Context Compression papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Context Compression went from 39 papers in 2023 to 136 in 2026, roughly 3.5x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Context Compression work: 123 papers from 2023 to 2026, 34% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Deep learning · large language models: papers tagged with both rose from 1 in 2023 to 13 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Long Context and Memory, it ranks #4 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Retrieval Memory, is up 6.6x versus 3.5x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026A Free Lunch in LLM Compression: Revisiting Retraining after Pruning
• ICML 2026A Unified Sparse Attention via Multi-Granularity Compression
• ICLR 2026An evolutionary perspective on modes of learning in Transformers
• CVPR 2026AstraNav-Memory Contexts Compression for Long Memory
• NeurIPS 2025AdmTree: Compressing Lengthy Context with Adaptive Semantic Trees
• ICML 2025Does learning the right latent variables necessarily improve in-context learning?
• ICLR 2025Approaching Rate-Distortion Limits in Neural Compression with Lattice Transform Coding
• CVPR 2025ECVC: Exploiting Non-Local Correlations in Multiple Frames for Contextual Video Compression
• NeurIPS 2024StreamingDialogue: Prolonged Dialogue Learning via Long Context Compression with Minimal Losses
• ICML 2024Agnostic Sample Compression Schemes for Regression
• ICLR 2024Compressed Context Memory for Online Language Model Interaction
• CVPR 2024Diversity-aware Channel Pruning for StyleGAN Compression
• NeurIPS 2023Do Not Marginalize Mechanisms, Rather Consolidate!
• ICML 2023Private Federated Learning with Autotuned Compression
• ICLR 2023$k$NN Prompting: Beyond-Context Learning with Calibration-Free Nearest Neighbor Inference
• CVPR 2023AutoAD: Movie Description in Context
• NeurIPS 2026A Self-Evolving Framework for Efficient Terminal Agents via Observational Context Compression
• ICML 2026Context-Driven Incremental Compression for Multi-Turn Dialogue Generation
• ICLR 2026Autoencoding-Free Context Compression for LLMs via Contextual Semantic Anchors
• CVPR 2026Featurising Pixels from Dynamic 3D Scenes with Linear In-Context Learners

All Context Compression papers

109 papers, page 3 of 3

101. NeurIPS 2025SmallKV: Small Model Assisted Compensation of KV Cache Compression for Efficient LLM Inference
102. NeurIPS 2025Stochastic Forward-Forward Learning through Representational Dimensionality Compression
103. NeurIPS 2025Theoretical Insights into In-context Learning with Unlabeled Data
104. NeurIPS 2025UniGist: Towards General and Hardware-aligned Sequence-level Long Context Compression
105. NeurIPS 2025Unlabeled Data Can Provably Enhance In-Context Learning of Transformers
106. NeurIPS 2025Value-Guided KV Compression for LLMs via Approximated CUR Decomposition
107. NeurIPS 2025Vision-centric Token Compression in Large Language Model
108. NeurIPS 2025Vocabulary In-Context Learning in Transformers: Benefits of Positional Encoding
109. NeurIPS 2025zip2zip: Inference-Time Adaptive Tokenization via Online Compression

FAQ

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

365 in total: 39 in 2023, 81 in 2024, 109 in 2025, 136 in 2026.

How many Context Compression papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 50 Context Compression papers, versus 38 the year before.

How many Context Compression papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 28 Context Compression papers, versus 32 the year before.

How many Context Compression papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 39 Context Compression papers, versus 20 the year before.

How many Context Compression papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 19 Context Compression papers, versus 19 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Context Compression papers?

NeurIPS, with 123 papers from 2023 to 2026.