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

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  1. ICLR 2025The Journey Matters: Average Parameter Count over Pre-training Unifies Sparse and Dense Scaling Laws
  2. ICLR 2025ThunderKittens: Simple, Fast, and $\textit{Adorable}$ Kernels
  3. ICLR 2025TIGER: Time-frequency Interleaved Gain Extraction and Reconstruction for Efficient Speech Separation
  4. ICLR 2025TokenFormer: Rethinking Transformer Scaling with Tokenized Model Parameters
  5. ICLR 2025Towards Scalable Exact Machine Unlearning Using Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
  6. ICLR 2025Train Small, Infer Large: Memory-Efficient LoRA Training for Large Language Models
  7. ICLR 2025u-$\mu$P: The Unit-Scaled Maximal Update Parametrization
  8. ICLR 2025U-shaped and Inverted-U Scaling behind Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models
  9. ICLR 2025Unified Parameter-Efficient Unlearning for LLMs
  10. ICLR 2025Unlocking Efficient, Scalable, and Continual Knowledge Editing with Basis-Level Representation Fine-Tuning
  11. ICLR 2025ZETA: Leveraging $Z$-order Curves for Efficient Top-$k$ Attention
  12. ICML 2025A Hitchhiker's Guide to Scaling Law Estimation
  13. ICML 2025A Memory Efficient Randomized Subspace Optimization Method for Training Large Language Models
  14. ICML 2025A Sample Efficient Conditional Independence Test in the Presence of Discretization
  15. ICML 2025A Simple Model of Inference Scaling Laws
  16. ICML 2025Adapting Precomputed Features for Efficient Graph Condensation
  17. ICML 2025An Adaptive Orthogonal Convolution Scheme for Efficient and Flexible CNN Architectures
  18. ICML 2025An Efficient Matrix Multiplication Algorithm for Accelerating Inference in Binary and Ternary Neural Networks
  19. ICML 2025An Efficient Pruner for Large Language Model with Theoretical Guarantee
  20. ICML 2025An Efficient Search-and-Score Algorithm for Ancestral Graphs using Multivariate Information Scores for Complex Non-linear and Categorical Data
  21. ICML 2025An Expressive and Self-Adaptive Dynamical System for Efficient Function Learning
  22. ICML 2025Beyond Low-rank Decomposition: A Shortcut Approach for Efficient On-Device Learning
  23. ICML 2025Beyond Self-Repellent Kernels: History-Driven Target Towards Efficient Nonlinear MCMC on General Graphs
  24. ICML 2025BlockDialect: Block-wise Fine-grained Mixed Format Quantization for Energy-Efficient LLM Inference
  25. ICML 2025BSLoRA: Enhancing the Parameter Efficiency of LoRA with Intra-Layer and Inter-Layer Sharing
  26. ICML 2025COKE: Core Kernel for More Efficient Approximation of Kernel Weights in Multiple Kernel Clustering
  27. ICML 2025Complete-Tree Space Favors Data-Efficient Link Prediction
  28. ICML 2025Compositional Generalization via Forced Rendering of Disentangled Latents
  29. ICML 2025Connecting Thompson Sampling and UCB: Towards More Efficient Trade-offs Between Privacy and Regret
  30. ICML 2025Cost-efficient Collaboration between On-device and Cloud Language Models
  31. ICML 2025DA-KD: Difficulty-Aware Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Large Language Models
  32. ICML 2025Determinant Estimation under Memory Constraints and Neural Scaling Laws
  33. ICML 2025Distillation Scaling Laws
  34. ICML 2025Does Data Scaling Lead to Visual Compositional Generalization?
  35. ICML 2025EAGLES: Towards Effective, Efficient, and Economical Federated Graph Learning via Unified Sparsification
  36. ICML 2025Earley-Driven Dynamic Pruning for Efficient Structured Decoding
  37. ICML 2025Efficient and Separate Authentication Image Steganography Network
  38. ICML 2025Efficient ANN-SNN Conversion with Error Compensation Learning
  39. ICML 2025Efficient Bisection Projection to Ensure Neural-Network Solution Feasibility for Optimization over General Set
  40. ICML 2025Efficient Core-set Selection for Deep Learning Through Squared Loss Minimization
  41. ICML 2025Efficient Federated Incomplete Multi-View Clustering
  42. ICML 2025Efficient Graph Continual Learning via Lightweight Graph Neural Tangent Kernels-based Dataset Distillation
  43. ICML 2025Efficient Heterogeneity-Aware Federated Active Data Selection
  44. ICML 2025Efficient Logit-based Knowledge Distillation of Deep Spiking Neural Networks for Full-Range Timestep Deployment
  45. ICML 2025Efficient Long Context Fine-tuning with Chunk Flow
  46. ICML 2025Efficient Network Automatic Relevance Determination
  47. ICML 2025Efficient Optimization with Orthogonality Constraint: a Randomized Riemannian Submanifold Method
  48. ICML 2025Efficient Parallel Training Methods for Spiking Neural Networks with Constant Time Complexity
  49. ICML 2025Efficient Quantification of Multimodal Interaction at Sample Level
  50. ICML 2025Efficient Robust Conformal Prediction via Lipschitz-Bounded Networks

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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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