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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- ICML 2024A Circuit Domain Generalization Framework for Efficient Logic Synthesis in Chip Design
- ICML 2024A Dynamical Model of Neural Scaling Laws
- ICML 2024A fast algorithm to simulate nonlinear resistive networks
- ICML 2024A New Computationally Efficient Algorithm to solve Feature Selection for Functional Data Classification in High-dimensional Spaces
- ICML 2024A Tale of Tails: Model Collapse as a Change of Scaling Laws
- ICML 2024AegisFL: Efficient and Flexible Privacy-Preserving Byzantine-Robust Cross-silo Federated Learning
- ICML 2024An Efficient Maximal Ancestral Graph Listing Algorithm
- ICML 2024An Efficient Self-Learning Framework For Interactive Spoken Dialog Systems
- ICML 2024APT: Adaptive Pruning and Tuning Pretrained Language Models for Efficient Training and Inference
- ICML 2024Asymptotically Optimal and Computationally Efficient Average Treatment Effect Estimation in A/B testing
- ICML 2024Beyond Chinchilla-Optimal: Accounting for Inference in Language Model Scaling Laws
- ICML 2024Beyond Regular Grids: Fourier-Based Neural Operators on Arbitrary Domains
- ICML 2024CaM: Cache Merging for Memory-efficient LLMs Inference
- ICML 2024CHAI: Clustered Head Attention for Efficient LLM Inference
- ICML 2024CLIPZyme: Reaction-Conditioned Virtual Screening of Enzymes
- ICML 2024Collaborative Learning with Different Labeling Functions
- ICML 2024Compute Better Spent: Replacing Dense Layers with Structured Matrices
- ICML 2024CosPGD: an efficient white-box adversarial attack for pixel-wise prediction tasks
- ICML 2024Data-efficient Large Vision Models through Sequential Autoregression
- ICML 2024Data-Efficient Learning via Clustering-Based Sensitivity Sampling: Foundation Models and Beyond
- ICML 2024Decoding Compressed Trust: Scrutinizing the Trustworthiness of Efficient LLMs Under Compression
- ICML 2024Deep Fusion: Efficient Network Training via Pre-trained Initializations
- ICML 2024Delving into Differentially Private Transformer
- ICML 2024Density-Softmax: Efficient Test-time Model for Uncertainty Estimation and Robustness under Distribution Shifts
- ICML 2024Differentiable Model Scaling using Differentiable Topk
- ICML 2024DiJiang: Efficient Large Language Models through Compact Kernelization
- ICML 2024Distilling Morphology-Conditioned Hypernetworks for Efficient Universal Morphology Control
- ICML 2024DistiLLM: Towards Streamlined Distillation for Large Language Models
- ICML 2024Distributed High-Dimensional Quantile Regression: Estimation Efficiency and Support Recovery
- ICML 2024Do Topological Characteristics Help in Knowledge Distillation?
- ICML 2024Efficient Algorithms for Empirical Group Distributionally Robust Optimization and Beyond
- ICML 2024Efficient Algorithms for Sum-Of-Minimum Optimization
- ICML 2024Efficient and Effective Time-Series Forecasting with Spiking Neural Networks
- ICML 2024Efficient Contextual Bandits with Uninformed Feedback Graphs
- ICML 2024Efficient Contrastive Learning for Fast and Accurate Inference on Graphs
- ICML 2024Efficient Exploration for LLMs
- ICML 2024Efficient Low-Rank Matrix Estimation, Experimental Design, and Arm-Set-Dependent Low-Rank Bandits
- ICML 2024Efficient Mixture Learning in Black-Box Variational Inference
- ICML 2024Efficient Online Set-valued Classification with Bandit Feedback
- ICML 2024Efficient PAC Learnability of Dynamical Systems Over Multilayer Networks
- ICML 2024Efficient Precision and Recall Metrics for Assessing Generative Models using Hubness-aware Sampling
- ICML 2024Efficient Stochastic Approximation of Minimax Excess Risk Optimization
- ICML 2024Efficient Value Iteration for s-rectangular Robust Markov Decision Processes
- ICML 2024Embodied CoT Distillation From LLM To Off-the-shelf Agents
- ICML 2024EMC$^2$: Efficient MCMC Negative Sampling for Contrastive Learning with Global Convergence
- ICML 2024Energy-Efficient Gaussian Processes Using Low-Precision Arithmetic
- ICML 2024Error Feedback Can Accurately Compress Preconditioners
- ICML 2024ETHER: Efficient Finetuning of Large-Scale Models with Hyperplane Reflections
- ICML 2024EVEREST: Efficient Masked Video Autoencoder by Removing Redundant Spatiotemporal Tokens
- ICML 2024Evolution of Heuristics: Towards Efficient Automatic Algorithm Design Using Large Language Model
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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.