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)
SAFE: Finding Sparse and Flat Minima to Improve Pruning
ICML 2025
Safe Online Convex Optimization with Heavy-Tailed Observation Noises
AAAI 2025
SAFER: A Calibrated Risk-Aware Multimodal Recommendation Model for Dynamic Treatment Regimes
ICML 2025
SAFER: Sharpness Aware layer-selective Finetuning for Enhanced Robustness in vision transformers
ICCV 2025
Safety Alignment Should be Made More Than Just a Few Tokens Deep
ICLR 2025
Safety in the Face of Adversity: Achieving Zero Constraint Violation in Online Learning with Slowly Changing Constraints
AISTATS 2025
Sail into the Headwind: Alignment via Robust Rewards and Dynamic Labels against Reward Hacking
ICLR 2025
SAIL: Sample-Centric In-Context Learning for Document Information Extraction
AAAI 2025
SAKE: Steering Activations for Knowledge Editing
ACL 2025
SalaMAnder: Shapley-based Mathematical Expression Attribution and Metric for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
EMNLP 2025
SAMO: A Lightweight Sharpness-Aware Approach for Multi-Task Optimization with Joint Global-Local Perturbation
ICCV 2025
Sample and Computationally Efficient Continuous-Time Reinforcement Learning with General Function Approximation
UAI 2025
Sample and Oracle Efficient Reinforcement Learning for MDPs with Linearly-Realizable Value Functions
COLT 2025
Sample-aware Adaptive Structured Pruning for Large Language Models
AAAI 2025
Sample Complexity of Branch-length Estimation by Maximum Likelihood
ICML 2025
Sample Complexity of Correlation Detection in the Gaussian Wigner Model
ICML 2025
Sample Complexity of Linear Regression Models for Opinion Formation in Networks
AAAI 2025
Sample Complexity of Nonparametric Closeness Testing for Continuous Distributions and Its Application to Causal Discovery with Hidden Confounding
CLeaR 2025
Sample Complexity of the Linear Quadratic Regulator: A Reinforcement Learning Lens
JMLR 2025
Sample Compression Scheme Reductions
ALT 2025
Sample Compression Unleashed: New Generalization Bounds for Real Valued Losses
AISTATS 2025
Sample Efficient Demonstration Selection for In-Context Learning
ICML 2025
Sample-Efficient Language Modeling with Linear Attention and Lightweight Enhancements
EMNLP 2025
Sample Efficient Omniprediction and Downstream Swap Regret for Non-Linear Losses
COLT 2025
Sample-Efficient Online Control Policy Learning with Real-Time Recursive Model Updates
CoRL 2025