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
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- ICLR 2026$\mu$LO: Compute-Efficient Meta-Generalization of Learned Optimizers
- ICLR 2026A Generalized Geometric Theoretical Framework of Centroid Discriminant Analysis for Linear Classification of Multi-dimensional Data
- ICLR 2026A universal compression theory: Lottery ticket hypothesis and superpolynomial scaling laws
- ICLR 2026Achieving low-bit Muon through subspace preservation and grid quantization
- ICLR 2026An Efficient SE(p)-Invariant Transport Metric Driven by Polar Transport Discrepancy-based Representation
- ICLR 2026Annotation-Efficient Honesty Alignment via Confidence Elicitation and Calibration
- ICLR 2026AnyBCQ: Hardware Efficient Flexible Binary-Coded Quantization for Multi-Precision LLMs
- ICLR 2026AQER: A Scalable and Efficient Data Loader for Digital Quantum Computers
- ICLR 2026ATLAS: Adaptive Transfer Scaling Laws for Multilingual Pretraining, Finetuning, and Decoding the Curse of Multilinguality
- ICLR 2026Batch Pruning by Activation Stability
- ICLR 2026Beyond Masks: Efficient, Flexible Diffusion Language Models via Deletion-Insertion Processes
- ICLR 2026Beyond Outliers: A Study of Optimizers Under Quantization
- ICLR 2026Beyond Student: An Asymmetric Network for Neural Network Inheritance
- ICLR 2026Beyond URLs: Metadata Diversity and Position for Efficient LLM Pretraining
- ICLR 2026BLADE: Block-Sparse Attention Meets Step Distillation for Efficient Video Generation
- ICLR 2026Break the Trade-off Between Watermark Strength and Speculative Sampling Efficiency for Language Models
- ICLR 2026Cascadia: An Efficient Cascade Serving System for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026CaTS: Calibrated Test-Time Scaling for Efficient LLM Reasoning
- ICLR 2026Channel-Aware Mixed-Precision Quantization for Efficient Long-Context Inference
- ICLR 2026Composer: A Search Framework for Hybrid Neural Architecture Design
- ICLR 2026Compute-Optimal Quantization-Aware Training
- ICLR 2026Convex Efficient Coding
- ICLR 2026Cost-Aware Dynamic Tree Construction for Efficient Large Language Model Inference
- ICLR 2026CR-Net: Scaling Parameter-Efficient Training with Cross-Layer Low-Rank Structure
- ICLR 2026DeCo-DETR: Decoupled Cognition DETR for efficient Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
- ICLR 2026Difficulty–Diversity Collaborative Filtering for Data-Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning
- ICLR 2026DiffusionBlocks: Block-wise Neural Network Training via Diffusion Interpretation
- ICLR 2026DisTaC: Conditioning Task Vectors via Distillation for Robust Model Merging
- ICLR 2026Distillation of Large Language Models via Concrete Score Matching
- ICLR 2026Distilling to Hybrid Attention Models via KL-Guided Layer Selection
- ICLR 2026DPad: Efficient Diffusion Language Models with Suffix Dropout
- ICLR 2026DPQuant: Efficient and Private Model Training via Dynamic Quantization Scheduling
- ICLR 2026Dual Language Models: Balancing sample-efficiency and overfitting resilience
- ICLR 2026DUET: DISTILLED LLM UNLEARNING FROM AN EFFICIENTLY CONTEXTUALIZED TEACHER
- ICLR 2026Efficient and Sharp Off-Policy Learning under Unobserved Confounding
- ICLR 2026Efficient Approximate Posterior Sampling with Annealed Langevin Monte Carlo
- ICLR 2026Efficient Autoregressive Inference for Transformer Probabilistic Models
- ICLR 2026Efficient Best-of-Both-Worlds Algorithms for Contextual Combinatorial Semi-Bandits
- ICLR 2026Efficient Credal Prediction through Decalibration
- ICLR 2026Efficient Degradation-agnostic Image Restoration via Channel-Wise Functional Decomposition and Manifold Regularization
- ICLR 2026Efficient Differentiable Contact Model with Long-range Influence
- ICLR 2026Efficient Ensemble Conditional Independence Test Framework for Causal Discovery
- ICLR 2026Efficient Learning on Large Graphs using a Densifying Regularity Lemma
- ICLR 2026Efficient Message-Passing Transformer for Error Correcting Codes
- ICLR 2026Efficient Multi-objective Prompt Optimization via Pure-exploration Bandits
- ICLR 2026Efficient Orthogonal Fine-Tuning with Principal Subspace Adaptation
- ICLR 2026Efficient Prediction of Large Protein Complexes via Subunit-Guided Hierarchical Refinement
- ICLR 2026Efficient Quantization of Mixture-of-Experts with Theoretical Generalization Guarantees
- ICLR 2026Efficient Sliced Wasserstein Distance Computation via Adaptive Bayesian Optimization
- ICLR 2026Efficient-SAM2: Accelerating SAM2 with Object-Aware Visual Encoding and Memory Retrieval
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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.