Optimization & Theory
7,804 papers (27 classified directly here)
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Papers (including subtopics)
Beyond scalar losses: calibrating segmentation models via gradient vector field surgery
MIDL 2026
Beyond Single Solution: Multi-Hypothesis Deep Unfolding Network for Image Compressive Sensing
CVPR 2026
Beyond Soft Label: Dataset Distillation via Orthogonal Gradient Matching
CVPR 2026
Beyond Static Benchmarks: Synthesizing Harmful Content via Persona-based Simulation for Robust Evaluation
ACL 2026
Beyond Unconstrained Features: Neural Collapse for Shallow Neural Networks with General Data
JMLR 2026
Bias In, Bias Out? Finding Unbiased Subnetworks in Vanilla Models
CVPR 2026
BinaryAttention: One-Bit QK-Attention for Vision and Diffusion Transformers
CVPR 2026
Bit-by-Bit: Progressive QAT Strategy with Outlier Channel Splitting for Stable Low-Bit LLMs
ACL 2026
Block-based Learned Image Compression without Blocking Artifacts
CVPR 2026
BOSCH: Black-Box Binary Optimization for Short-Context Attention-Head Selection in LLMs
ACL 2026
Brain Tumor Growth Inversion via Differentiable Neural Surrogates
MIDL 2026
Breaking Block Boundaries: Anchor-based History-stable Decoding for Diffusion Large Language Models
ACL 2026
Bridging Domain Expertise and Generalization for Performance Estimation
CVPR 2026
BTC-LLM: Efficient Sub-1-Bit LLM Quantization via Learnable Transformation and Binary Codebook
ACL 2026
BWLA: Breaking the Barrier of W1AX Post-Training Quantization for LLMs
ACL 2026
C^2FG: Control Classifier-Free Guidance via Score Discrepancy Analysis
CVPR 2026
Calibrated Speculative Decoding: Frequency-Guided Candidate Selection for Efficient Inference
ACL 2026
Can LLM Safety Be Ensured by Constraining Parameter Regions?
ACL 2026
Can Spectral-Clipping Enable Better Learning While Forgetting Less for Low-Rank Adaptation?
ACL 2026
CaT-GS: Efficient 3DGS Rendering for Large-Scale Scenes with Inter-frame Caching and Tile Scheduling
CVPR 2026
Cat-MoD: Accelerating Multimodal Alignment via Caption Token Guided Asymmetric Mixture-of-Depths
ACL 2026
Chain-of-Models Pre-Training: Rethinking Training Acceleration of Vision Foundation Models
CVPR 2026
Chain-of-Thought Compression Should Not Be Blind: V-Skip for Efficient Multimodal Reasoning via Dual-Path Anchoring
ACL 2026
Characterizing the Expressivity of Local Attention in Transformers
ACL 2026
Clair Obscur: an Illumination-Aware Method for Real-World Image Vectorization
CVPR 2026