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)
OptScale: Probabilistic Optimality for Inference-time Scaling
AAAI 2026
Ordered Local Momentum for Asynchronous Distributed Learning Under Arbitrary Delays
AAAI 2026
Ordinal Secretaries with Advice
AAAI 2026
Orion: Steering Personalized Web Agents via Global-Micro Profiling and Adaptive Intent Tracking
AAAI 2026
OR-R1: Automating Modeling and Solving of Operations Research Optimization Problem via Test-Time Reinforcement Learning
AAAI 2026
ORSO QGen: Odds-Ratio Steerable Optimization for Controlling Question Generation
EACL 2026
ORTCL: Towards Continual Learning of Time Series Foundation Models on Streaming Data via Orthogonal Rotation
AAAI 2026
ORVIT: Near-Optimal Online Distributionally Robust Reinforcement Learning
AAAI 2026
OT-ALD: Aligning Latent Distributions with Optimal Transport for Accelerated Image-to-Image Translation
AAAI 2026
Out of Distribution, Out of Luck: Process Rewards Misguide Reasoning Models
EACL 2026
Overcoming Dependent Censoring in the Evaluation of Survival Models
UAI 2026
Overlap Analysis of the Shortest Path Problem: Local Search, Landscapes, and Franz-Parisi Potential
COLT 2026
P2S: Probabilistic Process Supervision for General-Domain Reasoning Question Answering
AAAI 2026
PACT: Phase-Like Transition Constraints in Adapter-Based Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models
CVPR 2026
PAD-Hand: Physics-Aware Diffusion for Hand Motion Recovery
CVPR 2026
PAGPL: Privacy-Aware Graph Prompt Learning Scheme via Adaptive Perturbation-Estimated Topology Recovery
AAAI 2026
Pano-GS: Perception-Aware Gaussian Optimization with Gradient Consistency and Multi-Criteria Densification for High-Quality Rendering
AAAI 2026
ParaDySe: A Parallel Strategy Switching Framework for Dynamic Sequences in Transformer-based Large Language Models
AAAI 2026
Parallelizable Riemannian Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers for Non-convex Pose Graph Optimization
AAAI 2026
Parallel Training Time-to-First-Spike Spiking Neural Networks
AAAI 2026
Parameter-Efficient Routed Fine-Tuning: Mixture-of-Experts Demands Mixture of Adaptation Modules
EACL 2026
Parameter-free Optimal Rates for Nonlinear Semi-Norm Contractions with Applications to Q-Learning
AAAI 2026
Parametric Pareto Set Learning for Expensive Multi-Objective Optimization
AAAI 2026
Pareto-Grid-Guided Large Language Models for Fast and High-Quality Heuristics Design in Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization
AAAI 2026
ParetoHqD: Fast Offline Multiobjective Alignment of Large Language Models Using Pareto High-Quality Data
AAAI 2026