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
Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up
- 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 3 of 10
- NeurIPS 2026Neural Neural Scaling Laws
- NeurIPS 2026NGDB-Zoo: Towards Efficient and Scalable Neural Graph Databases Training
- NeurIPS 2026NIKA: Efficient Neural Video Representation via Structured Latent Diversity
- NeurIPS 2026Normalized Architectures are Natively 4-Bit
- NeurIPS 2026NoTA: Normalized Tensor Adaptation for Parameter-Efficient Continual Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Omni-Safety under Cross-Modality Conflict: Vulnerabilities, Dynamic Mechanisms and Efficient Alignment
- NeurIPS 2026OmniSelect: Dynamic Modality-Aware Token Compression for Efficient Omni-modal Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026OmniSpace: Efficient Geometry Awareness for Autonomous Vehicles MLLMs
- NeurIPS 2026On Minimizing Regret in Fixed-Confidence $\varepsilon$-Best Arm Identification
- NeurIPS 2026On Neural Scaling Laws for Weather Emulation through Continual Training
- NeurIPS 2026On the Recall Scaling Laws in Mamba: A Theoretical and Mechanistic Study via Hashing
- NeurIPS 2026One Temperature to Rule Them All?
- NeurIPS 2026Optimal and Efficient Contextual Combinatorial Semi-bandits with General Function Approximation
- NeurIPS 2026Optimal scaling laws in learning hierarchical multi-index models
- NeurIPS 2026Orlicz–Sobolev with Musielak: An Efficient Regularization Approach for Graph-based IPM
- NeurIPS 2026Orthros: Phase-Aware Heterogeneous Attention for Efficient Transformers
- NeurIPS 2026PACE: Pareto-Adaptive Compression for Efficient Native MLLMs
- NeurIPS 2026Palette: A Modular, Controllable, and Efficient Framework for On-demand Authorized Safety Alignment Relaxation in LLMs
- NeurIPS 2026Patch Hierarchical Attention Transformers for Efficient Particle Jet Tagging
- NeurIPS 2026PipeFSDP: Efficient Pipeline Parallel under Fully Sharded Data Parallel for Large Language Model Training
- NeurIPS 2026Pixels to Tokens: Token Space Efficient Active Learning for Low-Budget Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2026Predicting and improving test-time scaling laws via reward tail-guided search
- NeurIPS 2026Prism Attention: Proposal-Refined Index Sharing Mechanism for Efficient LLMs Inference
- NeurIPS 2026Progressive Layer-wise Supervision: Deep-to-Shallow Supervision Annealing for Efficient and Robust Speech Deepfake Detection
- NeurIPS 2026Proper Agnostic Learning of Functions of Halfspaces
- NeurIPS 2026QueryStop: Dynamic Stop Signals for Efficient Streaming Inference
- NeurIPS 2026Random Attention Pattern Learning Enables Emergent Capabilities
- NeurIPS 2026Relaxed On-Policy Distillation: Selective Credit Allocation for Scaling Reasoning Efficiently
- NeurIPS 2026RelFlexformer: Efficient Attention Transformers for Integrable Relative Positional Encodings
- NeurIPS 2026RePiD: Efficient Recursive Pixel-Space Diffusion via Hierarchical Patch Denoising
- NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Dataset Distillation for Classification: Do Distilled Sets Outperform Coresets?
- NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Expressivity and Efficiency in Test-Time Training
- NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Infrared Small Target Detection: A Foundation Driven Efficient Paradigm
- NeurIPS 2026Rich Insights from Cheap Signals: Efficient Evaluations via Tensor Factorization
- NeurIPS 2026Robust and Efficient Backdoor Mitigation for ML Models via Tolerant Property Testing
- NeurIPS 2026Robust and Efficient Continual Model Merging via Global Singular Subspace Separation and Restoration
- NeurIPS 2026ROCKET: Rapid Optimization via Calibration-guided Knapsack-Enhanced Truncation for Efficient Model Compression
- NeurIPS 2026RubiConv - Efficient Boundary-Respecting Convolutions
- NeurIPS 2026SageSched: Efficient LLM Scheduling Confronting Demand Uncertainty and Hybridity
- NeurIPS 2026Sample-Efficient Optimization over Generative Priors via Coarse Learnability
- NeurIPS 2026Scaling Laws for SAE Training Data
- NeurIPS 2026Sharp feature-learning transitions and Bayes-optimal neural scaling laws in extensive-width networks
- NeurIPS 2026Should We Pay This Much for Robustness? Efficient Proxy Certificates with Marginal Guarantees
- NeurIPS 2026Show Me What You Don’t Know: Efficient Sampling from Invariant Sets for Model Validation
- NeurIPS 2026SHRED: Retain-Set-Free Unlearning via Self-Distillation with Logit Demotion
- NeurIPS 2026SimpleEvol: Efficient Intelligence Conversion via Less Human Prior in Automated Heuristic Design
- NeurIPS 2026SnapMLA: Efficient Long-Context MLA Decoding via Hardware-Aware FP8 Quantized Pipelining
- NeurIPS 2026SparDA: Sparse Decoupled Attention for Efficient Long-Context LLM Inference
- NeurIPS 2026Sparse Attention as a Range Searching Problem: Towards an Inference-Efficient Index for KV Cache
- NeurIPS 2026Speculative Self-Distillation enables Efficient Knowledge Internalization
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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.