Mixture of Experts papers, 2023–2026

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.

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

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1. ICLR 2026A Federated Generalized Expectation-Maximization Algorithm for Mixture Models with an Unknown Number of Components
2. ICLR 2026Abstracting Robot Manipulation Skills via Mixture-of-Experts Diffusion Policies
3. ICLR 2026Adaptive Conformal Prediction via Mixture-of-Experts Gating Similarity
4. ICLR 2026Adaptive Mixture of Disentangled Experts for Dynamic Graphs under Distribution Shifts
5. ICLR 2026AMiD: Knowledge Distillation for LLMs with $\alpha$-mixture Assistant Distribution
6. ICLR 2026Balancing the Experts: Unlocking LoRA-MoE for GRPO via Mechanism-Aware Rewards
7. ICLR 2026Capacity-Aware Inference: Mitigating the Straggler Effect in Mixture of Experts
8. ICLR 2026Catalog-Native LLM: Speaking Item-ID dialect with Less Entanglement for Recommendation
9. ICLR 2026CLIP-FMoE: Scalable CLIP via Fused Mixture-of-Experts with Enforced Specialization
10. ICLR 2026CodeQuant: Unified Clustering and Quantization for Enhanced Outlier Smoothing in Low-Precision Mixture-of-Experts
11. ICLR 2026CogMoE: Signal-Quality–Guided Multimodal MoE for Cognitive Load Prediction
12. ICLR 2026Combination-of-Experts with Knowledge Sharing for Cross-Task Vehicle Routing Problems
13. ICLR 2026Coupling Experts and Routers in Mixture-of-Experts via an Auxiliary Loss
14. ICLR 2026Decoupling Primitive with Experts: Dynamic Feature Alignment for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
15. ICLR 2026Deft Scheduling of Dynamic Cloud Workflows with Varying Deadlines via Mixture-of-Experts
16. ICLR 2026DirMoE: Dirichlet-Routed Mixture of Experts
17. ICLR 2026Diverse and Sparse Mixture-of-Experts for Causal Subgraph–Based Out-of-Distribution Graph Learning
18. ICLR 2026Efficient Quantization of Mixture-of-Experts with Theoretical Generalization Guarantees
19. ICLR 2026Expert Divergence Learning for MoE-based Language Models
20. ICLR 2026Expert Merging in Sparse Mixture of Experts with Nash Bargaining
21. ICLR 2026Explainable Mixture Models through Differentiable Rule Learning
22. ICLR 2026Exposing and Defending the Achilles' Heel of Video Mixture-of-Experts
23. ICLR 2026Fast Data Mixture Optimization via Gradient Descent
24. ICLR 2026FlyPrompt: Brain-Inspired Random-Expanded Routing with Temporal-Ensemble Experts for General Continual Learning
25. ICLR 2026GUIDE: Gated Uncertainty-Informed Disentangled Experts for Long-tailed Recognition
26. ICLR 2026Guiding Mixture-of-Experts with Temporal Multimodal Interactions
27. ICLR 2026HEAPr: Hessian-based Efficient Atomic Expert Pruning in Output Space
28. ICLR 2026IMSE: Intrinsic Mixture of Spectral Experts Fine-tuning for Test-Time Adaptation
29. ICLR 2026KBVQ-MoE: KLT-guided SVD with Bias-Corrected Vector Quantization for MoE Large Language Models
30. ICLR 2026Knowledge Distillation for Large Language Models through Residual Learning
31. ICLR 2026LD-MoLE: Learnable Dynamic Routing for Mixture of LoRA Experts
32. ICLR 2026Learning to Reason via Mixture-of-Thought for Logical Reasoning
33. ICLR 2026Libra: Effective yet Efficient Load Balancing for Large-scale MoE Inference
34. ICLR 2026LoRA-Mixer: Coordinate Modular LoRA Experts Through Serial Attention Routing
35. ICLR 2026M$^3$E: Continual Vision-and-Language Navigation via Mixture of Macro and Micro Experts
36. ICLR 2026Mixture of Cognitive Reasoners: Modular Reasoning with Brain-Like Specialization
37. ICLR 2026Mixture of Mini Experts: Overcoming the Linear Layer Bottleneck in Multiple Instance Learning
38. ICLR 2026Mixture-of-Experts Can Surpass Dense LLMs Under Strictly Equal Resource
39. ICLR 2026MoBE: Mixture-of-Basis-Experts for Compressing MoE-based LLMs
40. ICLR 2026MoE-GS: Mixture of Experts for Dynamic Gaussian Splatting
41. ICLR 2026MoEEdit: Efficient and Routing-Stable Knowledge Editing for Mixture-of-Experts LLMs
42. ICLR 2026MoGA: Mixture-of-Groups Attention for End-to-End Long Video Generation
43. ICLR 2026MOLM: Mixture of LoRA Markers
44. ICLR 2026MoNE: Replacing Redundant Experts with Lightweight Novices for Structured Pruning of MoE
45. ICLR 2026Multi-objective Large Language Model Alignment with Hierarchical Experts
46. ICLR 2026Multi-Subspace Multi-Modal Modeling for Diffusion Models: Estimation, Convergence and Mixture of Experts
47. ICLR 2026Multilingual Routing in Mixture-of-Experts
48. ICLR 2026Not All Models Suit Expert Offloading: On Local Routing Consistency of Mixture-of-Expert Models
49. ICLR 2026On-Policy RL Meets Off-Policy Experts: Harmonizing Supervised Fine-Tuning and Reinforcement Learning via Dynamic Weighting
50. ICLR 2026One-Prompt Strikes Back: Sparse Mixture of Experts for Prompt-based Continual Learning

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.