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

492 papers, page 8 of 10

  1. ICML 2024InstructZero: Efficient Instruction Optimization for Black-Box Large Language Models
  2. ICML 2024Jetfire: Efficient and Accurate Transformer Pretraining with INT8 Data Flow and Per-Block Quantization
  3. ICML 2024Knowledge Distillation with Auxiliary Variable
  4. ICML 2024Learning from Students: Applying t-Distributions to Explore Accurate and Efficient Formats for LLMs
  5. ICML 2024Learning-Efficient Yet Generalizable Collaborative Filtering for Item Recommendation
  6. ICML 2024Leveraging Self-Consistency for Data-Efficient Amortized Bayesian Inference
  7. ICML 2024Measuring Stochastic Data Complexity with Boltzmann Influence Functions
  8. ICML 2024Memory Efficient Neural Processes via Constant Memory Attention Block
  9. ICML 2024MLIP: Efficient Multi-Perspective Language-Image Pretraining with Exhaustive Data Utilization
  10. ICML 2024Multi-Region Markovian Gaussian Process: An Efficient Method to Discover Directional Communications Across Multiple Brain Regions
  11. ICML 2024Navigating Scaling Laws: Compute Optimality in Adaptive Model Training
  12. ICML 2024Nonparametric Teaching of Implicit Neural Representations
  13. ICML 2024On Computational Limits of Modern Hopfield Models: A Fine-Grained Complexity Analysis
  14. ICML 2024Online Cascade Learning for Efficient Inference over Streams
  15. ICML 2024Orthogonal Bootstrap: Efficient Simulation of Input Uncertainty
  16. ICML 2024Outlier-Efficient Hopfield Layers for Large Transformer-Based Models
  17. ICML 2024Outlier-robust Kalman Filtering through Generalised Bayes
  18. ICML 2024Parameter Efficient Quasi-Orthogonal Fine-Tuning via Givens Rotation
  19. ICML 2024Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning with Controls
  20. ICML 2024Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning with Discrete Fourier Transform
  21. ICML 2024Private and Federated Stochastic Convex Optimization: Efficient Strategies for Centralized Systems
  22. ICML 2024Private Heterogeneous Federated Learning Without a Trusted Server Revisited: Error-Optimal and Communication-Efficient Algorithms for Convex Losses
  23. ICML 2024Quality-Diversity with Limited Resources
  24. ICML 2024QUEST: Query-Aware Sparsity for Efficient Long-Context LLM Inference
  25. ICML 2024Random Masking Finds Winning Tickets for Parameter Efficient Fine-tuning
  26. ICML 2024Ranking-based Client Imitation Selection for Efficient Federated Learning
  27. ICML 2024Replicable Learning of Large-Margin Halfspaces
  28. ICML 2024REST: Efficient and Accelerated EEG Seizure Analysis through Residual State Updates
  29. ICML 2024Revisiting Zeroth-Order Optimization for Memory-Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning: A Benchmark
  30. ICML 2024Robust Yet Efficient Conformal Prediction Sets
  31. ICML 2024Saliency strikes back: How filtering out high frequencies improves white-box explanations
  32. ICML 2024Scalable AI Safety via Doubly-Efficient Debate
  33. ICML 2024Scalable and Flexible Causal Discovery with an Efficient Test for Adjacency
  34. ICML 2024Scaling Beyond the GPU Memory Limit for Large Mixture-of-Experts Model Training
  35. ICML 2024Scaling Down Deep Learning with MNIST-1D
  36. ICML 2024Scaling Laws for Fine-Grained Mixture of Experts
  37. ICML 2024Scaling Laws for the Value of Individual Data Points in Machine Learning
  38. ICML 2024See More Details: Efficient Image Super-Resolution by Experts Mining
  39. ICML 2024Selecting Large Language Model to Fine-tune via Rectified Scaling Law
  40. ICML 2024SelMatch: Effectively Scaling Up Dataset Distillation via Selection-Based Initialization and Partial Updates by Trajectory Matching
  41. ICML 2024Short-Long Convolutions Help Hardware-Efficient Linear Attention to Focus on Long Sequences
  42. ICML 2024Simple linear attention language models balance the recall-throughput tradeoff
  43. ICML 2024SLAB: Efficient Transformers with Simplified Linear Attention and Progressive Re-parameterized Batch Normalization
  44. ICML 2024SparQ Attention: Bandwidth-Efficient LLM Inference
  45. ICML 2024Split-Ensemble: Efficient OOD-aware Ensemble via Task and Model Splitting
  46. ICML 2024SPP: Sparsity-Preserved Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Large Language Models
  47. ICML 2024Structured Inverse-Free Natural Gradient Descent: Memory-Efficient & Numerically-Stable KFAC
  48. ICML 2024Tandem Transformers for Inference Efficient LLMs
  49. ICML 2024Towards efficient deep spiking neural networks construction with spiking activity based pruning
  50. 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.

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