Context Compression papers, 2023–2026
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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
57 papers, page 1 of 2
- CVPR 2026ApET Approximation-Error Guided Token Compression for Efficient VLMs
- CVPR 2026AstraNav-Memory Contexts Compression for Long Memory
- CVPR 2026Block-based Learned Image Compression without Blocking Artifacts
- CVPR 2026Common Inpainted Objects In-N-Out of Context
- CVPR 2026DA-VAE Plug-in Latent Compression for Diffusion via Detail Alignment
- CVPR 2026Featurising Pixels from Dynamic 3D Scenes with Linear In-Context Learners
- CVPR 2026FreqSIC Frequency-aware Stereo Image Compression with Bi-directional Checkerboard Context Model
- CVPR 2026Generative Video Compression with One-Dimensional Latent Representation
- CVPR 2026HiconAgent History Context-aware Policy Optimization for GUI Agents
- CVPR 2026Hybrid Token Compression for Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2026INSID3 Training-Free In-Context Segmentation with DINOv3
- CVPR 2026Meta-Learning In-Context Enables Training-Free Cross Subject Brain Decoding
- CVPR 2026MuKV Multi-Grained KV Cache Compression for Long Streaming Video Question-Answering
- CVPR 2026Neural Dynamic GI Random-Access Neural Compression for Temporal Lightmaps in
- CVPR 2026PR-MaGIC Prompt Refinement Via Mask Decoder Gradient Flow For In-Context
- CVPR 2026Semantic Context Matters Improving Conditioning for Autoregressive Models
- CVPR 2026Ultra-Fast Neural Video Compression
- CVPR 2026VecAttention Vector-wise Sparse Attention for Accelerating Long Context Inference
- CVPR 2026What Matters in Practical Learned Image Compression
- CVPR 2025CASP: Compression of Large Multimodal Models Based on Attention Sparsity
- CVPR 2025ECVC: Exploiting Non-Local Correlations in Multiple Frames for Contextual Video Compression
- CVPR 2025Embracing Collaboration Over Competition: Condensing Multiple Prompts for Visual In-Context Learning
- CVPR 2025Fitted Neural Lossless Image Compression
- CVPR 2025FLAVC: Learned Video Compression with Feature Level Attention
- CVPR 2025GA3CE: Unconstrained 3D Gaze Estimation with Gaze-Aware 3D Context Encoding
- CVPR 2025Learned Image Compression with Dictionary-based Entropy Model
- CVPR 2025Linear Attention Modeling for Learned Image Compression
- CVPR 2025Lost in Translation, Found in Context: Sign Language Translation with Contextual Cues
- CVPR 2025MambaIC: State Space Models for High-Performance Learned Image Compression
- CVPR 2025Neural Video Compression with Context Modulation
- CVPR 2025Neuron: Learning Context-Aware Evolving Representations for Zero-Shot Skeleton Action Recognition
- CVPR 2025OverLoCK: An Overview-first-Look-Closely-next ConvNet with Context-Mixing Dynamic Kernels
- CVPR 2025Perceptual Video Compression with Neural Wrapping
- CVPR 2025Random Conditioning for Diffusion Model Compression with Distillation
- CVPR 2025Random Conditioning with Distillation for Data-Efficient Diffusion Model Compression
- CVPR 2025Temporal Action Detection Model Compression by Progressive Block Drop
- CVPR 2025TopNet: Transformer-Efficient Occupancy Prediction Network for Octree-Structured Point Cloud Geometry Compression
- CVPR 2025VoCo-LLaMA: Towards Vision Compression with Large Language Models
- CVPR 2024Amodal Completion via Progressive Mixed Context Diffusion
- CVPR 2024CLiC: Concept Learning in Context
- CVPR 2024ContextSeg: Sketch Semantic Segmentation by Querying the Context with Attention
- CVPR 2024Diversity-aware Channel Pruning for StyleGAN Compression
- CVPR 2024In-Context Matting
- CVPR 2024Learned Lossless Image Compression based on Bit Plane Slicing
- 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
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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.