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
118 papers, page 1 of 3
- ICML 2025A Hitchhiker's Guide to Scaling Law Estimation
- ICML 2025A Memory Efficient Randomized Subspace Optimization Method for Training Large Language Models
- ICML 2025A Sample Efficient Conditional Independence Test in the Presence of Discretization
- ICML 2025A Simple Model of Inference Scaling Laws
- ICML 2025Adapting Precomputed Features for Efficient Graph Condensation
- ICML 2025An Adaptive Orthogonal Convolution Scheme for Efficient and Flexible CNN Architectures
- ICML 2025An Efficient Matrix Multiplication Algorithm for Accelerating Inference in Binary and Ternary Neural Networks
- ICML 2025An Efficient Pruner for Large Language Model with Theoretical Guarantee
- ICML 2025An Efficient Search-and-Score Algorithm for Ancestral Graphs using Multivariate Information Scores for Complex Non-linear and Categorical Data
- ICML 2025An Expressive and Self-Adaptive Dynamical System for Efficient Function Learning
- ICML 2025Beyond Low-rank Decomposition: A Shortcut Approach for Efficient On-Device Learning
- ICML 2025Beyond Self-Repellent Kernels: History-Driven Target Towards Efficient Nonlinear MCMC on General Graphs
- ICML 2025BlockDialect: Block-wise Fine-grained Mixed Format Quantization for Energy-Efficient LLM Inference
- ICML 2025BSLoRA: Enhancing the Parameter Efficiency of LoRA with Intra-Layer and Inter-Layer Sharing
- ICML 2025COKE: Core Kernel for More Efficient Approximation of Kernel Weights in Multiple Kernel Clustering
- ICML 2025Complete-Tree Space Favors Data-Efficient Link Prediction
- ICML 2025Compositional Generalization via Forced Rendering of Disentangled Latents
- ICML 2025Connecting Thompson Sampling and UCB: Towards More Efficient Trade-offs Between Privacy and Regret
- ICML 2025Cost-efficient Collaboration between On-device and Cloud Language Models
- ICML 2025DA-KD: Difficulty-Aware Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Large Language Models
- ICML 2025Determinant Estimation under Memory Constraints and Neural Scaling Laws
- ICML 2025Distillation Scaling Laws
- ICML 2025Does Data Scaling Lead to Visual Compositional Generalization?
- ICML 2025EAGLES: Towards Effective, Efficient, and Economical Federated Graph Learning via Unified Sparsification
- ICML 2025Earley-Driven Dynamic Pruning for Efficient Structured Decoding
- ICML 2025Efficient and Separate Authentication Image Steganography Network
- ICML 2025Efficient ANN-SNN Conversion with Error Compensation Learning
- ICML 2025Efficient Bisection Projection to Ensure Neural-Network Solution Feasibility for Optimization over General Set
- ICML 2025Efficient Core-set Selection for Deep Learning Through Squared Loss Minimization
- ICML 2025Efficient Federated Incomplete Multi-View Clustering
- ICML 2025Efficient Graph Continual Learning via Lightweight Graph Neural Tangent Kernels-based Dataset Distillation
- ICML 2025Efficient Heterogeneity-Aware Federated Active Data Selection
- ICML 2025Efficient Logit-based Knowledge Distillation of Deep Spiking Neural Networks for Full-Range Timestep Deployment
- ICML 2025Efficient Long Context Fine-tuning with Chunk Flow
- ICML 2025Efficient Network Automatic Relevance Determination
- ICML 2025Efficient Optimization with Orthogonality Constraint: a Randomized Riemannian Submanifold Method
- ICML 2025Efficient Parallel Training Methods for Spiking Neural Networks with Constant Time Complexity
- ICML 2025Efficient Quantification of Multimodal Interaction at Sample Level
- ICML 2025Efficient Robust Conformal Prediction via Lipschitz-Bounded Networks
- ICML 2025Efficient Time Series Processing for Transformers and State-Space Models through Token Merging
- ICML 2025Equivariant Polynomial Functional Networks
- ICML 2025Fast Inference with Kronecker-Sparse Matrices
- ICML 2025FastCAV: Efficient Computation of Concept Activation Vectors for Explaining Deep Neural Networks
- ICML 2025FedOne: Query-Efficient Federated Learning for Black-box Discrete Prompt Learning
- ICML 2025FedSMU: Communication-Efficient and Generalization-Enhanced Federated Learning through Symbolic Model Updates
- ICML 2025FisherSFT: Data-Efficient Supervised Fine-Tuning of Language Models Using Information Gain
- ICML 2025Flexible and Efficient Grammar-Constrained Decoding
- ICML 2025Flexible, Efficient, and Stable Adversarial Attacks on Machine Unlearning
- ICML 2025FloE: On-the-Fly MoE Inference on Memory-constrained GPU
- ICML 2025FRUGAL: Memory-Efficient Optimization by Reducing State Overhead for Scalable Training
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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.