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)
PIPHEN: Physical Interaction Prediction with Hamiltonian Energy Networks
AAAI 2026
PIRA: Preference-Oriented Instruction-Tuned Reward Models with Dual Aggregation
EACL 2026
Plasticity vs. Rigidity: The Impact of Low-Rank Adapters on Reasoning on a Micro-Budget
EACL 2026
Plug-and-Play Optimization for 3D Gaussian Splatting Compression: Distribution Regularization, Probabilistic Pruning and Detail Compensation
AAAI 2026
PnP-CM: Consistency Models as Plug-and-Play Priors for Inverse Problems
CVPR 2026
POaaS: Minimal-Edit Prompt Optimization as a Service to Lift Accuracy and Cut Hallucinations on On-Device sLLMs
EACL 2026
Poisoned Distillation: Injecting Backdoors into Distilled Datasets Without Raw Data Access
AAAI 2026
Policy Newton Methods for Distortion Riskmetrics
AAAI 2026
Policy Optimization for Unknown Systems using Differentiable MPC
L4DC 2026
Position Encoding with Random Float Sampling Enhances Length Generalization of Transformers
EACL 2026
Positive Definite Sparse Covariance Estimation via Dual Space Optimization
AAAI 2026
Posterior Label Smoothing for Node Classification
AAAI 2026
Post-Hoc Refinement for Multitask Symbolic Regression via Consensus-Accelerated Shapley Analysis
AAAI 2026
PPFL: A Parameter Behavior-Driven Plug-in Personalization Engine for Federated Learning
AAAI 2026
Practical Global and Local Bounds in Gaussian Process Regression via Chaining
AAAI 2026
Precise Performance of Linear Denoisers in The Proportional Regime
L4DC 2026
PRECISE: Reducing the Bias of LLM Evaluations Using Prediction-Powered Ranking Estimation
AAAI 2026
Pre-DPO: Improving Data Utilization in Direct Preference Optimization Using a Guiding Reference Model
AAAI 2026
Preference Is More than Comparisons: Rethinking Dueling Bandits with Augmented Human Feedback
AAAI 2026
Preference Optimization via Contrastive Divergence: Your Policy Is Secretly an NLL Estimator
AAAI 2026
Preference Robustness for DPO with Applications to Public Health
AAAI 2026
Pre-Trained Video Generative Models as World Simulators
AAAI 2026
Price of metric universality in vector quantization is at most 0.11 bit
COLT 2026
Prime Once, then Reprogram Locally: An Efficient Alternative to Black-Box Service Model Adaptation
CVPR 2026
PRIMP: PRobabilistically-Informed Motion Primitives for Efficient Affordance Learning from Demonstration (Abstract Reprint)
AAAI 2026