Scaling Laws papers, 2023–2026
Data and model scaling
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 605 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 21 | 14 | 17 | 8 | 60 |
| 2024 | 38 | 15 | 33 | 10 | 96 |
| 2025 | 80 | 48 | 56 | 17 | 201 |
| 2026 | 82 | 73 | 78 | 15 | 248 |
Representative papers
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- 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
82 papers, page 1 of 2
- NeurIPS 2026A Revisit of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Efficiency on Bayesian Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2026A Unified Merge Calculus for Learning-Rate Scaling on Neural Computation Graphs
- NeurIPS 2026ADIS-Law: Unified Scaling Laws for Annealing-Phase Domain Injection in Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026ANCRe: Adaptive Neural Connection Reassignment for Efficient Depth Scaling
- NeurIPS 2026Asymmetric Scaling Laws from Sparse Features
- NeurIPS 2026Bentkus-type asymptotic e-values
- NeurIPS 2026BIRD-RL: Scaling Agentic Reinforcement Learning over Stateful Data-Centric Environments
- NeurIPS 2026CLIFT: Conformal Self-Verification for Web Agent Training and Test-Time Scaling
- NeurIPS 2026Compute-optimal data scaling for neural surrogates via multi-fidelity training
- NeurIPS 2026Conservation Laws for Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2026Consilience for Verifier-Free Test-Time Scaling
- NeurIPS 2026Data-Constrained Language Model Pretraining: Improved Regularization and Scaling Laws
- NeurIPS 2026Decomposing and Reshaping Scaling Laws through Token Learning Times
- NeurIPS 2026Deriving Hyperparameter Scaling Laws via Modern Optimization Theory
- NeurIPS 2026Distributionally Robust Mixture-of-Experts Training
- NeurIPS 2026DPPE: Rethinking Camera-Based Positional Encoding for Scaling Multi-View Transformers
- NeurIPS 2026Early Signals, Strong Decisions: Prefix-Guided Sampling for Parallel Test-Time Scaling
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient Decoder Scaling Strategy for Constructive Neural Routing Solvers
- NeurIPS 2026Efficient Scaling of LLM Training with Flexible Context Parallelism
- NeurIPS 2026Exact Recovery of Lipschitz Orthogonal Coordinate Transformations via Constrained Normalizing Flows
- NeurIPS 2026ExComm: Exploration-Stage Communication for Error-Resilient Agentic Test-Time Scaling
- NeurIPS 2026Holistic Scaling Laws for Optimal Mixture-of-Experts Architecture Optimization
- NeurIPS 2026How Can SignSGD Outperform SGD? A Functional Scaling Law Perspective
- NeurIPS 2026How Much Is One Recurrence Worth? Iso-Depth Scaling Laws for Looped Language Models
- NeurIPS 2026Hyperbolic Language Models: From Zipf to Compute-Optimal Scaling
- NeurIPS 2026It Just Takes Two: Scaling Amortized Inference to Large Sets
- NeurIPS 2026Language Denoising Objectives Extend the Value of Limited Data
- NeurIPS 2026Memory Grafting: Scaling Language Model Pre-training via Offline Conditional Memory
- NeurIPS 2026Meta-memorization and memorization scaling laws in transformers
- NeurIPS 2026MobileMoE: Scaling On-Device Mixture of Experts
- NeurIPS 2026Move on Muon : A Hamiltonian probability gradient flow perspective of Muon optimizer
- NeurIPS 2026Neural Neural Scaling Laws
- NeurIPS 2026Neuron Populations Exhibit Divergent Selectivity with Scale
- NeurIPS 2026Norm Anchors Make Model Edits Last
- NeurIPS 2026Normalized Architectures are Natively 4-Bit
- NeurIPS 2026OmniDex: Scaling Dexterous Hand Grasping to Diverse Cluttered Scenes
- NeurIPS 2026On Data Engineering for Scaling LLM Terminal Capabilities
- NeurIPS 2026On Neural Scaling Laws for Weather Emulation through Continual Training
- NeurIPS 2026On the Nonlinearity of Learning Rate Scaling for LLM Training
- NeurIPS 2026On the Recall Scaling Laws in Mamba: A Theoretical and Mechanistic Study via Hashing
- NeurIPS 2026Optimal scaling laws in learning hierarchical multi-index models
- NeurIPS 2026Overcoming Kernel Redundancy for Scaling Logic Gate Networks
- NeurIPS 2026Predicting and improving test-time scaling laws via reward tail-guided search
- NeurIPS 2026Problem-Dependent Dynamic Regret over a Predictor Class with One-Gradient Feedback
- NeurIPS 2026Provable Test-Time Scaling for Beam Search in LLM Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2026Random Attention Pattern Learning Enables Emergent Capabilities
- NeurIPS 2026RaZeR: Pushing the Limits of NVFP4 Quantization with Redundant Zero Remapping
- NeurIPS 2026Reasoning Warm-up: Scaling Label-free RL via Verifiable Surrogate Rewards
- NeurIPS 2026Reference-Guided Training: Adaptive Gradient Scaling via Per-Sample Loss Comparisons
- NeurIPS 2026Reinforce Adjoint Matching: Scaling RL Post-Training of Diffusion and Flow Models
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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.