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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- NeurIPS 2025Structured Sparse Transition Matrices to Enable State Tracking in State-Space Models
- NeurIPS 2025Subspace Networks: Scaling Decentralized Training with Communication-Efficient Model Parallelism
- NeurIPS 2025SubTrack++ : Gradient Subspace Tracking for Scalable LLM Training
- NeurIPS 2025SUMO: Subspace-Aware Moment-Orthogonalization for Accelerating Memory-Efficient LLM Training
- NeurIPS 2025Superposition Yields Robust Neural Scaling
- NeurIPS 2025SymMaP: Improving Computational Efficiency in Linear Solvers through Symbolic Preconditioning
- NeurIPS 2025Synergy Between the Strong and the Weak: Spiking Neural Networks are Inherently Self-Distillers
- NeurIPS 2025Teaching Transformers to Solve Combinatorial Problems through Efficient Trial & Error
- NeurIPS 2025Technical Debt in In-Context Learning: Diminishing Efficiency in Long Context
- NeurIPS 2025The Omni-Expert: A Computationally Efficient Approach to Achieve a Mixture of Experts in a Single Expert Model
- NeurIPS 2025Tiled Flash Linear Attention: More Efficient Linear RNN and xLSTM Kernels
- NeurIPS 2025Towards Interpretable and Efficient Attention: Compressing All by Contracting a Few
- NeurIPS 2025TrajMamba: An Efficient and Semantic-rich Vehicle Trajectory Pre-training Model
- NeurIPS 2025UMoE: Unifying Attention and FFN with Shared Experts
- NeurIPS 2025Unified Scaling Laws for Compressed Representations
- NeurIPS 2025V2V: Scaling Event-Based Vision through Efficient Video-to-Voxel Simulation
- NeurIPS 2025Venus-MAXWELL: Efficient Learning of Protein-Mutation Stability Landscapes using Protein Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Zebra-Llama: Towards Extremely Efficient Hybrid Models
- NeurIPS 2025ZeroS: Zero‑Sum Linear Attention for Efficient Transformers
- CVPR 20243DGStream: On-the-Fly Training of 3D Gaussians for Efficient Streaming of Photo-Realistic Free-Viewpoint Videos
- CVPR 2024A General and Efficient Training for Transformer via Token Expansion
- CVPR 2024A Simple Baseline for Efficient Hand Mesh Reconstruction
- CVPR 2024Adversarial Score Distillation: When score distillation meets GAN
- CVPR 2024ALGM: Adaptive Local-then-Global Token Merging for Efficient Semantic Segmentation with Plain Vision Transformers
- CVPR 2024An Upload-Efficient Scheme for Transferring Knowledge From a Server-Side Pre-trained Generator to Clients in Heterogeneous Federated Learning
- CVPR 2024Are Conventional SNNs Really Efficient? A Perspective from Network Quantization
- CVPR 2024Boosting Image Quality Assessment through Efficient Transformer Adaptation with Local Feature Enhancement
- CVPR 2024CHAIN: Enhancing Generalization in Data-Efficient GANs via lipsCHitz continuity constrAIned Normalization
- CVPR 2024Characteristics Matching Based Hash Codes Generation for Efficient Fine-grained Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2024Circuit Design and Efficient Simulation of Quantum Inner Product and Empirical Studies of Its Effect on Near-Term Hybrid Quantum-Classic Machine Learning
- CVPR 2024CLIP-KD: An Empirical Study of CLIP Model Distillation
- CVPR 2024Communication-Efficient Collaborative Perception via Information Filling with Codebook
- CVPR 2024Communication-Efficient Federated Learning with Accelerated Client Gradient
- CVPR 2024Data-Efficient Multimodal Fusion on a Single GPU
- CVPR 2024Data-Efficient Unsupervised Interpolation Without Any Intermediate Frame for 4D Medical Images
- CVPR 2024Deep-TROJ: An Inference Stage Trojan Insertion Algorithm through Efficient Weight Replacement Attack
- CVPR 2024Distilling Semantic Priors from SAM to Efficient Image Restoration Models
- CVPR 2024ECLIPSE: Efficient Continual Learning in Panoptic Segmentation with Visual Prompt Tuning
- CVPR 2024Efficient 3D Implicit Head Avatar with Mesh-anchored Hash Table Blendshapes
- CVPR 2024Efficient and Effective Weakly-Supervised Action Segmentation via Action-Transition-Aware Boundary Alignment
- CVPR 2024Efficient Hyperparameter Optimization with Adaptive Fidelity Identification
- CVPR 2024Efficient Meshflow and Optical Flow Estimation from Event Cameras
- CVPR 2024Efficient Model Stealing Defense with Noise Transition Matrix
- CVPR 2024Efficient Multi-scale Network with Learnable Discrete Wavelet Transform for Blind Motion Deblurring
- CVPR 2024Efficient Multitask Dense Predictor via Binarization
- CVPR 2024Efficient Privacy-Preserving Visual Localization Using 3D Ray Clouds
- CVPR 2024Efficient Scene Recovery Using Luminous Flux Prior
- CVPR 2024Efficient Solution of Point-Line Absolute Pose
- CVPR 2024Efficient Stitchable Task Adaptation
- CVPR 2024EMCAD: Efficient Multi-scale Convolutional Attention Decoding for Medical Image Segmentation
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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.