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)
BayesVQA: Energy-Guided Bayesian Debiasing for Language-Bias-Robust Visual Question Answering
AAAI 2026
BCE3S: Binary Cross-Entropy Based Tripartite Synergistic Learning for Long-Tailed Recognition
AAAI 2026
Behavior Regularization with Flow Latent Policy for Offline Reinforcement Learning
AAAI 2026
Benchmarking LLMs’ Mathematical Reasoning with Unseen Random Variables Questions
AAAI 2026
Benchmarking the Energy Savings with Speculative Decoding Strategies
EACL 2026
Benign Overfitting with Quantum Kernels
UAI 2026
Best Arm Identification with Biased Contexts
AAAI 2026
Best Arm Identification with Minimal Regret
JMLR 2026
Best-Effort Policies for Robust Markov Decision Processes
AAAI 2026
Better Datasets Start from RefineLab: Automatic Optimization for High-Quality Dataset Refinement
AAAI 2026
Beyond Adapter Retrieval: Latent Geometry-Preserving Composition via Sparse Task Projection
AAAI 2026
Beyond Binary Classification: A Semi-supervised Approach to Generalized AI-generated Image Detection
AAAI 2026
Beyond Binary Erasure: Soft-Weighted Unlearning for Fairness and Robustness
AAAI 2026
Beyond Discrepancy: A Closer Look at the Theory of Distribution Shift
ALT 2026
Beyond Euclidean Gossip: KL-Barycentric Consensus on Heterogeneous and Imbalanced Images
CVPR 2026
Beyond Grid Search: Leveraging Bayesian Optimization for Accelerating RAG Pipeline Optimization
EACL 2026
Beyond Mixtures and Products for Ensemble Aggregation: A Likelihood Perspective on Generalized Means
UAI 2026
Beyond Monotonicity: Revisiting Factorization Principles in Multi-Agent Q-Learning
AAAI 2026
Beyond MSE: Ordinal Cross-Entropy for Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting
AAAI 2026
Beyond Random Sampling: Efficient Language Model Pretraining via Curriculum Learning
EACL 2026
Beyond Sharpness: A Flatness Decomposition Framework for Efficient Continual Learning
AAAI 2026
Beyond Sharpness: The Role of Nonuniformity in Generalization
AAAI 2026
Beyond Step Pruning: Information Theory Based Step-level Optimization for Self-Refining Large Language Models
AAAI 2026
Beyond the Lower Bound: Bridging Regret Minimization and Best Arm Identification in Lexicographic Bandits
AAAI 2026
Beyond the Mean: Fisher-Orthogonal Projection for Natural Gradient Descent in Large Batch Training
AAAI 2026