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
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
427 papers, page 7 of 9
- NeurIPS 2024Sequential Probability Assignment with Contexts: Minimax Regret, Contextual Shtarkov Sums, and Contextual Normalized Maximum Likelihood
- NeurIPS 2024Small steps no more: Global convergence of stochastic gradient bandits for arbitrary learning rates
- NeurIPS 2024Smoothed Online Classification can be Harder than Batch Classification
- NeurIPS 2024Sparsity-Agnostic Linear Bandits with Adaptive Adversaries
- NeurIPS 2024Stabilizing Linear Passive-Aggressive Online Learning with Weighted Reservoir Sampling
- NeurIPS 2024Stabilizing Zero-Shot Prediction: A Novel Antidote to Forgetting in Continual Vision-Language Tasks
- NeurIPS 2024State-free Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2024Stochastic contextual bandits with graph feedback: from independence number to MAS number
- NeurIPS 2024Strategic Linear Contextual Bandits
- NeurIPS 2024Strategic Littlestone Dimension: Improved Bounds on Online Strategic Classification
- NeurIPS 2024Strategic Multi-Armed Bandit Problems Under Debt-Free Reporting
- NeurIPS 2024Symmetric Linear Bandits with Hidden Symmetry
- NeurIPS 2024Taming Heavy-Tailed Losses in Adversarial Bandits and the Best-of-Both-Worlds Setting
- NeurIPS 2024Task Confusion and Catastrophic Forgetting in Class-Incremental Learning: A Mathematical Framework for Discriminative and Generative Modelings
- NeurIPS 2024Task-recency bias strikes back: Adapting covariances in Exemplar-Free Class Incremental Learning
- NeurIPS 2024Test-time Adaptation in Non-stationary Environments via Adaptive Representation Alignment
- NeurIPS 2024The Power of Resets in Online Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2024The Secretary Problem with Predicted Additive Gap
- NeurIPS 2024Thompson Sampling For Combinatorial Bandits: Polynomial Regret and Mismatched Sampling Paradox
- NeurIPS 2024Tight Rates for Bandit Control Beyond Quadratics
- NeurIPS 2024Towards Efficient and Optimal Covariance-Adaptive Algorithms for Combinatorial Semi-Bandits
- NeurIPS 2024Truthfulness of Calibration Measures
- NeurIPS 2024UDON: Universal Dynamic Online distillatioN for generic image representations
- NeurIPS 2024Universal Online Convex Optimization with $1$ Projection per Round
- NeurIPS 2024WATT: Weight Average Test Time Adaptation of CLIP
- NeurIPS 2024When Is Inductive Inference Possible?
- NeurIPS 2023$\varepsilon$-fractional core stability in Hedonic Games.
- NeurIPS 2023A Batch-to-Online Transformation under Random-Order Model
- NeurIPS 2023A Theory of Multimodal Learning
- NeurIPS 2023A Trichotomy for Transductive Online Learning
- NeurIPS 2023Adapting to Continuous Covariate Shift via Online Density Ratio Estimation
- NeurIPS 2023Adaptive Selective Sampling for Online Prediction with Experts
- NeurIPS 2023Adjustable Robust Reinforcement Learning for Online 3D Bin Packing
- NeurIPS 2023Adversarial Attacks on Online Learning to Rank with Click Feedback
- NeurIPS 2023Advice Querying under Budget Constraint for Online Algorithms
- NeurIPS 2023Alternation makes the adversary weaker in two-player games
- NeurIPS 2023An Improved Relaxation for Oracle-Efficient Adversarial Contextual Bandits
- NeurIPS 2023Anytime Model Selection in Linear Bandits
- NeurIPS 2023Attacks on Online Learners: a Teacher-Student Analysis
- NeurIPS 2023Bandit Social Learning under Myopic Behavior
- NeurIPS 2023Blocked Collaborative Bandits: Online Collaborative Filtering with Per-Item Budget Constraints
- NeurIPS 2023Cal-QL: Calibrated Offline RL Pre-Training for Efficient Online Fine-Tuning
- NeurIPS 2023Characterization of Overfitting in Robust Multiclass Classification
- NeurIPS 2023Common Ground in Cooperative Communication
- NeurIPS 2023Contextual Bandits and Imitation Learning with Preference-Based Active Queries
- NeurIPS 2023Discrete-Smoothness in Online Algorithms with Predictions
- NeurIPS 2023Efficient Adversarial Attacks on Online Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2023Efficient Online Clustering with Moving Costs
- NeurIPS 2023Fast Online Changepoint Detection via Functional Pruning CUSUM Statistics
- NeurIPS 2023Faster Relative Entropy Coding with Greedy Rejection Coding
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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.