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

479 papers, page 6 of 10

251. CVPR 2025Neuron: Learning Context-Aware Evolving Representations for Zero-Shot Skeleton Action Recognition
252. CVPR 2025OralXrays-9: Towards Hospital-Scale Panoramic X-ray Anomaly Detection via Personalized Multi-Object Query-Aware Mining
253. CVPR 2025Physical Plausibility-aware Trajectory Prediction via Locomotion Embodiment
254. CVPR 2025PillarHist: A Quantization-aware Pillar Feature Encoder based on Height-aware Histogram
255. CVPR 2025Pioneering 4-Bit FP Quantization for Diffusion Models: Mixup-Sign Quantization and Timestep-Aware Fine-Tuning
256. CVPR 2025PoseTraj: Pose-Aware Trajectory Control in Video Diffusion
257. CVPR 2025Progress-Aware Video Frame Captioning
258. CVPR 2025RAD: Region-Aware Diffusion Models for Image Inpainting
259. CVPR 2025RayFlow: Instance-Aware Diffusion Acceleration via Adaptive Flow Trajectories
260. CVPR 2025Reference-Based 3D-Aware Image Editing with Triplanes
261. CVPR 2025RestorGS: Depth-aware Gaussian Splatting for Efficient 3D Scene Restoration
262. CVPR 2025RoomTour3D: Geometry-Aware Video-Instruction Tuning for Embodied Navigation
263. CVPR 2025SaMam: Style-aware State Space Model for Arbitrary Image Style Transfer
264. CVPR 2025SASep: Saliency-Aware Structured Separation of Geometry and Feature for Open Set Learning on Point Clouds
265. CVPR 2025Sensitivity-Aware Efficient Fine-Tuning via Compact Dynamic-Rank Adaptation
266. CVPR 2025Shape My Moves: Text-Driven Shape-Aware Synthesis of Human Motions
267. CVPR 2025ShapeWords: Guiding Text-to-Image Synthesis with 3D Shape-Aware Prompts
268. CVPR 2025Show and Tell: Visually Explainable Deep Neural Nets via Spatially-Aware Concept Bottleneck Models
269. CVPR 2025Sim-to-Real Causal Transfer: A Metric Learning Approach to Causally-Aware Interaction Representations
270. CVPR 2025SoftShadow: Leveraging Soft Masks for Penumbra-Aware Shadow Removal
271. CVPR 2025SPAR3D: Stable Point-Aware Reconstruction of 3D Objects from Single Images
272. CVPR 2025SpatialCLIP: Learning 3D-aware Image Representations from Spatially Discriminative Language
273. CVPR 2025STAR-Edge: Structure-aware Local Spherical Curve Representation for Thin-walled Edge Extraction from Unstructured Point Clouds
274. CVPR 2025Structure-Aware Correspondence Learning for Relative Pose Estimation
275. CVPR 2025Subnet-Aware Dynamic Supernet Training for Neural Architecture Search
276. CVPR 2025Task-Aware Clustering for Prompting Vision-Language Models
277. CVPR 2025Task-aware Cross-modal Feature Refinement Transformer with Large Language Models for Visual Grounding
278. CVPR 2025Taxonomy-Aware Evaluation of Vision-Language Models
279. CVPR 2025TraF-Align: Trajectory-aware Feature Alignment for Asynchronous Multi-agent Perception
280. CVPR 2025U-Know-DiffPAN: An Uncertainty-aware Knowledge Distillation Diffusion Framework with Details Enhancement for PAN-Sharpening
281. CVPR 2025UA-Pose: Uncertainty-Aware 6D Object Pose Estimation and Online Object Completion with Partial References
282. CVPR 2025UHD-processer: Unified UHD Image Restoration with Progressive Frequency Learning and Degradation-aware Prompts
283. CVPR 2025VASparse: Towards Efficient Visual Hallucination Mitigation via Visual-Aware Token Sparsification
284. CVPR 20243D Geometry-Aware Deformable Gaussian Splatting for Dynamic View Synthesis
285. CVPR 20243D-Aware Face Editing via Warping-Guided Latent Direction Learning
286. CVPR 20243DiffTection: 3D Object Detection with Geometry-Aware Diffusion Features
287. CVPR 2024A Semi-supervised Nighttime Dehazing Baseline with Spatial-Frequency Aware and Realistic Brightness Constraint
288. CVPR 2024A Unified Diffusion Framework for Scene-aware Human Motion Estimation from Sparse Signals
289. CVPR 2024A&B BNN: Add&Bit-Operation-Only Hardware-Friendly Binary Neural Network
290. CVPR 2024AHIVE: Anatomy-aware Hierarchical Vision Encoding for Interactive Radiology Report Retrieval
291. CVPR 2024As-Plausible-As-Possible: Plausibility-Aware Mesh Deformation Using 2D Diffusion Priors
292. CVPR 2024BadCLIP: Trigger-Aware Prompt Learning for Backdoor Attacks on CLIP
293. CVPR 2024Blur-aware Spatio-temporal Sparse Transformer for Video Deblurring
294. CVPR 2024CA-Jaccard: Camera-aware Jaccard Distance for Person Re-identification
295. CVPR 2024CaKDP: Category-aware Knowledge Distillation and Pruning Framework for Lightweight 3D Object Detection
296. CVPR 2024CDMAD: Class-Distribution-Mismatch-Aware Debiasing for Class-Imbalanced Semi-Supervised Learning
297. CVPR 2024CLOAF: CoLlisiOn-Aware Human Flow
298. CVPR 2024Context-Aware Integration of Language and Visual References for Natural Language Tracking
299. CVPR 2024Correlation-aware Coarse-to-fine MLPs for Deformable Medical Image Registration
300. CVPR 2024Coupled Laplacian Eigenmaps for Locally-Aware 3D Rigid Point Cloud Matching

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.