Efficient Training papers, 2023–2026

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.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• 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

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401. ICML 2026Sparser, Faster, Lighter Transformer Language Models
402. ICML 2026SparseSSM: Efficient Selective Structured State Space Models Can Be Pruned in One-Shot
403. ICML 2026Spatial-Aware Reduction Framework: Towards Efficient and Faithful Visual State Space Models
404. ICML 2026SpecForge: A Flexible and Efficient Open-Source Training Framework for Speculative Decoding
405. ICML 2026Spectral Reach: Understanding Neural Scaling as Progress into the Spectral Tail
406. ICML 2026Spik4lite: Refactoring Neuromorphic Sparsity for Efficient Spiking Neural Networks on Commodity Edge Devices
407. ICML 2026SSA: Sparse Sparse Attention by Aligning Full and Sparse Attention Outputs in Feature Space
408. ICML 2026Swordsman: Entropy-Driven Adaptive Block Partition for Efficient Diffusion Language Models
409. ICML 2026TabPack: Efficient Hyperparameter Ensembles for Tabular Deep Learning
410. ICML 2026TetraJet-v2: Accurate NVFP4 Training for Large Language Models with Oscillation Suppression and Outlier Control
411. ICML 2026ToaSt: Token Channel Selection and Structured Pruning for Efficient ViT
412. ICML 2026Token Sparse Attention: Efficient Long-Context Inference with Interleaved Token Selection
413. ICML 2026TokenDrop: Token-Level Importance-Aware Backward Propagation Skipping for Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning
414. ICML 2026Towards Resource-Efficient LLMs: End-to-End Energy Accounting of Distillation Pipelines
415. ICML 2026Training-Free Hashing-Based Attention via Binary Principal Components
416. ICML 2026Turning Back Without Forgetting: Selective Backward Refinement for Parameter-Efficient Continual Learning
417. ICML 2026Turning Stale Gradients into Stable Gradients: Coherent Coordinate Descent with Implicit Landscape Smoothing for Lightweight Zeroth-Order Optimization
418. ICML 2026UniFast-HGR: Scalable and Efficient Maximal Correlation for Multimodal Models
419. ICML 2026Unifying Dataset Pruning and Distillation for Efficient Large-scale Compression
420. ICML 2026Unifying Stacking and Cascading for Efficient Ensemble Inference
421. ICML 2026Universal One-third Time Scaling in Learning Peaked Distributions
422. ICML 2026Untied Ulysses: Memory-Efficient Context Parallelism via Headwise Chunking
423. ICML 2026Utility Boundary of Dataset Distillation: Scaling and Coverage Laws
424. ICML 2026WAVE: Window-Aware Vocabulary-Efficient Early-Exit for Training-Free LLM Acceleration
425. ICML 2026WBMM: Windowed Batch Matrix Multiplication for Efficient Large Receptive Field Convolution
426. ICML 2026ZipMoE: Efficient On-Device MoE Serving via Lossless Compression and Cache-Affinity Scheduling
427. NeurIPS 2026$\delta$-Mem: : Efficient Online Memory For Large Language Models
428. NeurIPS 2026A Grid Efficient Transport Optimization Model for the Wasserstein Barycenter Problem
429. NeurIPS 2026A Solver-Efficient Neural Adversarial Attack on Subgraph Matching Models
430. NeurIPS 2026Achieve Latency-Efficient Temporal-Coding Spiking LLMs via Discretization-Aware Conversion
431. NeurIPS 2026Adapting in the Dark: Efficient and Stable Test-Time Adaptation for Black-Box Models
432. NeurIPS 2026Adaptive Residual Quantization for Memory-Efficient Temporal Action Segmentation
433. NeurIPS 2026ADIS-Law: Unified Scaling Laws for Annealing-Phase Domain Injection in Large Language Models
434. NeurIPS 2026Advanced Routing as Regularization Allocation for Efficient Diffusion Transformer Training
435. NeurIPS 2026AgentWeave: Efficient Distributed Agent Serving via Flow Decomposition
436. NeurIPS 2026An Efficient Cross-modal Feature Reconstruction Model for Multimodal Multi-class Anomaly Detection
437. NeurIPS 2026ASVQ: What Reparameterization Is Just Enough for Efficient Codebook Learning?
438. NeurIPS 2026Asymmetric Scaling Laws from Sparse Features
439. NeurIPS 2026Attribute-Efficient Learning of Sparse Halfspaces with Constant Malicious Noise Rate
440. NeurIPS 2026Benchmarks as Measurement Instruments: Quantifying Signal and Noise for More Efficient AI Evaluations Under Distribution Shift
441. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Pairwise Supervision: Spectral Characteristic Matching for Data-Efficient Multimodal Alignment
442. NeurIPS 2026Beyond the Half Approximation: Fair and Efficient Online Class Matching
443. NeurIPS 2026Bidirectional Information Flow (BIF) - A Sample Efficient Hierarchical Gaussian Process for Bayesian Optimization
444. NeurIPS 2026BiHashFormer: Hash-Driven Dual-Branch Transformer for Efficient Object Detection in HRW Shots
445. NeurIPS 2026BLANP: Memory-Efficient Backpropagation-Free Local Training via Antithetic Node Perturbation
446. NeurIPS 2026BROS: Bias-Corrected Randomized Subspaces for Memory-Efficient Single-Loop Bilevel Optimization
447. NeurIPS 2026ByteDistill: Cross-Tokenizer Distillation via Chunk-wise Byte-Level Distribution Alignment
448. NeurIPS 2026CELEUS: Certifiable and Efficient LLM Evaluation via E-Processes
449. NeurIPS 2026CHoRD: Coordinating Scheduling and Data Placement for Efficient Deep Neural Network Inference on Chiplet-Based GPUs
450. NeurIPS 2026Communication-Efficient LLM Adaptation over Decentralized GPU Meshes

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.