Optimization & Theory
43,292 papers (3 classified directly here)
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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)
Sparse Poisson Gamma Belief Networks for High-Dimensional Sparse Count Data
AAAI 2026
Sparse recovery of Diffusion Dynamics: Handling High-Dimensionality in Repeated Short Trajectories
UAI 2026
SparseRM: A Lightweight Preference Modeling with Sparse Autoencoder
AAAI 2026
Sparse Topic Modeling via Spectral Decomposition and Thresholding
JMLR 2026
Spatial-Temporal Feedback Diffusion Guidance for Controlled Traffic Imputation
AAAI 2026
Spatio-Temporal Context Learning with Temporal Difference Convolution for Moving Infrared Small Target Detection
AAAI 2026
Spatio-Temporal Hierarchical Causal Models
AAAI 2026
Specification-Guided Reinforcement Learning
AAAI 2026
Spectral Basis Learning for Expressive Graph Neural Networks in Link Prediction
AAAI 2026
Spectrally Adaptive Channel-aware Unrolling Network for Compressed Sensing
AAAI 2026
Speculative Decoding Speed-of-Light: Optimal Lower Bounds via Branching Random Walks
EACL 2026
SpikCommander: A High-performance Spiking Transformer with Multi-view Learning for Efficient Speech Command Recognition
AAAI 2026
Split-Layer: Enhancing Implicit Neural Representation by Maximizing the Dimensionality of Feature Space
AAAI 2026
SSplain: Sparse and Smooth Explainer for Retinopathy of Prematurity Classification
WACV 2026
SSTODE: Ocean-Atmosphere Physics-Informed Neural ODEs for Sea Surface Temperature Prediction
AAAI 2026
Stabilizing Direct Training of Spiking Neural Networks: Membrane Potential Initialization and Threshold-robust Surrogate Gradient
WACV 2026
Stabilizing Policy Gradient Methods via Reward Profiling
AAAI 2026
Stabilizing Spiking Neurons Through Biologically Inspired Polarization
AAAI 2026
Stable algorithms Lower Bounds for Estimation from MMSE Discontinuities: Extended Abstract
COLT 2026
Stable and Adaptive Fusion for Multi-domain Multi-task Recommendation
AAAI 2026
Stable Mean Flow: Lyapunov-Inspired One-Step Flow Matching
CVPR 2026
Start Small, Think Big: Curriculum-based Relative Policy Optimization for Visual Grounding
AAAI 2026
Statistical Foundations of DIME: Risk Estimation for Practical Index Selection
EACL 2026
Statistical guarantees for denoising reflected diffusion models
JMLR 2026
Statistical Learning from Attribution Sets
COLT 2026