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
74 papers, page 1 of 2
- CVPR 2024Deciphering 'What' and 'Where' Visual Pathways from Spectral Clustering of Layer-Distributed Neural Representations
- CVPR 2024DistriFusion: Distributed Parallel Inference for High-Resolution Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024JointSQ: Joint Sparsification-Quantization for Distributed Learning
- CVPR 2024Real-Time Neural BRDF with Spherically Distributed Primitives
- CVPR 2024VastGaussian: Vast 3D Gaussians for Large Scene Reconstruction
- ICLR 2024A Quadratic Synchronization Rule for Distributed Deep Learning
- ICLR 2024Accelerating Distributed Stochastic Optimization via Self-Repellent Random Walks
- ICLR 2024An improved analysis of per-sample and per-update clipping in federated learning
- ICLR 2024Benchmarking Algorithms for Federated Domain Generalization
- ICLR 2024Cleanba: A Reproducible and Efficient Distributed Reinforcement Learning Platform
- ICLR 2024CO2: Efficient Distributed Training with Full Communication-Computation Overlap
- ICLR 2024Communication-Efficient Gradient Descent-Accent Methods for Distributed Variational Inequalities: Unified Analysis and Local Updates
- ICLR 2024EControl: Fast Distributed Optimization with Compression and Error Control
- ICLR 2024Error Feedback Reloaded: From Quadratic to Arithmetic Mean of Smoothness Constants
- ICLR 2024Flag Aggregator: Scalable Distributed Training under Failures and Augmented Losses using Convex Optimization
- ICLR 2024On the Effect of Batch Size in Byzantine-Robust Distributed Learning
- ICLR 2024SRL: Scaling Distributed Reinforcement Learning to Over Ten Thousand Cores
- ICML 2024Accelerating Federated Learning with Quick Distributed Mean Estimation
- ICML 2024Distributed Bilevel Optimization with Communication Compression
- ICML 2024Distributed High-Dimensional Quantile Regression: Estimation Efficiency and Support Recovery
- ICML 2024Dynamic Byzantine-Robust Learning: Adapting to Switching Byzantine Workers
- ICML 2024Embarrassingly Parallel GFlowNets
- ICML 2024Fundamental Limits of Distributed Covariance Matrix Estimation Under Communication Constraints
- ICML 2024High-Probability Convergence for Composite and Distributed Stochastic Minimization and Variational Inequalities with Heavy-Tailed Noise
- ICML 2024LASER: Linear Compression in Wireless Distributed Optimization
- NeurIPS 2024Accelerating Blockwise Parallel Language Models with Draft Refinement
- NeurIPS 2024Achieving Near-Optimal Convergence for Distributed Minimax Optimization with Adaptive Stepsizes
- NeurIPS 2024ArkVale: Efficient Generative LLM Inference with Recallable Key-Value Eviction
- NeurIPS 2024B-ary Tree Push-Pull Method is Provably Efficient for Distributed Learning on Heterogeneous Data
- NeurIPS 2024Classifier Clustering and Feature Alignment for Federated Learning under Distributed Concept Drift
- NeurIPS 2024Coded Computing for Resilient Distributed Computing: A Learning-Theoretic Framework
- NeurIPS 2024Communication Bounds for the Distributed Experts Problem
- NeurIPS 2024Communication Efficient Distributed Training with Distributed Lion
- NeurIPS 2024Convergence Analysis of Split Federated Learning on Heterogeneous Data
- NeurIPS 2024DapperFL: Domain Adaptive Federated Learning with Model Fusion Pruning for Edge Devices
- NeurIPS 2024Distributed Least Squares in Small Space via Sketching and Bias Reduction
- NeurIPS 2024Distributed Sparse Regression via Penalization
- NeurIPS 2024Distributed-Order Fractional Graph Operating Network
- NeurIPS 2024DOGS: Distributed-Oriented Gaussian Splatting for Large-Scale 3D Reconstruction Via Gaussian Consensus
- NeurIPS 2024Don't Compress Gradients in Random Reshuffling: Compress Gradient Differences
- NeurIPS 2024Efficient Centroid-Linkage Clustering
- NeurIPS 2024Efficient Contextual LLM Cascades through Budget-Constrained Policy Learning
- NeurIPS 2024Efficient Federated Learning against Heterogeneous and Non-stationary Client Unavailability
- NeurIPS 2024Efficient LLM Scheduling by Learning to Rank
- NeurIPS 2024Efficient Multi-task LLM Quantization and Serving for Multiple LoRA Adapters
- NeurIPS 2024Exponential Quantum Communication Advantage in Distributed Inference and Learning
- NeurIPS 2024FACT or Fiction: Can Truthful Mechanisms Eliminate Federated Free Riding?
- NeurIPS 2024Faster Neighborhood Attention: Reducing the O(n^2) Cost of Self Attention at the Threadblock Level
- NeurIPS 2024FlashAttention-3: Fast and Accurate Attention with Asynchrony and Low-precision
- NeurIPS 2024FLoRA: Federated Fine-Tuning Large Language Models with Heterogeneous Low-Rank Adaptations
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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.