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 40 of 46
- NeurIPS 2024SeTAR: Out-of-Distribution Detection with Selective Low-Rank Approximation
- NeurIPS 2024SGD vs GD: Rank Deficiency in Linear Networks
- NeurIPS 2024Shaping the distribution of neural responses with interneurons in a recurrent circuit model
- NeurIPS 2024Sharing Key Semantics in Transformer Makes Efficient Image Restoration
- NeurIPS 2024Sigmoid Gating is More Sample Efficient than Softmax Gating in Mixture of Experts
- NeurIPS 2024Sketched Lanczos uncertainty score: a low-memory summary of the Fisher information
- NeurIPS 2024Sketchy Moment Matching: Toward Fast and Provable Data Selection for Finetuning
- NeurIPS 2024SLTrain: a sparse plus low rank approach for parameter and memory efficient pretraining
- NeurIPS 2024SpaFL: Communication-Efficient Federated Learning With Sparse Models And Low Computational Overhead
- NeurIPS 2024Sparse High Rank Adapters
- NeurIPS 2024Spectral Adapter: Fine-Tuning in Spectral Space
- NeurIPS 2024SpeedLoader: An I/O efficient scheme for heterogeneous and distributed LLM operation
- NeurIPS 2024Spiking Token Mixer: An event-driven friendly Former structure for spiking neural networks
- NeurIPS 2024SSDiff: Spatial-spectral Integrated Diffusion Model for Remote Sensing Pansharpening
- NeurIPS 2024Stepping Forward on the Last Mile
- NeurIPS 2024Structured flexibility in recurrent neural networks via neuromodulation
- NeurIPS 2024Structured Unrestricted-Rank Matrices for Parameter Efficient Finetuning
- NeurIPS 2024SVFT: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning with Singular Vectors
- NeurIPS 2024Swift Sampler: Efficient Learning of Sampler by 10 Parameters
- NeurIPS 2024Tensor-Based Synchronization and the Low-Rankness of the Block Trifocal Tensor
- NeurIPS 2024Test-Time Adaptation Induces Stronger Accuracy and Agreement-on-the-Line
- NeurIPS 2024The Impact of Initialization on LoRA Finetuning Dynamics
- NeurIPS 2024The Ladder in Chaos: Improving Policy Learning by Harnessing the Parameter Evolving Path in A Low-dimensional Space
- NeurIPS 2024The Limits of Transfer Reinforcement Learning with Latent Low-rank Structure
- NeurIPS 2024Theoretical Investigations and Practical Enhancements on Tail Task Risk Minimization in Meta Learning
- NeurIPS 2024Time-Varying LoRA: Towards Effective Cross-Domain Fine-Tuning of Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2024TinyTTA: Efficient Test-time Adaptation via Early-exit Ensembles on Edge Devices
- NeurIPS 2024Training Binary Neural Networks via Gaussian Variational Inference and Low-Rank Semidefinite Programming
- NeurIPS 2024Transforming Vision Transformer: Towards Efficient Multi-Task Asynchronous Learner
- NeurIPS 2024Understanding Linear Probing then Fine-tuning Language Models from NTK Perspective
- NeurIPS 2024Unrolled denoising networks provably learn to perform optimal Bayesian inference
- NeurIPS 2024Unveiling LoRA Intrinsic Ranks via Salience Analysis
- NeurIPS 2024VB-LoRA: Extreme Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning with Vector Banks
- NeurIPS 2024VeLoRA: Memory Efficient Training using Rank-1 Sub-Token Projections
- NeurIPS 2024VFIMamba: Video Frame Interpolation with State Space Models
- NeurIPS 2024Visual Fourier Prompt Tuning
- NeurIPS 2024Weight decay induces low-rank attention layers
- NeurIPS 2024Who’s Gaming the System? A Causally-Motivated Approach for Detecting Strategic Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2024You Only Look Around: Learning Illumination-Invariant Feature for Low-light Object Detection
- NeurIPS 2024Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning from Low Quality Data
- CVPR 20231% VS 100%: Parameter-Efficient Low Rank Adapter for Dense Predictions
- CVPR 2023A Probabilistic Framework for Lifelong Test-Time Adaptation
- CVPR 2023A-La-Carte Prompt Tuning (APT): Combining Distinct Data via Composable Prompting
- CVPR 2023Adapting Shortcut With Normalizing Flow: An Efficient Tuning Framework for Visual Recognition
- CVPR 2023ALOFT: A Lightweight MLP-Like Architecture With Dynamic Low-Frequency Transform for Domain Generalization
- CVPR 2023Boosting Low-Data Instance Segmentation by Unsupervised Pre-Training With Saliency Prompt
- CVPR 2023C-SFDA: A Curriculum Learning Aided Self-Training Framework for Efficient Source Free Domain Adaptation
- CVPR 2023Class Relationship Embedded Learning for Source-Free Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
- CVPR 2023Cloud-Device Collaborative Adaptation to Continual Changing Environments in the Real-World
- CVPR 2023COT: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation With Clustering and Optimal Transport
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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.