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
236 papers, page 1 of 5
- CVPR 2023Balanced Product of Calibrated Experts for Long-Tailed Recognition
- CVPR 2023ERNIE-ViLG 2.0: Improving Text-to-Image Diffusion Model With Knowledge-Enhanced Mixture-of-Denoising-Experts
- CVPR 2023Global and Local Mixture Consistency Cumulative Learning for Long-Tailed Visual Recognitions
- CVPR 2023MixNeRF: Modeling a Ray With Mixture Density for Novel View Synthesis From Sparse Inputs
- CVPR 2023Mod-Squad: Designing Mixtures of Experts As Modular Multi-Task Learners
- CVPR 2023RepMode: Learning to Re-Parameterize Diverse Experts for Subcellular Structure Prediction
- ICLR 2023A Mixture-of-Expert Approach to RL-based Dialogue Management
- ICLR 2023Chasing All-Round Graph Representation Robustness: Model, Training, and Optimization
- ICLR 2023DINO as a von Mises-Fisher mixture model
- ICLR 2023Impossibly Good Experts and How to Follow Them
- ICLR 2023Knowledge-in-Context: Towards Knowledgeable Semi-Parametric Language Models
- ICLR 2023Learning About Progress From Experts
- ICLR 2023Learning Adversarial Linear Mixture Markov Decision Processes with Bandit Feedback and Unknown Transition
- ICLR 2023Learning to CROSS exchange to solve min-max vehicle routing problems
- ICLR 2023Modeling Multimodal Aleatoric Uncertainty in Segmentation with Mixture of Stochastic Experts
- ICLR 2023SCoMoE: Efficient Mixtures of Experts with Structured Communication
- ICLR 2023Sparse Mixture-of-Experts are Domain Generalizable Learners
- ICLR 2023Sparse MoE as the New Dropout: Scaling Dense and Self-Slimmable Transformers
- ICLR 2023Sparse Upcycling: Training Mixture-of-Experts from Dense Checkpoints
- ICLR 2023Sparsity-Constrained Optimal Transport
- ICLR 2023Switch-NeRF: Learning Scene Decomposition with Mixture of Experts for Large-scale Neural Radiance Fields
- ICLR 2023Task-customized Masked Autoencoder via Mixture of Cluster-conditional Experts
- ICML 2023A Distribution Optimization Framework for Confidence Bounds of Risk Measures
- ICML 2023A Gromov--Wasserstein Geometric View of Spectrum-Preserving Graph Coarsening
- ICML 2023A Study of Global and Episodic Bonuses for Exploration in Contextual MDPs
- ICML 2023A theory of continuous generative flow networks
- ICML 2023A Unified Optimization Framework of ANN-SNN Conversion: Towards Optimal Mapping from Activation Values to Firing Rates
- ICML 2023Active Ranking of Experts Based on their Performances in Many Tasks
- ICML 2023Algorithmic Stability of Heavy-Tailed SGD with General Loss Functions
- ICML 2023Beyond the Edge of Stability via Two-step Gradient Updates
- ICML 2023Chemically Transferable Generative Backmapping of Coarse-Grained Proteins
- ICML 2023Cold Analysis of Rao-Blackwellized Straight-Through Gumbel-Softmax Gradient Estimator
- ICML 2023Computational Doob h-transforms for Online Filtering of Discretely Observed Diffusions
- ICML 2023Continuously Parameterized Mixture Models
- ICML 2023Convex Geometry of ReLU-layers, Injectivity on the Ball and Local Reconstruction
- ICML 2023Cooperation in the Latent Space: The Benefits of Adding Mixture Components in Variational Autoencoders
- ICML 2023Differentiable Simulations for Enhanced Sampling of Rare Events
- ICML 2023Discrete Continuous Optimization Framework for Simultaneous Clustering and Training in Mixture Models
- ICML 2023Distribution-dependent McDiarmid-type Inequalities for Functions of Unbounded Interaction
- ICML 2023Dividing and Conquering a BlackBox to a Mixture of Interpretable Models: Route, Interpret, Repeat
- ICML 2023Effective Minkowski Dimension of Deep Nonparametric Regression: Function Approximation and Statistical Theories
- ICML 2023End-to-End Multi-Object Detection with a Regularized Mixture Model
- ICML 2023Existence and Estimation of Critical Batch Size for Training Generative Adversarial Networks with Two Time-Scale Update Rule
- ICML 2023Explaining the effects of non-convergent MCMC in the training of Energy-Based Models
- ICML 2023Generative Decoding of Visual Stimuli
- ICML 2023Global Convergence of Sub-gradient Method for Robust Matrix Recovery: Small Initialization, Noisy Measurements, and Over-parameterization
- ICML 2023Global Selection of Contrastive Batches via Optimization on Sample Permutations
- ICML 2023High-Probability Bounds for Stochastic Optimization and Variational Inequalities: the Case of Unbounded Variance
- ICML 2023Identifiability of Label Noise Transition Matrix
- ICML 2023Identification of the Adversary from a Single Adversarial Example
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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.