Optimization & Theory
43,292 papers (3 classified directly here)
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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)
Repetition Makes Perfect: Recurrent Graph Neural Networks Match Message Passing Limit
AAAI 2026
Representation Collapse in Machine Translation Through the Lens of Angular Dispersion
EACL 2026
Resilient UAV Swarm with Fast Connectivity Recovery and Extensive Coverage
AAAI 2026
ResMAS: Resilience Optimization in LLM-based Multi-agent Systems
AAAI 2026
ResNet-GA: Evolutionary Deep Learning Models for Adversarial Defense (Student Abstract)
AAAI 2026
Resolving Predictive Multiplicity for the Rashomon Set
AAAI 2026
Re-SpS: A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Speculative Sampling
AAAI 2026
Rethinking AI: From Functions to Functors
AAAI 2026
Rethinking Crystal Symmetry Prediction: A Decoupled Perspective
AAAI 2026
Rethinking Data Mixing from the Perspective of Large Language Models
ACL 2026
Rethinking Data Mixture for Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey and New Perspectives
EACL 2026
Rethinking Dataset Distillation: Hard Truths about Soft Labels
CVPR 2026
Rethinking Deep Alignment Through the Lens of Incomplete Safety Learning
AAAI 2026
Rethinking Direct Preference Optimization in Diffusion Models
AAAI 2026
Rethinking Hallucinations: Correctness, Consistency, and Prompt Multiplicity
EACL 2026
Rethinking Model Selection in VLM Through the Lens of Gromov-Wasserstein Distance
CVPR 2026
Rethinking Real Image Editing: Unleashing Diverse Editing Operators via Multi-Objective Optimization
WACV 2026
Rethinking Saliency Maps: A Cognitive Human Aligned Taxonomy and Evaluation Framework for Explanations
AAAI 2026
Rethinking the Dark Knowledge and Kullback-Leibler Divergence Loss in Knowledge Distillation Under Capacity Mismatching
AAAI 2026
Rethinking the Sampling Criteria in Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning: A Competence-Difficulty Alignment Perspective
AAAI 2026
Reusing Samples in Variance Reduction
ALT 2026
Revealing Redundant Syntax in Large Language Models through Multi-Hop Dependency Paths
EACL 2026
Revisiting Differentiable Structure Learning: Inconsistency of L1 Penalty and Beyond
AAAI 2026
Revisiting Generalization Across Difficulty Levels: It’s Not So Easy
EACL 2026
Revisiting Layer Normalization for Point Cloud Test Time Adaptation
WACV 2026