Context Compression papers, 2023–2026
KV compression
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 365 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 8 | 13 | 5 | 13 | 39 |
| 2024 | 27 | 15 | 33 | 6 | 81 |
| 2025 | 38 | 32 | 20 | 19 | 109 |
| 2026 | 50 | 28 | 39 | 19 | 136 |
Representative papers
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- 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
365 papers, page 7 of 8
- NeurIPS 2024Causal Context Adjustment Loss for Learned Image Compression
- NeurIPS 2024ContextGS : Compact 3D Gaussian Splatting with Anchor Level Context Model
- NeurIPS 2024DiTFastAttn: Attention Compression for Diffusion Transformer Models
- NeurIPS 2024DuQuant: Distributing Outliers via Dual Transformation Makes Stronger Quantized LLMs
- NeurIPS 2024Efficient Large Multi-modal Models via Visual Context Compression
- NeurIPS 2024Enhancing In-Context Learning Performance with just SVD-Based Weight Pruning: A Theoretical Perspective
- NeurIPS 2024ESPACE: Dimensionality Reduction of Activations for Model Compression
- NeurIPS 2024Euclidean distance compression via deep random features
- NeurIPS 2024Exploring Context Window of Large Language Models via Decomposed Positional Vectors
- NeurIPS 2024In-Context Learning with Transformers: Softmax Attention Adapts to Function Lipschitzness
- NeurIPS 2024KVQuant: Towards 10 Million Context Length LLM Inference with KV Cache Quantization
- NeurIPS 2024Learning Partitions from Context
- NeurIPS 2024MagR: Weight Magnitude Reduction for Enhancing Post-Training Quantization
- NeurIPS 2024Make Your LLM Fully Utilize the Context
- NeurIPS 2024MeLLoC: Lossless Compression with High-order Mechanism Learning
- NeurIPS 2024MiniCache: KV Cache Compression in Depth Dimension for Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024One-Layer Transformer Provably Learns One-Nearest Neighbor In Context
- NeurIPS 2024Random Cycle Coding: Lossless Compression of Cluster Assignments via Bits-Back Coding
- NeurIPS 2024S2HPruner: Soft-to-Hard Distillation Bridges the Discretization Gap in Pruning
- NeurIPS 2024SlimGPT: Layer-wise Structured Pruning for Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024SlimSAM: 0.1% Data Makes Segment Anything Slim
- NeurIPS 2024StreamingDialogue: Prolonged Dialogue Learning via Long Context Compression with Minimal Losses
- NeurIPS 2024Towards Next-Level Post-Training Quantization of Hyper-Scale Transformers
- NeurIPS 2024Universal In-Context Approximation By Prompting Fully Recurrent Models
- NeurIPS 2024Vision Model Pre-training on Interleaved Image-Text Data via Latent Compression Learning
- NeurIPS 2024xRAG: Extreme Context Compression for Retrieval-augmented Generation with One Token
- CVPR 2023AutoAD: Movie Description in Context
- CVPR 2023Class-Incremental Exemplar Compression for Class-Incremental Learning
- CVPR 2023Context De-Confounded Emotion Recognition
- CVPR 2023Context-Based Trit-Plane Coding for Progressive Image Compression
- CVPR 2023Discriminator-Cooperated Feature Map Distillation for GAN Compression
- CVPR 2023Efficient Hierarchical Entropy Model for Learned Point Cloud Compression
- CVPR 2023Learned Image Compression With Mixed Transformer-CNN Architectures
- CVPR 2023Leveraging Temporal Context in Low Representational Power Regimes
- CVPR 2023Motion Information Propagation for Neural Video Compression
- CVPR 2023Neural Video Compression With Diverse Contexts
- CVPR 2023TINC: Tree-Structured Implicit Neural Compression
- CVPR 2023Ultra-High Resolution Segmentation With Ultra-Rich Context: A Novel Benchmark
- CVPR 2023Video Compression With Entropy-Constrained Neural Representations
- ICLR 2023$k$NN Prompting: Beyond-Context Learning with Calibration-Free Nearest Neighbor Inference
- ICLR 2023A Unified Framework for Soft Threshold Pruning
- ICLR 2023Accurate Neural Training with 4-bit Matrix Multiplications at Standard Formats
- ICLR 2023Artificial Neuronal Ensembles with Learned Context Dependent Gating
- ICLR 2023CrAM: A Compression-Aware Minimizer
- ICLR 2023DFPC: Data flow driven pruning of coupled channels without data.
- ICLR 2023Generate rather than Retrieve: Large Language Models are Strong Context Generators
- ICLR 2023How Informative is the Approximation Error from Tensor Decomposition for Neural Network Compression?
- ICLR 2023MIMT: Masked Image Modeling Transformer for Video Compression
- ICLR 2023Pruning Deep Neural Networks from a Sparsity Perspective
- ICLR 2023RLx2: Training a Sparse Deep Reinforcement Learning Model from Scratch
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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.