Demo Data from VLDB 2026 / recruitment
Reviewers in the wild
The CS expert database: 1,777,551 experts · 2,837,695 papers in CCF A–C and ICORE A*–C venues · 10 venue-derived domains · snapshot 2026-09-22.
Experts by research domain — the database's own venue-derived domains; a paper can belong to several; active = at least one paper since 2021
Artificial intelligence and machine learning
419,855 active · 726,626 total · 856,312 papers
NeurIPS · AAAI · ESWA · CVPR · ICML · EAAI
Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games
220,290 active · 419,218 total · 473,177 papers
AAAI · ICASSP · MTA · CVPR · INTERSPEECH · ICCV
Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing
306,612 active · 637,688 total · 436,260 papers
TGARS · IGARSS · TITS · TII · CogSci · Bioinformatics
Systems, architecture and hardware
148,087 active · 345,638 total · 325,499 papers
IROS · ICRA · VTC · ISCAS · TJSC · IECON
Computer networks
105,468 active · 214,616 total · 249,845 papers
IOT · ICC · GLOBECOM · TWC · TCOM · TMC
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval
134,049 active · 269,256 total · 249,104 papers
IEEE BigData · CIKM · SIGKDD · TKDE · AEI · SIGIR
Theory of computation
38,447 active · 105,648 total · 202,645 papers
TIT · TCS · DAM · SODA · STOC · ICALP
Human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing
114,847 active · 268,055 total · 198,672 papers
CHI · SMC · TSMC · SIGCSE · PACMHCI · IJHCI
Software engineering, systems software and programming languages
76,605 active · 178,952 total · 173,661 papers
DATE · COMPSAC · CoDIT · PACM PL · TSC · JSS
Security and privacy
57,527 active · 109,981 total · 102,399 papers
TIFS · TDSC · USENIX Security · TrustCom · CCS · JISA
Experts by expertise
The expertise taxonomy: 90,661 topics extracted from 634,694 papers of 537,692 experts, organised under the ten CCF categories and 168 areas. Pick a category, then narrow down to a topic; every level lists its experts by weight.
Artificial intelligence
231,922 experts · 238,182 papers
33 areas · 23,066 topics
Theoretical computer science
84,688 experts · 103,442 papers
15 areas · 12,358 topics
Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
119,266 experts · 88,175 papers
18 areas · 10,819 topics
Computer graphics and multimedia
99,217 experts · 74,150 papers
13 areas · 7,821 topics
Computer networks
79,947 experts · 72,281 papers
18 areas · 9,664 topics
Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
83,822 experts · 68,869 papers
17 areas · 7,059 topics
Network and information security
67,706 experts · 53,290 papers
15 areas · 5,550 topics
Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
111,858 experts · 46,353 papers
9 areas · 5,108 topics
Human-computer interaction and pervasive computing
77,670 experts · 43,820 papers
16 areas · 4,757 topics
Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
53,122 experts · 40,802 papers
14 areas · 4,459 topics
Artificial intelligence›Machine learning›Optimization for machine learning
area
7,928 papers · 14,789 experts
Sub-topics
139 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
convergence analysis 725stochastic gradient descent 636stochastic optimization 474non-convex optimization 377hyperparameter optimization 363variance reduction 263optimal transport 200bilevel optimization 184distributed optimization 173convex optimization 145implicit regularization 140second-order optimization 134multi-objective optimization 122gradient-based optimization 111gradient estimation 102constrained optimization 99minimax optimization 95combinatorial optimization 85black-box optimization 82learned optimizer 77evolutionary computation 76adaptive optimization 61gradient flow 61stochastic gradient methods 61convergence guarantees 59learning rate schedule 59stochastic approximation 59sparse learning 54optimization landscape 49riemannian optimization 43convex relaxation 40energy minimization 36decision-focused learning 34mirror descent 33primal-dual methods 33gradient clipping 31robust optimization 31coordinate descent 30learning rate 30alternating direction method of multipliers 29online optimization 29convergence acceleration 28model-based optimization 28regularized risk minimization 27implicit differentiation 24alternating minimization 23optimization 23differentiable optimization 22large-scale optimization 21preconditioning 21proximal methods 19regularized optimization 17multi-task optimization 16sketching 15gradient conflict resolution 14gradient-based learning 13oracle complexity 13regularized learning 13adaptive algorithm 12dual decomposition 12online gradient descent 12stochastic search 12mini-batch sampling 11sparse model 11homotopy methods 10safe screening 10tensor completion 10variational inequality 10hard thresholding 8parallel optimization 5iterate averaging 4training criteria 4continuous-time analysis 3low-rank optimization 3
Show 65 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
budget allocation 9dual averaging 9gradient estimator 9fixed-point iteration 8solution path 8error compensation 7iteratively reweighted least squares 7reweighting 7stochastic gradient descent ascent 7test-time optimization 7gradient modulation 6hessian analysis 6large-scale regression 6m-estimator 6stochastic gradient 6correlated noise 5direct loss minimization 5discrete-continuous optimization 5eigen-decomposition 5learning curve extrapolation 5loss landscape smoothing 5markovian data 5neural network training acceleration 5non-uniform sampling 5operator splitting 5phase retrieval 5sharpness reduction 5small-batch training 5concave-convex procedure 4convergence and generalization 4gradient sampling 4matrix learning 4mixed-integer nonlinear programming 4non-convex loss 4ordinary differential equation 4projection pursuit 4solution path algorithm 4stationary distribution 4adaptive scaling 3bregman divergence minimization 3convex regression 3cost function design 3delayed gradient 3differentiable games 3game-theoretic optimization 3gradient learning 3hessian-vector products 3instance generation 3lagrangian relaxation 3lexicographic preference 3loss balancing 3loss function optimization 3low-dimensional structure 3low-rank constraint 3matrix square root 3multiplicative noise 3optimizer benchmarking 3pinball loss 3quasiconvex optimization 3scalarization 3scale-invariant optimization 3single-loop algorithm 3stochastic modified equations 3stratified sampling 3structure exploitation 3
Experts on Optimization for machine learning
14,789 · by weight: papers on the topic counted with recency (1 for a paper about it, 0.3 as context, halved every five years), summed over the area's topics