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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- NeurIPS 2023A Computation and Communication Efficient Method for Distributed Nonconvex Problems in the Partial Participation Setting
- NeurIPS 2023A Hierarchical Training Paradigm for Antibody Structure-sequence Co-design
- NeurIPS 2023A Smooth Binary Mechanism for Efficient Private Continual Observation
- NeurIPS 2023Accelerated Training via Incrementally Growing Neural Networks using Variance Transfer and Learning Rate Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2023Actively Testing Your Model While It Learns: Realizing Label-Efficient Learning in Practice
- NeurIPS 2023Adversarial Training from Mean Field Perspective
- NeurIPS 2023Alternating Updates for Efficient Transformers
- NeurIPS 2023Amortized Reparametrization: Efficient and Scalable Variational Inference for Latent SDEs
- NeurIPS 2023An Efficient and Robust Framework for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search with Attribute Constraint
- NeurIPS 2023An Efficient End-to-End Training Approach for Zero-Shot Human-AI Coordination
- NeurIPS 2023An Empirical Study Towards Prompt-Tuning for Graph Contrastive Pre-Training in Recommendations
- NeurIPS 2023An Inverse Scaling Law for CLIP Training
- NeurIPS 2023ATMAN: Understanding Transformer Predictions Through Memory Efficient Attention Manipulation
- NeurIPS 2023Augmentation-Aware Self-Supervision for Data-Efficient GAN Training
- NeurIPS 2023Augmentation-Free Dense Contrastive Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Semantic Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2023Bayes beats Cross Validation: Efficient and Accurate Ridge Regression via Expectation Maximization
- NeurIPS 2023Birder: Communication-Efficient 1-bit Adaptive Optimizer for Practical Distributed DNN Training
- NeurIPS 2023Cal-QL: Calibrated Offline RL Pre-Training for Efficient Online Fine-Tuning
- NeurIPS 2023Clustering the Sketch: Dynamic Compression for Embedding Tables
- NeurIPS 2023Composing Parameter-Efficient Modules with Arithmetic Operation
- NeurIPS 2023Connecting Certified and Adversarial Training
- NeurIPS 2023Coordinating Distributed Example Orders for Provably Accelerated Training
- NeurIPS 2023CoPriv: Network/Protocol Co-Optimization for Communication-Efficient Private Inference
- NeurIPS 2023Data Portraits: Recording Foundation Model Training Data
- NeurIPS 2023Data Pruning via Moving-one-Sample-out
- NeurIPS 2023Defending against Data-Free Model Extraction by Distributionally Robust Defensive Training
- NeurIPS 2023DESSERT: An Efficient Algorithm for Vector Set Search with Vector Set Queries
- NeurIPS 2023Direct Training of SNN using Local Zeroth Order Method
- NeurIPS 2023Distributionally Robust Ensemble of Lottery Tickets Towards Calibrated Sparse Network Training
- NeurIPS 2023Does a sparse ReLU network training problem always admit an optimum ?
- NeurIPS 2023Don’t just prune by magnitude! Your mask topology is a secret weapon
- NeurIPS 2023DoWG Unleashed: An Efficient Universal Parameter-Free Gradient Descent Method
- NeurIPS 2023Dynamic Context Pruning for Efficient and Interpretable Autoregressive Transformers
- NeurIPS 2023Efficient Activation Function Optimization through Surrogate Modeling
- NeurIPS 2023Efficient Adversarial Contrastive Learning via Robustness-Aware Coreset Selection
- NeurIPS 2023Efficient Algorithms for Generalized Linear Bandits with Heavy-tailed Rewards
- NeurIPS 2023Efficient Batched Algorithm for Contextual Linear Bandits with Large Action Space via Soft Elimination
- NeurIPS 2023Efficient Bayesian Learning Curve Extrapolation using Prior-Data Fitted Networks
- NeurIPS 2023Efficient Data Subset Selection to Generalize Training Across Models: Transductive and Inductive Networks
- NeurIPS 2023Efficient Learning of Linear Graph Neural Networks via Node Subsampling
- NeurIPS 2023Efficient Online Clustering with Moving Costs
- NeurIPS 2023Efficient Robust Bayesian Optimization for Arbitrary Uncertain inputs
- NeurIPS 2023Efficient Subgame Refinement for Extensive-form Games
- NeurIPS 2023Efficient Testable Learning of Halfspaces with Adversarial Label Noise
- NeurIPS 2023Efficient Training of Energy-Based Models Using Jarzynski Equality
- NeurIPS 2023EgoDistill: Egocentric Head Motion Distillation for Efficient Video Understanding
- NeurIPS 2023Eliminating Catastrophic Overfitting Via Abnormal Adversarial Examples Regularization
- NeurIPS 2023Energy-Efficient Scheduling with Predictions
- NeurIPS 2023Explainable and Efficient Randomized Voting Rules
- NeurIPS 2023Exploring Loss Functions for Time-based Training Strategy in Spiking Neural Networks
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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.