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 1 of 3
- CVPR 2024Boosting Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models via Mixture-of-Experts Adapters
- CVPR 2024GART: Gaussian Articulated Template Models
- CVPR 2024Language-driven All-in-one Adverse Weather Removal
- CVPR 2024MoDE: CLIP Data Experts via Clustering
- CVPR 2024Multi-Task Dense Prediction via Mixture of Low-Rank Experts
- CVPR 2024OMG: Towards Open-vocabulary Motion Generation via Mixture of Controllers
- CVPR 2024Omni-SMoLA: Boosting Generalist Multimodal Models with Soft Mixture of Low-rank Experts
- CVPR 2024Quantifying Uncertainty in Motion Prediction with Variational Bayesian Mixture
- CVPR 2024Task-Customized Mixture of Adapters for General Image Fusion
- ICLR 2024Chain-of-Experts: When LLMs Meet Complex Operations Research Problems
- ICLR 2024Divide and not forget: Ensemble of selectively trained experts in Continual Learning
- ICLR 2024From Sparse to Soft Mixtures of Experts
- ICLR 2024Fusing Models with Complementary Expertise
- ICLR 2024High-dimensional SGD aligns with emerging outlier eigenspaces
- ICLR 2024Horizon-free Reinforcement Learning in Adversarial Linear Mixture MDPs
- ICLR 2024Hybrid Sharing for Multi-Label Image Classification
- ICLR 2024Large Language Model Cascades with Mixture of Thought Representations for Cost-Efficient Reasoning
- ICLR 2024Learning with Mixture of Prototypes for Out-of-Distribution Detection
- ICLR 2024M3C: A Framework towards Convergent, Flexible, and Unsupervised Learning of Mixture Graph Matching and Clustering
- ICLR 2024Merge, Then Compress: Demystify Efficient SMoE with Hints from Its Routing Policy
- ICLR 2024Mixture of LoRA Experts
- ICLR 2024Mixture of Weak and Strong Experts on Graphs
- ICLR 2024Mixture-of-Experts Meets Instruction Tuning: A Winning Combination for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024Object-Centric Learning with Slot Mixture Module
- ICLR 2024Octavius: Mitigating Task Interference in MLLMs via LoRA-MoE
- ICLR 2024Pushing Mixture of Experts to the Limit: Extremely Parameter Efficient MoE for Instruction Tuning
- ICLR 2024Scaling physics-informed hard constraints with mixture-of-experts
- ICLR 2024Soft Mixture Denoising: Beyond the Expressive Bottleneck of Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2024Sparse MoE with Language Guided Routing for Multilingual Machine Translation
- ICLR 2024Statistical Perspective of Top-K Sparse Softmax Gating Mixture of Experts
- ICLR 2024Subtractive Mixture Models via Squaring: Representation and Learning
- ICLR 2024TESTAM: A Time-Enhanced Spatio-Temporal Attention Model with Mixture of Experts
- ICLR 2024Transformers can optimally learn regression mixture models
- 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
- ICML 2024Exploring Training on Heterogeneous Data with Mixture of Low-rank Adapters
- ICML 2024Harnessing Hierarchical Label Distribution Variations in Test Agnostic Long-tail Recognition
- ICML 2024INViT: A Generalizable Routing Problem Solver with Invariant Nested View Transformer
- ICML 2024Is Temperature Sample Efficient for Softmax Gaussian Mixture of Experts?
- ICML 2024Learning to Route Among Specialized Experts for Zero-Shot Generalization
- ICML 2024Merging Multi-Task Models via Weight-Ensembling 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.