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
346 papers, page 7 of 7
- NeurIPS 2023Multiplication-Free Transformer Training via Piecewise Affine Operations
- NeurIPS 2023NEO-KD: Knowledge-Distillation-Based Adversarial Training for Robust Multi-Exit Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2023Neural Priming for Sample-Efficient Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2023NICE: NoIse-modulated Consistency rEgularization for Data-Efficient GANs
- NeurIPS 2023No Train No Gain: Revisiting Efficient Training Algorithms For Transformer-based Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023On Occlusions in Video Action Detection: Benchmark Datasets And Training Recipes
- NeurIPS 2023Patch Diffusion: Faster and More Data-Efficient Training of Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023Patch n’ Pack: NaViT, a Vision Transformer for any Aspect Ratio and Resolution
- NeurIPS 2023PDP: Parameter-free Differentiable Pruning is All You Need
- NeurIPS 2023Performance Scaling via Optimal Transport: Enabling Data Selection from Partially Revealed Sources
- NeurIPS 2023Pre-RMSNorm and Pre-CRMSNorm Transformers: Equivalent and Efficient Pre-LN Transformers
- NeurIPS 2023Progressive Ensemble Distillation: Building Ensembles for Efficient Inference
- NeurIPS 2023QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
- NeurIPS 2023RangePerception: Taming LiDAR Range View for Efficient and Accurate 3D Object Detection
- NeurIPS 2023ReMaX: Relaxing for Better Training on Efficient Panoptic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2023ResShift: Efficient Diffusion Model for Image Super-resolution by Residual Shifting
- NeurIPS 2023RETVec: Resilient and Efficient Text Vectorizer
- NeurIPS 2023Reusing Pretrained Models by Multi-linear Operators for Efficient Training
- NeurIPS 2023Sample-efficient Multi-objective Molecular Optimization with GFlowNets
- NeurIPS 2023ScaleLong: Towards More Stable Training of Diffusion Model via Scaling Network Long Skip Connection
- NeurIPS 2023Scaling Data-Constrained Language Models
- NeurIPS 2023ShiftAddViT: Mixture of Multiplication Primitives Towards Efficient Vision Transformer
- NeurIPS 2023SimMTM: A Simple Pre-Training Framework for Masked Time-Series Modeling
- NeurIPS 2023SLaM: Student-Label Mixing for Distillation with Unlabeled Examples
- NeurIPS 2023Slimmed Asymmetrical Contrastive Learning and Cross Distillation for Lightweight Model Training
- NeurIPS 2023Softmax Output Approximation for Activation Memory-Efficient Training of Attention-based Networks
- NeurIPS 2023Sparse Modular Activation for Efficient Sequence Modeling
- NeurIPS 2023SparseProp: Efficient Event-Based Simulation and Training of Sparse Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2023Sparsity-Preserving Differentially Private Training of Large Embedding Models
- NeurIPS 2023Speculative Decoding with Big Little Decoder
- NeurIPS 2023Squeeze, Recover and Relabel: Dataset Condensation at ImageNet Scale From A New Perspective
- NeurIPS 2023Stable Nonconvex-Nonconcave Training via Linear Interpolation
- NeurIPS 2023Text Alignment Is An Efficient Unified Model for Massive NLP Tasks
- NeurIPS 2023To Repeat or Not To Repeat: Insights from Scaling LLM under Token-Crisis
- NeurIPS 2023Towards Accelerated Model Training via Bayesian Data Selection
- NeurIPS 2023Towards Efficient and Accurate Winograd Convolution via Full Quantization
- NeurIPS 2023Towards Efficient Pre-Trained Language Model via Feature Correlation Distillation
- NeurIPS 2023Train 'n Trade: Foundations of Parameter Markets
- NeurIPS 2023Train Faster, Perform Better: Modular Adaptive Training in Over-Parameterized Models
- NeurIPS 2023Training Transformers with 4-bit Integers
- NeurIPS 2023TRIAGE: Characterizing and auditing training data for improved regression
- NeurIPS 2023Triangulation Residual Loss for Data-efficient 3D Pose Estimation
- NeurIPS 2023VCC: Scaling Transformers to 128K Tokens or More by Prioritizing Important Tokens
- NeurIPS 2023VPGTrans: Transfer Visual Prompt Generator across LLMs
- NeurIPS 2023xTrimoGene: An Efficient and Scalable Representation Learner for Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data
- NeurIPS 2023ZoomTrack: Target-aware Non-uniform Resizing for Efficient Visual Tracking
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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.