Theory · online learning papers, 2023–2026

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.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• 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

89 papers, page 2 of 2

51. NeurIPS 2025On the necessity of adaptive regularisation: Optimal anytime online learning on $\boldsymbol{\ell_p}$-balls
52. NeurIPS 2025On the Universal Near Optimality of Hedge in Combinatorial Settings
53. NeurIPS 2025On Union-Closedness of Language Generation
54. NeurIPS 2025Online Bilateral Trade With Minimal Feedback: Don’t Waste Seller’s Time
55. NeurIPS 2025Online Inverse Linear Optimization: Efficient Logarithmic-Regret Algorithm, Robustness to Suboptimality, and Lower Bound
56. NeurIPS 2025Online Learning in the Repeated Mediated Newsvendor Problem
57. NeurIPS 2025Online Learning of Neural Networks
58. NeurIPS 2025Online Learning of Pure States is as Hard as Mixed States
59. NeurIPS 2025Online Locally Differentially Private Conformal Prediction via Binary Inquiries
60. NeurIPS 2025Online Mixture of Experts: No-Regret Learning for Optimal Collective Decision-Making
61. NeurIPS 2025Online Portfolio Selection with ML Predictions
62. NeurIPS 2025Online Prediction with Limited Selectivity
63. NeurIPS 2025Online robust locally differentially private learning for nonparametric regression
64. NeurIPS 2025Online Segment Any 3D Thing as Instance Tracking
65. NeurIPS 2025Online Two-Stage Submodular Maximization
66. NeurIPS 2025OnlineSplatter: Pose-Free Online 3D Reconstruction for Free-Moving Objects
67. NeurIPS 2025Optimal Mistake Bounds for Transductive Online Learning
68. NeurIPS 2025Optimal Online Change Detection via Random Fourier Features
69. NeurIPS 2025Outcome-Based Online Reinforcement Learning: Algorithms and Fundamental Limits
70. NeurIPS 2025Parameter-free Algorithms for the Stochastically Extended Adversarial Model
71. NeurIPS 2025Prediction with expert advice under additive noise
72. NeurIPS 2025Private Online Learning against an Adaptive Adversary: Realizable and Agnostic Settings
73. NeurIPS 2025Purest Quantum State Identification
74. NeurIPS 2025ReinFlow: Fine-tuning Flow Matching Policy with Online Reinforcement Learning
75. NeurIPS 2025Replicable Online Learning
76. NeurIPS 2025Replicable Online pricing
77. NeurIPS 2025Robust Contextual Pricing
78. NeurIPS 2025Robust Policy Expansion for Offline-to-Online RL under Diverse Data Corruption
79. NeurIPS 2025Sparse Optimistic Information Directed Sampling
80. NeurIPS 2025Statistical Guarantees for High-Dimensional Stochastic Gradient Descent
81. NeurIPS 2025Stochastic Shortest Path with Sparse Adversarial Costs
82. NeurIPS 2025Taming Adversarial Constraints in CMDPs
83. NeurIPS 2025The Structural Complexity of Matrix-Vector Multiplication
84. NeurIPS 2025Tradeoffs between Mistakes and ERM Oracle Calls in Online and Transductive Online Learning
85. NeurIPS 2025Trained Mamba Emulates Online Gradient Descent in In-Context Linear Regression
86. NeurIPS 2025Training-free Online Video Step Grounding
87. NeurIPS 2025True Impact of Cascade Length in Contextual Cascading Bandits
88. NeurIPS 2025Truthful Aggregation of LLMs with an Application to Online Advertising
89. NeurIPS 2025Uncoupled and Convergent Learning in Monotone Games under Bandit Feedback

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.