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
- Efficient Training went from 346 papers in 2023 to 603 in 2026, roughly 1.7x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Efficient Training work: 499 papers from 2023 to 2026, 28% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Deep learning · large language models: papers tagged with both rose from 6 in 2023 to 50 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Efficiency and Systems, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Hardware-Aware ML, is up 4.4x versus 1.7x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 112 | 67 | 83 | 84 | 346 |
| 2024 | 20 | 78 | 122 | 80 | 300 |
| 2025 | 190 | 126 | 118 | 82 | 516 |
| 2026 | 177 | 148 | 169 | 109 | 603 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026Adaptive Residual Quantization for Memory-Efficient Temporal Action Segmentation
- ICML 2026A Geometry-Aware Efficient Algorithm for Compositional Entropic Risk Minimization
- ICLR 2026An Efficient SE(p)-Invariant Transport Metric Driven by Polar Transport Discrepancy-based Representation
- CVPR 2026A Bit is All You Need Efficient Video Capture via
- NeurIPS 20254DGCPro: Efficient Hierarchical 4D Gaussian Compression for Progressive Volumetric Video Streaming
- ICML 2025A Sample Efficient Conditional Independence Test in the Presence of Discretization
- ICLR 2025Breaking Class Barriers: Efficient Dataset Distillation via Inter-Class Feature Compensator
- CVPR 2025Accurate Scene Text Recognition with Efficient Model Scaling and Cloze Self-Distillation
- NeurIPS 2024$\texttt{dattri}$: A Library for Efficient Data Attribution
- ICML 2024A fast algorithm to simulate nonlinear resistive networks
- ICLR 2024Dictionary Contrastive Learning for Efficient Local Supervision without Auxiliary Networks
- CVPR 2024Deep-TROJ: An Inference Stage Trojan Insertion Algorithm through Efficient Weight Replacement Attack
- NeurIPS 2023Alternating Updates for Efficient Transformers
- ICML 2023Auxiliary Modality Learning with Generalized Curriculum Distillation
- ICLR 2023A Model or 603 Exemplars: Towards Memory-Efficient Class-Incremental Learning
- CVPR 2023A Rotation-Translation-Decoupled Solution for Robust and Efficient Visual-Inertial Initialization
- NeurIPS 2026Advanced Routing as Regularization Allocation for Efficient Diffusion Transformer Training
- ICML 2026Active Learning with Foundation Model Priors: Efficient Learning under Class Imbalance
- ICLR 2026AQER: A Scalable and Efficient Data Loader for Digital Quantum Computers
- CVPR 2026Adaptive Bayesian Early-Exit Networks for Efficient Non-Transferable Learning
All Efficient Training papers
492 papers, page 10 of 10
- ICML 2023Learn to Accumulate Evidence from All Training Samples: Theory and Practice
- ICML 2023LESS-VFL: Communication-Efficient Feature Selection for Vertical Federated Learning
- ICML 2023Linkless Link Prediction via Relational Distillation
- ICML 2023Lowering the Pre-training Tax for Gradient-based Subset Training: A Lightweight Distributed Pre-Training Toolkit
- ICML 2023Margin-based sampling in high dimensions: When being active is less efficient than staying passive
- ICML 2023Moccasin: Efficient Tensor Rematerialization for Neural Networks
- ICML 2023Momentum Ensures Convergence of SIGNSGD under Weaker Assumptions
- ICML 2023Multi-Objective Population Based Training
- ICML 2023NTK-approximating MLP Fusion for Efficient Language Model Fine-tuning
- ICML 2023On the convergence of the MLE as an estimator of the learning rate in the Exp3 algorithm
- ICML 2023Optimal Rates and Efficient Algorithms for Online Bayesian Persuasion
- ICML 2023Patch-level Routing in Mixture-of-Experts is Provably Sample-efficient for Convolutional Neural Networks
- ICML 2023Policy Mirror Ascent for Efficient and Independent Learning in Mean Field Games
- ICML 2023PreNAS: Preferred One-Shot Learning Towards Efficient Neural Architecture Search
- ICML 2023Probabilistic Categorical Adversarial Attack and Adversarial Training
- ICML 2023Prototype-Sample Relation Distillation: Towards Replay-Free Continual Learning
- ICML 2023Provable Data Subset Selection For Efficient Neural Networks Training
- ICML 2023Provably and Practically Efficient Neural Contextual Bandits
- ICML 2023Reducing SO(3) Convolutions to SO(2) for Efficient Equivariant GNNs
- ICML 2023Revisiting Data-Free Knowledge Distillation with Poisoned Teachers
- ICML 2023Rockmate: an Efficient, Fast, Automatic and Generic Tool for Re-materialization in PyTorch
- ICML 2023Scaling Laws for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation
- ICML 2023Scaling Spherical CNNs
- ICML 2023Scaling Up Dataset Distillation to ImageNet-1K with Constant Memory
- ICML 2023Semiparametrically Efficient Off-Policy Evaluation in Linear Markov Decision Processes
- ICML 2023Simple Hardware-Efficient Long Convolutions for Sequence Modeling
- ICML 2023Sketching for First Order Method: Efficient Algorithm for Low-Bandwidth Channel and Vulnerability
- ICML 2023SLAMB: Accelerated Large Batch Training with Sparse Communication
- ICML 2023SmoothQuant: Accurate and Efficient Post-Training Quantization for Large Language Models
- ICML 2023SparseProp: Efficient Sparse Backpropagation for Faster Training of Neural Networks at the Edge
- ICML 2023SpotEM: Efficient Video Search for Episodic Memory
- ICML 2023Stabilizing GANs' Training with Brownian Motion Controller
- ICML 2023SWARM Parallelism: Training Large Models Can Be Surprisingly Communication-Efficient
- ICML 2023TAN Without a Burn: Scaling Laws of DP-SGD
- ICML 2023The case for 4-bit precision: k-bit Inference Scaling Laws
- ICML 2023Towards Stable and Efficient Adversarial Training against $l_1$ Bounded Adversarial Attacks
- ICML 2023Towards Understanding and Improving GFlowNet Training
- ICML 2023Training Normalizing Flows from Dependent Data
- ICML 2023Understanding Gradient Regularization in Deep Learning: Efficient Finite-Difference Computation and Implicit Bias
- ICML 2023Unit Scaling: Out-of-the-Box Low-Precision Training
- ICML 2023Why Is Public Pretraining Necessary for Private Model Training?
- 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.