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

196 papers, page 4 of 4

151. CVPR 2026SceMoS Scene-Aware 3D Human Motion Synthesis by Planning with Geometry-Grounded
152. CVPR 2026SeaCache Spectral-Evolution-Aware Cache for Accelerating Diffusion Models
153. CVPR 2026SegMo Co-Designing Content-Aware Sparsity and Locally-Cohesive Segment Parallelism for Efficient
154. CVPR 2026SegQuant A Semantics-Aware and Generalizable Quantization Framework for Diffusion Models
155. CVPR 2026SemLayer Semantic-aware Generative Segmentation and Layer Construction for Abstract Icons
156. CVPR 2026SenCache Accelerating Diffusion Model Inference via Sensitivity-Aware Caching
157. CVPR 2026Shoe Style-Invariant and Ground-Aware Learning for Dense Foot Contact Estimation
158. CVPR 2026SIMSPINE A Biomechanics-Aware Simulation Framework for 3D Spine Motion Annotation
159. CVPR 2026Smart Replay Adaptive Scheduling of Memory Rehearsal for Computational Resource-Aware
160. CVPR 2026SocialNav Training Human-Inspired Foundation Model for Socially-Aware Embodied Navigation
161. CVPR 2026Space-Time Forecasting of Dynamic Scenes with Motion-aware Gaussian Grouping
162. CVPR 2026Sparsity-Aware Voxel Attention and Foreground Modulation for 3D Semantic Scene
163. CVPR 2026SpatialDiff 3D-Aware Object Movement via Implicit Spatial Modeling
164. CVPR 2026Specificity-aware reinforcement learning for fine-grained open-world classification
165. CVPR 2026SPREAD Spatial-Physical REasoning via geometry Aware Diffusion
166. CVPR 2026SSM-Aware Token-Efficient VMamba via Adaptive Patch Pruning and Merging for
167. CVPR 2026STAC Plug-and-Play Spatio-Temporal Aware Cache Compression for Streaming 3D Reconstruction
168. CVPR 2026Structure-Aware Representation Distillation for Tiny-Dense Object Segmentation
169. CVPR 2026StyleGallery Training-free and Semantic-aware Personalized Style Transfer from Arbitrary Image
170. CVPR 2026SunFaded Illumination-Aware Gaussian Splatting for Dark Scenes with Camera-Mounted Active
171. CVPR 2026TACO Task-Aware Contrastive Learning for Joint LiDAR Localization and 3D
172. CVPR 2026TAG-MoE Task-Aware Gating for Unified Generative Mixture-of-Experts
173. CVPR 2026TagSplat Topology-Aware Gaussian Splatting for Dynamic Mesh Modeling and Tracking
174. CVPR 2026TAR Token-Aware Refinement for Fine-grained Generalized Category Discovery
175. CVPR 2026Target-Aware Invertible Encoder with Reconstruction Guidance for Infrared Small Target
176. CVPR 2026Tavatar Topology-Aware Gaussian Attribute Derivation for Animatable Human Avatars
177. CVPR 2026Taxonomy-Aware Representation Alignment for Hierarchical Visual Recognition with Large Multimodal
178. CVPR 2026TDATR Improving End-to-End Table Recognition via Table Detail-Aware Learning and
179. CVPR 2026Teaching DINOv3 About Partial 3D Geometry A Self-Supervised Geometry-Aware Approach
180. CVPR 2026The Devil Is in Gradient Entanglement Energy-Aware Gradient Coordinator for
181. CVPR 2026Thinking in Uncertainty Mitigating Hallucinations in MLRMs with Latent Entropy-Aware
182. CVPR 2026Topology-aware Feature Propagation for Unsupervised Non-rigid Point Cloud Correspondence
183. CVPR 2026Towards Intrinsic-Aware Monocular 3D Object Detection
184. CVPR 2026Towards Real-World Document Parsing via Realistic Scene Synthesis and Document-Aware
185. CVPR 2026U2Flow Uncertainty-Aware Unsupervised Optical Flow Estimation
186. CVPR 2026UCMNet Uncertainty-Aware Context Memory Network for Under-Display Camera Image Restoration
187. CVPR 2026Uncertainty-Aware Exploratory Direct Preference Optimization for Multimodal Large Language Models
188. CVPR 2026Uncertainty-Aware Knowledge Distillation for Multimodal Large Language Models
189. CVPR 2026Uncertainty-Aware Modality Fusion for Unaligned RGB-T Salient Object Detection
190. CVPR 2026UST-Hand An Uncertainty-aware Spatiotemporal Point Cloud Interaction Network for 3D
191. CVPR 2026VAD-GS Visibility-Aware Densification for 3D Gaussian Splatting in Dynamic Urban
192. CVPR 2026Variation-aware Vision Token Dropping for Faster Large Vision-Language Models
193. CVPR 2026VarSplat Uncertainty-aware 3D Gaussian Splatting for Robust RGB-D SLAM
194. CVPR 2026View-Aware Semantic Alignment for Aerial-Ground Person Re-Identification
195. CVPR 2026Visual-Aware CoT Achieving High-Fidelity Visual Consistency in Unified Models
196. CVPR 2026WaDi Weight Direction-aware Distillation for One-step Image Synthesis

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.