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
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- ICLR 2025Gnothi Seauton: Empowering Faithful Self-Interpretability in Black-Box Transformers
- ICLR 2025GotenNet: Rethinking Efficient 3D Equivariant Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2025GraphBridge: Towards Arbitrary Transfer Learning in GNNs
- ICLR 2025HiBug2: Efficient and Interpretable Error Slice Discovery for Comprehensive Model Debugging
- ICLR 2025High-dimensional Analysis of Knowledge Distillation: Weak-to-Strong Generalization and Scaling Laws
- ICLR 2025How efficient is LLM-generated code? A rigorous & high-standard benchmark
- ICLR 2025Is uniform expressivity too restrictive? Towards efficient expressivity of GNNs
- ICLR 2025Language models scale reliably with over-training and on downstream tasks
- ICLR 2025Learning Efficient Positional Encodings with Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2025LevAttention: Time, Space and Streaming Efficient Algorithm for Heavy Attentions
- ICLR 2025LiFT: Learning to Fine-Tune via Bayesian Parameter Efficient Meta Fine-Tuning
- ICLR 2025LLaVA-MoD: Making LLaVA Tiny via MoE-Knowledge Distillation
- ICLR 2025LOIRE: LifelOng learning on Incremental data via pre-trained language model gRowth Efficiently
- ICLR 2025MambaPEFT: Exploring Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Mamba
- ICLR 2025Memory Efficient Transformer Adapter for Dense Predictions
- ICLR 2025Mini-batch Coresets for Memory-efficient Language Model Training on Data Mixtures
- ICLR 2025MoE++: Accelerating Mixture-of-Experts Methods with Zero-Computation Experts
- ICLR 2025MrT5: Dynamic Token Merging for Efficient Byte-level Language Models
- ICLR 2025Mutual Effort for Efficiency: A Similarity-based Token Pruning for Vision Transformers in Self-Supervised Learning
- ICLR 2025No Need to Talk: Asynchronous Mixture of Language Models
- ICLR 2025Node Identifiers: Compact, Discrete Representations for Efficient Graph Learning
- ICLR 2025Not All LLM-Generated Data Are Equal: Rethinking Data Weighting in Text Classification
- ICLR 2025ObscuraCoder: Powering Efficient Code LM Pre-Training Via Obfuscation Grounding
- ICLR 2025One for all and all for one: Efficient computation of partial Wasserstein distances on the line
- ICLR 2025Optimal Brain Apoptosis
- ICLR 2025Pacmann: Efficient Private Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
- ICLR 2025PharmacoMatch: Efficient 3D Pharmacophore Screening via Neural Subgraph Matching
- ICLR 2025Physics of Language Models: Part 3.3, Knowledge Capacity Scaling Laws
- ICLR 2025PortLLM: Personalizing Evolving Large Language Models with Training-Free and Portable Model Patches
- ICLR 2025PostEdit: Posterior Sampling for Efficient Zero-Shot Image Editing
- ICLR 2025Preble: Efficient Distributed Prompt Scheduling for LLM Serving
- ICLR 2025Progressive Mixed-Precision Decoding for Efficient LLM Inference
- ICLR 2025Progressive Parameter Efficient Transfer Learning for Semantic Segmentation
- ICLR 2025Progressive Token Length Scaling in Transformer Encoders for Efficient Universal Segmentation
- ICLR 2025Quantum-PEFT: Ultra parameter-efficient fine-tuning
- ICLR 2025RazorAttention: Efficient KV Cache Compression Through Retrieval Heads
- ICLR 2025Rodimus*: Breaking the Accuracy-Efficiency Trade-Off with Efficient Attentions
- ICLR 2025Samba: Simple Hybrid State Space Models for Efficient Unlimited Context Language Modeling
- ICLR 2025Scaling Laws for Adversarial Attacks on Language Model Activations and Tokens
- ICLR 2025Scaling Laws for Precision
- ICLR 2025Scaling Optimal LR Across Token Horizons
- ICLR 2025Scaling Stick-Breaking Attention: An Efficient Implementation and In-depth Study
- ICLR 2025SelectFormer in Data Markets: Privacy-Preserving and Efficient Data Selection for Transformers with Multi-Party Computation
- ICLR 2025Self-MoE: Towards Compositional Large Language Models with Self-Specialized Experts
- ICLR 2025Skill Expansion and Composition in Parameter Space
- ICLR 2025SONICS: Synthetic Or Not - Identifying Counterfeit Songs
- ICLR 2025SpikeLLM: Scaling up Spiking Neural Network to Large Language Models via Saliency-based Spiking
- ICLR 2025Spread Preference Annotation: Direct Preference Judgment for Efficient LLM Alignment
- ICLR 2025Structural-Entropy-Based Sample Selection for Efficient and Effective Learning
- ICLR 2025Surprising Effectiveness of pretraining Ternary Language Model at Scale
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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.