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
781 papers, page 4 of 16
- NeurIPS 2026LSVD: Loss-Aware Low-Rank Approximation for Efficient Low-Precision Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026Magnitude-preserving Layers Enable Efficient GANs
- NeurIPS 2026Mamba Can Learn Low-Dimensional Targets In-Context via Test-Time Feature Learning
- NeurIPS 2026MaPP: A Unified Marginalized Posterior-Predictive Framework for Data-Efficient RLVR
- NeurIPS 2026MaRK: Markov-adapted Recurrent Kernels for Dynamic Operator Conditioning in State Space Models
- NeurIPS 2026MARS: Harmonizing Multimodal Convergence via Adaptive Rank Search
- NeurIPS 2026Match the Geometry, Skip the Surrogate: Extreme Low-Budget Optimization in High Dimensions
- NeurIPS 2026Matrix Recovery Via Symmetric Rank-one Measurements With Random Unit-modulus Vectors
- NeurIPS 2026Matrix-Free Stochastic Training of Low-Rank Spectral Graph Learning via Randomized Adaptive Spectral Estimation
- NeurIPS 2026Metric Depth Estimation from Arbitrarily Degraded Low-Resolution Depth Prompts
- NeurIPS 2026MIRA: Mutual Information guided calibration for Reliable Test-Time Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2026Modulating Merging Strengths via Joint Loss Estimation for LoRA-based Continual Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Morpho-Temporal Decoupling: How Primate Neurons Expand Dendrites Without Losing Speed
- NeurIPS 2026NoTA: Normalized Tensor Adaptation for Parameter-Efficient Continual Learning
- NeurIPS 2026NoTVLA: Semantics-Preserving Robot Adaptation via Narrative Action Interfaces
- NeurIPS 2026NP-LoRA: Null Space Projection for Subject-Style LoRA Fusion
- NeurIPS 2026On JEPA Isotropy
- NeurIPS 2026On the Construction and Implications of Low-Loss Valleys in LoRA-based Bayesian Inference
- NeurIPS 2026On the Geometry and Latent-Space Composition of Hypernetwork-Generated LoRAs
- NeurIPS 2026On the Limits of Latent Reuse in Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2026One Algorithm, Two Goals: Dual Scoring for Parameter and Data Selection in LLM Fine-Tuning
- NeurIPS 2026One Scan is Enough: Demonstration-Free Adaptation for Language-Guided Navigation
- NeurIPS 2026OrbitLoRA: Learning Rotation-Aware Low-Data Adaptation of Vision Foundation Models
- NeurIPS 2026Overcoming Rank Collapse in Feedback Alignment
- NeurIPS 2026Pandora's AI Model Routing Box: Efficient Allocation with Costly Value Estimation
- NeurIPS 2026Parameter symmetries determine representational geometry in overparameterized nonlinear networks
- NeurIPS 2026Path Dependence under Adaptive AI Delegation
- NeurIPS 2026Pattern-Based Matrix Analysis Under Permutations
- NeurIPS 2026Permute-then-Adapt: Weak-to-Strong Contrastive Image--Text Adaptation
- 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
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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.