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)
The Best of Both Worlds: Bridging Quality and Diversity in Data Selection with Bipartite Graph
ICML 2025
The Breakdown of Gaussian Universality in Classification of High-dimensional Linear Factor Mixtures
ICLR 2025
The Butterfly Effect: Neural Network Training Trajectories Are Highly Sensitive to Initial Conditions
ICML 2025
The Causal Information Bottleneck and Optimal Causal Variable Abstractions
UAI 2025
The Complexity of Extending Fair Allocations of Indivisible Goods
AAAI 2025
The Complexity of Learning Sparse Superposed Features with Feedback
ICML 2025
The Complexity of Sequential Prediction in Dynamical Systems
L4DC 2025
The Complexity of Two-Team Polymatrix Games with Independent Adversaries
ICLR 2025
The Computational Complexity of Circuit Discovery for Inner Interpretability
ICLR 2025
The Core of Approval-Based Committee Elections with Few Seats
IJCAI 2025
The Cost Perspective of Liquid Democracy: Feasibility and Control
AAAI 2025
The Crucial Role of Samplers in Online Direct Preference Optimization
ICLR 2025
The Curse of Conditions: Analyzing and Improving Optimal Transport for Conditional Flow-Based Generation
ICCV 2025
The Devil Is in the Details: Tackling Unimodal Spurious Correlations for Generalizable Multimodal Reward Models
ICML 2025
The Directionality of Optimization Trajectories in Neural Networks
ICLR 2025
The Distributional Reward Critic Framework for Reinforcement Learning Under Perturbed Rewards
AAAI 2025
The Effectiveness of Curvature-Based Rewiring and the Role of Hyperparameters in GNNs Revisited
ICLR 2025
The Effect of SGD Batch Size on Autoencoder Learning: Sparsity, Sharpness, and Feature Learning
JMLR 2025
The Emperor’s New Reasoning: Format Imitation Overshadows Genuine Mathematical Understanding in SFT
EMNLP 2025
The (Exact) Price of Cardinality for Indivisible Goods: A Parametric Perspective
AAAI 2025
The Exception of Humor: Iconicity, Phonemic Surprisal, Memory Recall, and Emotional Associations
COLING 2025
The First Theoretical Approximation Guarantees for the Non-Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm III (NSGA-III)
IJCAI 2025
The Foundations of Tokenization: Statistical and Computational Concerns
ICLR 2025
The Fundamental Limits of Recovering Planted Subgraphs (extended abstract)
COLT 2025
The GeometricKernels Package: Heat and Matérn Kernels for Geometric Learning on Manifolds, Meshes, and Graphs
JMLR 2025