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
190 papers, page 3 of 4
- NeurIPS 2025Implicit-ARAP: Efficient Handle-Guided Neural Field Deformation via Local Patch Meshing
- NeurIPS 2025Improved Scaling Laws in Linear Regression via Data Reuse
- NeurIPS 2025Improving Decision Trees through the Lens of Parameterized Local Search
- NeurIPS 2025InfiGFusion: Graph-on-Logits Distillation via Efficient Gromov-Wasserstein for Model Fusion
- NeurIPS 2025Interpretable and Parameter Efficient Graph Neural Additive Models with Random Fourier Features
- NeurIPS 2025Irrational Complex Rotations Empower Low-bit Optimizers
- NeurIPS 2025Jet-Nemotron: Efficient Language Model with Post Neural Architecture Search
- NeurIPS 2025Kernel Learning with Adversarial Features: Numerical Efficiency and Adaptive Regularization
- NeurIPS 2025Layer as Puzzle Pieces: Compressing Large Language Models through Layer Concatenation
- NeurIPS 2025Layer-wise Update Aggregation with Recycling for Communication-Efficient Federated Learning
- NeurIPS 2025LayerNavigator: Finding Promising Intervention Layers for Efficient Activation Steering in Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Learned Prefix Caching for Efficient LLM Inference
- NeurIPS 2025Learning in Compact Spaces with Approximately Normalized Transformer
- NeurIPS 2025Learning quadratic neural networks in high dimensions: SGD dynamics and scaling laws
- NeurIPS 2025Less Is More, but Where? Dynamic Token Compression via LLM-Guided Keyframe Prior
- NeurIPS 2025Linear Attention for Efficient Bidirectional Sequence Modeling
- NeurIPS 2025LLM at Network Edge: A Layer-wise Efficient Federated Fine-tuning Approach
- NeurIPS 2025LookWhere? Efficient Visual Recognition by Learning Where to Look and What to See from Self-Supervision
- NeurIPS 2025LoRASuite: Efficient LoRA Adaptation Across Large Language Model Upgrades
- NeurIPS 2025Mamba Modulation: On the Length Generalization of Mamba Models
- NeurIPS 2025Mamba Only Glances Once (MOGO): A Lightweight Framework for Efficient Video Action Detection
- NeurIPS 2025Memory-Efficient Training with In-Place FFT Implementation
- NeurIPS 2025Memory-Efficient Visual Autoregressive Modeling with Scale-Aware KV Cache Compression
- NeurIPS 2025Mind the Gap: Removing the Discretization Gap in Differentiable Logic Gate Networks
- NeurIPS 2025Mixtures of Subspaces for Bandwidth Efficient Context Parallel Training
- NeurIPS 2025MoESD: Unveil Speculative Decoding's Potential for Accelerating Sparse MoE
- NeurIPS 2025Mozart: Modularized and Efficient MoE Training on 3.5D Wafer-Scale Chiplet Architectures
- NeurIPS 2025Nemotron-Flash: Towards Latency-Optimal Hybrid Small Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Noise-Robustness Through Noise: A Framework combining Asymmetric LoRA with Poisoning MoE
- NeurIPS 2025Oracle-Efficient Combinatorial Semi-Bandits
- NeurIPS 2025Pan-LUT: Efficient Pan-sharpening via Learnable Look-Up Tables
- NeurIPS 2025Parallel Scaling Law for Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025ParetoQ: Improving Scaling Laws in Extremely Low-bit LLM Quantization
- NeurIPS 2025Pay Attention to Small Weights
- NeurIPS 2025Position: AI Should Sense Better, Not Just Scale Bigger: Adaptive Sensing as a Paradigm Shift
- NeurIPS 2025Power Lines: Scaling laws for weight decay and batch size in LLM pre-training
- NeurIPS 2025PREAMBLE: Private and Efficient Aggregation via Block Sparse Vectors
- NeurIPS 2025Predictable Scale (Part II) --- Farseer: A Refined Scaling Law in LLMs
- NeurIPS 2025Private Statistical Estimation via Truncation
- NeurIPS 2025Private Training Large-scale Models with Efficient DP-SGD
- NeurIPS 2025Pruning-Robust Mamba with Asymmetric Multi-Scale Scanning Paths
- NeurIPS 2025PT-MoE: An Efficient Finetuning Framework for Integrating Mixture-of-Experts into Prompt Tuning
- NeurIPS 2025Q-Palette: Fractional-Bit Quantizers Toward Optimal Bit Allocation for Efficient LLM Deployment
- NeurIPS 2025Quadratic Coreset Selection: Certifying and Reconciling Sequence and Token Mining for Efficient Instruction Tuning
- NeurIPS 2025Random Search Neural Networks for Efficient and Expressive Graph Learning
- NeurIPS 2025RankSEG-RMA: An Efficient Segmentation Algorithm via Reciprocal Moment Approximation
- NeurIPS 2025RCCDA: Adaptive Model Updates in the Presence of Concept Drift under a Constrained Resource Budget
- NeurIPS 2025REN: Fast and Efficient Region Encodings from Patch-Based Image Encoders
- NeurIPS 2025REP: Resource-Efficient Prompting for Rehearsal-Free Continual Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Rethinking Optimal Verification Granularity for Compute-Efficient Test-Time Scaling
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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.