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

126 papers, page 2 of 3

  1. ICLR 2025Efficient Top-m Data Values Identification for Data Selection
  2. ICLR 2025Efficient Training of Neural Stochastic Differential Equations by Matching Finite Dimensional Distributions
  3. ICLR 2025Emergent Orientation Maps —— Mechanisms, Coding Efficiency and Robustness
  4. ICLR 2025EMMA: Empowering Multi-modal Mamba with Structural and Hierarchical Alignment
  5. ICLR 2025Equivariant Masked Position Prediction for Efficient Molecular Representation
  6. ICLR 2025Explaining Modern Gated-Linear RNNs via a Unified Implicit Attention Formulation
  7. ICLR 2025Exploiting Distribution Constraints for Scalable and Efficient Image Retrieval
  8. ICLR 2025Exploring Learning Complexity for Efficient Downstream Dataset Pruning
  9. ICLR 2025FedTMOS: Efficient One-Shot Federated Learning with Tsetlin Machine
  10. ICLR 2025Few-Class Arena: A Benchmark for Efficient Selection of Vision Models and Dataset Difficulty Measurement
  11. ICLR 2025FlashMask: Efficient and Rich Mask Extension of FlashAttention
  12. ICLR 2025FlexPrefill: A Context-Aware Sparse Attention Mechanism for Efficient Long-Sequence Inference
  13. ICLR 2025Fundamental Limits of Prompt Tuning Transformers: Universality, Capacity and Efficiency
  14. ICLR 2025Gaussian Ensemble Belief Propagation for Efficient Inference in High-Dimensional, Black-box Systems
  15. ICLR 2025Geometry Image Diffusion: Fast and Data-Efficient Text-to-3D with Image-Based Surface Representation
  16. ICLR 2025Gnothi Seauton: Empowering Faithful Self-Interpretability in Black-Box Transformers
  17. ICLR 2025GotenNet: Rethinking Efficient 3D Equivariant Graph Neural Networks
  18. ICLR 2025GraphBridge: Towards Arbitrary Transfer Learning in GNNs
  19. ICLR 2025HiBug2: Efficient and Interpretable Error Slice Discovery for Comprehensive Model Debugging
  20. ICLR 2025High-dimensional Analysis of Knowledge Distillation: Weak-to-Strong Generalization and Scaling Laws
  21. ICLR 2025How efficient is LLM-generated code? A rigorous & high-standard benchmark
  22. ICLR 2025Is uniform expressivity too restrictive? Towards efficient expressivity of GNNs
  23. ICLR 2025Language models scale reliably with over-training and on downstream tasks
  24. ICLR 2025Learning Efficient Positional Encodings with Graph Neural Networks
  25. ICLR 2025LevAttention: Time, Space and Streaming Efficient Algorithm for Heavy Attentions
  26. ICLR 2025LiFT: Learning to Fine-Tune via Bayesian Parameter Efficient Meta Fine-Tuning
  27. ICLR 2025LLaVA-MoD: Making LLaVA Tiny via MoE-Knowledge Distillation
  28. ICLR 2025LOIRE: LifelOng learning on Incremental data via pre-trained language model gRowth Efficiently
  29. ICLR 2025MambaPEFT: Exploring Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Mamba
  30. ICLR 2025Memory Efficient Transformer Adapter for Dense Predictions
  31. ICLR 2025Mini-batch Coresets for Memory-efficient Language Model Training on Data Mixtures
  32. ICLR 2025MoE++: Accelerating Mixture-of-Experts Methods with Zero-Computation Experts
  33. ICLR 2025MrT5: Dynamic Token Merging for Efficient Byte-level Language Models
  34. ICLR 2025Mutual Effort for Efficiency: A Similarity-based Token Pruning for Vision Transformers in Self-Supervised Learning
  35. ICLR 2025No Need to Talk: Asynchronous Mixture of Language Models
  36. ICLR 2025Node Identifiers: Compact, Discrete Representations for Efficient Graph Learning
  37. ICLR 2025Not All LLM-Generated Data Are Equal: Rethinking Data Weighting in Text Classification
  38. ICLR 2025ObscuraCoder: Powering Efficient Code LM Pre-Training Via Obfuscation Grounding
  39. ICLR 2025One for all and all for one: Efficient computation of partial Wasserstein distances on the line
  40. ICLR 2025Optimal Brain Apoptosis
  41. ICLR 2025Pacmann: Efficient Private Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
  42. ICLR 2025PharmacoMatch: Efficient 3D Pharmacophore Screening via Neural Subgraph Matching
  43. ICLR 2025Physics of Language Models: Part 3.3, Knowledge Capacity Scaling Laws
  44. ICLR 2025PortLLM: Personalizing Evolving Large Language Models with Training-Free and Portable Model Patches
  45. ICLR 2025PostEdit: Posterior Sampling for Efficient Zero-Shot Image Editing
  46. ICLR 2025Preble: Efficient Distributed Prompt Scheduling for LLM Serving
  47. ICLR 2025Progressive Mixed-Precision Decoding for Efficient LLM Inference
  48. ICLR 2025Progressive Parameter Efficient Transfer Learning for Semantic Segmentation
  49. ICLR 2025Progressive Token Length Scaling in Transformer Encoders for Efficient Universal Segmentation
  50. ICLR 2025Quantum-PEFT: Ultra parameter-efficient fine-tuning

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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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