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
- Efficient Training went from 346 papers in 2023 to 603 in 2026, roughly 1.7x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Efficient Training work: 499 papers from 2023 to 2026, 28% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Deep learning · large language models: papers tagged with both rose from 6 in 2023 to 50 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Efficiency and Systems, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Hardware-Aware ML, is up 4.4x versus 1.7x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 112 | 67 | 83 | 84 | 346 |
| 2024 | 20 | 78 | 122 | 80 | 300 |
| 2025 | 190 | 126 | 118 | 82 | 516 |
| 2026 | 177 | 148 | 169 | 109 | 603 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026Adaptive Residual Quantization for Memory-Efficient Temporal Action Segmentation
- ICML 2026A Geometry-Aware Efficient Algorithm for Compositional Entropic Risk Minimization
- ICLR 2026An Efficient SE(p)-Invariant Transport Metric Driven by Polar Transport Discrepancy-based Representation
- CVPR 2026A Bit is All You Need Efficient Video Capture via
- NeurIPS 20254DGCPro: Efficient Hierarchical 4D Gaussian Compression for Progressive Volumetric Video Streaming
- ICML 2025A Sample Efficient Conditional Independence Test in the Presence of Discretization
- ICLR 2025Breaking Class Barriers: Efficient Dataset Distillation via Inter-Class Feature Compensator
- CVPR 2025Accurate Scene Text Recognition with Efficient Model Scaling and Cloze Self-Distillation
- NeurIPS 2024$\texttt{dattri}$: A Library for Efficient Data Attribution
- ICML 2024A fast algorithm to simulate nonlinear resistive networks
- ICLR 2024Dictionary Contrastive Learning for Efficient Local Supervision without Auxiliary Networks
- CVPR 2024Deep-TROJ: An Inference Stage Trojan Insertion Algorithm through Efficient Weight Replacement Attack
- NeurIPS 2023Alternating Updates for Efficient Transformers
- ICML 2023Auxiliary Modality Learning with Generalized Curriculum Distillation
- ICLR 2023A Model or 603 Exemplars: Towards Memory-Efficient Class-Incremental Learning
- CVPR 2023A Rotation-Translation-Decoupled Solution for Robust and Efficient Visual-Inertial Initialization
- NeurIPS 2026Advanced Routing as Regularization Allocation for Efficient Diffusion Transformer Training
- ICML 2026Active Learning with Foundation Model Priors: Efficient Learning under Class Imbalance
- ICLR 2026AQER: A Scalable and Efficient Data Loader for Digital Quantum Computers
- CVPR 2026Adaptive Bayesian Early-Exit Networks for Efficient Non-Transferable Learning
All Efficient Training papers
492 papers, page 6 of 10
- ICML 2025Predictive Data Selection: The Data That Predicts Is the Data That Teaches
- ICML 2025Primphormer: Efficient Graph Transformers with Primal Representations
- ICML 2025ProofAug: Efficient Neural Theorem Proving via Fine-grained Proof Structure Analysis
- ICML 2025QoS-Efficient Serving of Multiple Mixture-of-Expert LLMs Using Partial Runtime Reconfiguration
- ICML 2025Reliable and Efficient Amortized Model-based Evaluation
- ICML 2025Residual Matrix Transformers: Scaling the Size of the Residual Stream
- ICML 2025Reward-Guided Speculative Decoding for Efficient LLM Reasoning
- ICML 2025Robust Consensus Anchor Learning for Efficient Multi-view Subspace Clustering
- ICML 2025RoSTE: An Efficient Quantization-Aware Supervised Fine-Tuning Approach for Large Language Models
- ICML 2025SageAttention2: Efficient Attention with Thorough Outlier Smoothing and Per-thread INT4 Quantization
- ICML 2025Sample Efficient Demonstration Selection for In-Context Learning
- ICML 2025Scalable Model Merging with Progressive Layer-wise Distillation
- ICML 2025Scaling Collapse Reveals Universal Dynamics in Compute-Optimally Trained Neural Networks
- ICML 2025Scaling Inference-Efficient Language Models
- ICML 2025Scaling Laws for Floating–Point Quantization Training
- ICML 2025Scaling Probabilistic Circuits via Monarch Matrices
- ICML 2025SDP-CROWN: Efficient Bound Propagation for Neural Network Verification with Tightness of Semidefinite Programming
- ICML 2025SKIM: Any-bit Quantization Pushing The Limits of Post-Training Quantization
- ICML 2025Sorbet: A Neuromorphic Hardware-Compatible Transformer-Based Spiking Language Model
- ICML 2025Sparse Spectral Training and Inference on Euclidean and Hyperbolic Neural Networks
- ICML 2025SpikeVideoFormer: An Efficient Spike-Driven Video Transformer with Hamming Attention and $\mathcal{O}(T)$ Complexity
- ICML 2025SpikF: Spiking Fourier Network for Efficient Long-term Prediction
- ICML 2025Star Attention: Efficient LLM Inference over Long Sequences
- ICML 2025SWAN: SGD with Normalization and Whitening Enables Stateless LLM Training
- ICML 2025TabFlex: Scaling Tabular Learning to Millions with Linear Attention
- ICML 2025Temporal Query Network for Efficient Multivariate Time Series Forecasting
- ICML 2025Tensor Decomposition Based Memory-Efficient Incremental Learning
- ICML 2025The Hidden Joules: Evaluating the Energy Consumption of Vision Backbones for Progress Towards More Efficient Model Inference
- ICML 2025The Limits of Tractable Marginalization
- ICML 2025The Panaceas for Improving Low-Rank Decomposition in Communication-Efficient Federated Learning
- ICML 2025TimeBase: The Power of Minimalism in Efficient Long-term Time Series Forecasting
- ICML 2025TimePro: Efficient Multivariate Long-term Time Series Forecasting with Variable- and Time-Aware Hyper-state
- ICML 2025Training Deep Learning Models with Norm-Constrained LMOs
- ICML 2025UncertainSAM: Fast and Efficient Uncertainty Quantification of the Segment Anything Model
- ICML 2025Unifews: You Need Fewer Operations for Efficient Graph Neural Networks
- ICML 2025XAttention: Block Sparse Attention with Antidiagonal Scoring
- ICML 2025xLSTM 7B: A Recurrent LLM for Fast and Efficient Inference
- ICML 2024A Circuit Domain Generalization Framework for Efficient Logic Synthesis in Chip Design
- ICML 2024A Dynamical Model of Neural Scaling Laws
- ICML 2024A fast algorithm to simulate nonlinear resistive networks
- ICML 2024A New Computationally Efficient Algorithm to solve Feature Selection for Functional Data Classification in High-dimensional Spaces
- ICML 2024A Tale of Tails: Model Collapse as a Change of Scaling Laws
- ICML 2024AegisFL: Efficient and Flexible Privacy-Preserving Byzantine-Robust Cross-silo Federated Learning
- ICML 2024An Efficient Maximal Ancestral Graph Listing Algorithm
- ICML 2024An Efficient Self-Learning Framework For Interactive Spoken Dialog Systems
- ICML 2024APT: Adaptive Pruning and Tuning Pretrained Language Models for Efficient Training and Inference
- ICML 2024Asymptotically Optimal and Computationally Efficient Average Treatment Effect Estimation in A/B testing
- ICML 2024Beyond Chinchilla-Optimal: Accounting for Inference in Language Model Scaling Laws
- ICML 2024Beyond Regular Grids: Fourier-Based Neural Operators on Arbitrary Domains
- ICML 2024CaM: Cache Merging for Memory-efficient LLMs Inference
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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.