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.

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Efficient Training papers by year and venue
YearNeurIPSICLRICMLCVPRTotal
2023112678384346
2024207812280300
202519012611882516
2026177148169109603

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All Efficient Training papers

492 papers, page 1 of 10

  1. ICML 2026(1D) Ordered Tokens Enable Efficient Test-Time Search
  2. ICML 2026$\mu$pscaling small models: Principled warm starts and hyperparameter transfer
  3. ICML 2026A Bi-metric Framework for Efficient Nearest Neighbor Search
  4. ICML 2026A Geometry-Aware Efficient Algorithm for Compositional Entropic Risk Minimization
  5. ICML 2026A Provable Expressiveness Hierarchy in Hybrid Linear-Full Attention
  6. ICML 2026A Semantically Consistent Dataset for Data-Efficient Query-Based Universal Sound Separation
  7. ICML 2026Accelerating Langevin Monte Carlo via Efficient Stochastic Runge-Kutta Methods beyond Log-Concavity
  8. ICML 2026Active Budget Allocation for Efficient Scaling Law Estimation via Surrogate-Guided Pruning
  9. ICML 2026Active Learning with Foundation Model Priors: Efficient Learning under Class Imbalance
  10. ICML 2026AGoQ: Activation and Gradient Quantization for Memory-Efficient Distributed Training of LLMs
  11. ICML 2026An Information-Theoretic Criterion for Efficient Data Synthesis
  12. ICML 2026Artificial Hippocampus Networks for Efficient Long-Context Modeling
  13. ICML 2026ASTRA: Communication-Efficient Acceleration for Multi-Device Transformer Inference
  14. ICML 2026Attributed Network Alignment: Statistical Limits and Efficient Algorithm
  15. ICML 2026Beyond Pixels: Mining Compressed Domain Artifacts for Efficient AI-Generated Video Detection
  16. ICML 2026Beyond Sunk Costs: Boosting LLM Pre-training Efficiency via Orthogonal Growth of Mixture-of-Experts
  17. ICML 2026BiCrossNet with Decoupled Dual Generators: A Parameter‑Efficient and Generalizable Few‑Shot Custom Gesture Recognition Framework
  18. ICML 2026BioToken and BioFM – Biologically-Informed Tokenization Enables Accurate and Efficient Genomic Foundation Models
  19. ICML 2026Bounded Hyperbolic Tangent: A Stable and Efficient Alternative to Pre-Layer Normalization in Large Language Models
  20. ICML 2026Byte Pair Encoding for Efficient Time Series Forecasting
  21. ICML 2026Capacity-Aware Mixture Law Enables Efficient LLM Data Optimization
  22. ICML 2026CAT-Q: Cost-efficient and Accurate Ternary Quantization for LLMs
  23. ICML 2026CauchyNet: Compact and Data-Efficient Learning using Holomorphic Activation Functions
  24. ICML 2026Compact Conformal Subgraphs
  25. ICML 2026Computationally-efficient Graph Modeling with Refined Graph Random Features
  26. ICML 2026Convolutional Learnable-Group Weightless Neural Network
  27. ICML 2026Curriculum-Guided Layer Scaling for Language Model Pretraining
  28. ICML 2026CurvZO: Adaptive Curvature-Guided Sparse Zeroth-Order Optimization for Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning
  29. ICML 2026DASH: Faster Shampoo via Batched Block Preconditioning and Efficient Inverse-Root Solvers
  30. ICML 2026Delayed Momentum Aggregation: Communication-efficient Byzantine-robust Federated Learning with Partial Participation
  31. ICML 2026Detecting the Semantic Fixed Point: A Geometric Framework for Efficient Inference
  32. ICML 2026Dissecting Quantization Error: A Concentration-Alignment Perspective
  33. ICML 2026Do Transformers Need Three Projections? Systematic Study of QKV Variants
  34. ICML 2026Don't Drop Dropout: Optimizing Layer Sparsity for Efficient LLM Training and Inference
  35. ICML 2026Dropout Universality: Scaling Laws and Optimal Scheduling at the Edge-of-Chaos
  36. ICML 2026Dynamics of neural scaling laws in random feature regression with powerlaw-distributed kernel eigenvalues
  37. ICML 2026EchoAttention: Exploiting Token-Pair Redundancy and Frame-Block Similarity for Efficient Video Generation
  38. ICML 2026Effective Distillation to Hybrid xLSTM Architectures
  39. ICML 2026Effective MoE-based LLM Compression by Exploiting Heterogeneous Inter-Group Experts Routing Frequency and Information Density
  40. ICML 2026Efficient Bayesian Inference from Noisy Pairwise Comparisons
  41. ICML 2026Efficient Bilevel Optimization for CKA-Guided MoE Upcycling
  42. ICML 2026Efficient Code Analysis via Graph Representation Learning-Guided Large Language Models
  43. ICML 2026Efficient Continuous-Depth Modeling with GRU Equivalents
  44. ICML 2026Efficient Distributionally Robust Assortment Optimization in MNL Bandits
  45. ICML 2026Efficient Learning of Deep State Space Models via Importance Smoothing
  46. ICML 2026Efficient Mismatch-Tolerant Coding for Model-Driven Compression
  47. ICML 2026Efficient Multi-modal Dataset Distillation via Analytic Parameter Matching
  48. ICML 2026Efficient Neural Controlled Differential Equations via Attentive Kernel Smoothing
  49. ICML 2026Efficient numeracy in language models through single-token number embeddings
  50. 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.

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