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 9 of 11
- ICLR 2024Principled Federated Domain Adaptation: Gradient Projection and Auto-Weighting
- ICLR 2024Project and Probe: Sample-Efficient Adaptation by Interpolating Orthogonal Features
- ICLR 2024Provable Reward-Agnostic Preference-Based Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2024Provably Efficient CVaR RL in Low-rank MDPs
- ICLR 2024Provably Efficient UCB-type Algorithms For Learning Predictive State Representations
- ICLR 2024Pushing Mixture of Experts to the Limit: Extremely Parameter Efficient MoE for Instruction Tuning
- ICLR 2024QA-LoRA: Quantization-Aware Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024QLLM: Accurate and Efficient Low-Bitwidth Quantization for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024ReLoRA: High-Rank Training Through Low-Rank Updates
- ICLR 2024Rethinking Channel Dimensions to Isolate Outliers for Low-bit Weight Quantization of Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024Sample-Efficient Quality-Diversity by Cooperative Coevolution
- ICLR 2024Set Learning for Accurate and Calibrated Models
- ICLR 2024SF(DA)$^2$: Source-free Domain Adaptation Through the Lens of Data Augmentation
- ICLR 2024SPTNet: An Efficient Alternative Framework for Generalized Category Discovery with Spatial Prompt Tuning
- ICLR 2024Statistically Optimal $K$-means Clustering via Nonnegative Low-rank Semidefinite Programming
- ICLR 2024TAIL: Task-specific Adapters for Imitation Learning with Large Pretrained Models
- ICLR 2024Test-time Adaptation against Multi-modal Reliability Bias
- ICLR 2024The Expressive Power of Low-Rank Adaptation
- ICLR 2024The Hedgehog & the Porcupine: Expressive Linear Attentions with Softmax Mimicry
- ICLR 2024The Truth is in There: Improving Reasoning in Language Models with Layer-Selective Rank Reduction
- ICLR 2024Towards Few-Shot Adaptation of Foundation Models via Multitask Finetuning
- ICLR 2024Towards Robust and Efficient Cloud-Edge Elastic Model Adaptation via Selective Entropy Distillation
- ICLR 2024Towards Seamless Adaptation of Pre-trained Models for Visual Place Recognition
- ICLR 2024True Knowledge Comes from Practice: Aligning Large Language Models with Embodied Environments via Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2024Tuning LayerNorm in Attention: Towards Efficient Multi-Modal LLM Finetuning
- ICLR 2024UniAdapter: Unified Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning for Cross-modal Modeling
- ICLR 2024VeRA: Vector-based Random Matrix Adaptation
- ICLR 2024ViDA: Homeostatic Visual Domain Adapter for Continual Test Time Adaptation
- ICLR 2024When Scaling Meets LLM Finetuning: The Effect of Data, Model and Finetuning Method
- ICLR 2024YaRN: Efficient Context Window Extension of Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024ZeRO++: Extremely Efficient Collective Communication for Large Model Training
- ICLR 2023A Closer Look at Model Adaptation using Feature Distortion and Simplicity Bias
- ICLR 2023A General Framework for Sample-Efficient Function Approximation in Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2023A General Rank Preserving Framework for Asymmetric Image Retrieval
- ICLR 2023Achieving Near-Optimal Individual Regret & Low Communications in Multi-Agent Bandits
- ICLR 2023Adaptive Budget Allocation for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
- ICLR 2023Addressing Parameter Choice Issues in Unsupervised Domain Adaptation by Aggregation
- ICLR 2023AnyDA: Anytime Domain Adaptation
- ICLR 2023Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search through Modern Error-Correcting Codes
- ICLR 2023Basic Binary Convolution Unit for Binarized Image Restoration Network
- ICLR 2023Block and Subword-Scaling Floating-Point (BSFP) : An Efficient Non-Uniform Quantization For Low Precision Inference
- ICLR 2023Characterizing the spectrum of the NTK via a power series expansion
- ICLR 2023Consolidator: Mergable Adapter with Group Connections for Visual Adaptation
- ICLR 2023Contrastive Alignment of Vision to Language Through Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning
- ICLR 2023Decision S4: Efficient Sequence-Based RL via State Spaces Layers
- ICLR 2023Deep Transformers without Shortcuts: Modifying Self-attention for Faithful Signal Propagation
- ICLR 2023DELTA: DEGRADATION-FREE FULLY TEST-TIME ADAPTATION
- ICLR 2023Dirichlet-based Uncertainty Calibration for Active Domain Adaptation
- ICLR 2023Divide to Adapt: Mitigating Confirmation Bias for Domain Adaptation of Black-Box Predictors
- ICLR 2023Domain Generalisation via Domain Adaptation: An Adversarial Fourier Amplitude Approach
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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.