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
492 papers, page 2 of 10
- ICML 2026Efficient Parallel Samplers for Recurrent-Depth Models and Their Connection to Diffusion Language Models
- ICML 2026Efficient RL Training for LLMs with Experience Replay
- ICML 2026Efficient Stochastic Optimisation via Sequential Monte Carlo
- ICML 2026Efficient Test-Time Scaling via Hierarchical Search and Self-Verification for Discrete Diffusion Language Models
- ICML 2026Efficient Training-Free Multi-Token Prediction via Embedding-Space Probing
- ICML 2026Efficient Transformer Attention for SNNs via Hadamard Simplification
- ICML 2026Efficient-DLM: From Autoregressive to Diffusion Language Models, and Beyond in Speed
- ICML 2026Evaluating Sample Utility for Efficient Data Selection by Mimicking Model Weights
- ICML 2026Explaining Data Mixing Scaling Laws
- ICML 2026Factored Gossip DiLoCo: Reducing Blocking Communication within DiLoCo
- ICML 2026FAFO: Lossy KV Cache Compression for Lossless Inference Acceleration via Draftless Fumble Decoding
- ICML 2026Fast and Expressive Multi-Byte Prediction with Probabilistic Circuits
- ICML 2026Faster Than Flash: Exploiting Attention Sparsity for Efficient Long-Context Decoding
- ICML 2026FlashOptim: Optimizers for Memory-Efficient Training
- ICML 2026FlashSinkhorn: IO-Aware Entropic Optimal Transport on GPU
- ICML 2026FOAM: Blocked State Folding for Memory-Efficient LLM Training
- ICML 2026Generalization and Scaling Laws for Mixture-of-ExpertsTransformers
- ICML 2026Gradient-Free Approaches is a Key to an Efficient Interaction with Markovian Stochasticity
- ICML 2026Hard Labels In! Rethinking the Role of Hard Labels in Mitigating Local Semantic Drift
- ICML 2026HO-SFL: Hybrid-Order Split Federated Learning with Backprop-Free Clients and Dimension-Free Aggregation
- ICML 2026HONet: Data-Efficient Learning for Exact Cover Tasks via Hypergraph Optimization
- ICML 2026HybridFlow: Resource-Adaptive Subtask Routing for Efficient Edge-Cloud LLM Inference
- ICML 2026IAPO: Information-Aware Policy Optimization for Token-Efficient Reasoning
- ICML 2026Improved Scaling Laws via Weak-to-Strong Generalization in Random Features Ridge Regression
- ICML 2026Incremental BPE Tokenization
- ICML 2026InfoLaw: Information Scaling Laws for Large Language Models with Quality-Weighted Mixture Data and Repetition
- ICML 2026Inner-layer Token Self-modulation as Another Scaling Axis for LLMs
- ICML 2026Interleaved Selective State Space Models for Efficient WiFi-Based 3D Multi-Person Pose Estimation
- ICML 2026Inverse Depth Scaling From Most Layers Being Similar
- ICML 2026IO-Adam: Rethinking Memory-Efficient Adaptive Optimizers from Gradient Computation
- ICML 2026Item Response Scaling Laws: A Measurement Theory Approach for Efficient and Generalizable Neural Scaling Estimation
- ICML 2026Kalman Linear Attention: Parallel Bayesian Filtering For Efficient Language Modeling and State Tracking
- ICML 2026Knowledge Diversion for Efficient Morphology Control and Policy Transfer
- ICML 2026Kronecker Generative Networks: A General Neural Architecture for Parameter-Efficient Learning Across Classification Tasks
- ICML 2026KUMA: A Novel Framework with Koopman Separation and Efficient Multilevel Extraction in Time Series Forecasting
- ICML 2026LAMP: Data-Efficient Linear Affine Weight-Space Models for Parameter-Controlled 3D Shape Generation and Extrapolation
- ICML 2026LiMuon: Light and Fast Muon Optimizer for Large Models
- ICML 2026LLM4Branch: Large Language Model for Discovering Efficient Branching Policies of Integer Programs
- ICML 2026LMCleaner: Efficient and Certified Online Unlearning via Influence Propagation Truncation
- ICML 2026LoKiFormer: Locality-aware Attention with Decoupled Knowledge Memory for Efficient Large Language Model Pretraining
- ICML 2026LoRDO: Distributed Low-Rank Optimization with Infrequent Communication
- ICML 2026MACKO: Sparse matrix-vector multiplication for low sparsity
- ICML 2026Memory-Efficient LLM Pretraining via Minimalist Optimizer Design
- ICML 2026Memory-Efficient LLM Training with Dynamic Sparsity: From Stability to Practical Scaling
- ICML 2026Mining Tensor/Neuron-Level Sparsity to Maximize Mixture-of-Experts Potential in Post-Training and Inference
- ICML 2026MoCo-EA: Exploiting Adversarial Mode Connectivity for Efficient Evolutionary Attacks
- ICML 2026Model Merging Scaling Laws in Large Language Models
- ICML 2026Modeling Covariate Transition for Efficient Estimation of Longitudinal Treatment Effects in Randomized Experiments
- ICML 2026Multi-Head LatentMoE and Head Parallel: Communication-Efficient and Deterministic MoE Parallelism
- ICML 2026Muon in Associative Memory Learning: Training Dynamics and Scaling Laws
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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.