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 33 of 46
- ICLR 2024DataInf: Efficiently Estimating Data Influence in LoRA-tuned LLMs and Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2024Debiasing Algorithm through Model Adaptation
- ICLR 2024DePT: Decomposed Prompt Tuning for Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuning
- ICLR 2024Differentiable Learning of Generalized Structured Matrices for Efficient Deep Neural Networks
- ICLR 2024Dissecting learning and forgetting in language model finetuning
- ICLR 2024DQ-LoRe: Dual Queries with Low Rank Approximation Re-ranking for In-Context Learning
- ICLR 2024Dynamic Layer Tying for Parameter-Efficient Transformers
- ICLR 2024Early Neuron Alignment in Two-layer ReLU Networks with Small Initialization
- ICLR 2024EfficientDM: Efficient Quantization-Aware Fine-Tuning of Low-Bit Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2024Enhancing Neural Training via a Correlated Dynamics Model
- ICLR 2024Exploring the Common Appearance-Boundary Adaptation for Nighttime Optical Flow
- ICLR 2024FairTune: Optimizing Parameter Efficient Fine Tuning for Fairness in Medical Image Analysis
- ICLR 2024Federated Q-Learning: Linear Regret Speedup with Low Communication Cost
- ICLR 2024First-order ANIL provably learns representations despite overparametrisation
- ICLR 2024Gradual Domain Adaptation via Gradient Flow
- ICLR 2024Implicit bias of SGD in $L_2$-regularized linear DNNs: One-way jumps from high to low rank
- ICLR 2024Implicit Neural Representation Inference for Low-Dimensional Bayesian Deep Learning
- ICLR 2024Improving LoRA in Privacy-preserving Federated Learning
- ICLR 2024Improving Non-Transferable Representation Learning by Harnessing Content and Style
- ICLR 2024Increasing Model Capacity for Free: A Simple Strategy for Parameter Efficient Fine-tuning
- ICLR 2024Koopman-based generalization bound: New aspect for full-rank weights
- ICLR 2024Learning Conditional Invariances through Non-Commutativity
- ICLR 2024Learning Hierarchical Polynomials with Three-Layer Neural Networks
- ICLR 2024Learning Semantic Proxies from Visual Prompts for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning in Deep Metric Learning
- ICLR 2024Leveraging Low-Rank and Sparse Recurrent Connectivity for Robust Closed-Loop Control
- ICLR 2024LLaMA-Adapter: Efficient Fine-tuning of Large Language Models with Zero-initialized Attention
- ICLR 2024LMUFormer: Low Complexity Yet Powerful Spiking Model With Legendre Memory Units
- ICLR 2024LoftQ: LoRA-Fine-Tuning-aware Quantization for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024LongLoRA: Efficient Fine-tuning of Long-Context Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024Low Rank Matrix Completion via Robust Alternating Minimization in Nearly Linear Time
- ICLR 2024LQ-LoRA: Low-rank plus Quantized Matrix Decomposition for Efficient Language Model Finetuning
- ICLR 2024Memory-Assisted Sub-Prototype Mining for Universal Domain Adaptation
- ICLR 2024Mixture of LoRA Experts
- ICLR 2024Navigating Text-To-Image Customization: From LyCORIS Fine-Tuning to Model Evaluation
- ICLR 2024Nemesis: Normalizing the Soft-prompt Vectors of Vision-Language Models
- ICLR 2024NOLA: Compressing LoRA using Linear Combination of Random Basis
- ICLR 2024OctoPack: Instruction Tuning Code Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024Optimal Sketching for Residual Error Estimation for Matrix and Vector Norms
- ICLR 2024OVOR: OnePrompt with Virtual Outlier Regularization for Rehearsal-Free Class-Incremental Learning
- ICLR 2024PAC-FNO: Parallel-Structured All-Component Fourier Neural Operators for Recognizing Low-Quality Images
- ICLR 2024Parameter-Efficient Multi-Task Model Fusion with Partial Linearization
- ICLR 2024Parameter-Efficient Orthogonal Finetuning via Butterfly Factorization
- ICLR 2024Principled Federated Domain Adaptation: Gradient Projection and Auto-Weighting
- ICLR 2024Project and Probe: Sample-Efficient Adaptation by Interpolating Orthogonal Features
- ICLR 2024Provable Reward-Agnostic Preference-Based Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2024Provably Efficient CVaR RL in Low-rank MDPs
- ICLR 2024Provably Efficient UCB-type Algorithms For Learning Predictive State Representations
- ICLR 2024Pushing Mixture of Experts to the Limit: Extremely Parameter Efficient MoE for Instruction Tuning
- ICLR 2024QA-LoRA: Quantization-Aware Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024QLLM: Accurate and Efficient Low-Bitwidth Quantization for Large 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.