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)
Beyond Tokens: Dynamic Latent Reasoning via Semantic Residual Refinement
AAAI 2026
Beyond Top Activations: Efficient and Reliable Crowdsourced Evaluation of Automated Interpretability
CVPR 2026
Beyond Unconstrained Features: Neural Collapse for Shallow Neural Networks with General Data
JMLR 2026
BiCycle: Group-wise Recursive Transformer Based on ASR Mechanism
AAAI 2026
BidMatch: Boosting Semi-Supervised Learning by Bi-Dimensional Sample Weight Guidance
AAAI 2026
Bi-Level Contextual Bandits for Individualized Resource Allocation Under Delayed Feedback
AAAI 2026
Bi-Level Preference Optimization for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (Student Abstract)
AAAI 2026
BiO-HMC: Dynamic Human-Machine Collaboration for Consensus Decision-Making via Bilevel Optimization
AAAI 2026
BIQ: Bisection Interval Quantization for Communication-efficient Federated Learning
AAAI 2026
BitDP: Ultra-low-bit Communication for Data Parallelism in LLM Training
AAAI 2026
Blackwell Approachability and Gradient Equilibrium are Equivalent
COLT 2026
BLEnD-Vis: Benchmarking Multimodal Cultural Understanding in Vision Language Models
EACL 2026
Blessing of Dimensionality for Approximating Sobolev Classes on Manifolds
AAAI 2026
BLUR: A Bi-Level Optimization Approach for LLM Unlearning
EACL 2026
Boomda: Balanced Multi-objective Optimization for Multimodal Domain Adaptation
AAAI 2026
Boosted Control Functions: Distribution Generalization and Invariance in Confounded Models
JMLR 2026
Boosting Adversarial Transferability via Ensemble Non-Attention
AAAI 2026
Boosting Cross-problem Generalization in Diffusion-Based Neural Combinatorial Solver via Inference Time Adaptation
AAAI 2026
Boosting Fine-Grained Urban Flow Inference via Lightweight Architecture and Focalized Optimization
AAAI 2026
Boosting with List-Decodable Codes
COLT 2026
Bootstrapping LLMs via Preference-Based Policy Optimization
AAAI 2026
BOP-Distrib: Revisiting 6D Pose Estimation Benchmarks for Better Evaluation under Visual Ambiguities
WACV 2026
Bound to Disagree: Generalization Bounds via Certifiable Surrogates
UAI 2026
Branch, or Layer? Zeroth-Order Optimization for Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models
AAAI 2026
Breaking Cross-View Associations: Byzantine Model Poisoning Attack against Vertical Federated Learning
AAAI 2026