Scaling Laws papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Scaling Laws went from 60 papers in 2023 to 248 in 2026, roughly 4.1x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Scaling Laws work: 221 papers from 2023 to 2026, 37% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Time Series: papers tagged with both rose from 1 in 2023 to 24 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Optimization and Scaling, it ranks #5 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Low-Rank Adaptation, is up 3.0x versus 4.1x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026A Unified Merge Calculus for Learning-Rate Scaling on Neural Computation Graphs
• ICML 2026A Capacity-Based Rationale for Multi-Head Attention
• ICLR 2026$\mathbf{Li_2}$: A Framework on Dynamics of Feature Emergence and Delayed Generalization
• CVPR 2026A Unified Framework for Knowledge Transfer in Bidirectional Model Scaling
• NeurIPS 2025Audits Under Resource, Data, and Access Constraints: Scaling Laws For Less Discriminatory Alternatives
• ICML 2025A Simple Model of Inference Scaling Laws
• ICLR 2025(Mis)Fitting Scaling Laws: A Survey of Scaling Law Fitting Techniques in Deep Learning
• CVPR 2025D^3: Scaling Up Deepfake Detection by Learning from Discrepancy
• NeurIPS 2024An exactly solvable model for emergence and scaling laws in the multitask sparse parity problem
• ICML 2024A Dynamical Model of Neural Scaling Laws
• ICLR 2024Principled Architecture-aware Scaling of Hyperparameters
• CVPR 2024From Activation to Initialization: Scaling Insights for Optimizing Neural Fields
• NeurIPS 2023Abide by the law and follow the flow: conservation laws for gradient flows
• ICML 2023Dissecting the Effects of SGD Noise in Distinct Regimes of Deep Learning
• ICLR 2023Distributionally Robust Post-hoc Classifiers under Prior Shifts
• CVPR 2023LargeKernel3D: Scaling Up Kernels in 3D Sparse CNNs
• NeurIPS 2026ADIS-Law: Unified Scaling Laws for Annealing-Phase Domain Injection in Large Language Models
• ICML 2026Balancing Learning Rates Across Layers: Exact Two-Step Dynamics and Optimal Scaling in Linear Neural Networks
• ICLR 2026A universal compression theory: Lottery ticket hypothesis and superpolynomial scaling laws
• CVPR 2026MatAnyone 2 Scaling Video Matting via a Learned Quality Evaluator

All Scaling Laws papers

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51. ICML 2026Reuse your FLOPs: Scaling RL on Hard Problems by Conditioning on Very Off-Policy Prefixes
52. ICML 2026Revisiting Padded Transformer Expressivity: Which Architectural Choices Matter and Which Don't
53. ICML 2026Sample Margin-Aware Recalibration of Temperature Scaling
54. ICML 2026Scalable Reinforcement Learning via Adaptive Batch Scaling
55. ICML 2026Scaling Behavior in Model Fine-tuning for Audio DeepFake Detection
56. ICML 2026Scaling Beyond Masked Diffusion Language Models
57. ICML 2026Scaling Continual Learning to 300+ Tasks with Bi-Level Routing Mixture-of-Experts
58. ICML 2026Scaling depth capacity via zero/one-layer model expansion
59. ICML 2026Scaling Law for Quantization-Aware Training
60. ICML 2026Scaling Laws and Architectural Frontiers in Metagenomic Foundation Models
61. ICML 2026Scaling Laws for Precision in High-Dimensional Linear Regression
62. ICML 2026Scaling Laws of Global Weather Models
63. ICML 2026Selling Data as a Digital Good with Scaling Valuations
64. ICML 2026Single-Head Attention in High Dimensions: A Theory of Generalization, Weights Spectra, and Scaling Laws
65. ICML 2026Spectral Reach: Understanding Neural Scaling as Progress into the Spectral Tail
66. ICML 2026Statistically Calibrated Scaling for Token Merging in Transformers
67. ICML 2026Temperature Scaling in Discrete Sequence (Language) Models
68. ICML 2026Token Sample Complexity of Attention
69. ICML 2026TQL: Scaling Q-Functions with Transformers by Preventing Attention Collapse
70. ICML 2026Transolver-3: Scaling Up Transformer Solvers to Industrial-Scale Geometries
71. ICML 2026Understanding MARS: When Scaling Momentum Provably Helps
72. ICML 2026Universal One-third Time Scaling in Learning Peaked Distributions
73. ICML 2026Utility Boundary of Dataset Distillation: Scaling and Coverage Laws
74. ICML 2026ViTok-v2: Scaling Native Resolution Autoencoders to 5 Billion Parameters
75. ICML 2026WF-Bench: A Benchmark for Neural-Network WaveFunction Expressivity and Scaling Laws
76. ICML 2026When Data Is Scarce: Scaling Sparse Language Models with Repeated Training
77. ICML 2026When Does Adaptation Win? Scaling Laws for Meta-Learning in Quantum Control
78. ICML 2026Who Said Neural Networks Aren't Linear?
79. ICML 2025A Forget-and-Grow Strategy for Deep Reinforcement Learning Scaling in Continuous Control
80. ICML 2025A Hitchhiker's Guide to Scaling Law Estimation
81. ICML 2025A Simple Model of Inference Scaling Laws
82. ICML 2025Bayesian Neural Scaling Law Extrapolation with Prior-Data Fitted Networks
83. ICML 2025Contextures: Representations from Contexts
84. ICML 2025DataDecide: How to Predict Best Pretraining Data with Small Experiments
85. ICML 2025Determinant Estimation under Memory Constraints and Neural Scaling Laws
86. ICML 2025Distillation Scaling Laws
87. ICML 2025Does Data Scaling Lead to Visual Compositional Generalization?
88. ICML 2025Dynamic Sparse Training of Diagonally Sparse Networks
89. ICML 2025Equivariant Polynomial Functional Networks
90. ICML 2025Haste Makes Waste: A Simple Approach for Scaling Graph Neural Networks
91. ICML 2025How Do Large Language Monkeys Get Their Power (Laws)?
92. ICML 2025How Much Can We Forget about Data Contamination?
93. ICML 2025Improving Diversity in Language Models: When Temperature Fails, Change the Loss
94. ICML 2025Improving the Scaling Laws of Synthetic Data with Deliberate Practice
95. ICML 2025Joint MoE Scaling Laws: Mixture of Experts Can Be Memory Efficient
96. ICML 2025Learning curves theory for hierarchically compositional data with power-law distributed features
97. ICML 2025Learning to Keep a Promise: Scaling Language Model Decoding Parallelism with Learned Asynchronous Decoding
98. ICML 2025LensLLM: Unveiling Fine-Tuning Dynamics for LLM Selection
99. ICML 2025LLMs on the Line: Data Determines Loss-to-Loss Scaling Laws
100. ICML 2025Memory Layers at Scale

FAQ

How many Scaling Laws papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

605 in total: 60 in 2023, 96 in 2024, 201 in 2025, 248 in 2026.

How many Scaling Laws papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 82 Scaling Laws papers, versus 80 the year before.

How many Scaling Laws papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 73 Scaling Laws papers, versus 48 the year before.

How many Scaling Laws papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 78 Scaling Laws papers, versus 56 the year before.

How many Scaling Laws papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 15 Scaling Laws papers, versus 17 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Scaling Laws papers?

NeurIPS, with 221 papers from 2023 to 2026.