Optimization & Theory
7,804 papers (27 classified directly here)
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Papers (including subtopics)
Semantically Comprehensive Token Pruning in LVLMs via Maximizing Concept Coverage
ACL 2026
SenCache: Accelerating Diffusion Model Inference via Sensitivity-Aware Caching
CVPR 2026
Shallow Neural Networks Learn Low-Degree Spherical Polynomials with Feature Learning by Learnable Channel Attention
ALT 2026
Sherry: Hardware-Efficient 1.25-Bit Ternary Quantization via Fine-grained Sparsification
ACL 2026
ShiftLUT: Spatial Shift Enhanced Look-Up Tables for Efficient Image Restoration
CVPR 2026
Single-Pass, Depth-Selective Reading for Multi-Aspect Sentiment Analysis
ACL 2026
SJD-PAC: Accelerating Speculative Jacobi Decoding via Proactive Drafting and Adaptive Continuation
CVPR 2026
SkelSplat: Robust Multi-view 3D Human Pose Estimation with Differentiable Gaussian Rendering
WACV 2026
Skullptor: High Fidelity 3D Head Reconstruction in Seconds with Multi-View Normal Prediction
CVPR 2026
Smoothing the Score Function to Enhance Generalization in Diffusion Models
CVPR 2026
SODA: Sensitivity-Oriented Dynamic Acceleration for Diffusion Transformer
CVPR 2026
SoftCAM: Making black box models self-explainable for medical image analysis
MIDL 2026
SparVAR: Exploring Sparsity in Visual AutoRegressive Modeling for Training-Free Acceleration
CVPR 2026
Spectral Characterization and Mitigation of Sequential Knowledge Editing Collapse
ACL 2026
SpiderFlow: Efficient Topology-Aware Scheduling for LLM Training Across Decentralized GPU Clusters
ACL 2026
SpotEdit: Selective Region Editing in Diffusion Transformers
CVPR 2026
SSM-Aware Token-Efficient VMamba via Adaptive Patch Pruning and Merging for Person Re-Identification
CVPR 2026
Stabilizing Feature Geometry in Noisy Pretrained Models for Robust Downstream Tasks
CVPR 2026
Statistical Learning Theory for Neural Operators
JMLR 2026
STDE++: Polynomial-Time Amortization for Linear Differential Operators
JMLR 2026
SToRe3D: Sparse Token Relevance in ViTs for Efficient Multi-View 3D Object Detection
CVPR 2026
Syncopate: Efficient Multi-GPU AI Kernels via Automatic Chunk-Centric Compute-Communication Overlap
OSDI 2026
TabReX: Tabular Referenceless eXplainable Evaluation
ACL 2026
Taming Extreme Tokens: Covariance-Aware GRPO with Gaussian-Kernel Advantage Reweighting
ACL 2026
Taming Sampling Perturbations with Variance Expansion Loss for Latent Diffusion Models
CVPR 2026