Optimization & Theory
7,804 papers (27 classified directly here)
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Papers (including subtopics)
When Do Models Actually Decide? Mapping the Layer-Wise Decision Timeline in Pretrained Neural Networks
CVPR 2026
When Efficiency Meets Safety: A Benchmark Security Analysis of KV Cache Compression in Large Language Models
ACL 2026
When Token Pruning is Worse than Random: Understanding Visual Token Information in VLLMs
CVPR 2026
Why "Classic" Transformers Are Shallow and A Depth-Enabling Technique
JMLR 2026
Why Does RL Generalize Better Than SFT? A Data-Centric Perspective on VLM Post-Training
CVPR 2026
Why Do More Experts Fail? A Theoretical Analysis of Model Merging
ACL 2026
Why Not Hyperparameter-Friendly Optimisation? A Monotonic Adaptive Norm Rescaling Approach For Long-Tailed Recognition
CVPR 2026
Why Supervised Fine-Tuning Fails to Learn: A Systematic Study of Incomplete Learning in Large Language Models
ACL 2026
WildPose: A Unified Framework for Robust Pose Estimation in the Wild
CVPR 2026
WiTTA-Bench: Benchmarking Test-Time Adaptation for WiFi Sensing
CVPR 2026
YOSE: You Only Select Essential Tokens for Efficient DiT-based Video Object Removal
CVPR 2026
Your Reasoning Model Knows What Counts: Self-Guided Chain-of-Thought Pruning for Efficient Reasoning
ACL 2026
ZoomR: Memory Efficient Reasoning through Multi-Granularity Key Value Retrieval
ACL 2026
1+1>2: A Synergistic Sparse and Low-Rank Compression Method for Large Language Models
EMNLP 2025
2DMamba: Efficient State Space Model for Image Representation with Applications on Giga-Pixel Whole Slide Image Classification
CVPR 2025
3D-RPE: Enhancing Long-Context Modeling Through 3D Rotary Position Encoding
AAAI 2025
5%>100%: Breaking Performance Shackles of Full Fine-Tuning on Visual Recognition Tasks
CVPR 2025
A4A: Adapter for Adapter Transfer via All-for-All Mapping for Cross-Architecture Models
CVPR 2025
AAIG at GenAI Detection Task 1: Exploring Syntactically-Aware, Resource-Efficient Small Autoregressive Decoders for AI Content Detection
COLING 2025
ABQ-LLM: Arbitrary-Bit Quantized Inference Acceleration for Large Language Models
AAAI 2025
Accelerate 3D Object Detection Models via Zero-Shot Attention Key Pruning
ICCV 2025
Accelerated Test-Time Scaling with Model-Free Speculative Sampling
EMNLP 2025
Accelerate Parallelizable Reasoning via Parallel Decoding within One Sequence
EMNLP 2025
Accelerating Adaptive Retrieval Augmented Generation via Instruction-Driven Representation Reduction of Retrieval Overlaps
ACL 2025
Accelerating Adversarial Training on Under-Utilized GPU
IJCAI 2025