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

120 papers, page 3 of 3

101. NeurIPS 2025Token-Level Self-Play with Importance-Aware Guidance for Large Language Models
102. NeurIPS 2025Topology-Aware Conformal Prediction for Stream Networks
103. NeurIPS 2025Topology-aware Graph Diffusion Model with Persistent Homology
104. NeurIPS 2025Topology-Aware Learning of Tubular Manifolds via SE(3)-Equivariant Network on Ball B-Spline Curve
105. NeurIPS 2025Towards precision protein-ligand affinity prediction benchmark: A Complete and Modification-Aware DAVIS Dataset
106. NeurIPS 2025Towards Unsupervised Training of Matching-based Graph Edit Distance Solver via Preference-aware GAN
107. NeurIPS 2025Transforming Gaps into Gains: Bridging Model and Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning via Knowledge Weak-Aware Zones
108. NeurIPS 2025Turning the Tables: Enabling Backward Transfer via Causal-Aware LoRA in Continual Learning
109. NeurIPS 2025U-CAN: Unsupervised Point Cloud Denoising with Consistency-Aware Noise2Noise Matching
110. NeurIPS 2025Uncertainty-aware Preference Alignment for Diffusion Policies
111. NeurIPS 2025Unlearning-Aware Minimization
112. NeurIPS 2025Unveiling m-Sharpness Through the Structure of Stochastic Gradient Noise
113. NeurIPS 2025User-Instructed Disparity-aware Defocus Control
114. NeurIPS 2025Variance-Aware Feel-Good Thompson Sampling for Contextual Bandits
115. NeurIPS 2025ViSpec: Accelerating Vision-Language Models with Vision-Aware Speculative Decoding
116. NeurIPS 2025Vulnerable Data-Aware Adversarial Training
117. NeurIPS 2025WaveAR: Wavelet-Aware Continuous Autoregressive Diffusion for Accurate Human Motion Prediction
118. NeurIPS 2025When Causal Dynamics Matter: Adapting Causal Strategies through Meta-Aware Interventions
119. NeurIPS 2025World-aware Planning Narratives Enhance Large Vision-Language Model Planner
120. NeurIPS 2025ZPressor: Bottleneck-Aware Compression for Scalable Feed-Forward 3DGS

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.