Hardware-Aware ML papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Hardware-Aware ML went from 173 papers in 2023 to 765 in 2026, roughly 4.4x in three years.
• CVPR publishes the most Hardware-Aware ML work: 479 papers from 2023 to 2026, 31% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Diffusion Models: papers tagged with both rose from 4 in 2023 to 58 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Efficiency and Systems, it ranks #2 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Datasets and Benchmarks, is up 2.1x versus 4.4x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026AcceleGrad#: Adaptive Geometry-Aware Acceleration
• ICML 2026A Geometry-Aware Efficient Algorithm for Compositional Entropic Risk Minimization
• ICLR 2026Confident Block Diagonal Structure-Aware Invariable Graph Completion for Incomplete Multi-view Clustering
• CVPR 2026ActAvatar Temporally-Aware Precise Action Control for Talking Avatars
• NeurIPS 2025AcuRank: Uncertainty-Aware Adaptive Computation for Listwise Reranking
• ICML 2025CABS: Conflict-Aware and Balanced Sparsification for Enhancing Model Merging
• ICLR 2025FlashRNN: I/O-Aware Optimization of Traditional RNNs on modern hardware
• CVPR 2025A Distractor-Aware Memory for Visual Object Tracking with SAM2
• NeurIPS 2024HW-GPT-Bench: Hardware-Aware Architecture Benchmark for Language Models
• ICML 2024A Universal Class of Sharpness-Aware Minimization Algorithms
• ICLR 2024Domain-Inspired Sharpness-Aware Minimization Under Domain Shifts
• CVPR 2024Distribution-aware Knowledge Prototyping for Non-exemplar Lifelong Person Re-identification
• NeurIPS 2023Affinity-Aware Graph Networks
• ICML 2023A Three-regime Model of Network Pruning
• ICLR 2023$\rm A^2Q$: Aggregation-Aware Quantization for Graph Neural Networks
• CVPR 20233D-Aware Face Swapping
• NeurIPS 2026Accelerating Rectified Flow Models via Trajectory-Aware Caching
• ICML 2026Attention Sink Forges Native MoE in Attention Layers: Sink-Aware Training to Address Head Collapse
• ICLR 2026Distribution-Aware Multi-Granularity Phase Coding: Towards Lower Conversion Error for Spike-Driven Large Language Models
• CVPR 2026BD-Merging Bias-Aware Dynamic Model Merging with Evidence-Guided Contrastive Learning

All Hardware-Aware ML papers

479 papers, page 10 of 10

451. CVPR 2023PosterLayout: A New Benchmark and Approach for Content-Aware Visual-Textual Presentation Layout
452. CVPR 2023Putting People in Their Place: Affordance-Aware Human Insertion Into Scenes
453. CVPR 2023Quality-Aware Pre-Trained Models for Blind Image Quality Assessment
454. CVPR 2023Quantitative Manipulation of Custom Attributes on 3D-Aware Image Synthesis
455. CVPR 2023Rigidity-Aware Detection for 6D Object Pose Estimation
456. CVPR 2023SCADE: NeRFs from Space Carving With Ambiguity-Aware Depth Estimates
457. CVPR 2023ScaleKD: Distilling Scale-Aware Knowledge in Small Object Detector
458. CVPR 2023Scene-Aware Egocentric 3D Human Pose Estimation
459. CVPR 2023SE-ORNet: Self-Ensembling Orientation-Aware Network for Unsupervised Point Cloud Shape Correspondence
460. CVPR 2023Self-Supervised Geometry-Aware Encoder for Style-Based 3D GAN Inversion
461. CVPR 2023Sharpness-Aware Gradient Matching for Domain Generalization
462. CVPR 2023Slimmable Dataset Condensation
463. CVPR 2023SLOPER4D: A Scene-Aware Dataset for Global 4D Human Pose Estimation in Urban Environments
464. CVPR 2023SMAE: Few-Shot Learning for HDR Deghosting With Saturation-Aware Masked Autoencoders
465. CVPR 2023sRGB Real Noise Synthesizing With Neighboring Correlation-Aware Noise Model
466. CVPR 2023System-Status-Aware Adaptive Network for Online Streaming Video Understanding
467. CVPR 2023Task Difficulty Aware Parameter Allocation & Regularization for Lifelong Learning
468. CVPR 2023Text2Scene: Text-Driven Indoor Scene Stylization With Part-Aware Details
469. CVPR 2023The Treasure Beneath Multiple Annotations: An Uncertainty-Aware Edge Detector
470. CVPR 2023Towards Building Self-Aware Object Detectors via Reliable Uncertainty Quantification and Calibration
471. CVPR 2023Trajectory-Aware Body Interaction Transformer for Multi-Person Pose Forecasting
472. CVPR 2023Two-Stream Networks for Weakly-Supervised Temporal Action Localization With Semantic-Aware Mechanisms
473. CVPR 2023UMat: Uncertainty-Aware Single Image High Resolution Material Capture
474. CVPR 2023Uncertainty-Aware Optimal Transport for Semantically Coherent Out-of-Distribution Detection
475. CVPR 2023Uncertainty-Aware Unsupervised Image Deblurring With Deep Residual Prior
476. CVPR 2023UTM: A Unified Multiple Object Tracking Model With Identity-Aware Feature Enhancement
477. CVPR 2023VisFusion: Visibility-Aware Online 3D Scene Reconstruction From Videos
478. CVPR 2023VIVE3D: Viewpoint-Independent Video Editing Using 3D-Aware GANs
479. CVPR 2023Wide-Angle Rectification via Content-Aware Conformal Mapping

FAQ

How many Hardware-Aware ML papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

1,524 in total: 173 in 2023, 263 in 2024, 323 in 2025, 765 in 2026.

How many Hardware-Aware ML papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 263 Hardware-Aware ML papers, versus 120 the year before.

How many Hardware-Aware ML papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 120 Hardware-Aware ML papers, versus 44 the year before.

How many Hardware-Aware ML papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 186 Hardware-Aware ML papers, versus 72 the year before.

How many Hardware-Aware ML papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 196 Hardware-Aware ML papers, versus 87 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Hardware-Aware ML papers?

CVPR, with 479 papers from 2023 to 2026.