Sampling Methods papers, 2023–2026
MCMC and Langevin
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 640 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Sampling Methods went from 122 papers in 2023 to 195 in 2026, roughly 1.6x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Sampling Methods work: 221 papers from 2023 to 2026, 35% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Monte Carlo Tree Search: papers tagged with both rose from 4 in 2023 to 31 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Probabilistic and Bayesian, it ranks #2 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Gaussian Processes, is up 2.2x versus 1.6x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 50 | 25 | 33 | 14 | 122 |
| 2024 | 40 | 41 | 56 | 19 | 156 |
| 2025 | 67 | 48 | 36 | 16 | 167 |
| 2026 | 64 | 46 | 71 | 14 | 195 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026A Model of Diverse Sampling from Language Models
- ICML 2026BFTS: Thompson Sampling with Bayesian Additive Regression Trees
- ICLR 2026Cactus: Accelerating Auto-Regressive Decoding with Constrained Acceptance Speculative Sampling
- CVPR 2026Active Inference for Micro-Gesture Recognition EFE-Guided Temporal Sampling and Adaptive
- NeurIPS 2025Antidistillation Sampling
- ICML 2025Connecting Thompson Sampling and UCB: Towards More Efficient Trade-offs Between Privacy and Regret
- ICLR 2025Bridging the Gap between Variational Inference and Stochastic Gradient MCMC in Function Space
- CVPR 2025AutoLUT: LUT-Based Image Super-Resolution with Automatic Sampling and Adaptive Residual Learning
- NeurIPS 2024In-and-Out: Algorithmic Diffusion for Sampling Convex Bodies
- ICML 2024Closing the Gap: Achieving Global Convergence (Last Iterate) of Actor-Critic under Markovian Sampling with Neural Network Parametrization
- ICLR 2024Dirichlet-based Per-Sample Weighting by Transition Matrix for Noisy Label Learning
- CVPR 2024G-FARS: Gradient-Field-based Auto-Regressive Sampling for 3D Part Grouping
- NeurIPS 2023A Dynamical System View of Langevin-Based Non-Convex Sampling
- ICML 2023Adaptive Annealed Importance Sampling with Constant Rate Progress
- ICLR 2023Any-scale Balanced Samplers for Discrete Space
- CVPR 2023Change-Aware Sampling and Contrastive Learning for Satellite Images
- NeurIPS 2026A Semantic-Sampling Framework for Evaluating Calibration in Open-Ended Question Answering
- ICML 2026Box Thirding: Anytime Best Arm Identification under Insufficient Sampling
- ICLR 2026On Coreset for LASSO Regression Problem with Sensitivity Sampling
- CVPR 2026Designing Instance-Level Sampling Schedules via REINFORCE with James-Stein Shrinkage
All Sampling Methods papers
50 papers, page 1 of 1
- NeurIPS 2023A Dynamical System View of Langevin-Based Non-Convex Sampling
- NeurIPS 2023A Regularized Conditional GAN for Posterior Sampling in Image Recovery Problems
- NeurIPS 2023Adversarial Robustness through Random Weight Sampling
- NeurIPS 2023Block Broyden's Methods for Solving Nonlinear Equations
- NeurIPS 2023Block Coordinate Plug-and-Play Methods for Blind Inverse Problems
- NeurIPS 2023Block-Coordinate Methods and Restarting for Solving Extensive-Form Games
- NeurIPS 2023DELTA: Diverse Client Sampling for Fasting Federated Learning
- NeurIPS 2023Differentiable Sampling of Categorical Distributions Using the CatLog-Derivative Trick
- NeurIPS 2023DISCS: A Benchmark for Discrete Sampling
- NeurIPS 2023Double Randomized Underdamped Langevin with Dimension-Independent Convergence Guarantee
- NeurIPS 2023DPM-Solver-v3: Improved Diffusion ODE Solver with Empirical Model Statistics
- NeurIPS 2023Efficient Sampling of Stochastic Differential Equations with Positive Semi-Definite Models
- NeurIPS 2023Epidemic Learning: Boosting Decentralized Learning with Randomized Communication
- NeurIPS 2023Expressive probabilistic sampling in recurrent neural networks
- NeurIPS 2023Fast Conditional Mixing of MCMC Algorithms for Non-log-concave Distributions
- NeurIPS 2023Fast Exact Leverage Score Sampling from Khatri-Rao Products with Applications to Tensor Decomposition
- NeurIPS 2023Fast Rank-1 Lattice Targeted Sampling for Black-box Optimization
- NeurIPS 2023FouriDown: Factoring Down-Sampling into Shuffling and Superposing
- NeurIPS 2023Gradient-Free Kernel Stein Discrepancy
- NeurIPS 2023Greedy Poisson Rejection Sampling
- NeurIPS 2023How Re-sampling Helps for Long-Tail Learning?
