Mixture of Experts papers, 2023–2026

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.

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

73 papers, page 2 of 2

51. ICLR 2026Optimal Sparsity of Mixture-of-Experts Language Models for Reasoning Tasks
52. ICLR 2026Point-MoE: Large-Scale Multi-Dataset Training with Mixture-of-Experts for 3D Semantic Segmentation
53. ICLR 2026REAP the Experts: Why Pruning Prevails for One-Shot MoE compression
54. ICLR 2026Revisit Visual Prompt Tuning: The Expressiveness of Prompt Experts
55. ICLR 2026RLAP-CLIP: Continual Multimodal Learning with Prototype Adaptation and Difficulty-Aware Routing
56. ICLR 2026Routing Manifold Alignment Improves Generalization of Mixture-of-Experts LLMs
57. ICLR 2026Routing Matters in MoE: Scaling Diffusion Transformers with Explicit Routing Guidance
58. ICLR 2026SafeMoE: Safe Fine-Tuning for MoE LLMs by Aligning Harmful Input Routing
59. ICLR 2026Sem-MoE: Semantic-aware Model-Data Collaborative Scheduling for Efficient MoE Inference
60. ICLR 2026SERE: Similarity-based Expert Re-routing for Efficient Batch Decoding in MoE Models
61. ICLR 2026SNaX: sparse narrow accelerated mixture of experts
62. ICLR 2026Steering MoE LLMs via Expert (De)Activation
63. ICLR 2026StPR: Spatiotemporal Preservation and Routing for Exemplar-Free Video Class-Incremental Learning
64. ICLR 2026Synthesising Counterfactual Explanations via Label-Conditional Gaussian Mixture Variational Autoencoders
65. ICLR 2026TD-MoE: Tensor Decomposition for MoE Models
66. ICLR 2026Test-Time Mixture of World Models for Embodied Agents in Dynamic Environments
67. ICLR 2026Towards Greater Leverage: Scaling Laws for Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Models
68. ICLR 2026Transformers Learn Latent Mixture Models In-Context via Mirror Descent
69. ICLR 2026Understanding Routing Mechanism in Mixture-of-Experts Language Models
70. ICLR 2026Understanding the Mixture-of-Experts with Nadaraya-Watson Kernel
71. ICLR 2026UNITE: Universal kNowledge Integration from Task-specific Experts
72. ICLR 2026Unveiling Super Experts in Mixture-of-Experts Large Language Models
73. ICLR 2026Why Ask One When You Can Ask $k$? Learning-to-Defer to the Top-$k$ Experts

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.