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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1. CVPR 2026ActAvatar Temporally-Aware Precise Action Control for Talking Avatars
2. CVPR 2026AeroGS Scale-Aware Gaussian Splatting for Pose-Free Dynamic UAV Scene Reconstruction
3. CVPR 2026AffordGrasp Cross-Modal Diffusion for Affordance-Aware Grasp Synthesis
4. CVPR 2026AMap Distilling Future Priors for Ahead-Aware Online HD Map Construction
5. CVPR 2026AssemblyBench Physics-Aware Assembly of Complex Industrial Objects
6. CVPR 2026Attention-aware Inference Optimizations for Large Vision-Language Models with Memory-efficient Decoding
7. CVPR 2026Authorize-on-Demand Dynamic Authorization with Legality-Aware Intellectual Property Protection for VLMs
8. CVPR 2026BD-Merging Bias-Aware Dynamic Model Merging with Evidence-Guided Contrastive Learning
9. CVPR 2026Better than Average Spatially-Aware Aggregation of Segmentation Uncertainty Improves Downstream
10. CVPR 2026BEV-CAR Enhancing Monocular Birds Eye View Segmentation with Context-Aware Rasterization
11. CVPR 2026Beyond Missing Modalities Hypergraph Conditioned Diffusion for Uncertainty-Aware Multimodal Emotion
12. CVPR 2026BiEvLight Bi-level Learning of Task-Aware Event Refinement for Low-Light Image
13. CVPR 2026BiOTPrompt Bidirectional Optimal Transport Guided Prompting for Disease Evolution-aware Radiology
14. CVPR 2026Bootstrap Dynamic-Aware 3D Visual Representation for Scalable Robot Learning
15. CVPR 2026Bridging Domains through Subspace-Aware Model Merging
16. CVPR 2026Bridging Pixels and Words Mask-Aware Local Semantic Fusion for Multimodal
17. CVPR 2026CAPT Confusion-Aware Prompt Tuning for Reducing Vision-Language Misalignment
18. CVPR 2026CARD Correlation Aware Restoration with Diffusion
19. CVPR 2026CC-VQA Conflict- and Correlation-Aware Method for Mitigating Knowledge Conflict in
20. CVPR 2026CHAL Causal-guided Hierarchical Anomaly-aware Learning for Moving Infrared Small Target
21. CVPR 2026CICA Coupling Confidence-Aware Pretraining with Confidence-Informed Attention for Robust Multimodal
22. CVPR 2026Cluster-aware Anchor Learning for Multi-View Clustering
23. CVPR 2026Cluster-Aware Neural Collapse Prompt Tuning for Long-Tailed Generalization of Vision-Language
24. CVPR 2026COG Confidence-aware Optimal Geometric Correspondence for Unsupervised Single-reference Novel Object
25. CVPR 2026Compressed-Domain-Aware Online Video Super-Resolution
26. CVPR 2026Conflict-Aware Adaptive Cross-Reconstruction for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
27. CVPR 2026Confusion-Aware Spectral Regularizer for Long-Tailed Recognition
28. CVPR 2026Contact-Aware Neural Dynamics
29. CVPR 2026Content-Aware Dynamic Patchification for Efficient Video Diffusion
30. CVPR 2026Content-Aware Frequency Encoding for Implicit Neural Representations with Fourier-Chebyshev Features
31. CVPR 2026Context-Nav Context-Driven Exploration and Viewpoint-Aware 3D Spatial Reasoning for Instance
32. CVPR 2026COPYLENS Towards Copyrighted Characters Infringement Detection via Copyright-Aware Prompt Learning
33. CVPR 2026Cov2Pose Leveraging Spatial Covariance for Direct Manifold-aware 6-DoF Object Pose
34. CVPR 2026CoVFT Context-aware Visual Fine-tuning for Multimodal Large Language Models
35. CVPR 2026Critical Patch-Aware Sparse Prompting with Decoupled Training for Continual Learning
36. CVPR 2026Cross-Instance Gaussian Splatting Registration via Geometry-Aware Feature-Guided Alignment
37. CVPR 2026CrossVL Complexity-Aware Feature Routing and Paired Curriculum for Cross-View Vision-Language
38. CVPR 2026CUE Concept-Aware Multi-Label Expansion to Mitigate Concept Confusion in Long-Tailed
39. CVPR 2026Curvature-Aware Captioning Leveraging Geodesic Attention for 3D Scene Understanding
40. CVPR 2026DA-Mamba Learning Domain-Aware State Space Model for Global-Local Alignment in
41. CVPR 2026Degradation-Robust Fusion An Efficient Degradation-Aware Diffusion Framework for Multimodal Image
42. CVPR 2026Diffusion-Based Makeup Transfer with Facial Region-Aware Makeup Features
43. CVPR 2026DiffuView Multi-View Diffusion Pretraining for 3D Aware Robotic Manipulation
44. CVPR 2026Direction-aware 3D Large Multimodal Models
45. CVPR 2026DocPrune Efficient Document Question Answering via Background Question and Comprehension-aware
46. CVPR 2026Dual-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive and Cost-Aware Visual-Inertial Odometry
47. CVPR 2026Edit-aware RAW reconstruction
48. CVPR 2026EfficientVPR Toward Efficient Visual Place Recognition via Scene-Aware Prompt Tuning
49. CVPR 2026EG-3DVG Expression and Geometry Aware Grounding Decoder for 3D Visual
50. CVPR 2026Egocentric Visibility-Aware Human Pose Estimation

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.