- NeurIPS 2023K-Nearest-Neighbor Local Sampling Based Conditional Independence Testing
- NeurIPS 2023Kernel Quadrature with Randomly Pivoted Cholesky
- NeurIPS 2023Kullback-Leibler Maillard Sampling for Multi-armed Bandits with Bounded Rewards
- NeurIPS 2023Langevin Quasi-Monte Carlo
- NeurIPS 2023Last-Iterate Convergent Policy Gradient Primal-Dual Methods for Constrained MDPs
- NeurIPS 2023Learning Re-sampling Methods with Parameter Attribution for Image Super-resolution
- NeurIPS 2023Metropolis Sampling for Constrained Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023Moment Matching Denoising Gibbs Sampling
- NeurIPS 2023Near Optimal Reconstruction of Spherical Harmonic Expansions
- NeurIPS 2023NeRF Revisited: Fixing Quadrature Instability in Volume Rendering
- NeurIPS 2023Noise-Adaptive Thompson Sampling for Linear Contextual Bandits
- NeurIPS 2023On Differentially Private Sampling from Gaussian and Product Distributions
- NeurIPS 2023On Sample-Efficient Offline Reinforcement Learning: Data Diversity, Posterior Sampling and Beyond
- NeurIPS 2023Optimal Preconditioning and Fisher Adaptive Langevin Sampling
- NeurIPS 2023Practical and Asymptotically Exact Conditional Sampling in Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023Projection-Free Methods for Stochastic Simple Bilevel Optimization with Convex Lower-level Problem
- NeurIPS 2023PROTES: Probabilistic Optimization with Tensor Sampling
- NeurIPS 2023Provable benefits of annealing for estimating normalizing constants: Importance Sampling, Noise-Contrastive Estimation, and beyond
- NeurIPS 2023Reconciling Competing Sampling Strategies of Network Embedding
- NeurIPS 2023Rethinking Conditional Diffusion Sampling with Progressive Guidance
- NeurIPS 2023Sampling from Structured Log-Concave Distributions via a Soft-Threshold Dikin Walk
- NeurIPS 2023Sampling weights of deep neural networks
- NeurIPS 2023SEEDS: Exponential SDE Solvers for Fast High-Quality Sampling from Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023SOL: Sampling-based Optimal Linear bounding of arbitrary scalar functions
- NeurIPS 2023SpecTr: Fast Speculative Decoding via Optimal Transport
- NeurIPS 2023Stein $\Pi$-Importance Sampling
- NeurIPS 2023Stochastic Optimal Control for Collective Variable Free Sampling of Molecular Transition Paths
- NeurIPS 2023Structured Voronoi Sampling
- NeurIPS 2023Unbiased constrained sampling with Self-Concordant Barrier Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
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FAQ
- How many Sampling Methods papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 640 in total: 122 in 2023, 156 in 2024, 167 in 2025, 195 in 2026.
- How many Sampling Methods papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 64 Sampling Methods papers, versus 67 the year before.
- How many Sampling Methods papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 46 Sampling Methods papers, versus 48 the year before.
- How many Sampling Methods papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 71 Sampling Methods papers, versus 36 the year before.
- How many Sampling Methods papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 14 Sampling Methods papers, versus 16 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Sampling Methods papers?
- NeurIPS, with 221 papers from 2023 to 2026.