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 8 of 10
- ICML 2024InstructZero: Efficient Instruction Optimization for Black-Box Large Language Models
- ICML 2024Jetfire: Efficient and Accurate Transformer Pretraining with INT8 Data Flow and Per-Block Quantization
- ICML 2024Knowledge Distillation with Auxiliary Variable
- ICML 2024Learning from Students: Applying t-Distributions to Explore Accurate and Efficient Formats for LLMs
- ICML 2024Learning-Efficient Yet Generalizable Collaborative Filtering for Item Recommendation
- ICML 2024Leveraging Self-Consistency for Data-Efficient Amortized Bayesian Inference
- ICML 2024Measuring Stochastic Data Complexity with Boltzmann Influence Functions
- ICML 2024Memory Efficient Neural Processes via Constant Memory Attention Block
- ICML 2024MLIP: Efficient Multi-Perspective Language-Image Pretraining with Exhaustive Data Utilization
- ICML 2024Multi-Region Markovian Gaussian Process: An Efficient Method to Discover Directional Communications Across Multiple Brain Regions
- ICML 2024Navigating Scaling Laws: Compute Optimality in Adaptive Model Training
- ICML 2024Nonparametric Teaching of Implicit Neural Representations
- ICML 2024On Computational Limits of Modern Hopfield Models: A Fine-Grained Complexity Analysis
- ICML 2024Online Cascade Learning for Efficient Inference over Streams
- ICML 2024Orthogonal Bootstrap: Efficient Simulation of Input Uncertainty
- ICML 2024Outlier-Efficient Hopfield Layers for Large Transformer-Based Models
- ICML 2024Outlier-robust Kalman Filtering through Generalised Bayes
- ICML 2024Parameter Efficient Quasi-Orthogonal Fine-Tuning via Givens Rotation
- ICML 2024Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning with Controls
- ICML 2024Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning with Discrete Fourier Transform
- ICML 2024Private and Federated Stochastic Convex Optimization: Efficient Strategies for Centralized Systems
- ICML 2024Private Heterogeneous Federated Learning Without a Trusted Server Revisited: Error-Optimal and Communication-Efficient Algorithms for Convex Losses
- ICML 2024Quality-Diversity with Limited Resources
- ICML 2024QUEST: Query-Aware Sparsity for Efficient Long-Context LLM Inference
- ICML 2024Random Masking Finds Winning Tickets for Parameter Efficient Fine-tuning
- ICML 2024Ranking-based Client Imitation Selection for Efficient Federated Learning
- ICML 2024Replicable Learning of Large-Margin Halfspaces
- ICML 2024REST: Efficient and Accelerated EEG Seizure Analysis through Residual State Updates
- ICML 2024Revisiting Zeroth-Order Optimization for Memory-Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning: A Benchmark
- ICML 2024Robust Yet Efficient Conformal Prediction Sets
- ICML 2024Saliency strikes back: How filtering out high frequencies improves white-box explanations
- ICML 2024Scalable AI Safety via Doubly-Efficient Debate
- ICML 2024Scalable and Flexible Causal Discovery with an Efficient Test for Adjacency
- ICML 2024Scaling Beyond the GPU Memory Limit for Large Mixture-of-Experts Model Training
- ICML 2024Scaling Down Deep Learning with MNIST-1D
- ICML 2024Scaling Laws for Fine-Grained Mixture of Experts
- ICML 2024Scaling Laws for the Value of Individual Data Points in Machine Learning
- ICML 2024See More Details: Efficient Image Super-Resolution by Experts Mining
- ICML 2024Selecting Large Language Model to Fine-tune via Rectified Scaling Law
- ICML 2024SelMatch: Effectively Scaling Up Dataset Distillation via Selection-Based Initialization and Partial Updates by Trajectory Matching
- ICML 2024Short-Long Convolutions Help Hardware-Efficient Linear Attention to Focus on Long Sequences
- ICML 2024Simple linear attention language models balance the recall-throughput tradeoff
- ICML 2024SLAB: Efficient Transformers with Simplified Linear Attention and Progressive Re-parameterized Batch Normalization
- ICML 2024SparQ Attention: Bandwidth-Efficient LLM Inference
- ICML 2024Split-Ensemble: Efficient OOD-aware Ensemble via Task and Model Splitting
- ICML 2024SPP: Sparsity-Preserved Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Large Language Models
- ICML 2024Structured Inverse-Free Natural Gradient Descent: Memory-Efficient & Numerically-Stable KFAC
- ICML 2024Tandem Transformers for Inference Efficient LLMs
- ICML 2024Towards efficient deep spiking neural networks construction with spiking activity based pruning
- ICML 2024Towards Efficient Spiking Transformer: a Token Sparsification Framework for Training and Inference Acceleration
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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.