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
2,272 papers, page 26 of 46
- NeurIPS 2025AuroRA: Breaking Low-Rank Bottleneck of LoRA with Nonlinear Mapping
- NeurIPS 2025Backpropagation-Free Test-Time Adaptation via Probabilistic Gaussian Alignment
- NeurIPS 2025Bayes optimal learning of attention-indexed models
- NeurIPS 2025Beyond Higher Rank: Token-wise Input-Output Projections for Efficient Low-Rank Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2025Bilevel ZOFO: Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning and Meta-Training
- NeurIPS 2025Block-Diagonal LoRA for Eliminating Communication Overhead in Tensor Parallel LoRA Serving
- NeurIPS 2025Breaking the Frozen Subspace: Importance Sampling for Low-Rank Optimization in LLM Pretraining
- NeurIPS 2025C-LoRA: Contextual Low-Rank Adaptation for Uncertainty Estimation in Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Cancer Survival Analysis via Zero-shot Tumor Microenvironment Segmentation on Low-resolution Whole Slide Pathology Images
- NeurIPS 2025COALA: Numerically Stable and Efficient Framework for Context-Aware Low-Rank Approximation
- NeurIPS 2025CodeMerge: Codebook-Guided Model Merging for Robust Test-Time Adaptation in Autonomous Driving
- NeurIPS 2025CoIDO: Efficient Data Selection for Visual Instruction Tuning via Coupled Importance-Diversity Optimization
- NeurIPS 2025Composing Linear Layers from Irreducibles
- NeurIPS 2025Compress to Impress: Efficient LLM Adaptation Using a Single Gradient Step on 100 Samples
- NeurIPS 2025Continual Knowledge Adaptation for Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Controlled Visual Hallucination via Thalamus-Driven Decoupling Network for Domain Adaptation of Black-Box Predictors
- NeurIPS 2025Correlated Low-Rank Adaptation for ConvNets
- NeurIPS 2025CrossSpectra: Exploiting Cross-Layer Smoothness for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
- NeurIPS 2025Curvature Tuning: Provable Training-free Model Steering From a Single Parameter
- NeurIPS 2025D2SA: Dual-Stage Distribution and Slice Adaptation for Efficient Test-Time Adaptation in MRI Reconstruction
- NeurIPS 2025Data Efficient Adaptation in Large Language Models via Continuous Low-Rank Fine-Tuning
- NeurIPS 2025DEFT: Decompositional Efficient Fine-Tuning for Text-to-Image Models
- NeurIPS 2025DeltaProduct: Improving State-Tracking in Linear RNNs via Householder Products
- NeurIPS 2025Demystifying Language Model Forgetting with Low-rank Example Associations
- NeurIPS 2025Dependency Parsing is More Parameter-Efficient with Normalization
- NeurIPS 2025Differentially Private Federated Low Rank Adaptation Beyond Fixed-Matrix
- NeurIPS 2025Diffusion-Driven Two-Stage Active Learning for Low-Budget Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2025Disentangling misreporting from genuine adaptation in strategic settings: a causal approach
- NeurIPS 2025Distribution-Aligned Decoding for Efficient LLM Task Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2025Distribution-Aware Tensor Decomposition for Compression of Convolutional Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2025DP-LLM: Runtime Model Adaptation with Dynamic Layer-wise Precision Assignment
- NeurIPS 2025Dr. RAW: Towards General High-Level Vision from RAW with Efficient Task Conditioning
- NeurIPS 2025Drag-and-Drop LLMs: Zero-Shot Prompt-to-Weights
- NeurIPS 2025Dual Prototype-Enhanced Contrastive Framework for Class-Imbalanced Graph Domain Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2025DUO: No Compromise to Accuracy Degradation
- NeurIPS 2025Dynamical Low-Rank Compression of Neural Networks with Robustness under Adversarial Attacks
- NeurIPS 2025ECO: Evolving Core Knowledge for Efficient Transfer
- NeurIPS 2025Efficient $k$-Sparse Band–Limited Interpolation with Improved Approximation Ratio
- NeurIPS 2025Efficient Data Selection at Scale via Influence Distillation
- NeurIPS 2025Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Neural Block Linearization
- NeurIPS 2025Efficient Last-Iterate Convergence in Solving Extensive-Form Games
- NeurIPS 2025Efficient Low Rank Attention for Long-Context Inference in Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Efficient Parametric SVD of Koopman Operator for Stochastic Dynamical Systems
- NeurIPS 2025Efficient Safe Meta-Reinforcement Learning: Provable Near-Optimality and Anytime Safety
- NeurIPS 2025Efficient Training of Minimal and Maximal Low-Rank Recurrent Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2025EMLoC: Emulator-based Memory-efficient Fine-tuning with LoRA Correction
- NeurIPS 2025Enhanced Self-Distillation Framework for Efficient Spiking Neural Network Training
- NeurIPS 2025Enhancing Optimizer Stability: Momentum Adaptation of The NGN Step-size
- NeurIPS 2025Enhancing Visual Prompting through Expanded Transformation Space and Overfitting Mitigation
- NeurIPS 2025F-Adapter: Frequency-Adaptive Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning in Scientific Machine Learning
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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.