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
67 papers, page 1 of 2
- ICLR 20233D Segmenter: 3D Transformer based Semantic Segmentation via 2D Panoramic Distillation
- ICLR 2023A Model or 603 Exemplars: Towards Memory-Efficient Class-Incremental Learning
- ICLR 2023Adaptive Budget Allocation for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
- ICLR 2023An efficient encoder-decoder architecture with top-down attention for speech separation
- ICLR 2023AnyDA: Anytime Domain Adaptation
- ICLR 2023Augmentation with Projection: Towards an Effective and Efficient Data Augmentation Paradigm for Distillation
- ICLR 2023Bit-Pruning: A Sparse Multiplication-Less Dot-Product
- ICLR 2023Block and Subword-Scaling Floating-Point (BSFP) : An Efficient Non-Uniform Quantization For Low Precision Inference
- ICLR 2023Composite Slice Transformer: An Efficient Transformer with Composition of Multi-Scale Multi-Range Attentions
- ICLR 2023DBQ-SSD: Dynamic Ball Query for Efficient 3D Object Detection
- ICLR 2023DeBERTaV3: Improving DeBERTa using ELECTRA-Style Pre-Training with Gradient-Disentangled Embedding Sharing
- ICLR 2023DropIT: Dropping Intermediate Tensors for Memory-Efficient DNN Training
- ICLR 2023DynaMS: Dyanmic Margin Selection for Efficient Deep Learning
- ICLR 2023Efficient approximation of neural population structure and correlations with probabilistic circuits
- ICLR 2023Efficient Attention via Control Variates
- ICLR 2023Efficient Certified Training and Robustness Verification of Neural ODEs
- ICLR 2023Efficient Conditionally Invariant Representation Learning
- ICLR 2023Efficient Discrete Multi Marginal Optimal Transport Regularization
- ICLR 2023Efficient Edge Inference by Selective Query
- ICLR 2023Efficient Federated Domain Translation
- ICLR 2023Efficient Model Updates for Approximate Unlearning of Graph-Structured Data
- ICLR 2023Efficient recurrent architectures through activity sparsity and sparse back-propagation through time
- ICLR 2023Encoding Recurrence into Transformers
- ICLR 2023Exploring the Limits of Differentially Private Deep Learning with Group-wise Clipping
- ICLR 2023FastFill: Efficient Compatible Model Update
- ICLR 2023Heterogeneous Neuronal and Synaptic Dynamics for Spike-Efficient Unsupervised Learning: Theory and Design Principles
- ICLR 2023How Much Data Are Augmentations Worth? An Investigation into Scaling Laws, Invariance, and Implicit Regularization
- ICLR 2023IDEAL: Query-Efficient Data-Free Learning from Black-Box Models
- ICLR 2023Image to Sphere: Learning Equivariant Features for Efficient Pose Prediction
- ICLR 2023Joint Edge-Model Sparse Learning is Provably Efficient for Graph Neural Networks
- ICLR 2023KwikBucks: Correlation Clustering with Cheap-Weak and Expensive-Strong Signals
- ICLR 2023Layer Grafted Pre-training: Bridging Contrastive Learning And Masked Image Modeling For Label-Efficient Representations
- ICLR 2023Learning Kernelized Contextual Bandits in a Distributed and Asynchronous Environment
- ICLR 2023Learning MLPs on Graphs: A Unified View of Effectiveness, Robustness, and Efficiency
- ICLR 2023Learning to Grow Pretrained Models for Efficient Transformer Training
- ICLR 2023Learning to Linearize Deep Neural Networks for Secure and Efficient Private Inference
- ICLR 2023Learning with Auxiliary Activation for Memory-Efficient Training
- ICLR 2023MA-BERT: Towards Matrix Arithmetic-only BERT Inference by Eliminating Complex Non-Linear Functions
- ICLR 2023Masked Distillation with Receptive Tokens
- ICLR 2023Massively Scaling Heteroscedastic Classifiers
- ICLR 2023Maximizing Spatio-Temporal Entropy of Deep 3D CNNs for Efficient Video Recognition
- ICLR 2023Memorization Capacity of Neural Networks with Conditional Computation
- ICLR 2023Meta-prediction Model for Distillation-Aware NAS on Unseen Datasets
- ICLR 2023Moderate Coreset: A Universal Method of Data Selection for Real-world Data-efficient Deep Learning
- ICLR 2023More ConvNets in the 2020s: Scaling up Kernels Beyond 51x51 using Sparsity
- ICLR 2023Multitask Prompt Tuning Enables Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning
- ICLR 2023Packed Ensembles for efficient uncertainty estimation
- ICLR 2023Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Design Spaces
- ICLR 2023PASHA: Efficient HPO and NAS with Progressive Resource Allocation
- ICLR 2023PiFold: Toward effective and efficient protein inverse folding
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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.