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
507 papers, page 7 of 11
- ICLR 2025SaRA: High-Efficient Diffusion Model Fine-tuning with Progressive Sparse Low-Rank Adaptation
- ICLR 2025Scalable Decentralized Learning with Teleportation
- ICLR 2025Scaling Transformers for Low-Bitrate High-Quality Speech Coding
- ICLR 2025SD-LoRA: Scalable Decoupled Low-Rank Adaptation for Class Incremental Learning
- ICLR 2025SEAL: Safety-enhanced Aligned LLM Fine-tuning via Bilevel Data Selection
- ICLR 2025Selective Aggregation for Low-Rank Adaptation in Federated Learning
- ICLR 2025Semi-Supervised CLIP Adaptation by Enforcing Semantic and Trapezoidal Consistency
- ICLR 2025SEPARATE: A Simple Low-rank Projection for Gradient Compression in Modern Large-scale Model Training Process
- ICLR 2025Shallow diffusion networks provably learn hidden low-dimensional structure
- ICLR 2025Singular Subspace Perturbation Bounds via Rectangular Random Matrix Diffusions
- ICLR 2025Skill Expansion and Composition in Parameter Space
- ICLR 2025SLoPe: Double-Pruned Sparse Plus Lazy Low-Rank Adapter Pretraining of LLMs
- ICLR 2025Smoothing the Shift: Towards Stable Test-Time Adaptation under Complex Multimodal Noises
- ICLR 2025SMT: Fine-Tuning Large Language Models with Sparse Matrices
- ICLR 2025SPDIM: Source-Free Unsupervised Conditional and Label Shift Adaptation in EEG
- ICLR 2025SSOLE: Rethinking Orthogonal Low-rank Embedding for Self-Supervised Learning
- ICLR 2025Surprising Effectiveness of pretraining Ternary Language Model at Scale
- ICLR 2025SVDQuant: Absorbing Outliers by Low-Rank Component for 4-Bit Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025TabM: Advancing tabular deep learning with parameter-efficient ensembling
- ICLR 2025Test-Time Adaptation for Combating Missing Modalities in Egocentric Videos
- ICLR 2025Test-Time Ensemble via Linear Mode Connectivity: A Path to Better Adaptation
- ICLR 2025The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of the Deeper Layers
- ICLR 2025Towards Robust and Parameter-Efficient Knowledge Unlearning for LLMs
- ICLR 2025Towards Robust Multimodal Open-set Test-time Adaptation via Adaptive Entropy-aware Optimization
- ICLR 2025Towards Scalable Exact Machine Unlearning Using Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
- ICLR 2025Train Small, Infer Large: Memory-Efficient LoRA Training for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025Transformers Learn Low Sensitivity Functions: Investigations and Implications
- ICLR 2025TTVD: Towards a Geometric Framework for Test-Time Adaptation Based on Voronoi Diagram
- ICLR 2025Tuning Frequency Bias of State Space Models
- ICLR 2025Two Sparse Matrices are Better than One: Sparsifying Neural Networks with Double Sparse Factorization
- ICLR 2025u-$\mu$P: The Unit-Scaled Maximal Update Parametrization
- ICLR 2025Unified Parameter-Efficient Unlearning for LLMs
- ICLR 2025Unleashing the Power of Task-Specific Directions in Parameter Efficient Fine-tuning
- ICLR 2025Unlocking Efficient, Scalable, and Continual Knowledge Editing with Basis-Level Representation Fine-Tuning
- ICLR 2025Utilitarian Algorithm Configuration for Infinite Parameter Spaces
- ICLR 2025ZIP: An Efficient Zeroth-order Prompt Tuning for Black-box Vision-Language Models
- ICLR 2024A Hard-to-Beat Baseline for Training-free CLIP-based Adaptation
- ICLR 2024A Statistical Analysis of Wasserstein Autoencoders for Intrinsically Low-dimensional Data
- ICLR 2024Adaptive Regularization of Representation Rank as an Implicit Constraint of Bellman Equation
- ICLR 2024Advancing the Lower Bounds: an Accelerated, Stochastic, Second-order Method with Optimal Adaptation to Inexactness
- ICLR 2024ALAM: Averaged Low-Precision Activation for Memory-Efficient Training of Transformer Models
- ICLR 2024AlpaGasus: Training a Better Alpaca with Fewer Data
- ICLR 2024Are Transformers with One Layer Self-Attention Using Low-Rank Weight Matrices Universal Approximators?
- ICLR 2024AutoChunk: Automated Activation Chunk for Memory-Efficient Deep Learning Inference
- ICLR 2024AutoLoRa: An Automated Robust Fine-Tuning Framework
- ICLR 2024AutoVP: An Automated Visual Prompting Framework and Benchmark
- ICLR 2024BarLeRIa: An Efficient Tuning Framework for Referring Image Segmentation
- ICLR 2024Batched Low-Rank Adaptation of Foundation Models
- ICLR 2024Bayesian Low-rank Adaptation for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024BESA: Pruning Large Language Models with Blockwise Parameter-Efficient Sparsity Allocation
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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.