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

1,765 papers, page 32 of 36

  1. ICLR 2023Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Design Spaces
  2. ICLR 2023PASHA: Efficient HPO and NAS with Progressive Resource Allocation
  3. ICLR 2023PiFold: Toward effective and efficient protein inverse folding
  4. ICLR 2023Reparameterization through Spatial Gradient Scaling
  5. ICLR 2023Scalable and Equivariant Spherical CNNs by Discrete-Continuous (DISCO) Convolutions
  6. ICLR 2023SCALE-UP: An Efficient Black-box Input-level Backdoor Detection via Analyzing Scaled Prediction Consistency
  7. ICLR 2023Scaling Forward Gradient With Local Losses
  8. ICLR 2023Scaling Up Probabilistic Circuits by Latent Variable Distillation
  9. ICLR 2023SCoMoE: Efficient Mixtures of Experts with Structured Communication
  10. ICLR 2023Self-Guided Noise-Free Data Generation for Efficient Zero-Shot Learning
  11. ICLR 2023SmartFRZ: An Efficient Training Framework using Attention-Based Layer Freezing
  12. ICLR 2023Sparse MoE as the New Dropout: Scaling Dense and Self-Slimmable Transformers
  13. ICLR 2023Sparse Random Networks for Communication-Efficient Federated Learning
  14. ICLR 2023Spherical Sliced-Wasserstein
  15. ICLR 2023Statistical Efficiency of Score Matching: The View from Isoperimetry
  16. ICLR 2023Teacher Guided Training: An Efficient Framework for Knowledge Transfer
  17. ICLR 2023The Onset of Variance-Limited Behavior for Networks in the Lazy and Rich Regimes
  18. ICLR 2023Trainable Weight Averaging: Efficient Training by Optimizing Historical Solutions
  19. ICLR 2023Treeformer: Dense Gradient Trees for Efficient Attention Computation
  20. ICLR 2023Voxurf: Voxel-based Efficient and Accurate Neural Surface Reconstruction
  21. ICML 2023Auxiliary Modality Learning with Generalized Curriculum Distillation
  22. ICML 2023BEATs: Audio Pre-Training with Acoustic Tokenizers
  23. ICML 2023Bi-directional Masks for Efficient N:M Sparse Training
  24. ICML 2023Bigger, Better, Faster: Human-level Atari with human-level efficiency
  25. ICML 2023Brainformers: Trading Simplicity for Efficiency
  26. ICML 2023Communication-Efficient Federated Hypergradient Computation via Aggregated Iterative Differentiation
  27. ICML 2023Constrained Efficient Global Optimization of Expensive Black-box Functions
  28. ICML 2023Cramming: Training a Language Model on a single GPU in one day.
  29. ICML 2023Data Efficient Neural Scaling Law via Model Reusing
  30. ICML 2023Data-Efficient Contrastive Self-supervised Learning: Most Beneficial Examples for Supervised Learning Contribute the Least
  31. ICML 2023Data-OOB: Out-of-bag Estimate as a Simple and Efficient Data Value
  32. ICML 2023Dataset Distillation with Convexified Implicit Gradients
  33. ICML 2023Decoding Layer Saliency in Language Transformers
  34. ICML 2023Deja Vu: Contextual Sparsity for Efficient LLMs at Inference Time
  35. ICML 2023DIVISION: Memory Efficient Training via Dual Activation Precision
  36. ICML 2023dugMatting: Decomposed-Uncertainty-Guided Matting
  37. ICML 2023Effective and Efficient Structural Inference with Reservoir Computing
  38. ICML 2023Efficient and Degree-Guided Graph Generation via Discrete Diffusion Modeling
  39. ICML 2023Efficient and Equivariant Graph Networks for Predicting Quantum Hamiltonian
  40. ICML 2023Efficient Approximations of Complete Interatomic Potentials for Crystal Property Prediction
  41. ICML 2023Efficient Bound of Lipschitz Constant for Convolutional Layers by Gram Iteration
  42. ICML 2023Efficient displacement convex optimization with particle gradient descent
  43. ICML 2023Efficient Latency-Aware CNN Depth Compression via Two-Stage Dynamic Programming
  44. ICML 2023Efficient List-Decodable Regression using Batches
  45. ICML 2023Efficient Parametric Approximations of Neural Network Function Space Distance
  46. ICML 2023Efficient Personalized Federated Learning via Sparse Model-Adaptation
  47. ICML 2023Efficient preconditioned stochastic gradient descent for estimation in latent variable models
  48. ICML 2023Efficient Quantum Algorithms for Quantum Optimal Control
  49. ICML 2023Efficient Rate Optimal Regret for Adversarial Contextual MDPs Using Online Function Approximation
  50. ICML 2023Efficient RL via Disentangled Environment and Agent Representations

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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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