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
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
33 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICML 2024Agnostic Sample Compression Schemes for Regression
- ICML 2024An Information-Theoretic Analysis of In-Context Learning
- ICML 2024Breaking through the learning plateaus of in-context learning in Transformer
- ICML 2024Can Mamba Learn How To Learn? A Comparative Study on In-Context Learning Tasks
- ICML 2024Conditional Language Learning with Context
- ICML 2024Data-free Neural Representation Compression with Riemannian Neural Dynamics
- ICML 2024Debiased Distribution Compression
- ICML 2024Dual Operating Modes of In-Context Learning
- ICML 2024Exact Conversion of In-Context Learning to Model Weights in Linearized-Attention Transformers
- ICML 2024ExCP: Extreme LLM Checkpoint Compression via Weight-Momentum Joint Shrinking
- ICML 2024Extreme Compression of Large Language Models via Additive Quantization
- ICML 2024Feedback Loops With Language Models Drive In-Context Reward Hacking
- ICML 2024Get More with LESS: Synthesizing Recurrence with KV Cache Compression for Efficient LLM Inference
- ICML 2024How do Transformers Perform In-Context Autoregressive Learning ?
- ICML 2024In-context Convergence of Transformers
- ICML 2024In-Context Learning Agents Are Asymmetric Belief Updaters
- ICML 2024In-context Learning on Function Classes Unveiled for Transformers
- ICML 2024In-Context Principle Learning from Mistakes
- ICML 2024In-Context Unlearning: Language Models as Few-Shot Unlearners
- ICML 2024Is In-Context Learning in Large Language Models Bayesian? A Martingale Perspective
- ICML 2024LLM Maybe LongLM: SelfExtend LLM Context Window Without Tuning
- ICML 2024LoCoCo: Dropping In Convolutions for Long Context Compression
- ICML 2024LongRoPE: Extending LLM Context Window Beyond 2 Million Tokens
- ICML 2024LoRAP: Transformer Sub-Layers Deserve Differentiated Structured Compression for Large Language Models
- ICML 2024Neural NeRF Compression
- ICML 2024PICLe: Eliciting Diverse Behaviors from Large Language Models with Persona In-Context Learning
- ICML 2024Position: Do pretrained Transformers Learn In-Context by Gradient Descent?
- ICML 2024Rethinking Adversarial Robustness in the Context of the Right to be Forgotten
- ICML 2024Training-Free Long-Context Scaling of Large Language Models
- ICML 2024Transformers Implement Functional Gradient Descent to Learn Non-Linear Functions In Context
- ICML 2024Transformers Learn Nonlinear Features In Context: Nonconvex Mean-field Dynamics on the Attention Landscape
- ICML 2024Why Larger Language Models Do In-context Learning Differently?
- ICML 2024xT: Nested Tokenization for Larger Context in Large Images
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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.