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)
Beyond IID: Optimizing Instruction Finetuning from the Perspective of Instruction Interaction and Dependency
AAAI 2025
Beyond Linear Steering: Unified Multi-Attribute Control for Language Models
EMNLP 2025
Beyond Local Sharpness: Communication-Efficient Global Sharpness-aware Minimization for Federated Learning
CVPR 2025
Beyond Log-Concavity and Score Regularity: Improved Convergence Bounds for Score-Based Generative Models in W2-distance
ICML 2025
Beyond Losses Reweighting: Empowering Multi-Task Learning via the Generalization Perspective
ICCV 2025
Beyond Low-rankness: Guaranteed Matrix Recovery via Modified Nuclear Norm
IJCAI 2025
Beyond Mandatory Federations: Balancing Egoism, Utilitarianism and Egalitarianism in Mixed-Motive Games
AAAI 2025
Beyond Memorization: Assessing Semantic Generalization in Large Language Models Using Phrasal Constructions
IJCNLP 2025
Beyond Minimax Rates in Group Distributionally Robust Optimization via a Novel Notion of Sparsity
ICML 2025
Beyond Model Collapse: Scaling Up with Synthesized Data Requires Verification
ICLR 2025
Beyond Next Token Prediction: Patch-Level Training for Large Language Models
ICLR 2025
Beyond Online Sampling: Bridging Offline-to-Online Alignment via Dynamic Data Transformation for LLMs
EMNLP 2025
Beyond propagation of chaos: A stochastic algorithm for mean field optimization
COLT 2025
Beyond Self-Repellent Kernels: History-Driven Target Towards Efficient Nonlinear MCMC on General Graphs
ICML 2025
Beyond Semantic Entropy: Boosting LLM Uncertainty Quantification with Pairwise Semantic Similarity
ACL 2025
Beyond Single-Value Metrics: Evaluating and Enhancing LLM Unlearning with Cognitive Diagnosis
ACL 2025
Beyond Skip Connection: Pooling and Unpooling Design for Elimination Singularities
AAAI 2025
Beyond Squared Error: Exploring Loss Design for Enhanced Training of Generative Flow Networks
ICLR 2025
Beyond statistical significance: Quantifying uncertainty and statistical variability in multilingual and multitask NLP evaluation
IJCNLP 2025
Beyond Surface-Level Patterns: An Essence-Driven Defense Framework Against Jailbreak Attacks in LLMs
ACL 2025
Beyond Surprisal: A Dual Metric Framework for Lexical Skill Acquisition in LLMs
COLING 2025
Beyond Task-Oriented and Chitchat Dialogues: Proactive and Transition-Aware Conversational Agents
EMNLP 2025
Beyond Text Compression: Evaluating Tokenizers Across Scales
ACL 2025
Beyond Text-Visual Attention: Exploiting Visual Cues for Effective Token Pruning in VLMs
ICCV 2025
Beyond the First Error: Process Reward Models for Reflective Mathematical Reasoning
EMNLP 2025