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. ICML 2025Efficient Time Series Processing for Transformers and State-Space Models through Token Merging
  2. ICML 2025Equivariant Polynomial Functional Networks
  3. ICML 2025Fast Inference with Kronecker-Sparse Matrices
  4. ICML 2025FastCAV: Efficient Computation of Concept Activation Vectors for Explaining Deep Neural Networks
  5. ICML 2025FedOne: Query-Efficient Federated Learning for Black-box Discrete Prompt Learning
  6. ICML 2025FedSMU: Communication-Efficient and Generalization-Enhanced Federated Learning through Symbolic Model Updates
  7. ICML 2025FisherSFT: Data-Efficient Supervised Fine-Tuning of Language Models Using Information Gain
  8. ICML 2025Flexible and Efficient Grammar-Constrained Decoding
  9. ICML 2025Flexible, Efficient, and Stable Adversarial Attacks on Machine Unlearning
  10. ICML 2025FloE: On-the-Fly MoE Inference on Memory-constrained GPU
  11. ICML 2025FRUGAL: Memory-Efficient Optimization by Reducing State Overhead for Scalable Training
  12. ICML 2025FSL-SAGE: Accelerating Federated Split Learning via Smashed Activation Gradient Estimation
  13. ICML 2025GPTAQ: Efficient Finetuning-Free Quantization for Asymmetric Calibration
  14. ICML 2025H-Tuning: Toward Low-Cost and Efficient ECG-based Cardiovascular Disease Detection with Pre-Trained Models
  15. ICML 2025HiRemate: Hierarchical Approach for Efficient Re-materialization of Neural Networks
  16. ICML 2025How to Train Your Multi-Exit Model? Analyzing the Impact of Training Strategies
  17. ICML 2025IL-SOAR : Imitation Learning with Soft Optimistic Actor cRitic
  18. ICML 2025Improved and Oracle-Efficient Online $\ell_1$-Multicalibration
  19. ICML 2025Improving Continual Learning Performance and Efficiency with Auxiliary Classifiers
  20. ICML 2025Info-Coevolution: An Efficient Framework for Data Model Coevolution
  21. ICML 2025Joint MoE Scaling Laws: Mixture of Experts Can Be Memory Efficient
  22. ICML 2025KVTuner: Sensitivity-Aware Layer-Wise Mixed-Precision KV Cache Quantization for Efficient and Nearly Lossless LLM Inference
  23. ICML 2025LaCache: Ladder-Shaped KV Caching for Efficient Long-Context Modeling of Large Language Models
  24. ICML 2025Learning from Loss Landscape: Generalizable Mixed-Precision Quantization via Adaptive Sharpness-Aware Gradient Aligning
  25. ICML 2025Learning Soft Sparse Shapes for Efficient Time-Series Classification
  26. ICML 2025LensLLM: Unveiling Fine-Tuning Dynamics for LLM Selection
  27. ICML 2025Leveraging Sparsity for Sample-Efficient Preference Learning: A Theoretical Perspective
  28. ICML 2025Memory Layers at Scale
  29. ICML 2025MERGE$^3$: Efficient Evolutionary Merging on Consumer-grade GPUs
  30. ICML 2025Mixture of Hidden-Dimensions: Not All Hidden-States’ Dimensions are Needed in Transformer
  31. ICML 2025Model Steering: Learning with a Reference Model Improves Generalization Bounds and Scaling Laws
  32. ICML 2025Nonparametric Modern Hopfield Models
  33. ICML 2025Occult: Optimizing Collaborative Communications across Experts for Accelerated Parallel MoE Training and Inference
  34. ICML 2025Olica: Efficient Structured Pruning of Large Language Models without Retraining
  35. ICML 2025On Efficient Estimation of Distributional Treatment Effects under Covariate-Adaptive Randomization
  36. ICML 2025On the Duality between Gradient Transformations and Adapters
  37. ICML 2025On-the-Fly Adaptive Distillation of Transformer to Dual-State Linear Attention for Long-Context LLM Serving
  38. ICML 2025One Leaf Reveals the Season: Occlusion-Based Contrastive Learning with Semantic-Aware Views for Efficient Visual Representation
  39. ICML 2025OrthoRank: Token Selection via Sink Token Orthogonality for Efficient LLM inference
  40. ICML 2025Over-Tokenized Transformer: Vocabulary is Generally Worth Scaling
  41. ICML 2025Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of State Space Models
  42. ICML 2025Position: Enough of Scaling LLMs! Lets Focus on Downscaling
  43. ICML 2025Predictive Data Selection: The Data That Predicts Is the Data That Teaches
  44. ICML 2025Primphormer: Efficient Graph Transformers with Primal Representations
  45. ICML 2025ProofAug: Efficient Neural Theorem Proving via Fine-grained Proof Structure Analysis
  46. ICML 2025QoS-Efficient Serving of Multiple Mixture-of-Expert LLMs Using Partial Runtime Reconfiguration
  47. ICML 2025Reliable and Efficient Amortized Model-based Evaluation
  48. ICML 2025Residual Matrix Transformers: Scaling the Size of the Residual Stream
  49. ICML 2025Reward-Guided Speculative Decoding for Efficient LLM Reasoning
  50. ICML 2025Robust Consensus Anchor Learning for Efficient Multi-view Subspace Clustering

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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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