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
565 papers, page 7 of 12
- ICML 2025Lean and Mean Adaptive Optimization via Subset-Norm and Subspace-Momentum with Convergence Guarantees
- ICML 2025Learning to Reuse Policies in State Evolvable Environments
- ICML 2025LIFT the Veil for the Truth: Principal Weights Emerge after Rank Reduction for Reasoning-Focused Supervised Fine-Tuning
- ICML 2025Liger: Linearizing Large Language Models to Gated Recurrent Structures
- ICML 2025Linear Mode Connectivity between Multiple Models modulo Permutation Symmetries
- ICML 2025LoRA Training Provably Converges to a Low-Rank Global Minimum Or It Fails Loudly (But it Probably Won't Fail)
- ICML 2025LoRA-One: One-Step Full Gradient Could Suffice for Fine-Tuning Large Language Models, Provably and Efficiently
- ICML 2025Low-Dimension-to-High-Dimension Generalization and Its Implications for Length Generalization
- ICML 2025Low-distortion and GPU-compatible Tree Embeddings in Hyperbolic Space
- ICML 2025Low-Rank Adapting Models for Sparse Autoencoders
- ICML 2025Low-Rank Tensor Transitions (LoRT) for Transferable Tensor Regression
- ICML 2025Low-Rank Thinning
- ICML 2025LowRA: Accurate and Efficient LoRA Fine-Tuning of LLMs under 2 Bits
- ICML 2025LRA-QViT: Integrating Low-Rank Approximation and Quantization for Robust and Efficient Vision Transformers
- ICML 2025Make LoRA Great Again: Boosting LoRA with Adaptive Singular Values and Mixture-of-Experts Optimization Alignment
- ICML 2025Meta-Reinforcement Learning with Adaptation from Human Feedback via Preference-Order-Preserving Task Embedding
- ICML 2025MetaOptimize: A Framework for Optimizing Step Sizes and Other Meta-parameters
- ICML 2025Mind the Gap: a Spectral Analysis of Rank Collapse and Signal Propagation in Attention Layers
- ICML 2025Mixture of Lookup Experts
- ICML 2025Model Swarms: Collaborative Search to Adapt LLM Experts via Swarm Intelligence
- ICML 2025MoE-SVD: Structured Mixture-of-Experts LLMs Compression via Singular Value Decomposition
- ICML 2025Momentum-Driven Adaptivity: Towards Tuning-Free Asynchronous Federated Learning
- ICML 2025MoRAgent: Parameter Efficient Agent Tuning with Mixture-of-Roles
- ICML 2025Neutral residues: revisiting adapters for model extension
- ICML 2025Olica: Efficient Structured Pruning of Large Language Models without Retraining
- ICML 2025Optimizing Large Language Model Training Using FP4 Quantization
- ICML 2025Oscillation-Reduced MXFP4 Training for Vision Transformers
- ICML 2025Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of State Space Models
- ICML 2025Pivoting Factorization: A Compact Meta Low-Rank Representation of Sparsity for Efficient Inference in Large Language Models
- ICML 2025Preconditioned Riemannian Gradient Descent Algorithm for Low-Multilinear-Rank Tensor Completion
- ICML 2025Predicting High-precision Depth on Low-Precision Devices Using 2D Hilbert Curves
- ICML 2025Projection Pursuit Density Ratio Estimation
- ICML 2025Provable and Practical Online Learning Rate Adaptation with Hypergradient Descent
- ICML 2025PTTA: Purifying Malicious Samples for Test-Time Model Adaptation
- ICML 2025Rank-One Modified Value Iteration
- ICML 2025Ranked Entropy Minimization for Continual Test-Time Adaptation
- ICML 2025Ranking with Multiple Oracles: From Weak to Strong Stochastic Transitivity
- ICML 2025RepLoRA: Reparameterizing Low-rank Adaptation via the Perspective of Mixture of Experts
- ICML 2025ResQ: Mixed-Precision Quantization of Large Language Models with Low-Rank Residuals
- ICML 2025Robust Sparsification via Sensitivity
- ICML 2025RoSTE: An Efficient Quantization-Aware Supervised Fine-Tuning Approach for Large Language Models
- ICML 2025SAN: Hypothesizing Long-Term Synaptic Development and Neural Engram Mechanism in Scalable Model's Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
- ICML 2025SeedLoRA: A Fusion Approach to Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning
- ICML 2025Self-Bootstrapping for Versatile Test-Time Adaptation
- ICML 2025Sketch to Adapt: Fine-Tunable Sketches for Efficient LLM Adaptation
- ICML 2025SliM-LLM: Salience-Driven Mixed-Precision Quantization for Large Language Models
- ICML 2025SLiM: One-shot Quantization and Sparsity with Low-rank Approximation for LLM Weight Compression
- ICML 2025SMART-PC: Skeletal Model Adaptation for Robust Test-Time Training in Point Clouds
- ICML 2025Sparse Autoencoders, Again?
- ICML 2025Sparse Spectral Training and Inference on Euclidean and Hyperbolic Neural Networks
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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.