Mixture of Experts papers, 2023–2026
MoE routing and training
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 904 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Mixture of Experts went from 236 papers in 2023 to 326 in 2026, roughly 1.4x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Mixture of Experts work: 354 papers from 2023 to 2026, 39% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Multimodal LLMs: papers tagged with both rose from 4 in 2023 to 79 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Optimization and Scaling, it ranks #4 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Scaling Laws, is up 4.1x versus 1.4x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 138 | 16 | 76 | 6 | 236 |
| 2024 | 55 | 24 | 31 | 9 | 119 |
| 2025 | 86 | 59 | 57 | 21 | 223 |
| 2026 | 75 | 73 | 132 | 46 | 326 |
Representative papers
Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up
- NeurIPS 2026A Biconvex Formulation for Stable Transport of Mixture Models with a Unique Solution
- ICML 2026$\phi$-Balancing for Mixture-of-Experts Training
- ICLR 2026A Federated Generalized Expectation-Maximization Algorithm for Mixture Models with an Unknown Number of Components
- CVPR 2026Divide Conquer and Aggregate Asymmetric Experts for Class-Imbalanced Semi-Supervised Medical
- NeurIPS 2025Advancing Expert Specialization for Better MoE
- ICML 2025$\texttt{I$^2$MoE}$: Interpretable Multimodal Interaction-aware Mixture-of-Experts
- ICLR 2025A Sanity Check for AI-generated Image Detection
- CVPR 2025Complexity Experts are Task-Discriminative Learners for Any Image Restoration
- NeurIPS 2024$\texttt{Model-GLUE}$: Democratized LLM Scaling for A Large Model Zoo in the Wild
- ICML 2024$\texttt{MoE-RBench}$: Towards Building Reliable Language Models with Sparse Mixture-of-Experts
- ICLR 2024Fusing Models with Complementary Expertise
- CVPR 2024MoDE: CLIP Data Experts via Clustering
- NeurIPS 2023[Re] Numerical influence of ReLU'(0) on backpropagation
- ICML 2023A Distribution Optimization Framework for Confidence Bounds of Risk Measures
- ICLR 2023Knowledge-in-Context: Towards Knowledgeable Semi-Parametric Language Models
- CVPR 2023Balanced Product of Calibrated Experts for Long-Tailed Recognition
- NeurIPS 2026AdERA: Adaptive Exponent Reuse for Lossless Allgather in Sharded MoE Training
- ICML 2026Attention Sink Forges Native MoE in Attention Layers: Sink-Aware Training to Address Head Collapse
- ICLR 2026Abstracting Robot Manipulation Skills via Mixture-of-Experts Diffusion Policies
- CVPR 2026ERMoE Eigen-Reparameterized Mixture-of-Experts for Stable Routing and Interpretable Specialization
All Mixture of Experts papers
904 papers, page 17 of 19
- NeurIPS 2023Direct Training of SNN using Local Zeroth Order Method
- NeurIPS 2023Distributionally Robust Ensemble of Lottery Tickets Towards Calibrated Sparse Network Training
- NeurIPS 2023Diversified Outlier Exposure for Out-of-Distribution Detection via Informative Extrapolation
- NeurIPS 2023Diversify \& Conquer: Outcome-directed Curriculum RL via Out-of-Distribution Disagreement
- NeurIPS 2023Dynamic Regret of Adversarial Linear Mixture MDPs
- NeurIPS 2023Ego4D Goal-Step: Toward Hierarchical Understanding of Procedural Activities
- NeurIPS 2023Embracing the chaos: analysis and diagnosis of numerical instability in variational flows
- NeurIPS 2023EV-Eye: Rethinking High-frequency Eye Tracking through the Lenses of Event Cameras
- NeurIPS 2023Exact Optimality of Communication-Privacy-Utility Tradeoffs in Distributed Mean Estimation
- NeurIPS 2023Exact recovery and Bregman hard clustering of node-attributed Stochastic Block Model
- NeurIPS 2023Fantastic Robustness Measures: The Secrets of Robust Generalization
- NeurIPS 2023Fast Approximation of Similarity Graphs with Kernel Density Estimation
- NeurIPS 2023Gaussian Mixture Solvers for Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2023Generalization in the Face of Adaptivity: A Bayesian Perspective
- NeurIPS 2023Generative Modeling through the Semi-dual Formulation of Unbalanced Optimal Transport
