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
781 papers, page 1 of 16
- NeurIPS 2026(Mis)generalization of Helpful-Only Fine-Tuning
- NeurIPS 2026$\delta$-Mem: : Efficient Online Memory For Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 20263R-Adapter: Retrieval, Rewiring, and Refinement for Efficient Adaptation of 3D Reconstruction Model
- NeurIPS 2026A low-rank decoder bottleneck bounds reliability in foundation-model perturbation prediction
- NeurIPS 2026A Margin Perspective on LoRA: Robustness to Catastrophic Forgetting and Adapter Merging (MaLoRA)
- NeurIPS 2026A Scalable Nonparametric Continuous-Time Survival Model through Numerical Quadrature
- NeurIPS 2026A Sparse Low-Rank Biclique Decomposition for Graphs
- NeurIPS 2026A unified pairwise distribution matching framework for graph domain adaptation under structure shift
- NeurIPS 2026AdaPaD: Adaptive Parallel Deflation for PEFT with Self-Correcting Rank Discovery
- NeurIPS 2026AdaPreLoRA: Adafactor Preconditioned Low-Rank Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2026Adapting in the Dark: Efficient and Stable Test-Time Adaptation for Black-Box Models
- NeurIPS 2026Adaptive and Neutral Theory of Evolution Strategies for Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026Adaptive Generate-Rank-Verify: Inference-Time Search with Costly Verification
- NeurIPS 2026ADKV: A Low-Overhead Adaptive Delta Quantization for KV Cache in LLM Inference
- NeurIPS 2026Advanced Routing as Regularization Allocation for Efficient Diffusion Transformer Training
- NeurIPS 2026Align Before Aggregation: Basis-Consistent Federated LoRA under Heterogeneous Ranks
- NeurIPS 2026Aligned LoRA Updates via Intrinsic Geometry for Federated Low-Rank Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2026An Efficient Algorithm for Thresholding Monte Carlo Tree Search
- NeurIPS 2026Anchor PCA
- NeurIPS 2026Anchoring Physiological Invariance, Expanding Domain Plasticity: Prior-Stabilized Dynamic Adaptation for Continual rPPG Measurement
- NeurIPS 2026Angular Networks: Low-Bit Learning from Randomized Similarity Estimators
- NeurIPS 2026Approaching Effective Merging in Model Embedding Space
- NeurIPS 2026Approximation in Contrastive Representation Learning
- NeurIPS 2026AR1-ZO: Topology-Aware Rank-1 Zeroth-Order Queries for High-Rank LoRA Fine-Tuning
- NeurIPS 2026Archimedean Copula Inference via Taylor-Mode AD
- NeurIPS 2026Asymmetric Factorization for Low-Rank PSD Learning: When Is the Relaxation Exact ?
- NeurIPS 2026Attribute-Efficient Learning of Sparse Halfspaces with Constant Malicious Noise Rate
- NeurIPS 2026Backdoor Attacks under Lossy Compression: From Failure to Reactivation and Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2026Backdoor Purification for LoRA-Tuned LLMs via Null-Space Projection
- NeurIPS 2026Batch-Conditioned Semantic Anchors for Robust Transductive Adaptation of Vision--Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026Bayesian Low-Rank Posteriors for Scalable Membership Inference
- NeurIPS 2026BDC-Merge: Cross-Architecture Model Merging via Dependency Alignment
- NeurIPS 2026Benchmark Shadows: How Data Regimes Shape Parameter Footprints and Generalization
- NeurIPS 2026Benchmarks as Measurement Instruments: Quantifying Signal and Noise for More Efficient AI Evaluations Under Distribution Shift
- NeurIPS 2026Beyond High and Low: Evaluating Graded Cognitive Diversity in LLM Persona Simulations
- NeurIPS 2026Beyond LoRA vs. Full Fine-Tuning: Gradient-Guided Optimizer Routing for LLM Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2026Beyond Low-Pass Dynamics: Frequency-Selective Spiking Reservoirs with Resonant Neurons
- NeurIPS 2026Bilinear Matching Bandits
- NeurIPS 2026BiLoCo: Binary Low-Rank Corrections for LLM FP4 Decode
- NeurIPS 2026BitMTP: When Multi-Token Prediction Meets Low-Bit Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026BQ-LoRA: Binary-Quantized Low-Rank Adapters as Implicit Regularizers for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
- NeurIPS 2026Breaking Information Islands in Sparse Tuning via Small-World Connectivity
- NeurIPS 2026BReD: Block Replay Dithering for Stable Low-Bit EMA Optimizer States
- NeurIPS 2026Bridging Sequence and Structure with Unified Domain Adaptation for Drug-Target Interaction Prediction
- NeurIPS 2026Can Model Merging Improve Aggregation in DiLoCo?
- NeurIPS 2026Causal Discovery via Transformed Low-Rank Quantile Surfaces
- NeurIPS 2026CC-GS: Low-Memory 3D Gaussian Splatting Training via CPU-GPU Block-Wise Context Compositing
- NeurIPS 2026Class-Incremental Learning via LoRA-based Elastic Ensemble of Experts
- NeurIPS 2026ClusQuant: Mitigating Outliers with Clustering-Based Representations for Low-Precision LRMs
- NeurIPS 2026Communication-Efficient LLM Adaptation over Decentralized GPU Meshes
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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.