Variational Inference papers, 2023–2026
VI and ELBO
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 359 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Variational Inference fell from 106 papers in 2023 to 91 in 2026, so interest is cooling.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Variational Inference work: 124 papers from 2023 to 2026, 35% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Sampling Methods: papers tagged with both rose from 1 in 2023 to 6 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Probabilistic and Bayesian, it ranks #5 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Gaussian Processes, is up 2.2x versus 0.9x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 44 | 34 | 22 | 6 | 106 |
| 2024 | 22 | 25 | 26 | 3 | 76 |
| 2025 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 2 | 86 |
| 2026 | 30 | 23 | 35 | 3 | 91 |
Representative papers
Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up
- NeurIPS 2026A Reproducible Evaluation Protocol for Quantum Non-Linearity in Variational Quantum Models
- ICML 2026Beyond Independence: Learning Correlated Views for Variational Incomplete Multi-View Clustering
- ICLR 2026Optimizing Data Augmentation through Bayesian Model Selection
- CVPR 2026BrepVGAE Variational Graph Autoencoder with Unified Latent Representation for B-rep
- NeurIPS 2025Covariate-moderated Empirical Bayes Matrix Factorization
- ICML 2025A Variational Information Theoretic Approach to Out-of-Distribution Detection
- ICLR 2025Bridging the Gap between Variational Inference and Stochastic Gradient MCMC in Function Space
- CVPR 2025Dora: Sampling and Benchmarking for 3D Shape Variational Auto-Encoders
- NeurIPS 2024Training Binary Neural Networks via Gaussian Variational Inference and Low-Rank Semidefinite Programming
- ICML 2024Amortized Variational Deep Kernel Learning
- ICLR 2024Causal Inference with Conditional Front-Door Adjustment and Identifiable Variational Autoencoder
- CVPR 2024WorDepth: Variational Language Prior for Monocular Depth Estimation
- NeurIPS 2023[Re] Variational Neural Cellular Automata
- ICML 2023Coupled Variational Autoencoder
- ICLR 2023A VAE for Transformers with Nonparametric Variational Information Bottleneck
- CVPR 2023Confidence-Aware Personalized Federated Learning via Variational Expectation Maximization
- NeurIPS 2026Adaptive Delayed-Update Cyclic Algorithm for Variational Inequalities
- ICML 2026Dual-stage Contrastive Learning-enhanced Multi-view Variational Clustering
- ICLR 2026Pareto Variational Autoencoder
- CVPR 2026Variational Graph-based Normal Integration
All Variational Inference papers
14 papers, page 1 of 1
- CVPR 2026BrepVGAE Variational Graph Autoencoder with Unified Latent Representation for B-rep
- CVPR 2026Variational Graph-based Normal Integration
- CVPR 2026VENI Variational Encoder for Natural Illumination
- CVPR 2025Dora: Sampling and Benchmarking for 3D Shape Variational Auto-Encoders
- CVPR 2025Robust Multimodal Survival Prediction with Conditional Latent Differentiation Variational AutoEncoder
- CVPR 2024Quantifying Uncertainty in Motion Prediction with Variational Bayesian Mixture
- CVPR 2024SeNM-VAE: Semi-Supervised Noise Modeling with Hierarchical Variational Autoencoder
- CVPR 2024WorDepth: Variational Language Prior for Monocular Depth Estimation
- CVPR 2023Catch Missing Details: Image Reconstruction With Frequency Augmented Variational Autoencoder
- CVPR 2023Confidence-Aware Personalized Federated Learning via Variational Expectation Maximization
- CVPR 2023CVT-SLR: Contrastive Visual-Textual Transformation for Sign Language Recognition With Variational Alignment
- CVPR 2023Discriminating Known From Unknown Objects via Structure-Enhanced Recurrent Variational AutoEncoder
- CVPR 2023Robust Outlier Rejection for 3D Registration With Variational Bayes
- CVPR 2023Weakly Supervised Segmentation With Point Annotations for Histopathology Images via Contrast-Based Variational Model
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FAQ
- How many Variational Inference papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 359 in total: 106 in 2023, 76 in 2024, 86 in 2025, 91 in 2026.
- How many Variational Inference papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 30 Variational Inference papers, versus 28 the year before.
- How many Variational Inference papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 23 Variational Inference papers, versus 28 the year before.
- How many Variational Inference papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 35 Variational Inference papers, versus 28 the year before.
- How many Variational Inference papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 3 Variational Inference papers, versus 2 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Variational Inference papers?
- NeurIPS, with 124 papers from 2023 to 2026.