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 5 of 7

  1. ICML 2023NTK-approximating MLP Fusion for Efficient Language Model Fine-tuning
  2. ICML 2023On the convergence of the MLE as an estimator of the learning rate in the Exp3 algorithm
  3. ICML 2023Optimal Rates and Efficient Algorithms for Online Bayesian Persuasion
  4. ICML 2023Patch-level Routing in Mixture-of-Experts is Provably Sample-efficient for Convolutional Neural Networks
  5. ICML 2023Policy Mirror Ascent for Efficient and Independent Learning in Mean Field Games
  6. ICML 2023PreNAS: Preferred One-Shot Learning Towards Efficient Neural Architecture Search
  7. ICML 2023Probabilistic Categorical Adversarial Attack and Adversarial Training
  8. ICML 2023Prototype-Sample Relation Distillation: Towards Replay-Free Continual Learning
  9. ICML 2023Provable Data Subset Selection For Efficient Neural Networks Training
  10. ICML 2023Provably and Practically Efficient Neural Contextual Bandits
  11. ICML 2023Reducing SO(3) Convolutions to SO(2) for Efficient Equivariant GNNs
  12. ICML 2023Revisiting Data-Free Knowledge Distillation with Poisoned Teachers
  13. ICML 2023Rockmate: an Efficient, Fast, Automatic and Generic Tool for Re-materialization in PyTorch
  14. ICML 2023Scaling Laws for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation
  15. ICML 2023Scaling Spherical CNNs
  16. ICML 2023Scaling Up Dataset Distillation to ImageNet-1K with Constant Memory
  17. ICML 2023Semiparametrically Efficient Off-Policy Evaluation in Linear Markov Decision Processes
  18. ICML 2023Simple Hardware-Efficient Long Convolutions for Sequence Modeling
  19. ICML 2023Sketching for First Order Method: Efficient Algorithm for Low-Bandwidth Channel and Vulnerability
  20. ICML 2023SLAMB: Accelerated Large Batch Training with Sparse Communication
  21. ICML 2023SmoothQuant: Accurate and Efficient Post-Training Quantization for Large Language Models
  22. ICML 2023SparseProp: Efficient Sparse Backpropagation for Faster Training of Neural Networks at the Edge
  23. ICML 2023SpotEM: Efficient Video Search for Episodic Memory
  24. ICML 2023Stabilizing GANs' Training with Brownian Motion Controller
  25. ICML 2023SWARM Parallelism: Training Large Models Can Be Surprisingly Communication-Efficient
  26. ICML 2023TAN Without a Burn: Scaling Laws of DP-SGD
  27. ICML 2023The case for 4-bit precision: k-bit Inference Scaling Laws
  28. ICML 2023Towards Stable and Efficient Adversarial Training against $l_1$ Bounded Adversarial Attacks
  29. ICML 2023Towards Understanding and Improving GFlowNet Training
  30. ICML 2023Training Normalizing Flows from Dependent Data
  31. ICML 2023Understanding Gradient Regularization in Deep Learning: Efficient Finite-Difference Computation and Implicit Bias
  32. ICML 2023Unit Scaling: Out-of-the-Box Low-Precision Training
  33. ICML 2023Why Is Public Pretraining Necessary for Private Model Training?
  34. ICML 2023Why Random Pruning Is All We Need to Start Sparse
  35. NeurIPS 2023A Computation and Communication Efficient Method for Distributed Nonconvex Problems in the Partial Participation Setting
  36. NeurIPS 2023A Hierarchical Training Paradigm for Antibody Structure-sequence Co-design
  37. NeurIPS 2023A Smooth Binary Mechanism for Efficient Private Continual Observation
  38. NeurIPS 2023Accelerated Training via Incrementally Growing Neural Networks using Variance Transfer and Learning Rate Adaptation
  39. NeurIPS 2023Actively Testing Your Model While It Learns: Realizing Label-Efficient Learning in Practice
  40. NeurIPS 2023Adversarial Training from Mean Field Perspective
  41. NeurIPS 2023Alternating Updates for Efficient Transformers
  42. NeurIPS 2023Amortized Reparametrization: Efficient and Scalable Variational Inference for Latent SDEs
  43. NeurIPS 2023An Efficient and Robust Framework for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search with Attribute Constraint
  44. NeurIPS 2023An Efficient End-to-End Training Approach for Zero-Shot Human-AI Coordination
  45. NeurIPS 2023An Empirical Study Towards Prompt-Tuning for Graph Contrastive Pre-Training in Recommendations
  46. NeurIPS 2023An Inverse Scaling Law for CLIP Training
  47. NeurIPS 2023ATMAN: Understanding Transformer Predictions Through Memory Efficient Attention Manipulation
  48. NeurIPS 2023Augmentation-Aware Self-Supervision for Data-Efficient GAN Training
  49. NeurIPS 2023Augmentation-Free Dense Contrastive Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Semantic Segmentation
  50. NeurIPS 2023Bayes beats Cross Validation: Efficient and Accurate Ridge Regression via Expectation Maximization

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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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