Optical Computing papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Optical Computing went from 13 papers in 2023 to 16 in 2026, roughly 1.2x in three years.
• CVPR publishes the most Optical Computing work: 24 papers from 2023 to 2026, 52% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Neuromorphic Computing: papers tagged with both rose from 6 in 2023 to 6 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Quantum and Exotic Computing, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Neuromorphic Computing, is up 1.9x versus 1.2x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026Algebraic Machine Learning: learning as computing subsets of the subdirect decomposition from Abstract Algebra
• ICML 2026Event2Vec: Processing neuromorphic events directly by representations in vector space
• ICLR 2026Otters: An Energy-Efficient Spiking Transformer via Optical Time-to-First-Spike Encoding
• CVPR 2026CoWTracker Tracking by Warping instead of Correlation
• NeurIPS 2025Optical Coherence Tomography Harmonization with Anatomy-Guided Latent Metric Schrödinger Bridges
• CVPR 2025Blood Flow Speed Estimation with Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography Images
• NeurIPS 2024LibAMM: Empirical Insights into Approximate Computing for Accelerating Matrix Multiplication
• CVPR 2024DVMNet: Computing Relative Pose for Unseen Objects Beyond Hypotheses
• NeurIPS 2023Computing Approximate $\ell_p$ Sensitivities
• ICML 2023HarsanyiNet: Computing Accurate Shapley Values in a Single Forward Propagation
• ICLR 2023Computing all Optimal Partial Transports
• CVPR 2023AnyFlow: Arbitrary Scale Optical Flow With Implicit Neural Representation
• NeurIPS 2026Computing All Optimal Partial $p$-Wasserstein Matchings on the Line
• ICLR 2026Beyond Linear Processing: Dendritic Bilinear Integration in Spiking Neural Networks
• CVPR 2026FlowPalm Optical Flow Driven Non-Rigid Deformation for Geometrically Diverse Palmprint
• NeurIPS 2025The Parameterized Complexity of Computing the VC-Dimension
• CVPR 2025DPFlow: Adaptive Optical Flow Estimation with a Dual-Pyramid Framework
• NeurIPS 2024Physics-Constrained Comprehensive Optical Neural Networks
• CVPR 2024Dense Optical Tracking: Connecting the Dots
• NeurIPS 2023Continuous Parametric Optical Flow

All Optical Computing papers

46 papers, page 1 of 1

1. CVPR 2026CoWTracker Tracking by Warping instead of Correlation
2. CVPR 2026Flow4DGS-SLAM Optical Flow-Guided 4D Gaussian Splatting SLAM
3. CVPR 2026FlowFM Advancing Dark Optical Flow Estimation with Flow Matching
4. CVPR 2026FlowPalm Optical Flow Driven Non-Rigid Deformation for Geometrically Diverse Palmprint
5. CVPR 2026From Contrast to Consistency Rethinking Event-based Continuous-Time Optical Flow Estimation
6. CVPR 2026LAOF Robust Latent Action Learning with Optical Flow Constraints
7. CVPR 2026Optical Diffraction-based Convolution for Semiconductor Lithography
8. CVPR 2026Optical Flow Matching Reframing Optical Flow as Continuous Transport Dynamics
9. CVPR 2026U2Flow Uncertainty-Aware Unsupervised Optical Flow Estimation
10. ICLR 2026Beyond Linear Processing: Dendritic Bilinear Integration in Spiking Neural Networks
11. ICLR 2026Computing Equilibrium beyond Unilateral Deviation
12. ICLR 2026Otters: An Energy-Efficient Spiking Transformer via Optical Time-to-First-Spike Encoding
13. ICML 2026Event2Vec: Processing neuromorphic events directly by representations in vector space
14. NeurIPS 2026Algebraic Machine Learning: learning as computing subsets of the subdirect decomposition from Abstract Algebra
15. NeurIPS 2026Computing All Optimal Partial $p$-Wasserstein Matchings on the Line
16. NeurIPS 2026Dimension Bounds for Contractive Reservoir Computing from Input Entropy
17. CVPR 2025Blood Flow Speed Estimation with Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography Images
18. CVPR 2025DPFlow: Adaptive Optical Flow Estimation with a Dual-Pyramid Framework
19. CVPR 2025EDCFlow: Exploring Temporally Dense Difference Maps for Event-based Optical Flow Estimation
20. CVPR 2025Focal Split: Untethered Snapshot Depth from Differential Defocus
21. CVPR 2025PTDiffusion: Free Lunch for Generating Optical Illusion Hidden Pictures with Phase-Transferred Diffusion Model
22. NeurIPS 2025Dual-Comb Ghost Imaging with Transformer-Based Reconstruction for Optical Fiber Endomicroscopy
23. NeurIPS 2025G-Net: A Provably Easy Construction of High-Accuracy Random Binary Neural Networks
24. NeurIPS 2025Learning Temporal 3D Semantic Scene Completion via Optical Flow Guidance
25. NeurIPS 2025Optical Coherence Tomography Harmonization with Anatomy-Guided Latent Metric Schrödinger Bridges
26. NeurIPS 2025The Parameterized Complexity of Computing the VC-Dimension
27. CVPR 2024Dense Optical Tracking: Connecting the Dots
28. CVPR 2024DVMNet: Computing Relative Pose for Unseen Objects Beyond Hypotheses
29. CVPR 2024FlowDiffuser: Advancing Optical Flow Estimation with Diffusion Models
30. CVPR 2024UnSAMFlow: Unsupervised Optical Flow Guided by Segment Anything Model
31. NeurIPS 2024LibAMM: Empirical Insights into Approximate Computing for Accelerating Matrix Multiplication
32. NeurIPS 2024Optical Diffusion Models for Image Generation
33. NeurIPS 2024Physics-Constrained Comprehensive Optical Neural Networks
34. CVPR 2023AnyFlow: Arbitrary Scale Optical Flow With Implicit Neural Representation
35. CVPR 2023FlowFormer++: Masked Cost Volume Autoencoding for Pretraining Optical Flow Estimation
36. CVPR 2023Learning Optical Expansion From Scale Matching
37. CVPR 2023Nighttime Smartphone Reflective Flare Removal Using Optical Center Symmetry Prior
38. CVPR 2023Rethinking Optical Flow From Geometric Matching Consistent Perspective
39. CVPR 2023Tangentially Elongated Gaussian Belief Propagation for Event-Based Incremental Optical Flow Estimation
40. ICLR 2023Computing all Optimal Partial Transports
41. ICML 2023HarsanyiNet: Computing Accurate Shapley Values in a Single Forward Propagation
42. ICML 2023On Computing Optimal Tree Ensembles
43. NeurIPS 2023Computing Approximate $\ell_p$ Sensitivities
44. NeurIPS 2023Computing Optimal Nash Equilibria in Multiplayer Games
45. NeurIPS 2023Continuous Parametric Optical Flow
46. NeurIPS 2023SEENN: Towards Temporal Spiking Early Exit Neural Networks

FAQ

How many Optical Computing papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

46 in total: 13 in 2023, 7 in 2024, 10 in 2025, 16 in 2026.

How many Optical Computing papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 3 Optical Computing papers, versus 5 the year before.

How many Optical Computing papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 3 Optical Computing papers.

How many Optical Computing papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 1 Optical Computing papers.

How many Optical Computing papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 9 Optical Computing papers, versus 5 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Optical Computing papers?

CVPR, with 24 papers from 2023 to 2026.