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.

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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

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  1. ICLR 2024Fast-DetectGPT: Efficient Zero-Shot Detection of Machine-Generated Text via Conditional Probability Curvature
  2. ICLR 2024Fast-ELECTRA for Efficient Pre-training
  3. ICLR 2024Faster Sampling from Log-Concave Densities over Polytopes via Efficient Linear Solvers
  4. ICLR 2024FedCompass: Efficient Cross-Silo Federated Learning on Heterogeneous Client Devices Using a Computing Power-Aware Scheduler
  5. ICLR 2024Finite-State Autoregressive Entropy Coding for Efficient Learned Lossless Compression
  6. ICLR 2024FlashFFTConv: Efficient Convolutions for Long Sequences with Tensor Cores
  7. ICLR 2024Hybrid LLM: Cost-Efficient and Quality-Aware Query Routing
  8. ICLR 2024IceFormer: Accelerated Inference with Long-Sequence Transformers on CPUs
  9. ICLR 2024Increasing Model Capacity for Free: A Simple Strategy for Parameter Efficient Fine-tuning
  10. ICLR 2024Jointly-Learned Exit and Inference for a Dynamic Neural Network
  11. ICLR 2024Knowledge Distillation Based on Transformed Teacher Matching
  12. ICLR 2024Language Model Cascades: Token-Level Uncertainty And Beyond
  13. ICLR 2024Large Language Models are Efficient Learners of Noise-Robust Speech Recognition
  14. ICLR 2024LEMON: Lossless model expansion
  15. ICLR 2024Linear Log-Normal Attention with Unbiased Concentration
  16. ICLR 2024LLaMA-Adapter: Efficient Fine-tuning of Large Language Models with Zero-initialized Attention
  17. ICLR 2024LongLoRA: Efficient Fine-tuning of Long-Context Large Language Models
  18. ICLR 2024LUT-GEMM: Quantized Matrix Multiplication based on LUTs for Efficient Inference in Large-Scale Generative Language Models
  19. ICLR 2024Manipulating dropout reveals an optimal balance of efficiency and robustness in biological and machine visual systems
  20. ICLR 2024MAPE-PPI: Towards Effective and Efficient Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction via Microenvironment-Aware Protein Embedding
  21. ICLR 2024MEND: Meta Demonstration Distillation for Efficient and Effective In-Context Learning
  22. ICLR 2024Merge, Then Compress: Demystify Efficient SMoE with Hints from Its Routing Policy
  23. ICLR 2024Network Memory Footprint Compression Through Jointly Learnable Codebooks and Mappings
  24. ICLR 2024Node2ket: Efficient High-Dimensional Network Embedding in Quantum Hilbert Space
  25. ICLR 2024Object centric architectures enable efficient causal representation learning
  26. ICLR 2024OVOR: OnePrompt with Virtual Outlier Regularization for Rehearsal-Free Class-Incremental Learning
  27. ICLR 2024Plug-and-Play: An Efficient Post-training Pruning Method for Large Language Models
  28. ICLR 2024PoSE: Efficient Context Window Extension of LLMs via Positional Skip-wise Training
  29. ICLR 2024Project and Probe: Sample-Efficient Adaptation by Interpolating Orthogonal Features
  30. ICLR 2024Pushing Mixture of Experts to the Limit: Extremely Parameter Efficient MoE for Instruction Tuning
  31. ICLR 2024QLLM: Accurate and Efficient Low-Bitwidth Quantization for Large Language Models
  32. ICLR 2024RDesign: Hierarchical Data-efficient Representation Learning for Tertiary Structure-based RNA Design
  33. ICLR 2024ReFusion: Improving Natural Language Understanding with Computation-Efficient Retrieval Representation Fusion
  34. ICLR 2024Repeated Random Sampling for Minimizing the Time-to-Accuracy of Learning
  35. ICLR 2024RETSim: Resilient and Efficient Text Similarity
  36. ICLR 2024Scaling Laws for Sparsely-Connected Foundation Models
  37. ICLR 2024Scaling Laws of RoPE-based Extrapolation
  38. ICLR 2024Skeleton-of-Thought: Prompting LLMs for Efficient Parallel Generation
  39. ICLR 2024SPTNet: An Efficient Alternative Framework for Generalized Category Discovery with Spatial Prompt Tuning
  40. ICLR 2024ToolChain*: Efficient Action Space Navigation in Large Language Models with A* Search
  41. ICLR 2024Towards Energy Efficient Spiking Neural Networks: An Unstructured Pruning Framework
  42. ICLR 2024Towards Reliable and Efficient Backdoor Trigger Inversion via Decoupling Benign Features
  43. ICLR 2024Towards Robust and Efficient Cloud-Edge Elastic Model Adaptation via Selective Entropy Distillation
  44. ICLR 2024Tree-Planner: Efficient Close-loop Task Planning with Large Language Models
  45. ICLR 2024Tuning LayerNorm in Attention: Towards Efficient Multi-Modal LLM Finetuning
  46. ICLR 2024VQGraph: Rethinking Graph Representation Space for Bridging GNNs and MLPs
  47. ICLR 2024Waxing-and-Waning: a Generic Similarity-based Framework for Efficient Self-Supervised Learning
  48. ICLR 2024When Scaling Meets LLM Finetuning: The Effect of Data, Model and Finetuning Method
  49. ICLR 2024YaRN: Efficient Context Window Extension of Large Language Models
  50. 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.

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