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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- CVPR 2026Learnable Motion-Focused Tokenization for Effective and Efficient Video Unsupervised Domain
- CVPR 2026LiDeRe A Lightweight Readout for Fast and Data-Efficient Dense Prediction
- CVPR 2026LightSplat Fast and Memory-Efficient Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding in Five
- CVPR 2026Lite Any Stereo Efficient Zero-Shot Stereo Matching
- CVPR 2026LLM-Guided Probabilistic Fusion for Label-Efficient Document Layout Analysis
- CVPR 2026MAGICIAN Efficient Long-Term Planning with Imagined Gaussians for Active Mapping
- CVPR 2026MaskDiME Adaptive Masked Diffusion for Precise and Efficient Visual Counterfactual
- CVPR 2026Memory-Efficient Fine-Tuning Diffusion Transformers via Dynamic Patch Sampling and Block
- CVPR 2026Memory-Efficient Transfer Learning with Fading Side Networks via Masked Dual
- CVPR 2026Merge3D Efficient 3D Multimodal LLMs via Joint 2D-3D Token Merging
- CVPR 2026MERIT Multi-domain Efficient RAW Image Translation
- CVPR 2026MeToM Metadata-Guided Token Merging for Efficient Video LLMs
- CVPR 2026MixerCSeg An Efficient Mixer Architecture for Crack Segmentation via Decoupled
- CVPR 2026NAMI Efficient Image Generation via Bridged Progressive Rectified Flow Transformers
- CVPR 2026NESTOR A Nested MOE-based Neural Operator for Large-Scale PDE Pre-Training
- CVPR 2026Parameter-Efficient Adaptation for MLLMs via Implicit Modality Decomposition
- CVPR 2026Parameter-efficient Continual Learning for Enhancing Plasticity without Forgetting under Limited
- CVPR 2026PFGNet A Fully Convolutional Frequency-Guided Peripheral Gating Network for Efficient
- CVPR 2026PHASE-Net Physics-Grounded Harmonic Attention System for Efficient Remote Photoplethysmography Measurement
- CVPR 2026Phased DMD Few-step Distribution Matching Distillation via Score Matching within
- CVPR 2026PhaseWin Search Framework Enable Efficient Object-Level Interpretation
- CVPR 2026PIX-TAB Efficient PIXel-Precise TABle Structure Recognition Approach with Speculative Decoding
- CVPR 2026PlannerRFT Reinforcing Diffusion Planners through Closed-Loop and Sample-Efficient Fine-Tuning
- CVPR 2026PosterOmni Generalized Artistic Poster Creation via Task Distillation and Unified
- CVPR 2026Prime Once then Reprogram Locally An Efficient Alternative to Black-Box
- CVPR 2026RAVEN Radar Adaptive Vision Encoders for Efficient Chirp-wise Object Detection
- CVPR 2026ReFTA Breaking the Weight Reconstruction Bottleneck in Tensorized Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
- CVPR 2026RegFormer Transferable Relational Grounding for Efficient Weakly-Supervised Human-Object Interaction Detection
- CVPR 2026Rejection Mixing Fast Semantic Propagation of Mask Tokens for Efficient
- CVPR 2026Rethinking Dataset Distillation Hard Truths about Soft Labels
- CVPR 2026Retrieve-to-Restore Efficient All-in-One Image Restoration with a Retrieval-Based Degradation Bank
- CVPR 2026Revisiting Unknowns Towards Effective and Efficient Open-Set Active Learning
- CVPR 2026S2FT Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning in Sparse Spectrum Domain
- CVPR 2026Scan Clusters Not Pixels A Cluster-Centric Paradigm for Efficient Ultra-high-definition
- CVPR 2026SEA-Flow3D Simplified Efficient and Accurate Scene Flow via Spatial Vector
- CVPR 2026SEATrack Simple Efficient and Adaptive Multimodal Tracker
- CVPR 2026SegMo Co-Designing Content-Aware Sparsity and Locally-Cohesive Segment Parallelism for Efficient
- CVPR 2026ShiftLUT Spatial Shift Enhanced Look-Up Tables for Efficient Image Restoration
- CVPR 2026SkillSight Efficient First-Person Skill Assessment with Gaze
- CVPR 2026SMV-EAR Bring Spatiotemporal Multi-View Representation Learning into Efficient Event-Based Action
- CVPR 2026SO3-Equivariant ViT-Adapter for Data-Efficient Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Indoor Panoramic Depth Estimation
- CVPR 2026Sparse Task Vector Mixup with Hypernetworks for Efficient Knowledge Transfer
- CVPR 2026SpikeTrack A Spike-driven Framework for Efficient Visual Tracking
- CVPR 2026SpikeTrack High-performance and Energy-efficient Event-Based Object Tracking with Spiking Neural
- CVPR 2026SSM-Aware Token-Efficient VMamba via Adaptive Patch Pruning and Merging for
- CVPR 2026Streamlined Knowledge Distillation
- CVPR 2026Submodel Extraction for Efficient and Personalized Federated Learning via Optimal
- CVPR 2026Token Reduction via Local and Global Contexts Optimization for Efficient
- CVPR 2026TokenHand Discrete Token Representation for Efficient Hand Mesh Reconstruction
- CVPR 2026Towards Photorealistic and Efficient Bokeh Rendering via Diffusion Framework
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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.