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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101. CVPR 2026Learning Forgery-Aware Lip Representations Without Forgery Priors
102. CVPR 2026Learning to Adapt Self-Improving Web Agent via Cognitive-Aware Exploration
103. CVPR 2026Learning to Refuse Refusal-Aware Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Hard-Irrelevant Queries in
104. CVPR 2026Learning to See and Act Task-Aware Virtual View Exploration for
105. CVPR 2026LESA Learnable Stage-Aware Predictors for Diffusion Model Acceleration
106. CVPR 2026LiteVGGT Boosting Vanilla VGGT via Geometry-aware Cached Token Merging
107. CVPR 2026ManifoldNeuS Manifold-aware View Optimizability for Pose-Free Neural Surface Reconstruction
108. CVPR 2026MAPo Motion-Aware Partitioning of Deformable 3D Gaussian Splatting for High-Fidelity
109. CVPR 2026MASQuant Modality-Aware Smoothing Quantization for Multimodal Large Language Models
110. CVPR 2026Material Magic Wand Material-Aware Grouping of 3D Parts in Untextured
111. CVPR 2026MedLoc-R1 Performance-Aware Curriculum Reward Scheduling for GRPO-Based Medical Visual Grounding
112. CVPR 2026MimiCAT Mimic with Correspondence-Aware Cascade-Transformer for Category-Free 3D Pose Transfer
113. CVPR 2026MoRe Motion-aware Feed-forward 4D Reconstruction Transformer
114. CVPR 2026More Natural More Real Object-aware Gaussian Splatting for 3D Visual
115. CVPR 2026Motion-Aware Animatable Gaussian Avatars Deblurring
116. CVPR 2026MoVieS Motion-Aware 4D Dynamic View Synthesis in One Second
117. CVPR 2026MU-GeNeRF Multi-view Uncertainty-guided Generalizable Neural Radiance Fields for Distractor-aware Scene
118. CVPR 2026Multi-Prototype Compactness and Boundary-Aware Synthesis for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection
119. CVPR 2026Multigrain-aware Semantic Prototype Scanning and Tri-Token Prompt Learning Embraced High-Order
120. CVPR 2026MUST Modality-Specific Representation-Aware Transformer for Diffusion-Enhanced Survival Prediction with Missing
121. CVPR 2026Neighbor-Aware Localized Concept Erasure in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
122. CVPR 2026Noise-Aware Few-Shot Learning through Bi-directional Multi-View Prompt Alignment
123. CVPR 2026Occlusion-Aware SORT Observing Occlusion for Robust Multi-Object Tracking
124. CVPR 2026On Tokens Dilemma Dynamic MoE with Drift-Aware Token Assignment for
125. CVPR 2026Orthogonal Spatial-Aware Multi-View Anchor Graph Clustering for Incomplete Remote Sensing
126. CVPR 2026PAD-Hand Physics-Aware Diffusion for Hand Motion Recovery
127. CVPR 2026PAF Perturbation-Aware Filtering for Open-Set Semi-Supervised Learning
128. CVPR 2026PALM Progress-Aware Policy Learning via Affordance Reasoning for Long-Horizon Robotic
129. CVPR 2026PaQ-DETR Learning Pattern and Quality-Aware Dynamic Queries for Object Detection
130. CVPR 2026ParallelVLM Lossless Video-LLM Acceleration with Visual Alignment Aware Parallel Speculative
131. CVPR 2026PARSE Part-Aware Relational Spatial Modeling
132. CVPR 2026Part2GS Part-aware Modeling of Articulated Objects using 3D Gaussian Splatting
133. CVPR 2026PhenoYieldNet Learning Crop-Aware Phenological Responses for Multi-Crop Yield Prediction
134. CVPR 2026Phrase-Grounding-Aware Supervised Fine-Tuning for Chart Recognition via Side-Masked Attention
135. CVPR 2026POLAR A Portrait OLAT Dataset and Generative Framework for Illumination-Aware
136. CVPR 2026Precise Object and Effect Removal with Adaptive Target-Aware Attention
137. CVPR 2026Quant Experts Token-aware Adaptive Error Reconstruction with Mixture of Experts
138. CVPR 2026Quota-Calibrated Fine-Grained Alignment with Context-Aware Marginals for Text-based Person Retrieval
139. CVPR 2026REArtGS Generalizable Articulation Reconstruction with Temporal Geometry Constraint via Planar
140. CVPR 2026Region-Aware Instance Consistency Learning for Micro-Expression Recognition
141. CVPR 2026Residual Decoding Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models via History-Aware
142. CVPR 2026Revisiting Multimodal KV Cache Compression A Frequency-Domain-Guided Outlier-KV-Aware Approach
143. CVPR 2026Robust3DGSW Toward Robust Watermarking for Quantization-Aware 3D Gaussian Splatting
144. CVPR 2026Rotation Invariant and Symmetry Aware Pixel Difference Network for Remote
145. CVPR 2026SAG-GNN Semantic-Aware Guided GNN for Descriptor-Free 2D-3D Matching
146. CVPR 2026SAIDO Generalizable Detection of AI-Generated Images via Scene-Aware and Importance-Guided
147. CVPR 2026SAIL Similarity-Aware Guidance and Inter-Caption Augmentation-based Learning for Weakly-Supervised Dense
148. CVPR 2026Sampling-Aware Quantization for Diffusion Models
149. CVPR 2026SARL-STG A Spatially Aware Reinforcement Learning Framework for Refining MLLMs
150. CVPR 2026Scaling Up AI-Generated Image Detection with Generator-Aware Prototypes

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.