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

Papers per year

Papers per venue

Counts by year and venue

Efficient Training papers by year and venue
YearNeurIPSICLRICMLCVPRTotal
2023112678384346
2024207812280300
202519012611882516
2026177148169109603

Representative papers

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All Efficient Training papers

346 papers, page 3 of 7

  1. ICLR 2023Efficient Conditionally Invariant Representation Learning
  2. ICLR 2023Efficient Discrete Multi Marginal Optimal Transport Regularization
  3. ICLR 2023Efficient Edge Inference by Selective Query
  4. ICLR 2023Efficient Federated Domain Translation
  5. ICLR 2023Efficient Model Updates for Approximate Unlearning of Graph-Structured Data
  6. ICLR 2023Efficient recurrent architectures through activity sparsity and sparse back-propagation through time
  7. ICLR 2023Encoding Recurrence into Transformers
  8. ICLR 2023Exploring the Limits of Differentially Private Deep Learning with Group-wise Clipping
  9. ICLR 2023FastFill: Efficient Compatible Model Update
  10. ICLR 2023Heterogeneous Neuronal and Synaptic Dynamics for Spike-Efficient Unsupervised Learning: Theory and Design Principles
  11. ICLR 2023How Much Data Are Augmentations Worth? An Investigation into Scaling Laws, Invariance, and Implicit Regularization
  12. ICLR 2023IDEAL: Query-Efficient Data-Free Learning from Black-Box Models
  13. ICLR 2023Image to Sphere: Learning Equivariant Features for Efficient Pose Prediction
  14. ICLR 2023Joint Edge-Model Sparse Learning is Provably Efficient for Graph Neural Networks
  15. ICLR 2023KwikBucks: Correlation Clustering with Cheap-Weak and Expensive-Strong Signals
  16. ICLR 2023Layer Grafted Pre-training: Bridging Contrastive Learning And Masked Image Modeling For Label-Efficient Representations
  17. ICLR 2023Learning Kernelized Contextual Bandits in a Distributed and Asynchronous Environment
  18. ICLR 2023Learning MLPs on Graphs: A Unified View of Effectiveness, Robustness, and Efficiency
  19. ICLR 2023Learning to Grow Pretrained Models for Efficient Transformer Training
  20. ICLR 2023Learning to Linearize Deep Neural Networks for Secure and Efficient Private Inference
  21. ICLR 2023Learning with Auxiliary Activation for Memory-Efficient Training
  22. ICLR 2023MA-BERT: Towards Matrix Arithmetic-only BERT Inference by Eliminating Complex Non-Linear Functions
  23. ICLR 2023Masked Distillation with Receptive Tokens
  24. ICLR 2023Massively Scaling Heteroscedastic Classifiers
  25. ICLR 2023Maximizing Spatio-Temporal Entropy of Deep 3D CNNs for Efficient Video Recognition
  26. ICLR 2023Memorization Capacity of Neural Networks with Conditional Computation
  27. ICLR 2023Meta-prediction Model for Distillation-Aware NAS on Unseen Datasets
  28. ICLR 2023Moderate Coreset: A Universal Method of Data Selection for Real-world Data-efficient Deep Learning
  29. ICLR 2023More ConvNets in the 2020s: Scaling up Kernels Beyond 51x51 using Sparsity
  30. ICLR 2023Multitask Prompt Tuning Enables Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning
  31. ICLR 2023Packed Ensembles for efficient uncertainty estimation
  32. ICLR 2023Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Design Spaces
  33. ICLR 2023PASHA: Efficient HPO and NAS with Progressive Resource Allocation
  34. ICLR 2023PiFold: Toward effective and efficient protein inverse folding
  35. ICLR 2023Reparameterization through Spatial Gradient Scaling
  36. ICLR 2023Scalable and Equivariant Spherical CNNs by Discrete-Continuous (DISCO) Convolutions
  37. ICLR 2023SCALE-UP: An Efficient Black-box Input-level Backdoor Detection via Analyzing Scaled Prediction Consistency
  38. ICLR 2023Scaling Forward Gradient With Local Losses
  39. ICLR 2023Scaling Up Probabilistic Circuits by Latent Variable Distillation
  40. ICLR 2023SCoMoE: Efficient Mixtures of Experts with Structured Communication
  41. ICLR 2023Self-Guided Noise-Free Data Generation for Efficient Zero-Shot Learning
  42. ICLR 2023SmartFRZ: An Efficient Training Framework using Attention-Based Layer Freezing
  43. ICLR 2023Sparse MoE as the New Dropout: Scaling Dense and Self-Slimmable Transformers
  44. ICLR 2023Sparse Random Networks for Communication-Efficient Federated Learning
  45. ICLR 2023Spherical Sliced-Wasserstein
  46. ICLR 2023Statistical Efficiency of Score Matching: The View from Isoperimetry
  47. ICLR 2023Teacher Guided Training: An Efficient Framework for Knowledge Transfer
  48. ICLR 2023The Onset of Variance-Limited Behavior for Networks in the Lazy and Rich Regimes
  49. ICLR 2023Trainable Weight Averaging: Efficient Training by Optimizing Historical Solutions
  50. ICLR 2023Treeformer: Dense Gradient Trees for Efficient Attention Computation

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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.

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