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
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- 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
296 papers, page 3 of 6
- ICML 2026Single-Head Attention in High Dimensions: A Theory of Generalization, Weights Spectra, and Scaling Laws
- ICML 2026Skill-Based Mixture-of-Experts: Adaptive Routing for Heterogeneous Reasoning via Inferred Skills
- ICML 2026SoftMoE: Soft Differentiable Routing for Mixture-of-Experts in LLMs
- ICML 2026SPARKLING: Balancing Signal Preservation and Symmetry Breaking for Width-Progressive Learning
- ICML 2026Sparse Models, Sparse Safety: Unsafe Routes in Mixture-of-Experts LLMs
- ICML 2026SpecMD: A Comprehensive Study On Speculative Expert Prefetching
- ICML 2026SPHERE: Mitigating the Loss of Spectral Plasticity in Mixture-of-Experts for Deep Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2026Stabilizing MoE Reinforcement Learning by Aligning Training and Inference Routers
- ICML 2026STAR: Rethinking MoE Routing as Structure-Aware Subspace Learning
- ICML 2026Synergistic Intra- and Cross-Layer Regularization Losses for MoE Expert Specialization
- ICML 2026Task-Aware Mechanism: Hybrid MoE Vision Tower Towards Holistic Video Understanding
- ICML 2026TEAM: Temporal–Spatial Consistency Guided Expert Activation for MoE Diffusion Language Model Acceleration
- ICML 2026The Catastrophic Failure of *the* k-Means Algorithm in High Dimensions, and How Hartigan's Algorithm Avoids It
- ICML 2026The Cost of Commitment in Option-Based Hierarchical RL
- ICML 2026The Expert Strikes Back: Interpreting Mixture-of-Experts Language Models at Expert Level
- ICML 2026TileQ: Efficient Low-Rank Quantization of Mixture-of-Experts with 2D Tiling
- ICML 2026TIME: Tensor-Factorized Mixture-of-Experts with Intrinsic Routing for Lifelong Multimodal Knowledge Editing
- ICML 2026TiME: Test-Time Mixture-of-Experts Routing via Asymmetric CO-Optimal Transport for Continual Test-Time Adaptation
- ICML 2026TiMi: Empower Time Series Transformers with Multimodal Mixture of Experts
- ICML 2026Toward Calibrated Mixture-of-Experts Under Distribution Shift
- ICML 2026Toward Structural Multimodal Representations: Specialization, Selection, and Sparsification via Mixture-of-Experts
- ICML 2026Towards a Unified Generative Model for Scarce Time Series with Domain Experts
- ICML 2026Towards One-for-All Anomaly Detection for Tabular Data
- ICML 2026TRACE: Trajectory Recovery for Continuous Mechanism Evolution in Causal Representation Learning
- ICML 2026UB-SMoE: Universally Balanced Sparse Mixture-of-Experts for Resource-adaptive Federated Fine-tuning of Foundation Models
- ICML 2026Unified Multimodal Visual Tracking with Dual Mixture-of-Experts
- ICML 2026Variational Routing: A Scalable Bayesian Framework for Calibrated Mixture-of-Experts Transformers
- ICML 2026WestWorld: A Knowledge-Encoded Scalable Trajectory World Model for Diverse Robotic Systems
- ICML 2026When Model Merging Breaks Routing: Training-Free Calibration for MoE
- ICML 2026When More Experts Hurt: Underfitting in Multi-Expert Learning to Defer
- ICML 2026X-MoGe: A Cross-Modal Adaptation Framework with Mixture-of-Experts and Geometry Guidance for Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception
- ICML 2026ZipMoE: Efficient On-Device MoE Serving via Lossless Compression and Cache-Affinity Scheduling
- 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
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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.