Optimization & Theory
7,804 papers (27 classified directly here)
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Papers (including subtopics)
A Mean-Field Analysis of Neural Stochastic Gradient Descent-Ascent for Functional Minimax Optimization
JMLR 2026
Anatomical Longitudinal Cortical Surface Registration
MIDL 2026
A Natural Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient Method for Adversarial Neural Network Training on Solving Partial Differential Equation
JMLR 2026
Anchoring the Cache: Mitigating Contextual Hallucination in KV-Compressed Long-Context Summarization
ACL 2026
Annotation Entropy Predicts Per-Example Learning Dynamics in LoRA Fine-Tuning
ACL 2026
Anti-Length Shift: Dynamic Outlier Truncation for Training Efficient Reasoning Models
ACL 2026
ApET: Approximation-Error Guided Token Compression for Efficient VLMs
CVPR 2026
ARCQuant: Boosting NVFP4 Quantization with Augmented Residual Channels for LLMs
ACL 2026
Asymptotics of Stochastic Gradient Descent with Dropout Regularization in Linear Models
JMLR 2026
ATGL: An Adaptive-Threshold Global Loss for Document-level Relation Extraction
ACL 2026
Attack of the Bubbles: Straggler-Resilient Pipeline Parallelism for Large Model Training
NSDI 2026
Attention-aware Inference Optimizations for Large Vision-Language Models with Memory-efficient Decoding
CVPR 2026
Attention, May I Have Your Decision? Localizing Generative Choices in Diffusion Models
CVPR 2026
Attention Sinks Are Provably Necessary in Softmax Transformers: Evidence from Trigger-Conditional Tasks
ACL 2026
Attention Surgery: An Efficient Recipe to Linearize Your Video Diffusion Transformer
CVPR 2026
A Unified Framework for Knowledge Transfer in Bidirectional Model Scaling
CVPR 2026
AVGGT: Rethinking Global Attention for Accelerating VGGT
CVPR 2026
Balanced Dataset Distillation via Modeling Multiple Visual Pattern Distribution
CVPR 2026
BALM: A Model-Agnostic Framework for Balanced Multimodal Learning under Imbalanced Missing Rates
CVPR 2026
BaseCal: Unsupervised Confidence Calibration via Base Model Signals
ACL 2026
Batch Loss Score for Dynamic Data Pruning
CVPR 2026
BEA-GS: BEyond RAdiance Supervision in 3DGS for Precise Object Extraction
CVPR 2026
Beyond Fixed Formulas: Data-Driven Linear Predictor for Efficient Diffusion Models
CVPR 2026
Beyond Myopic Alignment: Lookahead Optimization for Online Class-Incremental Learning
CVPR 2026
Beyond Real Weights: Hypercomplex Representations for Stable Quantization
WACV 2026