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

173 papers, page 3 of 4

101. CVPR 2023VIVE3D: Viewpoint-Independent Video Editing Using 3D-Aware GANs
102. CVPR 2023Wide-Angle Rectification via Content-Aware Conformal Mapping
103. ICLR 2023$\rm A^2Q$: Aggregation-Aware Quantization for Graph Neural Networks
104. ICLR 2023A new characterization of the edge of stability based on a sharpness measure aware of batch gradient distribution
105. ICLR 2023An Adaptive Policy to Employ Sharpness-Aware Minimization
106. ICLR 2023CrAM: A Compression-Aware Minimizer
107. ICLR 2023EA-HAS-Bench: Energy-aware Hyperparameter and Architecture Search Benchmark
108. ICLR 2023Equivariance-aware Architectural Optimization of Neural Networks
109. ICLR 2023Explaining RL Decisions with Trajectories
110. ICLR 2023Fairness-aware Contrastive Learning with Partially Annotated Sensitive Attributes
111. ICLR 2023FedDAR: Federated Domain-Aware Representation Learning
112. ICLR 2023How Sharpness-Aware Minimization Minimizes Sharpness?
113. ICLR 2023Meta-prediction Model for Distillation-Aware NAS on Unseen Datasets
114. ICLR 2023Population-size-Aware Policy Optimization for Mean-Field Games
115. ICLR 2023Risk-Aware Reinforcement Learning with Coherent Risk Measures and Non-linear Function Approximation
116. ICLR 2023SAM as an Optimal Relaxation of Bayes
117. ICLR 2023StyleMorph: Disentangled 3D-Aware Image Synthesis with a 3D Morphable StyleGAN
118. ICLR 2023SYNC: SAFETY-AWARE NEURAL CONTROL FOR STABILIZING STOCHASTIC DELAY-DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
119. ICLR 2023Task-Aware Information Routing from Common Representation Space in Lifelong Learning
120. ICLR 2023Temporal Domain Generalization with Drift-Aware Dynamic Neural Networks
121. ICLR 2023Topology-aware Robust Optimization for Out-of-Distribution Generalization
122. ICLR 2023Towards Lightweight, Model-Agnostic and Diversity-Aware Active Anomaly Detection
123. ICLR 2023TTN: A Domain-Shift Aware Batch Normalization in Test-Time Adaptation
124. ICLR 2023Unsupervised 3D Object Learning through Neuron Activity aware Plasticity
125. ICLR 2023Variance-Aware Sparse Linear Bandits
126. ICML 2023A Three-regime Model of Network Pruning
127. ICML 2023Beyond In-Domain Scenarios: Robust Density-Aware Calibration
128. ICML 2023COLA: Orchestrating Error Coding and Learning for Robust Neural Network Inference Against Hardware Defects
129. ICML 2023Controllability-Aware Unsupervised Skill Discovery
130. ICML 2023DevFormer: A Symmetric Transformer for Context-Aware Device Placement
131. ICML 2023Differentially Private Sharpness-Aware Training
132. ICML 2023Discover and Cure: Concept-aware Mitigation of Spurious Correlation
133. ICML 2023Distortion and Uncertainty Aware Loss for Panoramic Depth Completion
134. ICML 2023Dynamic Regularized Sharpness Aware Minimization in Federated Learning: Approaching Global Consistency and Smooth Landscape
135. ICML 2023Efficient Latency-Aware CNN Depth Compression via Two-Stage Dynamic Programming
136. ICML 2023Fair and Accurate Decision Making through Group-Aware Learning
137. ICML 2023Fed-CBS: A Heterogeneity-Aware Client Sampling Mechanism for Federated Learning via Class-Imbalance Reduction
138. ICML 2023FedDisco: Federated Learning with Discrepancy-Aware Collaboration
139. ICML 2023Generalized Disparate Impact for Configurable Fairness Solutions in ML
140. ICML 2023Hardware-Aware Compression with Random Operation Access Specific Tile (ROAST) Hashing
141. ICML 2023Implicit Jacobian regularization weighted with impurity of probability output
142. ICML 2023Improving the Model Consistency of Decentralized Federated Learning
143. ICML 2023One-vs-the-Rest Loss to Focus on Important Samples in Adversarial Training
144. ICML 2023Phase-aware Adversarial Defense for Improving Adversarial Robustness
145. ICML 2023Privacy-Aware Compression for Federated Learning Through Numerical Mechanism Design
146. ICML 2023R-U-SURE? Uncertainty-Aware Code Suggestions By Maximizing Utility Across Random User Intents
147. ICML 2023Reachability-Aware Laplacian Representation in Reinforcement Learning
148. ICML 2023SAAL: Sharpness-Aware Active Learning
149. ICML 2023Simple Hardware-Efficient Long Convolutions for Sequence Modeling
150. ICML 2023SpeedDETR: Speed-aware Transformers for End-to-end Object Detection

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.