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
223 papers, page 4 of 5
- NeurIPS 2025DiEP: Adaptive Mixture-of-Experts Compression through Differentiable Expert Pruning
- NeurIPS 2025Discovering Important Experts for Mixture-of-Experts Models Pruning Through a Theoretical Perspective
- NeurIPS 2025Diverse Influence Component Analysis: A Geometric Approach to Nonlinear Mixture Identifiability
- NeurIPS 2025Diversity as a Reward: Fine-Tuning LLMs on a Mixture of Domain-Undetermined Data
- NeurIPS 2025Domain-Specific Pruning of Large Mixture-of-Experts Models with Few-shot Demonstrations
- NeurIPS 2025Enhanced Expert Merging for Mixture-of-Experts in Graph Foundation Models
- NeurIPS 2025Evaluating multiple models using labeled and unlabeled data
- NeurIPS 2025FAME: Adaptive Functional Attention with Expert Routing for Function-on-Function Regression
- NeurIPS 2025Fisher meets Feynman: score-based variational inference with a product of experts
- NeurIPS 2025FlashMoE: Fast Distributed MoE in a Single Kernel
- NeurIPS 2025FlowMoE: A Scalable Pipeline Scheduling Framework for Distributed Mixture-of-Experts Training
- NeurIPS 2025FlyLoRA: Boosting Task Decoupling and Parameter Efficiency via Implicit Rank-Wise Mixture-of-Experts
- NeurIPS 2025Gate to the Vessel: Residual Experts Restore What SAM Overlooks
- NeurIPS 2025Gated Attention for Large Language Models: Non-linearity, Sparsity, and Attention-Sink-Free
- NeurIPS 2025Geometric Mixture Models for Electrolyte Conductivity Prediction
- NeurIPS 2025Go With the Flow: Fast Diffusion for Gaussian Mixture Models
- NeurIPS 2025HELM: Hyperbolic Large Language Models via Mixture-of-Curvature Experts
- NeurIPS 2025HiMoLE: Towards OOD-Robust LoRA via Hierarchical Mixture of Experts
- NeurIPS 2025Latent Mixture of Symmetries for Sample-Efficient Dynamic Learning
- NeurIPS 2025LayerIF: Estimating Layer Quality for Large Language Models using Influence Functions
- NeurIPS 2025Learning Expandable and Adaptable Representations for Continual Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Learning Pattern-Specific Experts for Time Series Forecasting Under Patch-level Distribution Shift
- NeurIPS 2025Learning to Specialize: Joint Gating-Expert Training for Adaptive MoEs in Decentralized Settings
- NeurIPS 2025Linear Mixture Distributionally Robust Markov Decision Processes
- NeurIPS 2025Localist Topographic Expert Routing: A Barrel Cortex-Inspired Modular Network for Sensorimotor Processing
- NeurIPS 2025Mamba Goes HoME: Hierarchical Soft Mixture-of-Experts for 3D Medical Image Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2025Measuring Fingerprints of Web-filtered Text Datasets and Fingerprint Propagation Through Training
- NeurIPS 2025MEGADance: Mixture-of-Experts Architecture for Genre-Aware 3D Dance Generation
- NeurIPS 2025MINGLE: Mixture of Null-Space Gated Low-Rank Experts for Test-Time Continual Model Merging
- NeurIPS 2025Mitigating Intra- and Inter-modal Forgetting in Continual Learning of Unified Multimodal Models
- NeurIPS 2025Mixture of Noise for Pre-Trained Model-Based Class-Incremental Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Mixture of Scope Experts at Test: Generalizing Deeper Graph Neural Networks with Shallow Variants
- NeurIPS 2025Mixture-of-Experts Meets In-Context Reinforcement Learning
- NeurIPS 2025Mixture-of-Experts Operator Transformer for Large-Scale PDE Pre-Training
- NeurIPS 2025Mixture-of-Recursions: Learning Dynamic Recursive Depths for Adaptive Token-Level Computation
- NeurIPS 2025MoBA: Mixture of Block Attention for Long-Context LLMs
- NeurIPS 2025Model Merging in Pre-training of Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025MoE-CAP: Benchmarking Cost, Accuracy and Performance of Sparse Mixture-of-Experts Systems
- NeurIPS 2025MoE-Gyro: Self-Supervised Over-Range Reconstruction and Denoising for MEMS Gyroscopes
- NeurIPS 2025MoEMeta: Mixture-of-Experts Meta Learning for Few-Shot Relational Learning
- NeurIPS 2025MoESD: Unveil Speculative Decoding's Potential for Accelerating Sparse MoE
- NeurIPS 2025MoME: Mixture of Matryoshka Experts for Audio-Visual Speech Recognition
- NeurIPS 2025MoRE-Brain: Routed Mixture of Experts for Interpretable and Generalizable Cross-Subject fMRI Visual Decoding
- NeurIPS 2025Mozart: Modularized and Efficient MoE Training on 3.5D Wafer-Scale Chiplet Architectures
- NeurIPS 2025Multi-Task Vehicle Routing Solver via Mixture of Specialized Experts under State-Decomposable MDP
- NeurIPS 2025Nemotron-CLIMB: Clustering-based Iterative Data Mixture Bootstrapping for Language Model Pre-training
- NeurIPS 2025No Experts, No Problem: Avoidance Learning from Bad Demonstrations
- NeurIPS 2025Noise-Robustness Through Noise: A Framework combining Asymmetric LoRA with Poisoning MoE
- NeurIPS 2025On Linear Mode Connectivity of Mixture-of-Experts Architectures
- NeurIPS 2025On Minimax Estimation of Parameters in Softmax-Contaminated 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.