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)
Theoretical Guarantees for Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding
ACL 2025
Theoretical Insights in Model Inversion Robustness and Conditional Entropy Maximization for Collaborative Inference Systems
CVPR 2025
Theoretical Insights into Fine-Tuning Attention Mechanism: Generalization and Optimization
IJCAI 2025
Theoretical Limitations of Ensembles in the Age of Overparameterization
ICML 2025
Theoretically Unmasking Inference Attacks Against LDP-Protected Clients in Federated Vision Models
ICML 2025
Theoretical Performance Guarantees for Partial Domain Adaptation via Partial Optimal Transport
ICML 2025
Theory, Analysis, and Best Practices for Sigmoid Self-Attention
ICLR 2025
Theory-Inspired Deep Multi-View Multi-Label Learning with Incomplete Views and Noisy Labels
CVPR 2025
Theory of Agreement-on-the-Line in Linear Models and Gaussian Data
AISTATS 2025
Theory on Mixture-of-Experts in Continual Learning
ICLR 2025
Theory on Score-Mismatched Diffusion Models and Zero-Shot Conditional Samplers
ICLR 2025
The Perils of Optimizing Learned Reward Functions: Low Training Error Does Not Guarantee Low Regret
ICML 2025
The Pitfalls of Imitation Learning when Actions are Continuous
COLT 2025
The Pitfalls of Memorization: When Memorization Hurts Generalization
ICLR 2025
The Pivoting Framework: Frank-Wolfe Algorithms with Active Set Size Control
AISTATS 2025
The Polynomial Stein Discrepancy for Assessing Moment Convergence
ICML 2025
The Power of Random Features and the Limits of Distribution-Free Gradient Descent
ICML 2025
The Price of Freedom: Exploring Expressivity and Runtime Tradeoffs in Equivariant Tensor Products
ICML 2025
The Price of Linear Time: Error Analysis of Structured Kernel Interpolation
ICML 2025
The Progress Illusion: Revisiting meta-evaluation standards of LLM evaluators
EMNLP 2025
The Ranking Trick: A Simple and Robust Alternative to Score-Based Regression for AutoML
AutoML 2025
The Reasoning-Memorization Interplay in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction
ACL 2025
The Relationship Between No-Regret Learning and Online Conformal Prediction
ICML 2025
There’s No Such Thing as Simple Reasoning for LLMs
ACL 2025
The Role of Deductive and Inductive Reasoning in Large Language Models
ACL 2025