Sparsity Acceleration papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Sparsity Acceleration went from 54 papers in 2023 to 89 in 2026, roughly 1.6x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Sparsity Acceleration work: 80 papers from 2023 to 2026, 31% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Multimodal LLMs: papers tagged with both rose from 0 in 2023 to 13 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Hardware and Compilers, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Edge Inference, is up 4.0x versus 1.6x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026AC/DC on a Budget -- Alternating Sparse Phases
• ICML 2026An Evidential Route to Asymptotic Bayes Optimality under Sparsity
• ICLR 2026Hilbert-Guided Sparse Local Attention
• CVPR 2026Improving Sparse Autoencoder with Dynamic Attention
• NeurIPS 2025Bilevel Network Learning via Hierarchically Structured Sparsity
• ICML 2025COGNATE: Acceleration of Sparse Tensor Programs on Emerging Hardware using Transfer Learning
• ICLR 2025Beyond Worst-Case Dimensionality Reduction for Sparse Vectors
• CVPR 2025ICP: Immediate Compensation Pruning for Mid-to-high Sparsity
• NeurIPS 2024ELSA: Exploiting Layer-wise N:M Sparsity for Vision Transformer Acceleration
• ICML 2024Accelerating Transformer Pre-training with 2:4 Sparsity
• ICLR 2024Adaptive Sharpness-Aware Pruning for Robust Sparse Networks
• CVPR 2024Masked Spatial Propagation Network for Sparsity-Adaptive Depth Refinement
• NeurIPS 2023Dynamic Sparsity Is Channel-Level Sparsity Learner
• ICML 2023Conformalization of Sparse Generalized Linear Models
• ICLR 2023Bit-Pruning: A Sparse Multiplication-Less Dot-Product
• CVPR 2023Adaptive Channel Sparsity for Federated Learning Under System Heterogeneity
• NeurIPS 2026Beyond Masked Sparsity: SNACK Enables Truly Sparse Neural Networks on GPU
• ICML 2026FlashSketch: Sketch-Kernel Co-Design for Fast Sparse Sketching on GPUs
• ICLR 2026Identifiability Challenges in Sparse Linear Ordinary Differential Equations
• CVPR 2026Revisiting Pose Sensitivity in Splat-based Computed Tomography under Sparse-view Reconstruction

All Sparsity Acceleration papers

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1. CVPR 2026Dense Metric Depth Completion from Sparse Direct Time-of-Flight Sensors
2. CVPR 2026FSFSplatter Geometrically Accurate Reconstruction with Free Sparse-view Images within 2
3. CVPR 2026Generalizable Sparse-View 3D Reconstruction from Unconstrained Images
4. CVPR 2026Guiding Token-Sparse Diffusion Models
5. CVPR 2026HeSS Head Sensitivity Score for Sparsity Redistribution in VGGT
6. CVPR 2026Improving Sparse Autoencoder with Dynamic Attention
7. CVPR 2026RAPID Reusing Attention Sparsity with Inter-step Adaptation for Efficient Video
8. CVPR 2026Revisiting Pose Sensitivity in Splat-based Computed Tomography under Sparse-view Reconstruction
9. CVPR 2026Sparsity as a Key Unlocking New Insights from Latent Structures
10. CVPR 2026SparVAR Exploring Sparsity in Visual AutoRegressive Modeling for Training-Free Acceleration
11. CVPR 2026VLM-Pruner Buffering for Spatial Sparsity in an Efficient VLM Centrifugal
12. CVPR 2026When Lines Meet Textures Spatial-Frequency Aligned Diffusion Features for Cross-Sparsity
13. CVPR 2025CASP: Compression of Large Multimodal Models Based on Attention Sparsity
14. CVPR 2025ICP: Immediate Compensation Pruning for Mid-to-high Sparsity
15. CVPR 2025MV-DUSt3R+: Single-Stage Scene Reconstruction from Sparse Views In 2 Seconds
16. CVPR 2025S2Gaussian: Sparse-View Super-Resolution 3D Gaussian Splatting
17. CVPR 2025SINR: Sparsity Driven Compressed Implicit Neural Representations
18. CVPR 2024Masked Spatial Propagation Network for Sparsity-Adaptive Depth Refinement
19. CVPR 2024MaxQ: Multi-Axis Query for N:M Sparsity Network
20. CVPR 2024Towards More Accurate Diffusion Model Acceleration with A Timestep Tuner
21. CVPR 2024Transferable Structural Sparse Adversarial Attack Via Exact Group Sparsity Training
22. CVPR 2024UniPTS: A Unified Framework for Proficient Post-Training Sparsity
23. CVPR 2023Adaptive Channel Sparsity for Federated Learning Under System Heterogeneity
24. CVPR 2023Compacting Binary Neural Networks by Sparse Kernel Selection
25. CVPR 2023DSVT: Dynamic Sparse Voxel Transformer With Rotated Sets
26. CVPR 2023Fair Scratch Tickets: Finding Fair Sparse Networks Without Weight Training
27. CVPR 2023Fast Monocular Scene Reconstruction With Global-Sparse Local-Dense Grids
28. CVPR 2023FlexNeRF: Photorealistic Free-Viewpoint Rendering of Moving Humans From Sparse Views
29. CVPR 2023Hunting Sparsity: Density-Guided Contrastive Learning for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
30. CVPR 2023Network Expansion for Practical Training Acceleration
31. CVPR 2023Practical Network Acceleration With Tiny Sets
32. CVPR 2023STMixer: A One-Stage Sparse Action Detector
33. CVPR 2023Unsupervised Inference of Signed Distance Functions From Single Sparse Point Clouds Without Learning Priors

FAQ

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

260 in total: 54 in 2023, 53 in 2024, 64 in 2025, 89 in 2026.

How many Sparsity Acceleration papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 29 Sparsity Acceleration papers, versus 21 the year before.

How many Sparsity Acceleration papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 24 Sparsity Acceleration papers, versus 16 the year before.

How many Sparsity Acceleration papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 24 Sparsity Acceleration papers, versus 22 the year before.

How many Sparsity Acceleration papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 12 Sparsity Acceleration papers, versus 5 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Sparsity Acceleration papers?

NeurIPS, with 80 papers from 2023 to 2026.