Optimization & Theory
43,292 papers (3 classified directly here)
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Optimization (17,731)
Learning Theory (6,809)
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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)
MUSE: Multimodal Uncertainty-Based Self-Driven Evolution for Robust Physiological-Signal–Based Driver Fatigue Detection
AAAI 2026
Nanoporous Materials Discovery via Search Bias-Guided Surrogate Modeling
AAAI 2026
Navigating the Alpha Jungle: An LLM-Powered MCTS Framework for Formulaic Alpha Factor Mining
AAAI 2026
Near-Exponential Convergence Rates for kNN Classifications based on Boltzmann Margin
UAI 2026
Nearly Linear-Time User-Level DP-SCO with Optimal Rates
COLT 2026
Nearly Minimax Discrete Distribution Estimation in Kullback-Leibler Divergence with High Probability
ALT 2026
Near Optimal Convergence to Coarse Correlated Equilibrium in General-Sum Markov Games
L4DC 2026
Near-optimal Delta-convex Estimation of Lipschitz Functions
JMLR 2026
Near-Optimal Regret for Distributed Adversarial Bandits: A Black-Box Approach
COLT 2026
Near-optimal Swap Regret Minimization for Convex Losses
COLT 2026
Nemotron-CrossThink: Scaling Self-Learning beyond Math Reasoning
EACL 2026
NeuPAN: Direct Point Robot Navigation with End-to-End Model-Based Learning (Abstract Reprint)
AAAI 2026
Neural Architecture and Hyperparameter Selection Through Meta-Learning on Time Series
AAAI 2026
Neural Collapse-Informed Initialization with Perturbation Injection in Classification-based Metric Learning
AAAI 2026
Neural Geometry Image-Based Representations with Optimal Transport (OT)
WACV 2026
Neural Tangent Kernels Under Stochastic Data Augmentation
AAAI 2026
Neural Video Compression with Reference Hierarchy
AAAI 2026
Next Generation of Empirical Performance Prediction
AAAI 2026
NGTM: Substructure-based Neural Graph Topic Model for Interpretable Graph Generation
AAAI 2026
Nonparametric generative modeling for time series via Schrödinger bridge
JMLR 2026
No-Regret Strategy Solving in Imperfect-Information Games via Pre-Trained Embedding
AAAI 2026
No Scale Sensitive Dimension for Distribution Learning
ALT 2026
Not Just for Archiving: Provable Benefits of Reusing the Archive in Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization
AAAI 2026
NUS-IDS at AMIYA/VarDial 2026: Improving Arabic Dialectness in LLMs with Reinforcement Learning
EACL 2026
ODEt(ODEl): Shortcutting the Time and the Length in Diffusion and Flow Models for Faster Sampling
WACV 2026