Efficient Training papers, 2023–2026

Scaling laws, MoE, distillation, and training efficiency

Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 1,765 papers are tagged with this topic.

Key findings

Papers per year

Papers per venue

Counts by year and venue

Efficient Training papers by year and venue
YearNeurIPSICLRICMLCVPRTotal
2023112678384346
2024207812280300
202519012611882516
2026177148169109603

Representative papers

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All Efficient Training papers

492 papers, page 10 of 10

  1. ICML 2023Learn to Accumulate Evidence from All Training Samples: Theory and Practice
  2. ICML 2023LESS-VFL: Communication-Efficient Feature Selection for Vertical Federated Learning
  3. ICML 2023Linkless Link Prediction via Relational Distillation
  4. ICML 2023Lowering the Pre-training Tax for Gradient-based Subset Training: A Lightweight Distributed Pre-Training Toolkit
  5. ICML 2023Margin-based sampling in high dimensions: When being active is less efficient than staying passive
  6. ICML 2023Moccasin: Efficient Tensor Rematerialization for Neural Networks
  7. ICML 2023Momentum Ensures Convergence of SIGNSGD under Weaker Assumptions
  8. ICML 2023Multi-Objective Population Based Training
  9. ICML 2023NTK-approximating MLP Fusion for Efficient Language Model Fine-tuning
  10. ICML 2023On the convergence of the MLE as an estimator of the learning rate in the Exp3 algorithm
  11. ICML 2023Optimal Rates and Efficient Algorithms for Online Bayesian Persuasion
  12. ICML 2023Patch-level Routing in Mixture-of-Experts is Provably Sample-efficient for Convolutional Neural Networks
  13. ICML 2023Policy Mirror Ascent for Efficient and Independent Learning in Mean Field Games
  14. ICML 2023PreNAS: Preferred One-Shot Learning Towards Efficient Neural Architecture Search
  15. ICML 2023Probabilistic Categorical Adversarial Attack and Adversarial Training
  16. ICML 2023Prototype-Sample Relation Distillation: Towards Replay-Free Continual Learning
  17. ICML 2023Provable Data Subset Selection For Efficient Neural Networks Training
  18. ICML 2023Provably and Practically Efficient Neural Contextual Bandits
  19. ICML 2023Reducing SO(3) Convolutions to SO(2) for Efficient Equivariant GNNs
  20. ICML 2023Revisiting Data-Free Knowledge Distillation with Poisoned Teachers
  21. ICML 2023Rockmate: an Efficient, Fast, Automatic and Generic Tool for Re-materialization in PyTorch
  22. ICML 2023Scaling Laws for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation
  23. ICML 2023Scaling Spherical CNNs
  24. ICML 2023Scaling Up Dataset Distillation to ImageNet-1K with Constant Memory
  25. ICML 2023Semiparametrically Efficient Off-Policy Evaluation in Linear Markov Decision Processes
  26. ICML 2023Simple Hardware-Efficient Long Convolutions for Sequence Modeling
  27. ICML 2023Sketching for First Order Method: Efficient Algorithm for Low-Bandwidth Channel and Vulnerability
  28. ICML 2023SLAMB: Accelerated Large Batch Training with Sparse Communication
  29. ICML 2023SmoothQuant: Accurate and Efficient Post-Training Quantization for Large Language Models
  30. ICML 2023SparseProp: Efficient Sparse Backpropagation for Faster Training of Neural Networks at the Edge
  31. ICML 2023SpotEM: Efficient Video Search for Episodic Memory
  32. ICML 2023Stabilizing GANs' Training with Brownian Motion Controller
  33. ICML 2023SWARM Parallelism: Training Large Models Can Be Surprisingly Communication-Efficient
  34. ICML 2023TAN Without a Burn: Scaling Laws of DP-SGD
  35. ICML 2023The case for 4-bit precision: k-bit Inference Scaling Laws
  36. ICML 2023Towards Stable and Efficient Adversarial Training against $l_1$ Bounded Adversarial Attacks
  37. ICML 2023Towards Understanding and Improving GFlowNet Training
  38. ICML 2023Training Normalizing Flows from Dependent Data
  39. ICML 2023Understanding Gradient Regularization in Deep Learning: Efficient Finite-Difference Computation and Implicit Bias
  40. ICML 2023Unit Scaling: Out-of-the-Box Low-Precision Training
  41. ICML 2023Why Is Public Pretraining Necessary for Private Model Training?
  42. ICML 2023Why Random Pruning Is All We Need to Start Sparse

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FAQ

How many Efficient Training papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
1,765 in total: 346 in 2023, 300 in 2024, 516 in 2025, 603 in 2026.
How many Efficient Training papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
NeurIPS 2026 has 177 Efficient Training papers, versus 190 the year before.
How many Efficient Training papers are at ICLR 2026?
ICLR 2026 has 148 Efficient Training papers, versus 126 the year before.
How many Efficient Training papers are at ICML 2026?
ICML 2026 has 169 Efficient Training papers, versus 118 the year before.
How many Efficient Training papers are at CVPR 2026?
CVPR 2026 has 109 Efficient Training papers, versus 82 the year before.
Which conference publishes the most Efficient Training papers?
NeurIPS, with 499 papers from 2023 to 2026.

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