% Key papers for Memory-efficient LLM optimizers (scime atlas, https://atlas.scime.ai). Authors are not included: add them from the paper pages. @inproceedings{icml2017_neural_36307, title = {{Neural Optimizer Search with Reinforcement Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2017}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2017/poster/842}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2020_augment_15166, title = {{Augment Your Batch: Improving Generalization Through Instance Repetition}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2020}, } @inproceedings{iclr2020_large_29730, title = {{Large Batch Optimization for Deep Learning: Training BERT in 76 minutes}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=Syx4wnEtvH}, } @inproceedings{icml2018_a_36476, title = {{A Progressive Batching L-BFGS Method for Machine Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2018}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2018/poster/2059}, } @inproceedings{icml2017_learning_36253, title = {{Learning Gradient Descent: Better Generalization and Longer Horizons}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2017}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2017/poster/875}, } @inproceedings{icml2017_efficient_36172, title = {{Efficient Orthogonal Parametrisation of Recurrent Neural Networks Using Householder Reflections}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2017}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2017/poster/670}, } @inproceedings{icml2019_understanding_37833, title = {{Understanding and correcting pathologies in the training of learned optimizers}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2019/poster/3868}, } @inproceedings{iclr2024_sophia_33587, title = {{Sophia: A Scalable Stochastic Second-order Optimizer for Language Model Pre-training}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/19488}, } @inproceedings{icml2020_training_38882, title = {{Training Neural Networks for and by Interpolation}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2020/poster/6207}, } @inproceedings{neurips2019_memory_58586, title = {{Memory Efficient Adaptive Optimization}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2019/poster/14003}, } @inproceedings{icml2019_compressing_37241, title = {{Compressing Gradient Optimizers via Count-Sketches}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2019/poster/3666}, } @inproceedings{aaai2020_how_101059, title = {{How the Duration of the Learning Period Affects the Performance of Random Gradient Selection Hyper-Heuristics}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/5617}, } @inproceedings{aaai2021_large_852, title = {{Large Batch Optimization for Deep Learning Using New Complete Layer-Wise Adaptive Rate Scaling}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://aaai.org/papers/07883-large-batch-optimization-for-deep-learning-using-new-complete-layer-wise-adaptive-rate-scaling/}, } @inproceedings{neurips2019_which_59201, title = {{Which Algorithmic Choices Matter at Which Batch Sizes? Insights From a Noisy Quadratic Model}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2019/poster/13889}, } @inproceedings{aaai2019_scalable_101560, title = {{Scalable and Efficient Pairwise Learning to Achieve Statistical Accuracy}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/4254}, } @inproceedings{aaai2020_inefficiency_102084, title = {{Inefficiency of K-FAC for Large Batch Size Training}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/5946}, } @inproceedings{icml2020_history_38284, title = {{History-Gradient Aided Batch Size Adaptation for Variance Reduced Algorithms}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2020/poster/6310}, } @inproceedings{neurips2020_learning_60205, title = {{Learning compositional functions via multiplicative weight updates}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2020/poster/18945}, } @inproceedings{neurips2025_small_75169, title = {{Small Batch Size Training for Language Models: When Vanilla SGD Works, and Why Gradient Accumulation is Wasteful}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=52Ehpe0Lu5}, } @inproceedings{iclr2021_understanding_30674, title = {{Understanding the effects of data parallelism and sparsity on neural network training}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2021/poster/3069}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_memory_71983, title = {{Memory-Efficient LLM Training with Online Subspace Descent}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/95328}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_scaling_43266, title = {{Scaling Exponents Across Parameterizations and Optimizers}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/35186}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_online_44715, title = {{Online Learning and Information Exponents: The Importance of Batch size \& Time/Complexity Tradeoffs}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/33737}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_frugal_46431, title = {{FRUGAL: Memory-Efficient Optimization by Reducing State Overhead for Scalable Training}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/46134}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_towards_70511, title = {{Towards Exact Gradient-based Training on Analog In-memory Computing}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/96597}, } @inproceedings{neurips2025_pike_80214, title = {{PiKE: Adaptive Data Mixing for Large-Scale Multi-Task Learning Under Low Gradient Conflicts}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=xNJenVNmzL}, } @inproceedings{iclr2025_revisit_83502, title = {{Revisit Micro-batch Clipping: Adaptive Data Pruning via Gradient Manipulation}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2025/poster/28314}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_when_43501, title = {{When Will Gradient Regularization Be Harmful?}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/34951}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_subsampling_45027, title = {{Subsampling is not Magic: Why Large Batch Sizes Work for Differentially Private Stochastic Optimisation}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/33425}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_subspace_46059, title = {{Subspace Optimization for Large Language Models with Convergence Guarantees}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/46498}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_nesterov_46316, title = {{Nesterov Method for Asynchronous Pipeline Parallel Optimization}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/46245}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_swan_46502, title = {{SWAN: SGD with Normalization and Whitening Enables Stateless LLM Training}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/46065}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_lora_46962, title = {{LoRA-One: One-Step Full Gradient Could Suffice for Fine-Tuning Large Language Models, Provably and Efficiently}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/45618}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_mars_47108, title = {{MARS: Unleashing the Power of Variance Reduction for Training Large Models}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/45479}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_one_47441, title = {{One-Step Generalization Ratio Guided Optimization for Domain Generalization}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/45152}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_on_48622, title = {{On the Duality between Gradient Transformations and Adapters}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/43999}, } @inproceedings{icml2026_mitigating_49489, title = {{Mitigating Staleness in Asynchronous Pipeline Parallelism via Basis Rotation}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=31iky6wFu5}, } @inproceedings{icml2026_gradpower_51021, title = {{GradPower: Powering Gradients for Faster Language Model Pre-Training}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=I9pDKCWYXk}, }