- NeurIPS 2023Geometric Analysis of Matrix Sensing over Graphs
- NeurIPS 2023Global Optimality and Finite Sample Analysis of Softmax Off-Policy Actor Critic under State Distribution Mismatch
- NeurIPS 2023Graph Mixture of Experts: Learning on Large-Scale Graphs with Explicit Diversity Modeling
- NeurIPS 2023Group Robust Classification Without Any Group Information
- NeurIPS 2023Hardness of Low Rank Approximation of Entrywise Transformed Matrix Products
- NeurIPS 2023Imbalanced Mixed Linear Regression
- NeurIPS 2023Implicit Bias of Gradient Descent for Logistic Regression at the Edge of Stability
- NeurIPS 2023Improved Convergence in High Probability of Clipped Gradient Methods with Heavy Tailed Noise
- NeurIPS 2023Inconsistency, Instability, and Generalization Gap of Deep Neural Network Training
- NeurIPS 2023Initialization Matters: Privacy-Utility Analysis of Overparameterized Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2023Intriguing Properties of Quantization at Scale
- NeurIPS 2023Kernel Stein Discrepancy thinning: a theoretical perspective of pathologies and a practical fix with regularization
- NeurIPS 2023Large Language Model as Attributed Training Data Generator: A Tale of Diversity and Bias
- NeurIPS 2023Local Convergence of Gradient Methods for Min-Max Games: Partial Curvature Generically Suffices
- NeurIPS 2023Massively Multilingual Corpus of Sentiment Datasets and Multi-faceted Sentiment Classification Benchmark
- NeurIPS 2023Minimax Optimal Rate for Parameter Estimation in Multivariate Deviated Models
- NeurIPS 2023Mitigating the Popularity Bias of Graph Collaborative Filtering: A Dimensional Collapse Perspective
- NeurIPS 2023Mixed-Initiative Multiagent Apprenticeship Learning for Human Training of Robot Teams
- NeurIPS 2023Multi-Modal Inverse Constrained Reinforcement Learning from a Mixture of Demonstrations
- NeurIPS 2023MVDoppler: Unleashing the Power of Multi-View Doppler for MicroMotion-based Gait Classification
- NeurIPS 2023Near Optimal Reconstruction of Spherical Harmonic Expansions
- NeurIPS 2023No-Regret Learning with Unbounded Losses: The Case of Logarithmic Pooling
- NeurIPS 2023No-Regret Online Prediction with Strategic Experts
- NeurIPS 2023Non-Asymptotic Analysis of a UCB-based Top Two Algorithm
- NeurIPS 2023Objaverse-XL: A Universe of 10M+ 3D Objects
- NeurIPS 2023Offline Reinforcement Learning for Mixture-of-Expert Dialogue Management
- NeurIPS 2023On Convergence of Polynomial Approximations to the Gaussian Mixture Entropy
- NeurIPS 2023On the Complexity of Differentially Private Best-Arm Identification with Fixed Confidence
- NeurIPS 2023On the Connection between Pre-training Data Diversity and Fine-tuning Robustness
- NeurIPS 2023On the Convergence of CART under Sufficient Impurity Decrease Condition
- NeurIPS 2023On the Convergence of Encoder-only Shallow Transformers
- NeurIPS 2023On the Exploration of Local Significant Differences For Two-Sample Test
- NeurIPS 2023On the Generalization Error of Stochastic Mirror Descent for Quadratically-Bounded Losses: an Improved Analysis
- NeurIPS 2023On the Identifiability and Interpretability of Gaussian Process Models
- NeurIPS 2023On the Implicit Bias of Linear Equivariant Steerable Networks
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FAQ
- How many Mixture of Experts papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 904 in total: 236 in 2023, 119 in 2024, 223 in 2025, 326 in 2026.
- How many Mixture of Experts papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 75 Mixture of Experts papers, versus 86 the year before.
- How many Mixture of Experts papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 73 Mixture of Experts papers, versus 59 the year before.
- How many Mixture of Experts papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 132 Mixture of Experts papers, versus 57 the year before.
- How many Mixture of Experts papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 46 Mixture of Experts papers, versus 21 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Mixture of Experts papers?
- NeurIPS, with 354 papers from 2023 to 2026.