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 7 of 46
- ICLR 2026SLA: Beyond Sparsity in Diffusion Transformers via Fine-Tunable Sparse–Linear Attention
- ICLR 2026SpareTrain: Fault-Tolerant LLM Training via Low-Cost Dual Modular Redundancy
- ICLR 2026Sparse Attention Adaptation for Long Reasoning
- ICLR 2026SplitLoRA: Balancing Stability and Plasticity in Continual Learning Through Gradient Space Splitting
- ICLR 2026Stable-LoRA: Stabilizing Feature Learning of Low-Rank Adaption
- ICLR 2026STaMP: Sequence Transformation and Mixed Precision for Low-Precision Activation Quantization
- ICLR 2026Study of Training Dynamics for Memory-Constrained Fine-Tuning
- ICLR 2026SumRA: Parameter Efficient Fine-tuning with Singular Value Decomposition and Summed Orthogonal Basis
- ICLR 2026Taming Momentum: Rethinking Optimizer States Through Low-Rank Approximation
- ICLR 2026Task-Adaptive Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Weather Foundation Models
- ICLR 2026The Power of Small Initialization in Noisy Low-Tubal-Rank Tensor Recovery
- ICLR 2026The Rank and Gradient Lost in Non-stationarity: Sample Weight Decay for Mitigating Plasticity Loss in Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2026Three Forward, One Backward: Memory-Efficient Full-Rank Fine-Tuning of Large Models via Extra Forward Passes
- ICLR 2026Tina: Tiny Reasoning Models via LoRA
- ICLR 2026TiTok: Transfer Token-level Knowledge via Contrastive Excess to Transplant LoRA
- ICLR 2026Towards Efficient Optimizer Design for LLM via Structured Fisher Approximation with a Low-Rank Extension
- ICLR 2026Towards Understanding the Nature of Attention with Low-Rank Sparse Decomposition
- ICLR 2026TRAC: Tensor-Train based Across-layer Compression for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
- ICLR 2026Tractability via Low Dimensionality: The Parameterized Complexity of Training Quantized Neural Networks
- ICLR 2026ULD-Net: Enabling Ultra-Low-Degree Fully Polynomial Networks for Homomorphically Encrypted Inference
- ICLR 2026Unbalanced Soft-Matching Distance For Neural Representational Comparison With Partial Unit Correspondence
- ICLR 2026Understanding Transformers for Time Series: Rank Structure, Flow-of-ranks, and Compressibility
- ICLR 2026UniQL: Unified Quantization and Low-rank Compression for Adaptive Edge LLMs
- ICLR 2026Video Unlearning via Low-Rank Refusal Vector
- ICLR 2026VQ-Transplant: Efficient VQ-Module Integration for Pre-trained Visual Tokenizers
- ICLR 2026What Layers When: Learning to Skip Compute in LLMs with Residual Gates
- ICLR 2026When and Where to Reset Matters for Long-Term Test-Time Adaptation
- ICLR 2026Why High-rank Neural Networks Generalize?: An Algebraic Framework with RKHSs
- ICLR 2026Why Low-Precision Transformer Training Fails: An Analysis on Flash Attention
- ICLR 2026WSVD: Weighted Low-Rank Approximation for Fast and Efficient Execution of Low-Precision Vision-Language Models
- ICLR 2026ZeroSiam: An Efficient Siamese for Test-Time Entropy Optimization without Collapse
- ICML 20261-Bit Wonder: Improving QAT Performance in the Low-Bit Regime through K-Means Quantization
- ICML 2026A Factorized Low-Rank RNN Framework for Uncovering Independent Neural Latent Dynamics and Connectivity
- ICML 2026A Language-Guided Bayesian Optimization for Efficient LoRA Hyperparameter Search
- ICML 2026A3: an Analytical Low-Rank Approximation Framework for Attention
- ICML 2026Accelerating Q-learning through Efficient Value-Sharing across Actions
- ICML 2026Active Learning with Low-Rank Structure for Data Selection
- ICML 2026Adaptive Utilization of Low-Rank Adaptation via Conditioned Gating
- ICML 2026AgentVocab: Structure-Aware Vocabulary Adaptation for Efficient LLM Agents
- ICML 2026AGZO: Activation-Guided Zeroth-Order Optimization for LLM Fine-Tuning
- ICML 2026ANTiC: Adaptive Neural Temporal In Situ Compressor
- ICML 2026AnyMod-LLVE: Low-Light Video Enhancement with Modality-Agnostic Inference
- ICML 2026AOEPT: Breaking the Implicit Modality-Reduction Bottleneck in Modality-Missing Prompt Tuning
- ICML 2026Approximating f -Divergences with Rank Statistics
- ICML 2026AutoQRA: Joint Optimization of Mixed-Precision Quantization and Low-rank Adapters for Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning
- ICML 2026Balanced LoRA: Removing Parameter Invariance to Accelerate Convergence
- ICML 2026BAS: Bridging Adam and SignSGD for Memory-Efficient LLM Training
- ICML 2026Bayesian Meta-Learning with Expert Feedback for Task-Shift Adaptation through Causal Embeddings
- ICML 2026Bayesian Tensor Decomposition with Diffusion Model Prior
- ICML 2026Bayesian-LoRA: Probabilistic Low-Rank Adaptation of 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.