Dense Retrieval papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Dense Retrieval went from 60 papers in 2023 to 162 in 2026, roughly 2.7x in three years.
• CVPR publishes the most Dense Retrieval work: 147 papers from 2023 to 2026, 37% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Retrieval Memory: papers tagged with both rose from 1 in 2023 to 21 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Information Retrieval, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Cross-Encoder Reranking, is up 3.0x versus 2.7x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026Half-Truths Break Similarity-Based Retrieval
• ICML 2026Deep Discriminative Structure Proxy Hashing for Cross-modal Retrieval
• ICLR 2026A Dense Subset Index for Collective Query Coverage
• CVPR 2026Beyond Caption-Based Queries in Video Moment Retrieval
• NeurIPS 2025Dense Associative Memory with Epanechnikov Energy
• ICML 2025Nonparametric Modern Hopfield Models
• ICLR 2025Contextual Document Embeddings
• CVPR 2025Adapting Dense Matching for Homography Estimation with Grid-based Acceleration
• NeurIPS 2024CARE: a Benchmark Suite for the Classification and Retrieval of Enzymes
• ICML 2024Compute Better Spent: Replacing Dense Layers with Structured Matrices
• ICLR 2024Adaptive Retrieval and Scalable Indexing for k-NN Search with Cross-Encoders
• CVPR 2024Dense Optical Tracking: Connecting the Dots
• NeurIPS 2023Bypassing spike sorting: Density-based decoding using spike localization from dense multielectrode probes
• ICML 2023Everyone's Preference Changes Differently: A Weighted Multi-Interest Model For Retrieval
• ICLR 2023Automating Nearest Neighbor Search Configuration with Constrained Optimization
• CVPR 2023Are Binary Annotations Sufficient? Video Moment Retrieval via Hierarchical Uncertainty-Based Active Learning
• NeurIPS 2026Hyperparameter Transfer for Dense Associative Memories
• ICML 2026Dense associative memory for Gaussian distributions
• ICLR 2026Beyond Instance-Level Alignment: Dual-Level Optimal Transport for Audio-Text Retrieval
• CVPR 2026Beyond Tie Points Satellite Image Block Adjustment based on Dense

All Dense Retrieval papers

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101. CVPR 2024Loopy-SLAM: Dense Neural SLAM with Loop Closures
102. CVPR 2024Passive Snapshot Coded Aperture Dual-Pixel RGB-D Imaging
103. CVPR 2024READ: Retrieval-Enhanced Asymmetric Diffusion for Motion Planning
104. CVPR 2024Retrieval-Augmented Embodied Agents
105. CVPR 2024RoMa: Robust Dense Feature Matching
106. CVPR 2024Self-Supervised Dual Contouring
107. CVPR 2024SplaTAM: Splat Track & Map 3D Gaussians for Dense RGB-D SLAM
108. CVPR 2024Streaming Dense Video Captioning
109. CVPR 2024Task-Driven Exploration: Decoupling and Inter-Task Feedback for Joint Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection
110. CVPR 2024Tri-Modal Motion Retrieval by Learning a Joint Embedding Space
111. CVPR 2024TurboSL: Dense Accurate and Fast 3D by Neural Inverse Structured Light
112. CVPR 2024UFineBench: Towards Text-based Person Retrieval with Ultra-fine Granularity
113. CVPR 2024UniGarmentManip: A Unified Framework for Category-Level Garment Manipulation via Dense Visual Correspondence
114. CVPR 20231% VS 100%: Parameter-Efficient Low Rank Adapter for Dense Predictions
115. CVPR 2023Ambiguity-Resistant Semi-Supervised Learning for Dense Object Detection
116. CVPR 2023Are Binary Annotations Sufficient? Video Moment Retrieval via Hierarchical Uncertainty-Based Active Learning
117. CVPR 2023CrOC: Cross-View Online Clustering for Dense Visual Representation Learning
118. CVPR 2023Data-Free Sketch-Based Image Retrieval
119. CVPR 2023DC2: Dual-Camera Defocus Control by Learning To Refocus
120. CVPR 2023DejaVu: Conditional Regenerative Learning To Enhance Dense Prediction
121. CVPR 2023Dense Distinct Query for End-to-End Object Detection
122. CVPR 2023Dense Network Expansion for Class Incremental Learning
123. CVPR 2023Detecting Backdoors in Pre-Trained Encoders
124. CVPR 2023DKM: Dense Kernelized Feature Matching for Geometry Estimation
125. CVPR 2023DPF: Learning Dense Prediction Fields With Weak Supervision
126. CVPR 2023DSFNet: Dual Space Fusion Network for Occlusion-Robust 3D Dense Face Alignment
127. CVPR 2023Dual Alignment Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Video-Text Retrieval
128. CVPR 2023End-to-End 3D Dense Captioning With Vote2Cap-DETR
129. CVPR 2023ESLAM: Efficient Dense SLAM System Based on Hybrid Representation of Signed Distance Fields
130. CVPR 2023Event-Guided Person Re-Identification via Sparse-Dense Complementary Learning
131. CVPR 2023Fast Monocular Scene Reconstruction With Global-Sparse Local-Dense Grids
132. CVPR 2023Hierarchical Dense Correlation Distillation for Few-Shot Segmentation
133. CVPR 2023Hierarchical Video-Moment Retrieval and Step-Captioning
134. CVPR 2023Improving Cross-Modal Retrieval With Set of Diverse Embeddings
135. CVPR 2023Learning Multi-Modal Class-Specific Tokens for Weakly Supervised Dense Object Localization
136. CVPR 2023Learning To Detect Mirrors From Videos via Dual Correspondences
137. CVPR 2023One-to-Few Label Assignment for End-to-End Dense Detection
138. CVPR 2023Open-Set Fine-Grained Retrieval via Prompting Vision-Language Evaluator
139. CVPR 2023Pix2map: Cross-Modal Retrieval for Inferring Street Maps From Images
140. CVPR 2023Probabilistic Prompt Learning for Dense Prediction
141. CVPR 2023R2Former: Unified Retrieval and Reranking Transformer for Place Recognition
142. CVPR 2023Revisiting Self-Similarity: Structural Embedding for Image Retrieval
143. CVPR 2023RONO: Robust Discriminative Learning With Noisy Labels for 2D-3D Cross-Modal Retrieval
144. CVPR 2023SmallCap: Lightweight Image Captioning Prompted With Retrieval Augmentation
145. CVPR 2023Unsupervised 3D Shape Reconstruction by Part Retrieval and Assembly
146. CVPR 2023ViLEM: Visual-Language Error Modeling for Image-Text Retrieval
147. CVPR 2023Zero-Shot Dual-Lens Super-Resolution

FAQ

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

401 in total: 60 in 2023, 92 in 2024, 87 in 2025, 162 in 2026.

How many Dense Retrieval papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 51 Dense Retrieval papers, versus 35 the year before.

How many Dense Retrieval papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 26 Dense Retrieval papers, versus 12 the year before.

How many Dense Retrieval papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 35 Dense Retrieval papers, versus 10 the year before.

How many Dense Retrieval papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 50 Dense Retrieval papers, versus 30 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Dense Retrieval papers?

CVPR, with 147 papers from 2023 to 2026.