Optimization & Theory
43,292 papers (3 classified directly here)
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Optimization (17,731)
Learning Theory (6,809)
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Theory (5,579)
Statistical Learning (4,564)
Neural Network Optimization (4,155)
Stochastic Processes (2,948)
Stochastic Methods (1,283)
Loss Functions (1,220)
Distributed Learning (1,202)
Online Algorithms (1,013)
Statistics (822)
Generalization (376)
Information Theory (370)
Sample Complexity (282)
Sparse Optimization (241)
Game Theory (151)
Convex Optimization (132)
Optimal Transport (104)
Robust Optimization (84)
Distributed Optimization (73)
Approximation Algorithms (33)
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Papers (including subtopics)
Efficient Hallucination Detection: Adaptive Bayesian Estimation of Semantic Entropy with Guided Semantic Exploration
AAAI 2026
Efficient Learning and Symmetry Discovery under Exact Invariances
COLT 2026
Efficiently Seeking Flat Minima for Better Generalization in Fine-Tuning Large Language Models and Beyond
AAAI 2026
Efficient Model Specialization via Training-time and Test-time Adaptation
AAAI 2026
EfficientMonoHair: Fast Strand-Level Reconstruction from Monocular Video via Multi-View Direction Fusion
CVPR 2026
Efficient Opportunistic Approachability
ALT 2026
Efficient Post-Training Refinement of Latent Reasoning in Large Language Models
AAAI 2026
Efficient Preference Alignment via Pareto Exploration (Student Abstract)
AAAI 2026
Efficient Protein Optimization via Structure-aware Hamiltonian Dynamics
AAAI 2026
Efficient Q-Learning and Actor–Critic Methods for Robust Average-Reward Reinforcement Learning.
UAI 2026
Efficient Reasoning for Large Reasoning Language Models via Certainty-Guided Reflection Suppression
AAAI 2026
Efficient Rule Induction by Ignoring Pointless Rules
AAAI 2026
Efficient, Secure, Differentially Private Deep Learning in the Two-Server Model
AAAI 2026
Efficient Solution and Learning of Robust Factored MDPs
AAAI 2026
Efficient Swap Multicalibration of Elicitable Properties
COLT 2026
Efficient Thought Space Exploration Through Strategic Intervention
AAAI 2026
Efficient Verification and Falsification of ReLU Neural Barrier Certificates
AAAI 2026
ElastoGen: 4D Generative Elastodynamics
AAAI 2026
Eliciting Chain-of-Thought in Base LLMs via Gradient-Based Representation Optimization
AAAI 2026
Elite Pattern Reinforcement for Vehicle Routing Problems
AAAI 2026
ELSPR: Evaluator LLM Training Data Self-Purification on Non-Transitive Preferences via Tournament Graph Reconstruction
AAAI 2026
Emergent Fast-Slow Dynamics in Multi-Agent Q-Learning for Networked Stochastic Games
AAAI 2026
Enabling Autoregressive Models to Fill In Masked Tokens
EACL 2026
ENCORE: Entropy-guided Reward Composition for Multi-head Safety Reward Models
AAAI 2026
End-to-End Fine-Tuning of 3D Texture Generation using Differentiable Rewards
WACV 2026