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
223 papers, page 2 of 5
- ICLR 2025Mixture of Attentions For Speculative Decoding
- ICLR 2025Mixture of Experts Made Personalized: Federated Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models
- ICLR 2025Mixture of In-Context Prompters for Tabular PFNs
- ICLR 2025Mixture of Parrots: Experts improve memorization more than reasoning
- ICLR 2025Mixture-of-Agents Enhances Large Language Model Capabilities
- ICLR 2025MoE++: Accelerating Mixture-of-Experts Methods with Zero-Computation Experts
- ICLR 2025MoLEx: Mixture of Layer Experts for Fine-tuning with Sparse Upcycling
- ICLR 2025Monet: Mixture of Monosemantic Experts for Transformers
- ICLR 2025More Experts Than Galaxies: Conditionally-Overlapping Experts with Biologically-Inspired Fixed Routing
- ICLR 2025MoS: Unleashing Parameter Efficiency of Low-Rank Adaptation with Mixture of Shards
- ICLR 2025Multiple Heads are Better than One: Mixture of Modality Knowledge Experts for Entity Representation Learning
- ICLR 2025NetMoE: Accelerating MoE Training through Dynamic Sample Placement
- ICLR 2025No Need to Talk: Asynchronous Mixture of Language Models
- ICLR 2025OLMoE: Open Mixture-of-Experts Language Models
- ICLR 2025pMoE: Prompting Diverse Experts Together Wins More in Visual Adaptation
- ICLR 2025Provable Uncertainty Decomposition via Higher-Order Calibration
- ICLR 2025RegMix: Data Mixture as Regression for Language Model Pre-training
- ICLR 2025ReMoE: Fully Differentiable Mixture-of-Experts with ReLU Routing
- ICLR 2025Revisiting Prefix-tuning: Statistical Benefits of Reparameterization among Prompts
- ICLR 2025Routing Experts: Learning to Route Dynamic Experts in Existing Multi-modal Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025Self-MoE: Towards Compositional Large Language Models with Self-Specialized Experts
- ICLR 2025Solving Token Gradient Conflict in Mixture-of-Experts for Large Vision-Language Model
- ICLR 2025Statistical Advantages of Perturbing Cosine Router in Mixture of Experts
- ICLR 2025TC-MoE: Augmenting Mixture of Experts with Ternary Expert Choice
- ICLR 2025Theory on Mixture-of-Experts in Continual Learning
- ICLR 2025Tight Clusters Make Specialized Experts
- ICLR 2025Time-MoE: Billion-Scale Time Series Foundation Models with Mixture of Experts
- ICLR 2025Transformers Provably Learn Two-Mixture of Linear Classification via Gradient Flow
- ICLR 2025Warm Diffusion: Recipe for Blur-Noise Mixture Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Your Mixture-of-Experts LLM Is Secretly an Embedding Model for Free
- ICML 2025$\texttt{I$^2$MoE}$: Interpretable Multimodal Interaction-aware Mixture-of-Experts
- ICML 2025A Generic Family of Graphical Models: Diversity, Efficiency, and Heterogeneity
- ICML 2025A Stronger Mixture of Low-Rank Experts for Fine-Tuning Foundation Models
- ICML 2025Addressing Imbalanced Domain-Incremental Learning through Dual-Balance Collaborative Experts
- ICML 2025Autonomy-of-Experts Models
- ICML 2025Bayesian Inference for Correlated Human Experts and Classifiers
- ICML 2025Chameleon: A Flexible Data-mixing Framework for Language Model Pretraining and Finetuning
- ICML 2025Cooperation of Experts: Fusing Heterogeneous Information with Large Margin
- ICML 2025DEFAME: Dynamic Evidence-based FAct-checking with Multimodal Experts
- ICML 2025Delta Decompression for MoE-based LLMs Compression
- ICML 2025Diff-MoE: Diffusion Transformer with Time-Aware and Space-Adaptive Experts
- ICML 2025Domain2Vec: Vectorizing Datasets to Find the Optimal Data Mixture without Training
- ICML 2025Dynamic Mixture of Curriculum LoRA Experts for Continual Multimodal Instruction Tuning
- ICML 2025Expert Race: A Flexible Routing Strategy for Scaling Diffusion Transformer with Mixture of Experts
- ICML 2025FlexiReID: Adaptive Mixture of Expert for Multi-Modal Person Re-Identification
- ICML 2025FloE: On-the-Fly MoE Inference on Memory-constrained GPU
- ICML 2025Gaussian Mixture Flow Matching Models
- ICML 2025Graph Neural Network Generalization With Gaussian Mixture Model Based Augmentation
- ICML 2025Joint MoE Scaling Laws: Mixture of Experts Can Be Memory Efficient
- ICML 2025Learning Mixtures of Experts with EM: A Mirror Descent Perspective
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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.