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

1,524 papers, page 17 of 31

801. CVPR 2025Exposure-slot: Exposure-centric Representations Learning with Slot-in-Slot Attention for Region-aware Exposure Correction
802. CVPR 2025FedCALM: Conflict-aware Layer-wise Mitigation for Selective Aggregation in Deeper Personalized Federated Learning
803. CVPR 2025Flash3D: Super-scaling Point Transformers through Joint Hardware-Geometry Locality
804. CVPR 2025FlowRAM: Grounding Flow Matching Policy with Region-Aware Mamba Framework for Robotic Manipulation
805. CVPR 2025GA3CE: Unconstrained 3D Gaze Estimation with Gaze-Aware 3D Context Encoding
806. CVPR 2025Galaxy Walker: Geometry-aware VLMs For Galaxy-scale Understanding
807. CVPR 2025GRAE-3DMOT: Geometry Relation-Aware Encoder for Online 3D Multi-Object Tracking
808. CVPR 2025Graph-Embedded Structure-Aware Perceptual Hashing for Neural Network Protection and Piracy Detection
809. CVPR 2025Hardware-Rasterized Ray-Based Gaussian Splatting
810. CVPR 2025HierarQ: Task-Aware Hierarchical Q-Former for Enhanced Video Understanding
811. CVPR 2025Hyperbolic Safety-Aware Vision-Language Models
812. CVPR 2025IM-Portrait: Learning 3D-aware Video Diffusion for Photorealistic Talking Heads from Monocular VideosC
813. CVPR 2025Improving the Training of Data-Efficient GANs via Quality Aware Dynamic Discriminator Rejection Sampling
814. CVPR 2025LAL: Enhancing 3D Human Motion Prediction with Latency-aware Auxiliary Learning
815. CVPR 2025Let's Chorus: Partner-aware Hybrid Song-Driven 3D Head Animation
816. CVPR 2025Light Transport-aware Diffusion Posterior Sampling for Single-View Reconstruction of 3D Volumes
817. CVPR 2025LookCloser: Frequency-aware Radiance Field for Tiny-Detail Scene
818. CVPR 2025Making Old Film Great Again: Degradation-aware State Space Model for Old Film Restoration
819. CVPR 2025MonoPlace3D: Learning 3D-Aware Object Placement for 3D Monocular Detection
820. CVPR 2025Neuron: Learning Context-Aware Evolving Representations for Zero-Shot Skeleton Action Recognition
821. CVPR 2025OralXrays-9: Towards Hospital-Scale Panoramic X-ray Anomaly Detection via Personalized Multi-Object Query-Aware Mining
822. CVPR 2025Physical Plausibility-aware Trajectory Prediction via Locomotion Embodiment
823. CVPR 2025PillarHist: A Quantization-aware Pillar Feature Encoder based on Height-aware Histogram
824. CVPR 2025Pioneering 4-Bit FP Quantization for Diffusion Models: Mixup-Sign Quantization and Timestep-Aware Fine-Tuning
825. CVPR 2025PoseTraj: Pose-Aware Trajectory Control in Video Diffusion
826. CVPR 2025Progress-Aware Video Frame Captioning
827. CVPR 2025RAD: Region-Aware Diffusion Models for Image Inpainting
828. CVPR 2025RayFlow: Instance-Aware Diffusion Acceleration via Adaptive Flow Trajectories
829. CVPR 2025Reference-Based 3D-Aware Image Editing with Triplanes
830. CVPR 2025RestorGS: Depth-aware Gaussian Splatting for Efficient 3D Scene Restoration
831. CVPR 2025RoomTour3D: Geometry-Aware Video-Instruction Tuning for Embodied Navigation
832. CVPR 2025SaMam: Style-aware State Space Model for Arbitrary Image Style Transfer
833. CVPR 2025SASep: Saliency-Aware Structured Separation of Geometry and Feature for Open Set Learning on Point Clouds
834. CVPR 2025Sensitivity-Aware Efficient Fine-Tuning via Compact Dynamic-Rank Adaptation
835. CVPR 2025Shape My Moves: Text-Driven Shape-Aware Synthesis of Human Motions
836. CVPR 2025ShapeWords: Guiding Text-to-Image Synthesis with 3D Shape-Aware Prompts
837. CVPR 2025Show and Tell: Visually Explainable Deep Neural Nets via Spatially-Aware Concept Bottleneck Models
838. CVPR 2025Sim-to-Real Causal Transfer: A Metric Learning Approach to Causally-Aware Interaction Representations
839. CVPR 2025SoftShadow: Leveraging Soft Masks for Penumbra-Aware Shadow Removal
840. CVPR 2025SPAR3D: Stable Point-Aware Reconstruction of 3D Objects from Single Images
841. CVPR 2025SpatialCLIP: Learning 3D-aware Image Representations from Spatially Discriminative Language
842. CVPR 2025STAR-Edge: Structure-aware Local Spherical Curve Representation for Thin-walled Edge Extraction from Unstructured Point Clouds
843. CVPR 2025Structure-Aware Correspondence Learning for Relative Pose Estimation
844. CVPR 2025Subnet-Aware Dynamic Supernet Training for Neural Architecture Search
845. CVPR 2025Task-Aware Clustering for Prompting Vision-Language Models
846. CVPR 2025Task-aware Cross-modal Feature Refinement Transformer with Large Language Models for Visual Grounding
847. CVPR 2025Taxonomy-Aware Evaluation of Vision-Language Models
848. CVPR 2025TraF-Align: Trajectory-aware Feature Alignment for Asynchronous Multi-agent Perception
849. CVPR 2025U-Know-DiffPAN: An Uncertainty-aware Knowledge Distillation Diffusion Framework with Details Enhancement for PAN-Sharpening
850. CVPR 2025UA-Pose: Uncertainty-Aware 6D Object Pose Estimation and Online Object Completion with Partial References

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.