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

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• 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

323 papers, page 2 of 7

51. CVPR 2025Light Transport-aware Diffusion Posterior Sampling for Single-View Reconstruction of 3D Volumes
52. CVPR 2025LookCloser: Frequency-aware Radiance Field for Tiny-Detail Scene
53. CVPR 2025Making Old Film Great Again: Degradation-aware State Space Model for Old Film Restoration
54. CVPR 2025MonoPlace3D: Learning 3D-Aware Object Placement for 3D Monocular Detection
55. CVPR 2025Neuron: Learning Context-Aware Evolving Representations for Zero-Shot Skeleton Action Recognition
56. CVPR 2025OralXrays-9: Towards Hospital-Scale Panoramic X-ray Anomaly Detection via Personalized Multi-Object Query-Aware Mining
57. CVPR 2025Physical Plausibility-aware Trajectory Prediction via Locomotion Embodiment
58. CVPR 2025PillarHist: A Quantization-aware Pillar Feature Encoder based on Height-aware Histogram
59. CVPR 2025Pioneering 4-Bit FP Quantization for Diffusion Models: Mixup-Sign Quantization and Timestep-Aware Fine-Tuning
60. CVPR 2025PoseTraj: Pose-Aware Trajectory Control in Video Diffusion
61. CVPR 2025Progress-Aware Video Frame Captioning
62. CVPR 2025RAD: Region-Aware Diffusion Models for Image Inpainting
63. CVPR 2025RayFlow: Instance-Aware Diffusion Acceleration via Adaptive Flow Trajectories
64. CVPR 2025Reference-Based 3D-Aware Image Editing with Triplanes
65. CVPR 2025RestorGS: Depth-aware Gaussian Splatting for Efficient 3D Scene Restoration
66. CVPR 2025RoomTour3D: Geometry-Aware Video-Instruction Tuning for Embodied Navigation
67. CVPR 2025SaMam: Style-aware State Space Model for Arbitrary Image Style Transfer
68. CVPR 2025SASep: Saliency-Aware Structured Separation of Geometry and Feature for Open Set Learning on Point Clouds
69. CVPR 2025Sensitivity-Aware Efficient Fine-Tuning via Compact Dynamic-Rank Adaptation
70. CVPR 2025Shape My Moves: Text-Driven Shape-Aware Synthesis of Human Motions
71. CVPR 2025ShapeWords: Guiding Text-to-Image Synthesis with 3D Shape-Aware Prompts
72. CVPR 2025Show and Tell: Visually Explainable Deep Neural Nets via Spatially-Aware Concept Bottleneck Models
73. CVPR 2025Sim-to-Real Causal Transfer: A Metric Learning Approach to Causally-Aware Interaction Representations
74. CVPR 2025SoftShadow: Leveraging Soft Masks for Penumbra-Aware Shadow Removal
75. CVPR 2025SPAR3D: Stable Point-Aware Reconstruction of 3D Objects from Single Images
76. CVPR 2025SpatialCLIP: Learning 3D-aware Image Representations from Spatially Discriminative Language
77. CVPR 2025STAR-Edge: Structure-aware Local Spherical Curve Representation for Thin-walled Edge Extraction from Unstructured Point Clouds
78. CVPR 2025Structure-Aware Correspondence Learning for Relative Pose Estimation
79. CVPR 2025Subnet-Aware Dynamic Supernet Training for Neural Architecture Search
80. CVPR 2025Task-Aware Clustering for Prompting Vision-Language Models
81. CVPR 2025Task-aware Cross-modal Feature Refinement Transformer with Large Language Models for Visual Grounding
82. CVPR 2025Taxonomy-Aware Evaluation of Vision-Language Models
83. CVPR 2025TraF-Align: Trajectory-aware Feature Alignment for Asynchronous Multi-agent Perception
84. CVPR 2025U-Know-DiffPAN: An Uncertainty-aware Knowledge Distillation Diffusion Framework with Details Enhancement for PAN-Sharpening
85. CVPR 2025UA-Pose: Uncertainty-Aware 6D Object Pose Estimation and Online Object Completion with Partial References
86. CVPR 2025UHD-processer: Unified UHD Image Restoration with Progressive Frequency Learning and Degradation-aware Prompts
87. CVPR 2025VASparse: Towards Efficient Visual Hallucination Mitigation via Visual-Aware Token Sparsification
88. ICLR 20256DGS: Enhanced Direction-Aware Gaussian Splatting for Volumetric Rendering
89. ICLR 2025A Distributional Approach to Uncertainty-Aware Preference Alignment Using Offline Demonstrations
90. ICLR 2025Better autoregressive regression with LLMs via regression-aware fine-tuning
91. ICLR 2025CAMEx: Curvature-aware Merging of Experts
92. ICLR 2025CATCH: Channel-Aware Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection via Frequency Patching
93. ICLR 2025CAX: Cellular Automata Accelerated in JAX
94. ICLR 2025Curriculum-aware Training for Discriminating Molecular Property Prediction Models
95. ICLR 2025Decision Tree Induction Through LLMs via Semantically-Aware Evolution
96. ICLR 2025DGQ: Distribution-Aware Group Quantization for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
97. ICLR 2025Easing Training Process of Rectified Flow Models Via Lengthening Inter-Path Distance
98. ICLR 2025FlashRNN: I/O-Aware Optimization of Traditional RNNs on modern hardware
99. ICLR 2025GaussianBlock: Building Part-Aware Compositional and Editable 3D Scene by Primitives and Gaussians
100. ICLR 2025Geometry-Aware Approaches for Balancing Performance and Theoretical Guarantees in Linear Bandits

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.