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
499 papers, page 2 of 10
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient Fine-Tuning for Structured Sparsity Under Group Repartitioning
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient Image Synthesis with Sphere Latent Encoder
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient Label Distribution Inference Attack and Defense on Classifier Weights in Federated Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient Learning of Truncated Boolean Product Distributions: Influence to the Rescue
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient LLM Adaptation with Forward-Only Passes
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient Memory Crystallization for Graph Learning under Non-Stationary Distribution Shifts
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient Pre-Training with Token Superposition
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient Scaling of LLM Training with Flexible Context Parallelism
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient Serving for Dynamic Agent Workflows with Prediction-based KV-Cache Management
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient Training of Deep Spiking Neural Networks with Input-Driven Derivative-Free Updates
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient Variational Inference for Log-Gaussian Cox Processes via Voronoi Tessellation
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient, Accurate and Stable Gradients for Neural ODEs
- NeurIPS 2026Efficiently Aligning Draft Models via Parameter- and Data-Efficient Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2026EngramState: Loadable Tool Priors for Efficient Function Calling
- NeurIPS 2026EventPrune: Cascaded Event-Assisted Token Pruning for Efficient First-Person Dynamic Spatial Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2026Fast KVzip: Efficient and Accurate LLM Inference with Gated KV Eviction
- NeurIPS 2026FELPS: Fair and Efficient Scheduling for Multi-LoRA Serving System
- NeurIPS 2026Finite-Memory Control of POMDPs: Fundamental Limits and Efficient Design
- NeurIPS 2026Finite-Sample and Communication-Efficient Networked Information Aggregation
- NeurIPS 2026Flash-KMeans: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact K-Means
- NeurIPS 2026FlashMask-3: Efficient and Expressive Mask-Aware Distributed Attention
- NeurIPS 2026Flow-Direct: Feedback-Efficient and Reusable Guidance for Flow Models via Non-Parametric Guidance Field
- NeurIPS 2026From Experts to Sub-experts: Fine-grained Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for MoE LLMs
- NeurIPS 2026Generative Cross-Entropy: A Strictly Proper Loss for Data-Efficient Classification
- NeurIPS 2026GramStatTexNet: Efficient, Interpretable, and Neuro-Inspired Texture Analysis-by-Synthesis
- NeurIPS 2026HetCCL: Efficient LLM Training on Heterogeneous Vendor GPUs
- NeurIPS 2026HiFloat4 Format for Language Model Pre-training on Ascend NPUs
- NeurIPS 2026Holistic Scaling Laws for Optimal Mixture-of-Experts Architecture Optimization
- NeurIPS 2026How Much Is One Recurrence Worth? Iso-Depth Scaling Laws for Looped Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026Human-Inspired, Task-Dimension-Guided Exploration for Efficient Learning and Transfer in High Dimensions
- NeurIPS 2026Hyperbolic Language Models: From Zipf to Compute-Optimal Scaling
- NeurIPS 2026HyperVAttention: Efficient Sparse Attention with Spatio-Temporal Clustering for Video Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2026IncAgg: Efficient Memory-Enhanced Graph Learning via Incremental Aggregation
- NeurIPS 2026Joint Sequence--Vocabulary Selection for Efficient LLM Distillation
- NeurIPS 2026Label-Efficient Dataset Pruning via Semi-Supervised Pseudo-Labeling
- NeurIPS 2026Learning to Foresee: Unveiling the Unlocking Efficiency of On-Policy Distillation
- NeurIPS 2026Leech Lattice Vector Quantization for Efficient LLM Compression
- NeurIPS 2026LEMON-ZEST: Evolution-Informed Tokenization for Efficient Protein Language Modeling
- NeurIPS 2026LIME: Link-based User-item Interaction Modeling with Decoupled XOR Attention for Efficient Test Time Scaling
- NeurIPS 2026LLM Routing Through the Lens of Recommendation: A Roadmap for Efficient AI Orchestration
- NeurIPS 2026Logical Distillation of Transformer Encoders
- NeurIPS 2026LoopPrune: Evolutionary Module Selection with Iterative Execution for Efficient Large Language Model Compression
- NeurIPS 2026Magnitude-preserving Layers Enable Efficient GANs
- NeurIPS 2026Map-Guided Caching: A Global Perspective for Efficient Diffusion Transformer
- NeurIPS 2026Matched-Control Tests of Partition-Source Claims in One Routed Distillation Family
- NeurIPS 2026MemForest: Efficient Agent Memory Management via EventTree Partitioning and Progressive Merging
- NeurIPS 2026Meta-memorization and memorization scaling laws in transformers
- NeurIPS 2026MGMem: An Efficient, Deterministic, and Provenance-Preserving Framework for Long-Horizon Agent Memory
- NeurIPS 2026Mixture-of-Top-$k$ Attention: Efficient Attention as Scalable Fast Weights
- NeurIPS 2026MoE-SpAc: Efficient MoE Inference Based on Speculative Activation Utility in Heterogeneous Edge Scenario
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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.