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

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  1. ICML 2023Efficient Sequence Transduction by Jointly Predicting Tokens and Durations
  2. ICML 2023Efficient Training of Language Models using Few-Shot Learning
  3. ICML 2023ELSA: Efficient Label Shift Adaptation through the Lens of Semiparametric Models
  4. ICML 2023Forget Unlearning: Towards True Data-Deletion in Machine Learning
  5. ICML 2023Fourmer: An Efficient Global Modeling Paradigm for Image Restoration
  6. ICML 2023GAT: Guided Adversarial Training with Pareto-optimal Auxiliary Tasks
  7. ICML 2023Generalized-Smooth Nonconvex Optimization is As Efficient As Smooth Nonconvex Optimization
  8. ICML 2023HETAL: Efficient Privacy-preserving Transfer Learning with Homomorphic Encryption
  9. ICML 2023Hierarchical Grammar-Induced Geometry for Data-Efficient Molecular Property Prediction
  10. ICML 2023JAWS-X: Addressing Efficiency Bottlenecks of Conformal Prediction Under Standard and Feedback Covariate Shift
  11. ICML 2023Label differential privacy and private training data release
  12. ICML 2023Learn to Accumulate Evidence from All Training Samples: Theory and Practice
  13. ICML 2023LESS-VFL: Communication-Efficient Feature Selection for Vertical Federated Learning
  14. ICML 2023Linkless Link Prediction via Relational Distillation
  15. ICML 2023Lowering the Pre-training Tax for Gradient-based Subset Training: A Lightweight Distributed Pre-Training Toolkit
  16. ICML 2023Margin-based sampling in high dimensions: When being active is less efficient than staying passive
  17. ICML 2023Moccasin: Efficient Tensor Rematerialization for Neural Networks
  18. ICML 2023Momentum Ensures Convergence of SIGNSGD under Weaker Assumptions
  19. ICML 2023Multi-Objective Population Based Training
  20. ICML 2023NTK-approximating MLP Fusion for Efficient Language Model Fine-tuning
  21. ICML 2023On the convergence of the MLE as an estimator of the learning rate in the Exp3 algorithm
  22. ICML 2023Optimal Rates and Efficient Algorithms for Online Bayesian Persuasion
  23. ICML 2023Patch-level Routing in Mixture-of-Experts is Provably Sample-efficient for Convolutional Neural Networks
  24. ICML 2023Policy Mirror Ascent for Efficient and Independent Learning in Mean Field Games
  25. ICML 2023PreNAS: Preferred One-Shot Learning Towards Efficient Neural Architecture Search
  26. ICML 2023Probabilistic Categorical Adversarial Attack and Adversarial Training
  27. ICML 2023Prototype-Sample Relation Distillation: Towards Replay-Free Continual Learning
  28. ICML 2023Provable Data Subset Selection For Efficient Neural Networks Training
  29. ICML 2023Provably and Practically Efficient Neural Contextual Bandits
  30. ICML 2023Reducing SO(3) Convolutions to SO(2) for Efficient Equivariant GNNs
  31. ICML 2023Revisiting Data-Free Knowledge Distillation with Poisoned Teachers
  32. ICML 2023Rockmate: an Efficient, Fast, Automatic and Generic Tool for Re-materialization in PyTorch
  33. ICML 2023Scaling Laws for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation
  34. ICML 2023Scaling Spherical CNNs
  35. ICML 2023Scaling Up Dataset Distillation to ImageNet-1K with Constant Memory
  36. ICML 2023Semiparametrically Efficient Off-Policy Evaluation in Linear Markov Decision Processes
  37. ICML 2023Simple Hardware-Efficient Long Convolutions for Sequence Modeling
  38. ICML 2023Sketching for First Order Method: Efficient Algorithm for Low-Bandwidth Channel and Vulnerability
  39. ICML 2023SLAMB: Accelerated Large Batch Training with Sparse Communication
  40. ICML 2023SmoothQuant: Accurate and Efficient Post-Training Quantization for Large Language Models
  41. ICML 2023SparseProp: Efficient Sparse Backpropagation for Faster Training of Neural Networks at the Edge
  42. ICML 2023SpotEM: Efficient Video Search for Episodic Memory
  43. ICML 2023Stabilizing GANs' Training with Brownian Motion Controller
  44. ICML 2023SWARM Parallelism: Training Large Models Can Be Surprisingly Communication-Efficient
  45. ICML 2023TAN Without a Burn: Scaling Laws of DP-SGD
  46. ICML 2023The case for 4-bit precision: k-bit Inference Scaling Laws
  47. ICML 2023Towards Stable and Efficient Adversarial Training against $l_1$ Bounded Adversarial Attacks
  48. ICML 2023Towards Understanding and Improving GFlowNet Training
  49. ICML 2023Training Normalizing Flows from Dependent Data
  50. ICML 2023Understanding Gradient Regularization in Deep Learning: Efficient Finite-Difference Computation and Implicit Bias

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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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