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)
FedSteer: Taming Extreme Gradient Staleness in Federated Learning with Corrective Projections and Caching
UAI 2026
Feedback Alignment Meets Low-Rank Manifolds: A Structured Recipe for Local Learning
WACV 2026
Few-for-Many Personalized Federated Learning
CVPR 2026
Finding the Signal in the Spam: Jointly Learning Rewards and Worker Reliability from Pairwise Comparisons
UAI 2026
Fine-grained Uncertainty Decomposition in Large Language Models: A Spectral Approach
AAAI 2026
Fine-Tuned LLMs Know They Don’t Know: A Parameter-Efficient Approach to Recovering Honesty
AAAI 2026
Fine-Tuning Sample Order Matters in Propositional Logical Question-Answering (Student Abstract)
AAAI 2026
Finite Neural Networks as Mixtures of Gaussian Processes: From Provable Error Bounds to Prior Selection
JMLR 2026
Finite Sample Bounds for Learning with Score Matching
COLT 2026
Finite-Sample Regret Analysis of Nash Q-Learning with Random-Feature Approximation
UAI 2026
Finite-Time Decoupled Convergence in Nonlinear Two-Time-Scale Stochastic Approximation
JMLR 2026
FinMathBench: A Formula-Driven Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs’ Math Reasoning Capabilities in Finance
AAAI 2026
Firing Bits Where It Matters: Spiking-Guided Just Recognizable Distortion Modeling for Machine-Centric Video Coding
AAAI 2026
First-Order Error Matters: Accurate Compensation for Quantized Large Language Models
AAAI 2026
Fixed-Confidence Best-Arm Identification for Causal Mediation Analysis
UAI 2026
FlashKAT: Understanding and Addressing Performance Bottlenecks in the Kolmogorov-Arnold Transformer
AAAI 2026
FlashVideo: Flowing Fidelity to Detail for Efficient High-Resolution Video Generation
AAAI 2026
FLAT-LLM: Fine-grained Low-rank Activation Space Transformation for Large Language Model Compression
EACL 2026
Flavors of Margin: Implicit Bias of Steepest Descent in Homogeneous Neural Networks
JMLR 2026
FlorE: Integrating Full Lorentz Group and Directional Offsets for Effective Knowledge Graph Embedding
AAAI 2026
Flow-Based Knowledge Transfer for Efficient Large Model Distillation
AAAI 2026
Flow-Induced Diagonal Gaussian Processes
AAAI 2026
FluidGaussian: Propagating Simulation-Based Uncertainty Toward Functionally-Intelligent 3D Reconstruction
CVPR 2026
FLUKE: A Linguistically-Driven and Task-Agnostic Framework for Robustness Evaluation
EACL 2026
Force-Aware 3D Contact Modeling for Stable Grasp Generation
AAAI 2026