Optimization & Theory
43,292 papers (3 classified directly here)
Subtopics · a paper can sit in several, so these overlap
Optimization (17,731)
Learning Theory (6,809)
Bayesian Inference (6,267)
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)
Nonlinear transformers can perform inference-time feature learning
ICML 2025
Non-myopic Generation of Language Models for Reasoning and Planning
ICLR 2025
Non-Obvious Manipulability in Additively Separable and Fractional Hedonic Games
IJCAI 2025
Nonparametric Identification of Latent Concepts
ICML 2025
Nonparametric Modern Hopfield Models
ICML 2025
Nonparametric Regression on Random Geometric Graphs Sampled from Submanifolds
JMLR 2025
Non-stationary Online Learning for Curved Losses: Improved Dynamic Regret via Mixability
ICML 2025
Non-stochastic Bandits With Evolving Observations
ALT 2025
Non-stochastic Budgeted Online Pricing with Semi-Bandit Feedback
AAAI 2025
No Preference Left Behind: Group Distributional Preference Optimization
ICLR 2025
No-Regret is not enough! Bandits with General Constraints through Adaptive Regret Minimization
ICML 2025
No Regret Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Online Scheduling with Multi-Stage Tasks
IJCAI 2025
NormAL LoRA: What is the perfect size?
EMNLP 2025
Norm of Mean Contextualized Embeddings Determines their Variance
COLING 2025
No Simple Answer to Data Complexity: An Examination of Instance-Level Complexity Metrics for Classification Tasks
NAACL 2025
Not All Adapters Matter: Selective Adapter Freezing for Memory-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Language Models
NAACL 2025
Not All Language Model Features Are One-Dimensionally Linear
ICLR 2025
Not All Parameters Matter: Masking Diffusion Models for Enhancing Generation Ability
CVPR 2025
Not all solutions are created equal: An analytical dissociation of functional and representational similarity in deep linear neural networks
ICML 2025
Not All Wrong is Bad: Using Adversarial Examples for Unlearning
ICML 2025
Not a nuisance but a useful heuristic: Outlier dimensions favor frequent tokens in language models
EMNLP 2025
Not-Just-Scaling Laws: Towards a Better Understanding of the Downstream Impact of Language Model Design Decisions
EMNLP 2025
Not quite Sherlock Holmes: Language model predictions do not reliably differentiate impossible from improbable events
ACL 2025
NovAScore: A New Automated Metric for Evaluating Document Level Novelty
COLING 2025
NovelHopQA: Diagnosing Multi-Hop Reasoning Failures in Long Narrative Contexts
EMNLP 2025