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

516 papers, page 7 of 11

  1. ICML 2025Scalable Model Merging with Progressive Layer-wise Distillation
  2. ICML 2025Scaling Collapse Reveals Universal Dynamics in Compute-Optimally Trained Neural Networks
  3. ICML 2025Scaling Inference-Efficient Language Models
  4. ICML 2025Scaling Laws for Floating–Point Quantization Training
  5. ICML 2025Scaling Probabilistic Circuits via Monarch Matrices
  6. ICML 2025SDP-CROWN: Efficient Bound Propagation for Neural Network Verification with Tightness of Semidefinite Programming
  7. ICML 2025SKIM: Any-bit Quantization Pushing The Limits of Post-Training Quantization
  8. ICML 2025Sorbet: A Neuromorphic Hardware-Compatible Transformer-Based Spiking Language Model
  9. ICML 2025Sparse Spectral Training and Inference on Euclidean and Hyperbolic Neural Networks
  10. ICML 2025SpikeVideoFormer: An Efficient Spike-Driven Video Transformer with Hamming Attention and $\mathcal{O}(T)$ Complexity
  11. ICML 2025SpikF: Spiking Fourier Network for Efficient Long-term Prediction
  12. ICML 2025Star Attention: Efficient LLM Inference over Long Sequences
  13. ICML 2025SWAN: SGD with Normalization and Whitening Enables Stateless LLM Training
  14. ICML 2025TabFlex: Scaling Tabular Learning to Millions with Linear Attention
  15. ICML 2025Temporal Query Network for Efficient Multivariate Time Series Forecasting
  16. ICML 2025Tensor Decomposition Based Memory-Efficient Incremental Learning
  17. ICML 2025The Hidden Joules: Evaluating the Energy Consumption of Vision Backbones for Progress Towards More Efficient Model Inference
  18. ICML 2025The Limits of Tractable Marginalization
  19. ICML 2025The Panaceas for Improving Low-Rank Decomposition in Communication-Efficient Federated Learning
  20. ICML 2025TimeBase: The Power of Minimalism in Efficient Long-term Time Series Forecasting
  21. ICML 2025TimePro: Efficient Multivariate Long-term Time Series Forecasting with Variable- and Time-Aware Hyper-state
  22. ICML 2025Training Deep Learning Models with Norm-Constrained LMOs
  23. ICML 2025UncertainSAM: Fast and Efficient Uncertainty Quantification of the Segment Anything Model
  24. ICML 2025Unifews: You Need Fewer Operations for Efficient Graph Neural Networks
  25. ICML 2025XAttention: Block Sparse Attention with Antidiagonal Scoring
  26. ICML 2025xLSTM 7B: A Recurrent LLM for Fast and Efficient Inference
  27. NeurIPS 2025$\texttt{BetaConform}$: Efficient MAP Estimation of LLM Ensemble Judgment Performance with Prior Transfer
  28. NeurIPS 20254DGCPro: Efficient Hierarchical 4D Gaussian Compression for Progressive Volumetric Video Streaming
  29. NeurIPS 2025A Stable Whitening Optimizer for Efficient Neural Network Training
  30. NeurIPS 2025A Token is Worth over 1,000 Tokens: Efficient Knowledge Distillation through Low-Rank Clone
  31. NeurIPS 2025A Unified Framework for Provably Efficient Algorithms to Estimate Shapley Values
  32. NeurIPS 2025Accurate and Efficient Low-Rank Model Merging in Core Space
  33. NeurIPS 2025Accurate KV Cache Eviction via Anchor Direction Projection for Efficient LLM Inference
  34. NeurIPS 2025Active Measurement: Efficient Estimation at Scale
  35. NeurIPS 2025Active Seriation: Efficient Ordering Recovery with Statistical Guarantees
  36. NeurIPS 2025Ada-KV: Optimizing KV Cache Eviction by Adaptive Budget Allocation for Efficient LLM Inference
  37. NeurIPS 2025AdaSPEC: Selective Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Speculative Decoders
  38. NeurIPS 2025All You Need is One: Capsule Prompt Tuning with a Single Vector
  39. NeurIPS 2025AmorLIP: Efficient Language-Image Pretraining via Amortization
  40. NeurIPS 2025An Efficient Local Search Approach for Polarized Community Discovery in Signed Networks
  41. NeurIPS 2025Angles Don’t Lie: Unlocking Training‑Efficient RL Through the Model’s Own Signals
  42. NeurIPS 2025Are Language Models Efficient Reasoners? A Perspective from Logic Programming
  43. NeurIPS 2025Audits Under Resource, Data, and Access Constraints: Scaling Laws For Less Discriminatory Alternatives
  44. NeurIPS 2025Bilevel ZOFO: Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning and Meta-Training
  45. NeurIPS 2025Breaking the Compression Ceiling: Data-Free Pipeline for Ultra-Efficient Delta Compression
  46. NeurIPS 2025CAT: Circular-Convolutional Attention for Sub-Quadratic Transformers
  47. NeurIPS 2025Causal Spatio-Temporal Prediction: An Effective and Efficient Multi-Modal Approach
  48. NeurIPS 2025ChunkKV: Semantic-Preserving KV Cache Compression for Efficient Long-Context LLM Inference
  49. NeurIPS 2025COALA: Numerically Stable and Efficient Framework for Context-Aware Low-Rank Approximation
  50. NeurIPS 2025CodeGEMM: A Codebook-Centric Approach to Efficient GEMM in Quantized LLMs

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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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