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

419 papers, page 6 of 9

  1. ICLR 2025Samba: Simple Hybrid State Space Models for Efficient Unlimited Context Language Modeling
  2. ICLR 2025Scaling Laws for Adversarial Attacks on Language Model Activations and Tokens
  3. ICLR 2025Scaling Laws for Precision
  4. ICLR 2025Scaling Optimal LR Across Token Horizons
  5. ICLR 2025Scaling Stick-Breaking Attention: An Efficient Implementation and In-depth Study
  6. ICLR 2025SelectFormer in Data Markets: Privacy-Preserving and Efficient Data Selection for Transformers with Multi-Party Computation
  7. ICLR 2025Self-MoE: Towards Compositional Large Language Models with Self-Specialized Experts
  8. ICLR 2025Skill Expansion and Composition in Parameter Space
  9. ICLR 2025SONICS: Synthetic Or Not - Identifying Counterfeit Songs
  10. ICLR 2025SpikeLLM: Scaling up Spiking Neural Network to Large Language Models via Saliency-based Spiking
  11. ICLR 2025Spread Preference Annotation: Direct Preference Judgment for Efficient LLM Alignment
  12. ICLR 2025Structural-Entropy-Based Sample Selection for Efficient and Effective Learning
  13. ICLR 2025Surprising Effectiveness of pretraining Ternary Language Model at Scale
  14. ICLR 2025The Journey Matters: Average Parameter Count over Pre-training Unifies Sparse and Dense Scaling Laws
  15. ICLR 2025ThunderKittens: Simple, Fast, and $\textit{Adorable}$ Kernels
  16. ICLR 2025TIGER: Time-frequency Interleaved Gain Extraction and Reconstruction for Efficient Speech Separation
  17. ICLR 2025TokenFormer: Rethinking Transformer Scaling with Tokenized Model Parameters
  18. ICLR 2025Towards Scalable Exact Machine Unlearning Using Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
  19. ICLR 2025Train Small, Infer Large: Memory-Efficient LoRA Training for Large Language Models
  20. ICLR 2025u-$\mu$P: The Unit-Scaled Maximal Update Parametrization
  21. ICLR 2025U-shaped and Inverted-U Scaling behind Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models
  22. ICLR 2025Unified Parameter-Efficient Unlearning for LLMs
  23. ICLR 2025Unlocking Efficient, Scalable, and Continual Knowledge Editing with Basis-Level Representation Fine-Tuning
  24. ICLR 2025ZETA: Leveraging $Z$-order Curves for Efficient Top-$k$ Attention
  25. ICLR 2024Adaptive Window Pruning for Efficient Local Motion Deblurring
  26. ICLR 2024ALAM: Averaged Low-Precision Activation for Memory-Efficient Training of Transformer Models
  27. ICLR 2024ASMR: Activation-Sharing Multi-Resolution Coordinate Networks for Efficient Inference
  28. ICLR 2024AutoChunk: Automated Activation Chunk for Memory-Efficient Deep Learning Inference
  29. ICLR 2024AutoVP: An Automated Visual Prompting Framework and Benchmark
  30. ICLR 2024BESA: Pruning Large Language Models with Blockwise Parameter-Efficient Sparsity Allocation
  31. ICLR 2024CoT3DRef: Chain-of-Thoughts Data-Efficient 3D Visual Grounding
  32. ICLR 2024Decongestion by Representation: Learning to Improve Economic Welfare in Marketplaces
  33. ICLR 2024Dictionary Contrastive Learning for Efficient Local Supervision without Auxiliary Networks
  34. ICLR 2024Differentiable Learning of Generalized Structured Matrices for Efficient Deep Neural Networks
  35. ICLR 2024DreamGaussian: Generative Gaussian Splatting for Efficient 3D Content Creation
  36. ICLR 2024Dropout-Based Rashomon Set Exploration for Efficient Predictive Multiplicity Estimation
  37. ICLR 2024Dynamic Sparse Training with Structured Sparsity
  38. ICLR 2024Effective and Efficient Federated Tree Learning on Hybrid Data
  39. ICLR 2024Efficient Backpropagation with Variance Controlled Adaptive Sampling
  40. ICLR 2024Efficient ConvBN Blocks for Transfer Learning and Beyond
  41. ICLR 2024Efficient Heterogeneous Meta-Learning via Channel Shuffling Modulation
  42. ICLR 2024Efficient local linearity regularization to overcome catastrophic overfitting
  43. ICLR 2024Efficient Modulation for Vision Networks
  44. ICLR 2024Efficient Score Matching with Deep Equilibrium Layers
  45. ICLR 2024Efficient Sharpness-Aware Minimization for Molecular Graph Transformer Models
  46. ICLR 2024Efficient Streaming Language Models with Attention Sinks
  47. ICLR 2024Efficient Subgraph GNNs by Learning Effective Selection Policies
  48. ICLR 2024Enabling Efficient Equivariant Operations in the Fourier Basis via Gaunt Tensor Products
  49. ICLR 2024Fair and Efficient Contribution Valuation for Vertical Federated Learning
  50. ICLR 2024Faithful and Efficient Explanations for Neural Networks via Neural Tangent Kernel Surrogate Models

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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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