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)
Steepest Descent Density Control for Compact 3D Gaussian Splatting
CVPR 2025
Steering Knowledge Selection Behaviours in LLMs via SAE-Based Representation Engineering
NAACL 2025
Steering Large Language Models between Code Execution and Textual Reasoning
ICLR 2025
Steering off Course: Reliability Challenges in Steering Language Models
ACL 2025
Steering Protein Family Design through Profile Bayesian Flow
ICLR 2025
Steering Protein Language Models
ICML 2025
SteerX: Creating Any Camera-Free 3D and 4D Scenes with Geometric Steering
ICCV 2025
Step-DAD: Semi-Amortized Policy-Based Bayesian Experimental Design
ICML 2025
Step Guided Reasoning: Improving Mathematical Reasoning using Guidance Generation and Step Reasoning
EMNLP 2025
Step-KTO: Optimizing Mathematical Reasoning through Stepwise Binary Feedback
EMNLP 2025
STEPS: Sequential Probability Tensor Estimation for Text-to-Image Hard Prompt Search
CVPR 2025
Stepwise Informativeness Search for Improving LLM Reasoning
EMNLP 2025
Stepwise Perplexity-Guided Refinement for Efficient Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models
ACL 2025
Stepwise Reasoning Checkpoint Analysis: A Test Time Scaling Method to Enhance LLMs’ Reasoning
EMNLP 2025
S*: Test Time Scaling for Code Generation
EMNLP 2025
STIMULUS: Achieving Fast Convergence and Low Sample Complexity in Stochastic Multi-Objective Learning
UAI 2025
StitchLLM: Serving LLMs, One Block at a Time
ACL 2025
Stochastic Approximation with Unbounded Markovian Noise: A General-Purpose Theorem
AISTATS 2025
Stochastic Bandits Robust to Adversarial Attacks
ICLR 2025
Stochastic Chameleons: Irrelevant Context Hallucinations Reveal Class-Based (Mis)Generalization in LLMs
ACL 2025
Stochastic Compositional Minimax Optimization with Provable Convergence Guarantees
AISTATS 2025
Stochastic Control for Fine-tuning Diffusion Models: Optimality, Regularity, and Convergence
ICML 2025
Stochastic Deep Restoration Priors for Imaging Inverse Problems
ICML 2025
Stochastic Forward–Backward Deconvolution: Training Diffusion Models with Finite Noisy Datasets
ICML 2025
Stochastic Gradient Estimation for Higher-Order Differentiable Rendering
ICCV 2025