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 4 of 6
- ICML 2025Joint MoE Scaling Laws: Mixture of Experts Can Be Memory Efficient
- ICML 2025Learning Mixtures of Experts with EM: A Mirror Descent Perspective
- ICML 2025M3-JEPA: Multimodal Alignment via Multi-gate MoE based on the Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture
- ICML 2025Make LoRA Great Again: Boosting LoRA with Adaptive Singular Values and Mixture-of-Experts Optimization Alignment
- ICML 2025Mastering Massive Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning via Mixture-of-Expert Decision Transformer
- ICML 2025Mastering Multiple-Expert Routing: Realizable $H$-Consistency and Strong Guarantees for Learning to Defer
- ICML 2025MENTOR: Mixture-of-Experts Network with Task-Oriented Perturbation for Visual Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2025Mixture of Experts Made Intrinsically Interpretable
- ICML 2025Mixture of Experts Provably Detect and Learn the Latent Cluster Structure in Gradient-Based Learning
- ICML 2025Mixture of Hidden-Dimensions: Not All Hidden-States’ Dimensions are Needed in Transformer
- ICML 2025Mixture of Lookup Experts
- ICML 2025MoE-SVD: Structured Mixture-of-Experts LLMs Compression via Singular Value Decomposition
- ICML 2025MoEQuant: Enhancing Quantization for Mixture-of-Experts Large Language Models via Expert-Balanced Sampling and Affinity Guidance
- ICML 2025MoH: Multi-Head Attention as Mixture-of-Head Attention
- ICML 2025MoHAVE: Mixture of Hierarchical Audio-Visual Experts for Robust Speech Recognition
- ICML 2025Moirai-MoE: Empowering Time Series Foundation Models with Sparse Mixture of Experts
- ICML 2025Multi-Modal Object Re-identification via Sparse Mixture-of-Experts
- ICML 2025MxMoE: Mixed-precision Quantization for MoE with Accuracy and Performance Co-Design
- ICML 2025Occult: Optimizing Collaborative Communications across Experts for Accelerated Parallel MoE Training and Inference
- ICML 2025On Learning Parallel Pancakes with Mostly Uniform Weights
- ICML 2025On Zero-Initialized Attention: Optimal Prompt and Gating Factor Estimation
- ICML 2025On-Device Collaborative Language Modeling via a Mixture of Generalists and Specialists
- ICML 2025Optimizing Robustness and Accuracy in Mixture of Experts: A Dual-Model Approach
- ICML 2025Oracle-MoE: Locality-preserving Routing in the Oracle Space for Memory-constrained Large Language Model Inference
- ICML 2025Organize the Web: Constructing Domains Enhances Pre-Training Data Curation
- ICML 2025Parameters vs FLOPs: Scaling Laws for Optimal Sparsity for Mixture-of-Experts Language Models
- ICML 2025Parrot: Multilingual Visual Instruction Tuning
- ICML 2025Programming Every Example: Lifting Pre-training Data Quality Like Experts at Scale
- ICML 2025QoS-Efficient Serving of Multiple Mixture-of-Expert LLMs Using Partial Runtime Reconfiguration
- ICML 2025R2-T2: Re-Routing in Test-Time for Multimodal Mixture-of-Experts
- ICML 2025RepLoRA: Reparameterizing Low-rank Adaptation via the Perspective of Mixture of Experts
- ICML 2025Retraining-free Merging of Sparse MoE via Hierarchical Clustering
- ICML 2025Scaling Laws for Upcycling Mixture-of-Experts Language Models
- ICML 2025Score-of-Mixture Training: One-Step Generative Model Training Made Simple via Score Estimation of Mixture Distributions
- ICML 2025Shortcut-connected Expert Parallelism for Accelerating Mixture of Experts
- ICML 2025Soup-of-Experts: Pretraining Specialist Models via Parameters Averaging
- ICML 2025SPACE: Your Genomic Profile Predictor is a Powerful DNA Foundation Model
- ICML 2025TimeStep Master: Asymmetrical Mixture of Timestep LoRA Experts for Versatile and Efficient Diffusion Models in Vision
- ICML 2025What Limits Bidirectional Model's Generative Capabilities? A Uni-Bi-Directional Mixture-of-Expert Method For Bidirectional Fine-tuning
- ICML 2024$\texttt{MoE-RBench}$: Towards Building Reliable Language Models with Sparse Mixture-of-Experts
- ICML 2024A General Theory for Softmax Gating Multinomial Logistic Mixture of Experts
- ICML 2024A Linear Time and Space Local Point Cloud Geometry Encoder via Vectorized Kernel Mixture (VecKM)
- ICML 2024A Provably Effective Method for Pruning Experts in Fine-tuned Sparse Mixture-of-Experts
- ICML 2024Acquiring Diverse Skills using Curriculum Reinforcement Learning with Mixture of Experts
- ICML 2024Balanced Data, Imbalanced Spectra: Unveiling Class Disparities with Spectral Imbalance
- ICML 2024BECoTTA: Input-dependent Online Blending of Experts for Continual Test-time Adaptation
- ICML 2024Convergence of Online Learning Algorithm for a Mixture of Multiple Linear Regressions
- ICML 2024Efficient Mixture Learning in Black-Box Variational Inference
- ICML 2024Experts Don't Cheat: Learning What You Don't Know By Predicting Pairs
- ICML 2024Exploring the Benefit of Activation Sparsity in Pre-training
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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.