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
119 papers, page 3 of 3
- NeurIPS 2024Near-Optimal Dynamic Regret for Adversarial Linear Mixture MDPs
- NeurIPS 2024Neural Experts: Mixture of Experts for Implicit Neural Representations
- NeurIPS 2024Non-Euclidean Mixture Model for Social Network Embedding
- NeurIPS 2024Once Read is Enough: Domain-specific Pretraining-free Language Models with Cluster-guided Sparse Experts for Long-tail Domain Knowledge
- NeurIPS 2024Parameter Efficient Adaptation for Image Restoration with Heterogeneous Mixture-of-Experts
- NeurIPS 2024Personalized Federated Learning with Mixture of Models for Adaptive Prediction and Model Fine-Tuning
- NeurIPS 2024ProxyFusion: Face Feature Aggregation Through Sparse Experts
- NeurIPS 2024Robust Mixture Learning when Outliers Overwhelm Small Groups
- NeurIPS 2024Sigmoid Gating is More Sample Efficient than Softmax Gating in Mixture of Experts
- NeurIPS 2024Smoothie: Label Free Language Model Routing
- NeurIPS 2024Spiking Transformer with Experts Mixture
- NeurIPS 2024Sub-optimal Experts mitigate Ambiguity in Inverse Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2024SwitchHead: Accelerating Transformers with Mixture-of-Experts Attention
- NeurIPS 2024Toward Efficient Inference for Mixture of Experts
- NeurIPS 2024Transcendence: Generative Models Can Outperform The Experts That Train Them
- NeurIPS 2024Twin-Merging: Dynamic Integration of Modular Expertise in Model Merging
- NeurIPS 2024Unchosen Experts Can Contribute Too: Unleashing MoE Models’ Power by Self-Contrast
- NeurIPS 2024Uni-Med: A Unified Medical Generalist Foundation Model For Multi-Task Learning Via Connector-MoE
- NeurIPS 2024Variational Distillation of Diffusion Policies into Mixture of Experts
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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.