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 4 of 13
- ICLR 2025Feast Your Eyes: Mixture-of-Resolution Adaptation for Multimodal Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025Federated Residual Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025Finally Rank-Breaking Conquers MNL Bandits: Optimal and Efficient Algorithms for MNL Assortment
- ICLR 2025Find A Winning Sign: Sign Is All We Need to Win the Lottery
- ICLR 2025Fine-tuning with Reserved Majority for Noise Reduction
- ICLR 2025Fitting Networks with a Cancellation Trick
- ICLR 2025Generative Adapter: Contextualizing Language Models in Parameters with A Single Forward Pass
- ICLR 2025GeoLoRA: Geometric integration for parameter efficient fine-tuning
- ICLR 2025GraphBridge: Towards Arbitrary Transfer Learning in GNNs
- ICLR 2025HeadMap: Locating and Enhancing Knowledge Circuits in LLMs
- ICLR 2025HiRA: Parameter-Efficient Hadamard High-Rank Adaptation for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025HMoRA: Making LLMs More Effective with Hierarchical Mixture of LoRA Experts
- ICLR 2025How Learnable Grids Recover Fine Detail in Low Dimensions: A Neural Tangent Kernel Analysis of Multigrid Parametric Encodings
- ICLR 2025How Low Can You Go? Searching for the Intrinsic Dimensionality of Complex Networks using Metric Node Embeddings
- ICLR 2025KaSA: Knowledge-Aware Singular-Value Adaptation of Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025Lambda-Skip Connections: the architectural component that prevents Rank Collapse
- ICLR 2025Large Convolutional Model Tuning via Filter Subspace
- ICLR 2025LDAdam: Adaptive Optimization from Low-Dimensional Gradient Statistics
- ICLR 2025Learning-Augmented Frequent Directions
- ICLR 2025LiFT: Learning to Fine-Tune via Bayesian Parameter Efficient Meta Fine-Tuning
- ICLR 2025LoCA: Location-Aware Cosine Adaptation for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
- ICLR 2025LoLCATs: On Low-Rank Linearizing of Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025Long-Context Linear System Identification
- ICLR 2025LoR-VP: Low-Rank Visual Prompting for Efficient Vision Model Adaptation
- ICLR 2025LoRA Done RITE: Robust Invariant Transformation Equilibration for LoRA Optimization
- ICLR 2025LoRA-Pro: Are Low-Rank Adapters Properly Optimized?
- ICLR 2025LoRA-X: Bridging Foundation Models with Training-Free Cross-Model Adaptation
- ICLR 2025LoRA3D: Low-Rank Self-Calibration of 3D Geometric Foundation models
- ICLR 2025LoRanPAC: Low-rank Random Features and Pre-trained Models for Bridging Theory and Practice in Continual Learning
- ICLR 2025Maintaining Structural Integrity in Parameter Spaces for Parameter Efficient Fine-tuning
- ICLR 2025MambaPEFT: Exploring Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Mamba
- ICLR 2025Matcha: Mitigating Graph Structure Shifts with Test-Time Adaptation
- ICLR 2025MatryoshkaKV: Adaptive KV Compression via Trainable Orthogonal Projection
- ICLR 2025MCNC: Manifold-Constrained Reparameterization for Neural Compression
- ICLR 2025Merging LoRAs like Playing LEGO: Pushing the Modularity of LoRA to Extremes Through Rank-Wise Clustering
- ICLR 2025MeteoRA: Multiple-tasks Embedded LoRA for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025MoLEx: Mixture of Layer Experts for Fine-tuning with Sparse Upcycling
- ICLR 2025MoS: Unleashing Parameter Efficiency of Low-Rank Adaptation with Mixture of Shards
- ICLR 2025MotionAura: Generating High-Quality and Motion Consistent Videos using Discrete Diffusion
- ICLR 2025MTSAM: Multi-Task Fine-Tuning for Segment Anything Model
- ICLR 2025NEAR: A Training-Free Pre-Estimator of Machine Learning Model Performance
- ICLR 2025Noisy Test-Time Adaptation in Vision-Language Models
- ICLR 2025OATS: Outlier-Aware Pruning Through Sparse and Low Rank Decomposition
- ICLR 2025On Large Language Model Continual Unlearning
- ICLR 2025On the Adversarial Risk of Test Time Adaptation: An Investigation into Realistic Test-Time Data Poisoning
- ICLR 2025On the Benefits of Attribute-Driven Graph Domain Adaptation
- ICLR 2025On the Crucial Role of Initialization for Matrix Factorization
- ICLR 2025On the Optimization Landscape of Low Rank Adaptation Methods for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025PaCA: Partial Connection Adaptation for Efficient Fine-Tuning
- ICLR 2025Palu: KV-Cache Compression with Low-Rank Projection
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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.