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

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51. NeurIPS 2025Improving the Straight-Through Estimator with Zeroth-Order Information
52. NeurIPS 2025Improving Time Series Forecasting via Instance-aware Post-hoc Revision
53. NeurIPS 2025Intrinsic Benefits of Categorical Distributional Loss: Uncertainty-aware Regularized Exploration in Reinforcement Learning
54. NeurIPS 2025Jet-Nemotron: Efficient Language Model with Post Neural Architecture Search
55. NeurIPS 2025Learning from Demonstrations via Capability-Aware Goal Sampling
56. NeurIPS 2025Learning Spatial-Aware Manipulation Ordering
57. NeurIPS 2025LVLM-Driven Attribute-Aware Modeling for Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification
58. NeurIPS 2025MARS: A Malignity-Aware Backdoor Defense in Federated Learning
59. NeurIPS 2025Mitigating Hallucination in VideoLLMs via Temporal-Aware Activation Engineering
60. NeurIPS 2025MLLMs Need 3D-Aware Representation Supervision for Scene Understanding
61. NeurIPS 2025Modality-Aware SAM: Sharpness-Aware-Minimization Driven Gradient Modulation for Harmonized Multimodal Learning
62. NeurIPS 2025Momentum-SAM: Sharpness Aware Minimization without Computational Overhead
63. NeurIPS 2025MonarchAttention: Zero-Shot Conversion to Fast, Hardware-Aware Structured Attention
64. NeurIPS 2025Noisy Multi-Label Learning through Co-Occurrence-Aware Diffusion
65. NeurIPS 2025Option-aware Temporally Abstracted Value for Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning
66. NeurIPS 2025Out-of-Distribution Generalized Graph Anomaly Detection with Homophily-aware Environment Mixup
67. NeurIPS 2025PDEfuncta: Spectrally-Aware Neural Representation for PDE Solution Modeling
68. NeurIPS 2025Planning and Learning in Average Risk-aware MDPs
69. NeurIPS 2025Precise Asymptotics and Refined Regret of Variance-Aware UCB
70. NeurIPS 2025Predicting Functional Brain Connectivity with Context-Aware Deep Neural Networks
71. NeurIPS 2025QiMeng-SALV: Signal-Aware Learning for Verilog Code Generation
72. NeurIPS 2025R-KV: Redundancy-aware KV Cache Compression for Reasoning Models
73. NeurIPS 2025Restricted Global-Aware Graph Filters Bridging GNNs and Transformer for Node Classification
74. NeurIPS 2025Rethinking Scale-Aware Temporal Encoding for Event-based Object Detection
75. NeurIPS 2025Reward-Aware Proto-Representations in Reinforcement Learning
76. NeurIPS 2025Risk-aware Direct Preference Optimization under Nested Risk Measure
77. NeurIPS 2025Robust and Computation-Aware Gaussian Processes
78. NeurIPS 2025Robust Hyperbolic Learning with Curvature-Aware Optimization
79. NeurIPS 2025RSAVQ: Riemannian Sensitivity-Aware Vector Quantization for Large Language Models
80. NeurIPS 2025SAINT: Sequence-Aware Integration for Spatial Transcriptomics Multi-View Clustering
81. NeurIPS 2025Salient Concept-Aware Generative Data Augmentation
82. NeurIPS 2025SALoM: Structure Aware Temporal Graph Networks with Long-Short Memory Updater
83. NeurIPS 2025SEAL: Semantic-Aware Hierarchical Learning for Generalized Category Discovery
84. NeurIPS 2025Self-Perturbed Anomaly-Aware Graph Dynamics for Multivariate Time-Series Anomaly Detection
85. NeurIPS 2025Sharp Gap-Dependent Variance-Aware Regret Bounds for Tabular MDPs
86. NeurIPS 2025SharpZO: Hybrid Sharpness-Aware Vision Language Model Prompt Tuning via Forward-Only Passes
87. NeurIPS 2025SmartCache: Context-aware Semantic Cache for Efficient Multi-turn LLM Inference
88. NeurIPS 2025SPACE: SPike-Aware Consistency Enhancement for Test-Time Adaptation in Spiking Neural Networks
89. NeurIPS 2025SPARKE: Scalable Prompt-Aware Diversity and Novelty Guidance in Diffusion Models via RKE Score
90. NeurIPS 2025Spatially-aware Weights Tokenization for NeRF-Language Models
91. NeurIPS 2025SpiderSolver: A Geometry-Aware Transformer for Solving PDEs on Complex Geometries
92. NeurIPS 2025SRHand: Super-Resolving Hand Images and 3D Shapes via View/Pose-aware Neural Image Representations and Explicit Meshes
93. NeurIPS 2025Structure-Aware Cooperative Ensemble Evolutionary Optimization on Combinatorial Problems with Multimodal Large Language Models
94. NeurIPS 2025Structure-Aware Fusion with Progressive Injection for Multimodal Molecular Representation Learning
95. NeurIPS 2025Structure-Aware Spectral Sparsification via Uniform Edge Sampling
96. NeurIPS 2025SUMO: Subspace-Aware Moment-Orthogonalization for Accelerating Memory-Efficient LLM Training
97. NeurIPS 2025Surface-Aware Feed-Forward Quadratic Gaussian for Frame Interpolation with Large Motion
98. NeurIPS 2025Temporal Smoothness-Aware Rate-Distortion Optimized 4D Gaussian Splatting
99. NeurIPS 2025The Overthinker's DIET: Cutting Token Calories with DIfficulty-AwarE Training
100. NeurIPS 2025Thinking in Character: Advancing Role-Playing Agents with Role-Aware Reasoning

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.