Optimization & Theory
7,804 papers (27 classified directly here)
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Papers (including subtopics)
Motivating Next-Gen Accelerators with Flexible N:M Activation Sparsity via Benchmarking Lightweight Post-Training Sparsification Approaches
ACL 2026
MPK: A Compiler and Runtime for Mega-Kernelizing Tensor Programs
OSDI 2026
MuKV: Multi-Grained KV Cache Compression for Long Streaming Video Question-Answering
CVPR 2026
Multinex: Lightweight Low-light Image Enhancement via Multi-prior Retinex
CVPR 2026
Multi-Patch Global-to-Local Transformer Architecture For Efficient Flow Matching and Diffusion Model
CVPR 2026
NAMI: Efficient Image Generation via Bridged Progressive Rectified Flow Transformers
CVPR 2026
Native Hybrid Attention for Efficient Sequence Modeling
ACL 2026
Nested Subspace Learning with Flags
JMLR 2026
Neural Differentiation in Deep Networks: A Theoretical Framework for Expressivity and Representational Diversity
CVPR 2026
Nonlocal Techniques for the Analysis of Deep ReLU Neural Network Approximations
JMLR 2026
Not All Directions Matter: Towards Structured and Task-Aware Low-Rank Model Adaptation
ACL 2026
NTK-Guided Implicit Neural Teaching
CVPR 2026
NuWa: Deriving Lightweight Class-Specific Vision Transformers for Edge Devices
CVPR 2026
OCP: Outlier-Centric Probing for Dynamic Structured Pruning of LLMs
ACL 2026
Octopus: Gated Selective Attention for Memory-Bounded Long-Context Inference in Large Language Models
ACL 2026
ODEt(ODEl): Shortcutting the Time and the Length in Diffusion and Flow Models for Faster Sampling
WACV 2026
One-Cycle Structured Pruning via Stability-Driven Subnetwork Search
WACV 2026
One Layer's Trash is Another Layer's Treasure: Adaptive Layer-wise Visual Token Selection in LVLMs
CVPR 2026
On the Convergence of Overparameterized Problems: Inherent Properties of the Compositional Structure of Neural Networks
L4DC 2026
On the Convergence of Self-Improving Online LLM Alignment
UAI 2026
On the Equivalence of Random Network Distillation, Deep Ensembles, and Bayesian Inference
UAI 2026
On the implicit regularization of Langevin dynamics with projected noise
COLT 2026
On the Role of Temporal Granularity in the Robustness of Spiking Neural Networks
CVPR 2026
On the Stability of Nonlinear Dynamics in GD and SGD: Beyond Quadratic Potentials
COLT 2026
Optimal Approximation and Generalization Errors for Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
JMLR 2026