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 3 of 13
- CVPR 2025Universal Domain Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation
- CVPR 2025URWKV: Unified RWKV Model with Multi-state Perspective for Low-light Image Restoration
- CVPR 2025VladVA: Discriminative Fine-tuning of LVLMs
- ICLR 2025$InterLCM$: Low-Quality Images as Intermediate States of Latent Consistency Models for Effective Blind Face Restoration
- ICLR 2025A Differentiable Rank-Based Objective for Better Feature Learning
- ICLR 2025A Quantum Circuit-Based Compression Perspective for Parameter-Efficient Learning
- ICLR 2025Achieving Dimension-Free Communication in Federated Learning via Zeroth-Order Optimization
- ICLR 2025Adaptive Rank Allocation: Speeding Up Modern Transformers with RaNA Adapters
- ICLR 2025AdaRankGrad: Adaptive Gradient Rank and Moments for Memory-Efficient LLMs Training and Fine-Tuning
- ICLR 2025Addax: Utilizing Zeroth-Order Gradients to Improve Memory Efficiency and Performance of SGD for Fine-Tuning Language Models
- ICLR 2025ADePT: Adaptive Decomposed Prompt Tuning for Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuning
- ICLR 2025An Efficient Framework for Crediting Data Contributors of Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Auto-GDA: Automatic Domain Adaptation for Efficient Grounding Verification in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
- ICLR 2025Binary Losses for Density Ratio Estimation
- ICLR 2025BinaryDM: Accurate Weight Binarization for Efficient Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Black Sheep in the Herd: Playing with Spuriously Correlated Attributes for Vision-Language Recognition
- ICLR 2025Block-Attention for Efficient Prefilling
- ICLR 2025Cached Multi-Lora Composition for Multi-Concept Image Generation
- ICLR 2025Can LLMs Really Learn to Translate a Low-Resource Language from One Grammar Book?
- ICLR 2025CatVTON: Concatenation Is All You Need for Virtual Try-On with Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025CBQ: Cross-Block Quantization for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025Closed-Form Merging of Parameter-Efficient Modules for Federated Continual Learning
- ICLR 2025COAT: Compressing Optimizer states and Activations for Memory-Efficient FP8 Training
- ICLR 2025ComLoRA: A Competitive Learning Approach for Enhancing LoRA
- ICLR 2025Computational Limits of Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) Fine-Tuning for Transformer Models
- ICLR 2025Continual Slow-and-Fast Adaptation of Latent Neural Dynamics (CoSFan): Meta-Learning What-How & When to Adapt
- ICLR 2025Continuous Exposure Learning for Low-light Image Enhancement using Neural ODEs
- ICLR 2025CtrLoRA: An Extensible and Efficient Framework for Controllable Image Generation
- ICLR 2025DARE the Extreme: Revisiting Delta-Parameter Pruning For Fine-Tuned Models
- ICLR 2025DaWin: Training-free Dynamic Weight Interpolation for Robust Adaptation
- ICLR 2025dEBORA: Efficient Bilevel Optimization-based low-Rank Adaptation
- ICLR 2025Decoupling Angles and Strength in Low-rank Adaptation
- ICLR 2025DELIFT: Data Efficient Language model Instruction Fine-Tuning
- ICLR 2025Denoising as Adaptation: Noise-Space Domain Adaptation for Image Restoration
- ICLR 2025Dobi-SVD: Differentiable SVD for LLM Compression and Some New Perspectives
- ICLR 2025Does SGD really happen in tiny subspaces?
- ICLR 2025Dynamic Low-Rank Sparse Adaptation for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025Dynamic Mixture of Experts: An Auto-Tuning Approach for Efficient Transformer Models
- ICLR 2025DynaPrompt: Dynamic Test-Time Prompt Tuning
- ICLR 2025Efficient Alternating Minimization with Applications to Weighted Low Rank Approximation
- ICLR 2025Efficient and Context-Aware Label Propagation for Zero-/Few-Shot Training-Free Adaptation of Vision-Language Model
- ICLR 2025Efficient Learning with Sine-Activated Low-Rank Matrices
- ICLR 2025Efficient Low-Bit Quantization with Adaptive Scales for Multi-Task Co-Training
- ICLR 2025Efficient Model Editing with Task-Localized Sparse Fine-tuning
- ICLR 2025Efficient Online Reinforcement Learning Fine-Tuning Need Not Retain Offline Data
- ICLR 2025Efficient Source-Free Time-Series Adaptation via Parameter Subspace Disentanglement
- ICLR 2025Enhancing Federated Domain Adaptation with Multi-Domain Prototype-Based Federated Fine-Tuning
- ICLR 2025Enhancing Zeroth-order Fine-tuning for Language Models with Low-rank Structures
- ICLR 2025Ensembles of Low-Rank Expert Adapters
- ICLR 2025Estimating the Probabilities of Rare Outputs in Language 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.