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 1 of 10
- ICML 2026(1D) Ordered Tokens Enable Efficient Test-Time Search
- ICML 2026$\mu$pscaling small models: Principled warm starts and hyperparameter transfer
- ICML 2026A Bi-metric Framework for Efficient Nearest Neighbor Search
- ICML 2026A Geometry-Aware Efficient Algorithm for Compositional Entropic Risk Minimization
- ICML 2026A Provable Expressiveness Hierarchy in Hybrid Linear-Full Attention
- ICML 2026A Semantically Consistent Dataset for Data-Efficient Query-Based Universal Sound Separation
- ICML 2026Accelerating Langevin Monte Carlo via Efficient Stochastic Runge-Kutta Methods beyond Log-Concavity
- ICML 2026Active Budget Allocation for Efficient Scaling Law Estimation via Surrogate-Guided Pruning
- ICML 2026Active Learning with Foundation Model Priors: Efficient Learning under Class Imbalance
- ICML 2026AGoQ: Activation and Gradient Quantization for Memory-Efficient Distributed Training of LLMs
- ICML 2026An Information-Theoretic Criterion for Efficient Data Synthesis
- ICML 2026Artificial Hippocampus Networks for Efficient Long-Context Modeling
- ICML 2026ASTRA: Communication-Efficient Acceleration for Multi-Device Transformer Inference
- ICML 2026Attributed Network Alignment: Statistical Limits and Efficient Algorithm
- ICML 2026Beyond Pixels: Mining Compressed Domain Artifacts for Efficient AI-Generated Video Detection
- ICML 2026Beyond Sunk Costs: Boosting LLM Pre-training Efficiency via Orthogonal Growth of Mixture-of-Experts
- ICML 2026BiCrossNet with Decoupled Dual Generators: A Parameter‑Efficient and Generalizable Few‑Shot Custom Gesture Recognition Framework
- ICML 2026BioToken and BioFM – Biologically-Informed Tokenization Enables Accurate and Efficient Genomic Foundation Models
- ICML 2026Bounded Hyperbolic Tangent: A Stable and Efficient Alternative to Pre-Layer Normalization in Large Language Models
- ICML 2026Byte Pair Encoding for Efficient Time Series Forecasting
- ICML 2026Capacity-Aware Mixture Law Enables Efficient LLM Data Optimization
- ICML 2026CAT-Q: Cost-efficient and Accurate Ternary Quantization for LLMs
- ICML 2026CauchyNet: Compact and Data-Efficient Learning using Holomorphic Activation Functions
- ICML 2026Compact Conformal Subgraphs
- ICML 2026Computationally-efficient Graph Modeling with Refined Graph Random Features
- ICML 2026Convolutional Learnable-Group Weightless Neural Network
- ICML 2026Curriculum-Guided Layer Scaling for Language Model Pretraining
- ICML 2026CurvZO: Adaptive Curvature-Guided Sparse Zeroth-Order Optimization for Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning
- ICML 2026DASH: Faster Shampoo via Batched Block Preconditioning and Efficient Inverse-Root Solvers
- ICML 2026Delayed Momentum Aggregation: Communication-efficient Byzantine-robust Federated Learning with Partial Participation
- ICML 2026Detecting the Semantic Fixed Point: A Geometric Framework for Efficient Inference
- ICML 2026Dissecting Quantization Error: A Concentration-Alignment Perspective
- ICML 2026Do Transformers Need Three Projections? Systematic Study of QKV Variants
- ICML 2026Don't Drop Dropout: Optimizing Layer Sparsity for Efficient LLM Training and Inference
- ICML 2026Dropout Universality: Scaling Laws and Optimal Scheduling at the Edge-of-Chaos
- ICML 2026Dynamics of neural scaling laws in random feature regression with powerlaw-distributed kernel eigenvalues
- ICML 2026EchoAttention: Exploiting Token-Pair Redundancy and Frame-Block Similarity for Efficient Video Generation
- ICML 2026Effective Distillation to Hybrid xLSTM Architectures
- ICML 2026Effective MoE-based LLM Compression by Exploiting Heterogeneous Inter-Group Experts Routing Frequency and Information Density
- ICML 2026Efficient Bayesian Inference from Noisy Pairwise Comparisons
- ICML 2026Efficient Bilevel Optimization for CKA-Guided MoE Upcycling
- ICML 2026Efficient Code Analysis via Graph Representation Learning-Guided Large Language Models
- ICML 2026Efficient Continuous-Depth Modeling with GRU Equivalents
- ICML 2026Efficient Distributionally Robust Assortment Optimization in MNL Bandits
- ICML 2026Efficient Learning of Deep State Space Models via Importance Smoothing
- ICML 2026Efficient Mismatch-Tolerant Coding for Model-Driven Compression
- ICML 2026Efficient Multi-modal Dataset Distillation via Analytic Parameter Matching
- ICML 2026Efficient Neural Controlled Differential Equations via Attentive Kernel Smoothing
- ICML 2026Efficient numeracy in language models through single-token number embeddings
- ICML 2026Efficient Online Variational Estimation via Monte Carlo Sampling
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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.