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)
Using Constraint Solvers to Construct Binary Codes with Good Error Correction Performance
AAAI 2026
Utility-Oriented Visual Evidence Selection for Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation
ACL 2026
Validating Automatic Evaluation of Controllable Counterspeech Generation: Rankings Matter More Than Scores
EACL 2026
Vanilla SGD with Momentum Survives Heavy-Tailed Noise: Convergence Analysis without Gradient Clipping or Normalization
UAI 2026
Variance Reduction and Low Sample Complexity in Stochastic Optimization via Proximal Point Method
ALT 2026
Variance reduction combining pre-experiment and in-experiment data
CLeaR 2026
Variance Reduction for Non-Log-Concave Sampling with Applications to Inverse Problems
UAI 2026
Variance Reduction via Resampling and Experience Replay
AAAI 2026
Variational OOD State Correction for Offline Reinforcement Learning
AAAI 2026
Variational Tail Bounds for Norms of Random Vectors and Matrices
COLT 2026
Variation-Bounded Loss for Noise-Tolerant Learning
AAAI 2026
VBF++: Variational Bayesian Fusion with Context-Aware Priors and Recommendation-Guided Adversarial Refinement for Multimodal Video Recommendation
AAAI 2026
Vector-valued self-normalized concentration inequalities beyond sub-Gaussianity
ALT 2026
Veli: Unsupervised Method and Unified Benchmark for Low-Cost Air Quality Sensor Correction
AAAI 2026
Venom: Liquid Diffusion-Guided Gradient Inversion for Breaking Differential Privacy in Federated Learning
AAAI 2026
VerifyBench: A Systematic Benchmark for Evaluating Reasoning Verifiers Across Domains
AAAI 2026
Video and Language Alignment in 2D Systems for 3D Multi-object Scenes with Multi-Information Derivative-Free Control
WACV 2026
VIL2C: Value-of-Information Aware Low-Latency Communication for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
AAAI 2026
VOCAL: Visual Odometry via ContrAstive Learning
WACV 2026
V-Pruner: A Fast and Globally-informed Token Pruning Framework for Vision Transformer
AAAI 2026
Warm-starting active-set solvers using graph neural networks
L4DC 2026
Wasserstein Gradient Flows for Scalable and Regularized Barycenter Computation
UAI 2026
Wasserstein Policy Learning for Distributional Outcomes
COLT 2026
WaterMod: Modular Token-Rank Partitioning for Probability-Balanced LLM Watermarking
AAAI 2026
WaveC2R: Wavelet-Driven Coarse-to-Refined Hierarchical Learning for Radar Retrieval
AAAI 2026