Inference Acceleration papers, 2023–2026
Quantization, distillation, and serving
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 259 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Inference Acceleration went from 54 papers in 2023 to 91 in 2026, roughly 1.7x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Inference Acceleration work: 90 papers from 2023 to 2026, 35% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Deep learning · large language models: papers tagged with both rose from 1 in 2023 to 9 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Efficiency and Systems, it ranks #5 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Hardware-Aware ML, is up 4.4x versus 1.7x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 20 | 11 | 7 | 16 | 54 |
| 2024 | 22 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 50 |
| 2025 | 15 | 18 | 22 | 9 | 64 |
| 2026 | 33 | 17 | 26 | 15 | 91 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026A Method-Class Divide in Sub-4-Bit Quantization:\\Iterative vs.\ Single-Pass Sensitivity to Data Composition
- ICML 2026Consistency Deep Equilibrium Models
- ICLR 2026OrderDP: A Theoretically Guaranteed Lossless Dynamic Data Pruning Framework
- CVPR 2026GeoRK2 Geometry-Guided Runge-Kutta Integration for Diffusion Transformer Acceleration
- NeurIPS 2025PolarQuant: Leveraging Polar Transformation for Key Cache Quantization and Decoding Acceleration
- ICML 2025RePaViT: Scalable Vision Transformer Acceleration via Structural Reparameterization on Feedforward Network Layers
- ICLR 2025Progressive distillation induces an implicit curriculum
- CVPR 2025Adapting Dense Matching for Homography Estimation with Grid-based Acceleration
- NeurIPS 2024Provable Acceleration of Nesterov's Accelerated Gradient for Asymmetric Matrix Factorization and Linear Neural Networks
- ICML 2024Diversified Batch Selection for Training Acceleration
- ICLR 2024Embarrassingly Simple Dataset Distillation
- CVPR 2024Data-Free Quantization via Pseudo-label Filtering
- NeurIPS 2023Continuous-time Analysis of Anchor Acceleration
- ICML 2023Auxiliary Modality Learning with Generalized Curriculum Distillation
- ICLR 2023Accurate Neural Training with 4-bit Matrix Multiplications at Standard Formats
- CVPR 2023NIPQ: Noise Proxy-Based Integrated Pseudo-Quantization
- NeurIPS 2026AcceleGrad#: Adaptive Geometry-Aware Acceleration
- ICML 2026PsumQuant: In-line Post-training Partial Sum Quantizer for Energy Efficient NPU Inference
- ICLR 2026NLI : Non-uniform Linear Interpolation Approximation of Nonlinear Operations for Efficient LLMs Inference
- CVPR 2026SODA Sensitivity-Oriented Dynamic Acceleration for Diffusion Transformer
All Inference Acceleration papers
18 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICLR 2025Effective Interplay between Sparsity and Quantization: From Theory to Practice
- ICLR 2025Elucidating the Preconditioning in Consistency Distillation
- ICLR 2025Methods for Convex $(L_0,L_1)$-Smooth Optimization: Clipping, Acceleration, and Adaptivity
- ICLR 2025Model Equality Testing: Which Model is this API Serving?
- ICLR 2025Nesterov acceleration in benignly non-convex landscapes
- ICLR 2025One Step Diffusion via Shortcut Models
- ICLR 2025Optimizing $(L_0, L_1)$-Smooth Functions by Gradient Methods
- ICLR 2025PALMBENCH: A COMPREHENSIVE BENCHMARK OF COMPRESSED LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS ON MOBILE PLATFORMS
- ICLR 2025PEARL: Parallel Speculative Decoding with Adaptive Draft Length
- ICLR 2025PFDiff: Training-Free Acceleration of Diffusion Models Combining Past and Future Scores
- ICLR 2025Progressive distillation induces an implicit curriculum
- ICLR 2025Quamba: A Post-Training Quantization Recipe for Selective State Space Models
- ICLR 2025Restructuring Vector Quantization with the Rotation Trick
- ICLR 2025RTop-K: Ultra-Fast Row-Wise Top-K Selection for Neural Network Acceleration on GPUs
- ICLR 2025SageAttention: Accurate 8-Bit Attention for Plug-and-play Inference Acceleration
- ICLR 2025Scaling FP8 training to trillion-token LLMs
- ICLR 2025SGD with memory: fundamental properties and stochastic acceleration
- ICLR 2025SVDQuant: Absorbing Outliers by Low-Rank Component for 4-Bit Diffusion Models
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FAQ
- How many Inference Acceleration papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 259 in total: 54 in 2023, 50 in 2024, 64 in 2025, 91 in 2026.
- How many Inference Acceleration papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 33 Inference Acceleration papers, versus 15 the year before.
- How many Inference Acceleration papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 17 Inference Acceleration papers, versus 18 the year before.
- How many Inference Acceleration papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 26 Inference Acceleration papers, versus 22 the year before.
- How many Inference Acceleration papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 15 Inference Acceleration papers, versus 9 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Inference Acceleration papers?
- NeurIPS, with 90 papers from 2023 to 2026.