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

190 papers, page 4 of 4

  1. NeurIPS 2025Revisiting Residual Connections: Orthogonal Updates for Stable and Efficient Deep Networks
  2. NeurIPS 2025Ridge Boosting is Both Robust and Efficient
  3. NeurIPS 2025Sample-efficient Learning of Concepts with Theoretical Guarantees: from Data to Concepts without Interventions
  4. NeurIPS 2025Sampling-Efficient Test-Time Scaling: Self-Estimating the Best-of-N Sampling in Early Decoding
  5. NeurIPS 2025Scaling Embedding Layers in Language Models
  6. NeurIPS 2025Scaling Law with Learning Rate Annealing
  7. NeurIPS 2025Scaling Up Liquid-Resistance Liquid-Capacitance Networks for Efficient Sequence Modeling
  8. NeurIPS 2025SDPGO: Efficient Self-Distillation Training Meets Proximal Gradient Optimization
  9. NeurIPS 2025Searching Efficient Semantic Segmentation Architectures via Dynamic Path Selection
  10. NeurIPS 2025SeerAttention: Self-distilled Attention Gating for Efficient Long-context Prefilling
  11. NeurIPS 2025Self-Refining Language Model Anonymizers via Adversarial Distillation
  12. NeurIPS 2025Sign-In to the Lottery: Reparameterizing Sparse Training
  13. NeurIPS 2025Simple and Efficient Heterogeneous Temporal Graph Neural Network
  14. NeurIPS 2025SmallKV: Small Model Assisted Compensation of KV Cache Compression for Efficient LLM Inference
  15. NeurIPS 2025Smooth Regularization for Efficient Video Recognition
  16. NeurIPS 2025SparseDiT: Token Sparsification for Efficient Diffusion Transformer
  17. NeurIPS 2025Spiking Meets Attention: Efficient Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution with Attention Spiking Neural Networks
  18. NeurIPS 2025Spotlight Attention: Towards Efficient LLM Generation via Non-linear Hashing-based KV Cache Retrieval
  19. NeurIPS 2025Stackelberg Self-Annotation: A Robust Approach to Data-Efficient LLM Alignment
  20. NeurIPS 2025StreamBP: Memory-Efficient Exact Backpropagation for Long Sequence Training of LLMs
  21. NeurIPS 2025StreamForest: Efficient Online Video Understanding with Persistent Event Memory
  22. NeurIPS 2025Structured Sparse Transition Matrices to Enable State Tracking in State-Space Models
  23. NeurIPS 2025Subspace Networks: Scaling Decentralized Training with Communication-Efficient Model Parallelism
  24. NeurIPS 2025SubTrack++ : Gradient Subspace Tracking for Scalable LLM Training
  25. NeurIPS 2025SUMO: Subspace-Aware Moment-Orthogonalization for Accelerating Memory-Efficient LLM Training
  26. NeurIPS 2025Superposition Yields Robust Neural Scaling
  27. NeurIPS 2025SymMaP: Improving Computational Efficiency in Linear Solvers through Symbolic Preconditioning
  28. NeurIPS 2025Synergy Between the Strong and the Weak: Spiking Neural Networks are Inherently Self-Distillers
  29. NeurIPS 2025Teaching Transformers to Solve Combinatorial Problems through Efficient Trial & Error
  30. NeurIPS 2025Technical Debt in In-Context Learning: Diminishing Efficiency in Long Context
  31. NeurIPS 2025The Omni-Expert: A Computationally Efficient Approach to Achieve a Mixture of Experts in a Single Expert Model
  32. NeurIPS 2025Tiled Flash Linear Attention: More Efficient Linear RNN and xLSTM Kernels
  33. NeurIPS 2025Towards Interpretable and Efficient Attention: Compressing All by Contracting a Few
  34. NeurIPS 2025TrajMamba: An Efficient and Semantic-rich Vehicle Trajectory Pre-training Model
  35. NeurIPS 2025UMoE: Unifying Attention and FFN with Shared Experts
  36. NeurIPS 2025Unified Scaling Laws for Compressed Representations
  37. NeurIPS 2025V2V: Scaling Event-Based Vision through Efficient Video-to-Voxel Simulation
  38. NeurIPS 2025Venus-MAXWELL: Efficient Learning of Protein-Mutation Stability Landscapes using Protein Language Models
  39. NeurIPS 2025Zebra-Llama: Towards Extremely Efficient Hybrid Models
  40. NeurIPS 2025ZeroS: Zero‑Sum Linear Attention for Efficient Transformers

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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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