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
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- ICLR 2024Fast-DetectGPT: Efficient Zero-Shot Detection of Machine-Generated Text via Conditional Probability Curvature
- ICLR 2024Fast-ELECTRA for Efficient Pre-training
- ICLR 2024Faster Sampling from Log-Concave Densities over Polytopes via Efficient Linear Solvers
- ICLR 2024FedCompass: Efficient Cross-Silo Federated Learning on Heterogeneous Client Devices Using a Computing Power-Aware Scheduler
- ICLR 2024Finite-State Autoregressive Entropy Coding for Efficient Learned Lossless Compression
- ICLR 2024FlashFFTConv: Efficient Convolutions for Long Sequences with Tensor Cores
- ICLR 2024Hybrid LLM: Cost-Efficient and Quality-Aware Query Routing
- ICLR 2024IceFormer: Accelerated Inference with Long-Sequence Transformers on CPUs
- ICLR 2024Increasing Model Capacity for Free: A Simple Strategy for Parameter Efficient Fine-tuning
- ICLR 2024Jointly-Learned Exit and Inference for a Dynamic Neural Network
- ICLR 2024Knowledge Distillation Based on Transformed Teacher Matching
- ICLR 2024Language Model Cascades: Token-Level Uncertainty And Beyond
- ICLR 2024Large Language Models are Efficient Learners of Noise-Robust Speech Recognition
- ICLR 2024LEMON: Lossless model expansion
- ICLR 2024Linear Log-Normal Attention with Unbiased Concentration
- ICLR 2024LLaMA-Adapter: Efficient Fine-tuning of Large Language Models with Zero-initialized Attention
- ICLR 2024LongLoRA: Efficient Fine-tuning of Long-Context Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024LUT-GEMM: Quantized Matrix Multiplication based on LUTs for Efficient Inference in Large-Scale Generative Language Models
- ICLR 2024Manipulating dropout reveals an optimal balance of efficiency and robustness in biological and machine visual systems
- ICLR 2024MAPE-PPI: Towards Effective and Efficient Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction via Microenvironment-Aware Protein Embedding
- ICLR 2024MEND: Meta Demonstration Distillation for Efficient and Effective In-Context Learning
- ICLR 2024Merge, Then Compress: Demystify Efficient SMoE with Hints from Its Routing Policy
- ICLR 2024Network Memory Footprint Compression Through Jointly Learnable Codebooks and Mappings
- ICLR 2024Node2ket: Efficient High-Dimensional Network Embedding in Quantum Hilbert Space
- ICLR 2024Object centric architectures enable efficient causal representation learning
- ICLR 2024OVOR: OnePrompt with Virtual Outlier Regularization for Rehearsal-Free Class-Incremental Learning
- ICLR 2024Plug-and-Play: An Efficient Post-training Pruning Method for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024PoSE: Efficient Context Window Extension of LLMs via Positional Skip-wise Training
- ICLR 2024Project and Probe: Sample-Efficient Adaptation by Interpolating Orthogonal Features
- ICLR 2024Pushing Mixture of Experts to the Limit: Extremely Parameter Efficient MoE for Instruction Tuning
- ICLR 2024QLLM: Accurate and Efficient Low-Bitwidth Quantization for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024RDesign: Hierarchical Data-efficient Representation Learning for Tertiary Structure-based RNA Design
- ICLR 2024ReFusion: Improving Natural Language Understanding with Computation-Efficient Retrieval Representation Fusion
- ICLR 2024Repeated Random Sampling for Minimizing the Time-to-Accuracy of Learning
- ICLR 2024RETSim: Resilient and Efficient Text Similarity
- ICLR 2024Scaling Laws for Sparsely-Connected Foundation Models
- ICLR 2024Scaling Laws of RoPE-based Extrapolation
- ICLR 2024Skeleton-of-Thought: Prompting LLMs for Efficient Parallel Generation
- ICLR 2024SPTNet: An Efficient Alternative Framework for Generalized Category Discovery with Spatial Prompt Tuning
- ICLR 2024ToolChain*: Efficient Action Space Navigation in Large Language Models with A* Search
- ICLR 2024Towards Energy Efficient Spiking Neural Networks: An Unstructured Pruning Framework
- ICLR 2024Towards Reliable and Efficient Backdoor Trigger Inversion via Decoupling Benign Features
- ICLR 2024Towards Robust and Efficient Cloud-Edge Elastic Model Adaptation via Selective Entropy Distillation
- ICLR 2024Tree-Planner: Efficient Close-loop Task Planning with Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024Tuning LayerNorm in Attention: Towards Efficient Multi-Modal LLM Finetuning
- ICLR 2024VQGraph: Rethinking Graph Representation Space for Bridging GNNs and MLPs
- ICLR 2024Waxing-and-Waning: a Generic Similarity-based Framework for Efficient Self-Supervised Learning
- ICLR 2024When Scaling Meets LLM Finetuning: The Effect of Data, Model and Finetuning Method
- ICLR 2024YaRN: Efficient Context Window Extension of Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024You Only Query Once: An Efficient Label-Only Membership Inference Attack
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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.