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 34 of 36

  1. ICML 2023Unit Scaling: Out-of-the-Box Low-Precision Training
  2. ICML 2023Why Is Public Pretraining Necessary for Private Model Training?
  3. ICML 2023Why Random Pruning Is All We Need to Start Sparse
  4. NeurIPS 2023A Computation and Communication Efficient Method for Distributed Nonconvex Problems in the Partial Participation Setting
  5. NeurIPS 2023A Hierarchical Training Paradigm for Antibody Structure-sequence Co-design
  6. NeurIPS 2023A Smooth Binary Mechanism for Efficient Private Continual Observation
  7. NeurIPS 2023Accelerated Training via Incrementally Growing Neural Networks using Variance Transfer and Learning Rate Adaptation
  8. NeurIPS 2023Actively Testing Your Model While It Learns: Realizing Label-Efficient Learning in Practice
  9. NeurIPS 2023Adversarial Training from Mean Field Perspective
  10. NeurIPS 2023Alternating Updates for Efficient Transformers
  11. NeurIPS 2023Amortized Reparametrization: Efficient and Scalable Variational Inference for Latent SDEs
  12. NeurIPS 2023An Efficient and Robust Framework for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search with Attribute Constraint
  13. NeurIPS 2023An Efficient End-to-End Training Approach for Zero-Shot Human-AI Coordination
  14. NeurIPS 2023An Empirical Study Towards Prompt-Tuning for Graph Contrastive Pre-Training in Recommendations
  15. NeurIPS 2023An Inverse Scaling Law for CLIP Training
  16. NeurIPS 2023ATMAN: Understanding Transformer Predictions Through Memory Efficient Attention Manipulation
  17. NeurIPS 2023Augmentation-Aware Self-Supervision for Data-Efficient GAN Training
  18. NeurIPS 2023Augmentation-Free Dense Contrastive Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Semantic Segmentation
  19. NeurIPS 2023Bayes beats Cross Validation: Efficient and Accurate Ridge Regression via Expectation Maximization
  20. NeurIPS 2023Birder: Communication-Efficient 1-bit Adaptive Optimizer for Practical Distributed DNN Training
  21. NeurIPS 2023Cal-QL: Calibrated Offline RL Pre-Training for Efficient Online Fine-Tuning
  22. NeurIPS 2023Clustering the Sketch: Dynamic Compression for Embedding Tables
  23. NeurIPS 2023Composing Parameter-Efficient Modules with Arithmetic Operation
  24. NeurIPS 2023Connecting Certified and Adversarial Training
  25. NeurIPS 2023Coordinating Distributed Example Orders for Provably Accelerated Training
  26. NeurIPS 2023CoPriv: Network/Protocol Co-Optimization for Communication-Efficient Private Inference
  27. NeurIPS 2023Data Portraits: Recording Foundation Model Training Data
  28. NeurIPS 2023Data Pruning via Moving-one-Sample-out
  29. NeurIPS 2023Defending against Data-Free Model Extraction by Distributionally Robust Defensive Training
  30. NeurIPS 2023DESSERT: An Efficient Algorithm for Vector Set Search with Vector Set Queries
  31. NeurIPS 2023Direct Training of SNN using Local Zeroth Order Method
  32. NeurIPS 2023Distributionally Robust Ensemble of Lottery Tickets Towards Calibrated Sparse Network Training
  33. NeurIPS 2023Does a sparse ReLU network training problem always admit an optimum ?
  34. NeurIPS 2023Don’t just prune by magnitude! Your mask topology is a secret weapon
  35. NeurIPS 2023DoWG Unleashed: An Efficient Universal Parameter-Free Gradient Descent Method
  36. NeurIPS 2023Dynamic Context Pruning for Efficient and Interpretable Autoregressive Transformers
  37. NeurIPS 2023Efficient Activation Function Optimization through Surrogate Modeling
  38. NeurIPS 2023Efficient Adversarial Contrastive Learning via Robustness-Aware Coreset Selection
  39. NeurIPS 2023Efficient Algorithms for Generalized Linear Bandits with Heavy-tailed Rewards
  40. NeurIPS 2023Efficient Batched Algorithm for Contextual Linear Bandits with Large Action Space via Soft Elimination
  41. NeurIPS 2023Efficient Bayesian Learning Curve Extrapolation using Prior-Data Fitted Networks
  42. NeurIPS 2023Efficient Data Subset Selection to Generalize Training Across Models: Transductive and Inductive Networks
  43. NeurIPS 2023Efficient Learning of Linear Graph Neural Networks via Node Subsampling
  44. NeurIPS 2023Efficient Online Clustering with Moving Costs
  45. NeurIPS 2023Efficient Robust Bayesian Optimization for Arbitrary Uncertain inputs
  46. NeurIPS 2023Efficient Subgame Refinement for Extensive-form Games
  47. NeurIPS 2023Efficient Testable Learning of Halfspaces with Adversarial Label Noise
  48. NeurIPS 2023Efficient Training of Energy-Based Models Using Jarzynski Equality
  49. NeurIPS 2023EgoDistill: Egocentric Head Motion Distillation for Efficient Video Understanding
  50. NeurIPS 2023Eliminating Catastrophic Overfitting Via Abnormal Adversarial Examples Regularization

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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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