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. ICLR 2025Beyond Worst-Case Dimensionality Reduction for Sparse Vectors
2. ICLR 2025Deep Weight Factorization: Sparse Learning Through the Lens of Artificial Symmetries
3. ICLR 2025DPaI: Differentiable Pruning at Initialization with Node-Path Balance Principle
4. ICLR 2025Dynamic Low-Rank Sparse Adaptation for Large Language Models
5. ICLR 2025Efficient Sparse PCA via Block-Diagonalization
6. ICLR 2025From Sparse Dependence to Sparse Attention: Unveiling How Chain-of-Thought Enhances Transformer Sample Efficiency
7. ICLR 2025Misspecified $Q$-Learning with Sparse Linear Function Approximation: Tight Bounds on Approximation Error
8. ICLR 2025R-Sparse: Rank-Aware Activation Sparsity for Efficient LLM Inference
9. ICLR 2025ReMoE: Fully Differentiable Mixture-of-Experts with ReLU Routing
10. ICLR 2025RTop-K: Ultra-Fast Row-Wise Top-K Selection for Neural Network Acceleration on GPUs
11. ICLR 2025Schur's Positive-Definite Network: Deep Learning in the SPD cone with structure
12. ICLR 2025Semantic Aware Representation Learning for Lifelong Learning
13. ICLR 2025Training-Free Activation Sparsity in Large Language Models
14. ICLR 2025Two Sparse Matrices are Better than One: Sparsifying Neural Networks with Double Sparse Factorization
15. ICLR 2025VL-Cache: Sparsity and Modality-Aware KV Cache Compression for Vision-Language Model Inference Acceleration
16. ICLR 2025Zeroth-Order Fine-Tuning of LLMs with Transferable Static Sparsity

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.