Theory · online learning papers, 2023–2026
Theory area: online_learning
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 763 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Theory · online learning went from 164 papers in 2023 to 190 in 2026, roughly 1.2x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Theory · online learning work: 427 papers from 2023 to 2026, 56% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Simulation for Driving: papers tagged with both rose from 1 in 2023 to 12 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Theory and Statistics, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Theory · learning theory, is up 5.6x versus 1.2x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 101 | 17 | 39 | 7 | 164 |
| 2024 | 169 | 13 | 34 | 8 | 224 |
| 2025 | 89 | 18 | 74 | 4 | 185 |
| 2026 | 68 | 27 | 86 | 9 | 190 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026A Single-Sample Polylogarithmic Regret Bound for Nonstationary Online Linear Programming
- ICML 2026A Perturbation Approach to Unconstrained Linear Bandits
- ICLR 2026Rethinking Data Curation in LLM Training: Online Reweighting Offers Better Generalization than Offline Methods
- CVPR 2026An Optimal Transport-driven Approach for Cultivating Latent Space in Online
- NeurIPS 2025A Learning-Augmented Approach to Online Allocation Problems
- ICML 2025A Classification View on Meta Learning Bandits
- ICLR 2025Efficient Online Pruning and Abstraction for Imperfect Information Extensive-Form Games
- CVPR 2025InteractionMap: Improving Online Vectorized HDMap Construction with Interaction
- NeurIPS 2024A Best-of-both-worlds Algorithm for Bandits with Delayed Feedback with Robustness to Excessive Delays
- ICML 2024On Online Experimentation without Device Identifiers
- ICLR 2024Improved Regret Bounds for Non-Convex Online-Within-Online Meta Learning
- CVPR 2024Dual-Enhanced Coreset Selection with Class-wise Collaboration for Online Blurry Class Incremental Learning
- NeurIPS 2023$\varepsilon$-fractional core stability in Hedonic Games.
- ICML 2023Applied Online Algorithms with Heterogeneous Predictors
- ICLR 2023Hebbian Deep Learning Without Feedback
- CVPR 2023VisFusion: Visibility-Aware Online 3D Scene Reconstruction From Videos
- NeurIPS 2026A Theory of Adversary-Directed Online Learning
- ICML 2026A Two-Layer Framework for Joint Online Configuration Selection and Admission Control
- ICLR 2026A Statistical Learning Perspective on Semi-dual Adversarial Neural Optimal Transport Solvers
- CVPR 2026Dynamic Momentum Recalibration in Online Gradient Learning
All Theory · online learning papers
763 papers, page 15 of 16
- NeurIPS 2023No-Regret Learning with Unbounded Losses: The Case of Logarithmic Pooling
- NeurIPS 2023No-Regret Online Prediction with Strategic Experts
- NeurIPS 2023No-Regret Online Reinforcement Learning with Adversarial Losses and Transitions
- NeurIPS 2023Non-stationary Experimental Design under Linear Trends
- NeurIPS 2023On kernel-based statistical learning theory in the mean field limit
- NeurIPS 2023On the Learnability of Multilabel Ranking
- NeurIPS 2023On the Minimax Regret for Online Learning with Feedback Graphs
- NeurIPS 2023On the Sublinear Regret of GP-UCB
- NeurIPS 2023Online Ad Allocation with Predictions
- NeurIPS 2023Online Ad Procurement in Non-stationary Autobidding Worlds
- NeurIPS 2023Online Adaptive Policy Selection in Time-Varying Systems: No-Regret via Contractive Perturbations
- NeurIPS 2023Online Constrained Meta-Learning: Provable Guarantees for Generalization
- NeurIPS 2023Online Control for Meta-optimization
- NeurIPS 2023Online Convex Optimization with Unbounded Memory
- NeurIPS 2023Online Inventory Problems: Beyond the i.i.d. Setting with Online Convex Optimization
- NeurIPS 2023Online Label Shift: Optimal Dynamic Regret meets Practical Algorithms
- NeurIPS 2023Online learning of long-range dependencies
- NeurIPS 2023Online Learning under Adversarial Nonlinear Constraints
- NeurIPS 2023Online List Labeling with Predictions
- NeurIPS 2023Online Nonstochastic Model-Free Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2023Online PCA in Converging Self-consistent Field Equations
- NeurIPS 2023Online Performative Gradient Descent for Learning Nash Equilibria in Decision-Dependent Games
- NeurIPS 2023Online Pricing for Multi-User Multi-Item Markets
- NeurIPS 2023Online RL in Linearly $q^\pi$-Realizable MDPs Is as Easy as in Linear MDPs If You Learn What to Ignore
- NeurIPS 2023Online robust non-stationary estimation
- NeurIPS 2023Optimal Learners for Realizable Regression: PAC Learning and Online Learning
- NeurIPS 2023Optimal Rates for Bandit Nonstochastic Control
- NeurIPS 2023Optimistic Meta-Gradients
- NeurIPS 2023Optimistic Natural Policy Gradient: a Simple Efficient Policy Optimization Framework for Online RL
- NeurIPS 2023Partial Matrix Completion
- NeurIPS 2023Perceptual Kalman Filters: Online State Estimation under a Perfect Perceptual-Quality Constraint
- NeurIPS 2023Physion++: Evaluating Physical Scene Understanding that Requires Online Inference of Different Physical Properties
- NeurIPS 2023Policy Finetuning in Reinforcement Learning via Design of Experiments using Offline Data
- NeurIPS 2023Polynomial-Time Linear-Swap Regret Minimization in Imperfect-Information Sequential Games
- NeurIPS 2023Practical Contextual Bandits with Feedback Graphs
- NeurIPS 2023Projection-Free Online Convex Optimization via Efficient Newton Iterations
- NeurIPS 2023Quantifying & Modeling Multimodal Interactions: An Information Decomposition Framework
- NeurIPS 2023Regret-Optimal Model-Free Reinforcement Learning for Discounted MDPs with Short Burn-In Time
- NeurIPS 2023Reliable learning in challenging environments
- NeurIPS 2023Replicable Clustering
- NeurIPS 2023Residual Q-Learning: Offline and Online Policy Customization without Value
- NeurIPS 2023Reward-agnostic Fine-tuning: Provable Statistical Benefits of Hybrid Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2023Riemannian Projection-free Online Learning
- NeurIPS 2023Robust Knowledge Transfer in Tiered Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2023Selective Sampling and Imitation Learning via Online Regression
- NeurIPS 2023Sharp Spectral Rates for Koopman Operator Learning
- NeurIPS 2023Smoothed Analysis of Sequential Probability Assignment
- NeurIPS 2023Smoothed Online Learning for Prediction in Piecewise Affine Systems
- NeurIPS 2023Strategic Apple Tasting
- NeurIPS 2023Strategic Classification under Unknown Personalized Manipulation
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FAQ
- How many Theory · online learning papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 763 in total: 164 in 2023, 224 in 2024, 185 in 2025, 190 in 2026.
- How many Theory · online learning papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 68 Theory · online learning papers, versus 89 the year before.
- How many Theory · online learning papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 27 Theory · online learning papers, versus 18 the year before.
- How many Theory · online learning papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 86 Theory · online learning papers, versus 74 the year before.
- How many Theory · online learning papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 9 Theory · online learning papers, versus 4 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Theory · online learning papers?
- NeurIPS, with 427 papers from 2023 to 2026.