 2026POISE: Instance-Specific Prompt Tuning under Latent Mixture Target Distributions
- NeurIPS 2026Prefix-Tuning for Arbitrary Output Sequences on Pretrained Transformers
- NeurIPS 2026PreFT: Prefill-only finetuning for inference efficiency
- NeurIPS 2026Primal-Dual Representation Learning for Low-Rank Constrained MDPs
- NeurIPS 2026PRISM: Principal Subspace Alignment for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
- NeurIPS 2026PRISM: Spectral Pruning and Reconstruction for Parameter-Efficient Model Merging of MLLMs
- NeurIPS 2026PROLA: Principal-Orthogonal Low-rank Adaptation for Predictive Spatiotemporal Weather Downscaling
- NeurIPS 2026Provably Efficient Representation Learning for Low-Rank CMDPs
- NeurIPS 2026ProxySearch: Decoupled Inference-Time Scaling for Diffusion Models via Asymmetric Noise-Rank Transfer
- NeurIPS 2026Prysma: Efficient Modality Adaptation for SLO-aware LLM-based Video Question Answering
- NeurIPS 2026Quantifying Concentration Phenomena of Mean-Field Transformers in the Low-Temperature Regime
- NeurIPS 2026Rank Is Not Capacity: Spectral Occupancy for Latent Graph Models
- NeurIPS 2026Rank-Constrained Adaptation for Reliable Real-World Performance
- NeurIPS 2026RankVQ: Low-Rank Parameterized Commutative Vector Quantization for KV Cache Compression
- NeurIPS 2026RayTun3R: Online Camera Adaptation in 3D Foundation Models
- NeurIPS 2026RECIPE: Learning to Rank Complete Precursor Sets for Inorganic Retrosynthesis
- NeurIPS 2026Reconfiguring Procedural Knowledge for Compositional Robot Skill Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2026Regret-Optimal Wasserstein-Robust Regression
- NeurIPS 2026Relative Energy Barriers for Copyright-Aware Language Model Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2026Reset Dependence Is Embodied: Training Protocol Changes Which Morphologies Appear Optimal
- NeurIPS 2026Resource-Aware Parameter-Efficient Model Adaptation for Onboard High-Dimensional Data
- NeurIPS 2026Rest-Tuning: Data-Efficient Adaptation of EEG Foundation Models to Individuals via Resting-State Signals
- NeurIPS 2026Rethinking LLM Fine-Tuning via Weight Space Reparameterization: Preserving Safety during Downstream Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2026Rich Insights from Cheap Signals: Efficient Evaluations via Tensor Factorization
- NeurIPS 2026RIZZ: Routing Interactions to Near Zero-Interference Zones for Continual Adaptation of Black-Box Agents
- NeurIPS 2026Robust Noisy Inductive Matrix Completion with Local Linear Convergence
- NeurIPS 2026Route-Consistent Adaptation for Stable Quantization of Mixture-of-Experts Models with Theoretical Guarantees
- NeurIPS 2026RubiConv - Efficient Boundary-Respecting Convolutions
- NeurIPS 2026Safeguarding Mutual Correction in Source-Free Domain Adaptation via Cut Statistics
- NeurIPS 2026SaMA: Morpho Adaptation via Asymmetric Expansion of Kronecker Product
- NeurIPS 2026SARA: Step-Adaptive Rank Adjustment for Diffusion Inference Acceleration
- NeurIPS 2026Scalable Variational Bayesian Fine-Tuning of LLMs via Orthogonalized Low-Rank Adapters
- NeurIPS 2026SD-LoRA: Training-Time Structural Distillation into LoRA for Few-Shot Vision-Language Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2026SDS-LoRA: Overcoming Anisotropic Gradient Scaling in Low-Rank Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2026Seeking the Unfamiliar but Memorable: Conceptual Creativity as Meta-Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Self-Tuning Graph Filters via State-Dependent Operator Composition
- NeurIPS 2026Semantic-Statistical Prior Banks for Federated Low-Shot Learning under Non-IID Clients
- NeurIPS 2026Sliced Wasserstein Meets Quantum Optics: Provable Wavefunctions Tomography with Scarce Noisy Measurements
- NeurIPS 2026SpecBlock: Block-Iterative Speculative Decoding with Dynamic Tree Drafting
- NeurIPS 2026SpecDrop: Parameter-Free Category-Conditioned Routing for Modular Specialization
- NeurIPS 2026Spectral Alignment in Forward–Backward Representations via Temporal Abstraction
- NeurIPS 2026Spectral Energy Allocation Enables Source-Free Domain Adaptation in Time Series Forecasting
- NeurIPS 2026Spectral Rank Calibration for Continual LoRA Merging in Multimodal Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026Spectral Reversal: Counteracting Singular Value Bias for Graph Prompting
- NeurIPS 2026SPHQuant: Efficient extreme low bit weight quantization for Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026Spike-SFT: Selective Parameter Enhancement and Fusion for Efficient Spiking Neural Networks
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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.