Optimization & Theory
43,292 papers (3 classified directly here)
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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)
Hierarchical Schedule Optimization for Fast and Robust Diffusion Model Sampling
AAAI 2026
HierarNet: Independent Interactive Hierarchical Disease Outbreak Forecasting
AAAI 2026
HierSearch: A Hierarchical Enterprise Deep Search Framework Integrating Local and Web Searches
AAAI 2026
HiFi-Mamba: Dual-Stream ?-Laplacian Enhanced Mamba for High-Fidelity MRI Reconstruction
AAAI 2026
High-Accuracy Log-Concave Sampling with Stochastic Queries
COLT 2026
High-Dimensional Analysis of Gradient Flow for Extensive-Width Quadratic Neural Networks
JMLR 2026
High Dimensional Distributed Gradient Descent with Arbitrary Number of Byzantine Attackers
AAAI 2026
High-Dimensional Gaussian Mean Estimation under Realizable Contamination
COLT 2026
High-dimensional Parameter Transfer With Fused-Regularizer
JMLR 2026
High-Order Error Bounds for Markovian LSA with Richardson–Romberg Extrapolation
AAAI 2026
High-Pass Matters: Theoretical Insights and Sheaflet-Based Design for Hypergraph Neural Networks
AAAI 2026
High Probability Convergence Guarantees of Stochastic Gradient Descent Ascent in Structured Nonconvex Min-Max Games
COLT 2026
High-Rate Mixout: Revisiting Mixout for Robust Domain Generalization
WACV 2026
HiQ-Lip: A Hierarchical Quantum-Classical Method for Global Lipschitz Constant Estimation of ReLU Networks
AAAI 2026
HogVul: Black-box Adversarial Code Generation Framework Against LM-based Vulnerability Detectors
AAAI 2026
How Does the ReLU Activation Affect the Implicit Bias of Gradient Descent on High-dimensional Neural Network Regression?
COLT 2026
How fast can you find a good hypothesis?
COLT 2026
How Many Experts Are Enough? Towards Optimal Semantic Specialization for Mixture-of-Experts
AAAI 2026
How Many Features Can a Language Model Store Under the Linear Representation Hypothesis?
COLT 2026
How Many Ratings per Item are Necessary for Reliable Significance Testing?
EACL 2026
How Much Do Large Language Model Cheat on Evaluation? Benchmarking Overestimation Under the One-Time-Pad-Based Framework
AAAI 2026
How Robust Are Router-LLMs? Analysis of the Fragility of LLM Routing Capabilities
EACL 2026
How to Design and Train Your Implicit Neural Representation for Video Compression
WACV 2026
How to Efficiently Explore Noisy Historical Data? Leveraging Corpus Pre-Targeting to Enhance Graph-based RAG
EACL 2026
How to Set β_1, β_2 in Adam: An Online Learning Perspective
ALT 2026