Distributed Training papers, 2023–2026
Parallel and large-scale training
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 396 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Distributed Training went from 95 papers in 2023 to 98 in 2026, roughly 1.0x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Distributed Training work: 208 papers from 2023 to 2026, 53% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Multimodal LLMs: papers tagged with both rose from 1 in 2023 to 10 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Efficiency and Systems, it ranks #4 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Hardware-Aware ML, is up 4.4x versus 1.0x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 54 | 10 | 28 | 3 | 95 |
| 2024 | 49 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 74 |
| 2025 | 69 | 18 | 40 | 2 | 129 |
| 2026 | 36 | 18 | 42 | 2 | 98 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026AgentWeave: Efficient Distributed Agent Serving via Flow Decomposition
- ICML 2026Breaking the Capacity Bottleneck in Model-Heterogeneous Federated Learning via Gradual Model Restoration
- ICLR 2026Cascadia: An Efficient Cascade Serving System for Large Language Models
- CVPR 2026Finding Distributed Object-Centric Properties in Self-Supervised Transformers
- NeurIPS 2025A Fair Federated Learning Method for Handling Client Participation Probability Inconsistencies in Heterogeneous Environments
- ICML 2025BSemiFL: Semi-supervised Federated Learning via a Bayesian Approach
- ICLR 2025Addressing Label Shift in Distributed Learning via Entropy Regularization
- CVPR 2025Real-time High-fidelity Gaussian Human Avatars with Position-based Interpolation of Spatially Distributed MLPs
- NeurIPS 2024Communication Efficient Distributed Training with Distributed Lion
- ICML 2024Embarrassingly Parallel GFlowNets
- ICLR 2024Benchmarking Algorithms for Federated Domain Generalization
- CVPR 2024Deciphering 'What' and 'Where' Visual Pathways from Spectral Clustering of Layer-Distributed Neural Representations
- NeurIPS 20232Direction: Theoretically Faster Distributed Training with Bidirectional Communication Compression
- ICML 2023Block Subsampled Randomized Hadamard Transform for Nyström Approximation on Distributed Architectures
- ICLR 2023Distributed Extra-gradient with Optimal Complexity and Communication Guarantees
- CVPR 2023DisCo-CLIP: A Distributed Contrastive Loss for Memory Efficient CLIP Training
- NeurIPS 2026Do We Need Asynchronous SGD? On the Near-Optimality of Synchronous Methods
- ICML 2026Clipping Makes Distributed and Federated Asynchronous SGD Robust to Stragglers
- ICLR 2026DualMap: Enabling Both Cache Affinity and Load Balancing for Distributed LLM Serving
- CVPR 2026Parallel Rigidity Matters for Bundle Adjustment
All Distributed Training papers
18 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICLR 2025Adaptive Deployment of Untrusted LLMs Reduces Distributed Threats
- ICLR 2025Addressing Label Shift in Distributed Learning via Entropy Regularization
- ICLR 2025An Asynchronous Bundle Method for Distributed Learning Problems
- ICLR 2025Deep Distributed Optimization for Large-Scale Quadratic Programming
- ICLR 2025Distributed Speculative Inference (DSI): Speculation Parallelism for Provably Faster Lossless Language Model Inference
- ICLR 2025EDiT: A Local-SGD-Based Efficient Distributed Training Method for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025From Promise to Practice: Realizing High-performance Decentralized Training
- ICLR 2025Generalization and Distributed Learning of GFlowNets
- ICLR 2025Learning Successor Features with Distributed Hebbian Temporal Memory
- ICLR 2025Local Steps Speed Up Local GD for Heterogeneous Distributed Logistic Regression
- ICLR 2025LoCoDL: Communication-Efficient Distributed Learning with Local Training and Compression
- ICLR 2025Methods with Local Steps and Random Reshuffling for Generally Smooth Non-Convex Federated Optimization
- ICLR 2025NetMoE: Accelerating MoE Training through Dynamic Sample Placement
- ICLR 2025Newton Meets Marchenko-Pastur: Massively Parallel Second-Order Optimization with Hessian Sketching and Debiasing
- ICLR 2025PETRA: Parallel End-to-end Training with Reversible Architectures
- ICLR 2025Preble: Efficient Distributed Prompt Scheduling for LLM Serving
- ICLR 2025TorchTitan: One-stop PyTorch native solution for production ready LLM pretraining
- ICLR 2025Uni-Sign: Toward Unified Sign Language Understanding at Scale
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FAQ
- How many Distributed Training papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 396 in total: 95 in 2023, 74 in 2024, 129 in 2025, 98 in 2026.
- How many Distributed Training papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 36 Distributed Training papers, versus 69 the year before.
- How many Distributed Training papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 18 Distributed Training papers, versus 18 the year before.
- How many Distributed Training papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 42 Distributed Training papers, versus 40 the year before.
- How many Distributed Training papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 2 Distributed Training papers, versus 2 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Distributed Training papers?
- NeurIPS, with 208 papers from 2023 to 2026.