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

401 papers, page 4 of 9

151. NeurIPS 2026Retrieval-Centric Deep Learning in Growing Nonparametric Neural Networks
152. NeurIPS 2026Sinkhorn Based Associative Memory Retrieval Using Spherical Hellinger Kantorovich Dynamics
153. NeurIPS 2026TIGER-FG: Text-Guided Implicit Fine-Grained Grounding for E-commerce Retrieval
154. NeurIPS 2026Track4D: Representing Dense 3D Tracking for Video Diffusion Models
155. NeurIPS 2026TrackCraft3R: Repurposing Video Diffusion Transformers for Dense 3D Tracking
156. NeurIPS 2026TRIM: A Theory of Retrieval with Incremental Memory -- Defect, Benefit, and Critical Horizon
157. NeurIPS 2026VecDBLens: A Modular Framework for Diagnosing Vector Databases Retrieval Pipelines
158. NeurIPS 2026VidVec: Unlocking Video MLLM Embeddings for Video-Text Retrieval
159. NeurIPS 2026When Does Graph Retrieval Become Answer-Supporting Evidence? A Diagnostic Audit of GraphRAG
160. NeurIPS 2026When to Trust Memory: Retrieval-Guided Probabilistic Spatiotemporal Forecasting under Distribution Shift
161. NeurIPS 2026Where Root Cause Analysis Fails: A Retrieval-Reranking Decomposition
162. NeurIPS 2026Your Embedding Model Is SMARTer Than You Think
163. CVPR 2025Adapting Dense Matching for Homography Estimation with Grid-based Acceleration
164. CVPR 2025Boosting the Dual-Stream Architecture in Ultra-High Resolution Segmentation with Resolution-Biased Uncertainty Estimation
165. CVPR 2025Bridging Modalities: Improving Universal Multimodal Retrieval by Multimodal Large Language Models
166. CVPR 2025CoLLM: A Large Language Model for Composed Image Retrieval
167. CVPR 2025DeCLIP: Decoupled Learning for Open-Vocabulary Dense Perception
168. CVPR 2025Dense Dispersed Structured Light for Hyperspectral 3D Imaging of Dynamic Scenes
169. CVPR 2025Dense Match Summarization for Faster Two-view Estimation
170. CVPR 2025Dense-SfM: Structure from Motion with Dense Consistent Matching
171. CVPR 2025Dora: Sampling and Benchmarking for 3D Shape Variational Auto-Encoders
172. CVPR 2025EDCFlow: Exploring Temporally Dense Difference Maps for Event-based Optical Flow Estimation
173. CVPR 2025EDM: Equirectangular Projection-Oriented Dense Kernelized Feature Matching
174. CVPR 2025Event-Equalized Dense Video Captioning
175. CVPR 2025Flow-NeRF: Joint Learning of Geometry, Poses, and Dense Flow within Unified Neural Representations
176. CVPR 2025From Sparse to Dense: Camera Relocalization with Scene-Specific Detector from Feature Gaussian Splatting
177. CVPR 2025Fuzzy Multimodal Learning for Trusted Cross-modal Retrieval
178. CVPR 2025GarmentPile: Point-Level Visual Affordance Guided Retrieval and Adaptation for Cluttered Garments Manipulation
179. CVPR 2025Gaze-LLE: Gaze Target Estimation via Large-Scale Learned Encoders
180. CVPR 2025ILIAS: Instance-Level Image retrieval At Scale
181. CVPR 2025Imagine and Seek: Improving Composed Image Retrieval with an Imagined Proxy
182. CVPR 2025Incorporating Dense Knowledge Alignment into Unified Multimodal Representation Models
183. CVPR 2025LamRA: Large Multimodal Model as Your Advanced Retrieval Assistant
184. CVPR 2025Learning Compatible Multi-Prize Subnetworks for Asymmetric Retrieval
185. CVPR 2025MaRI: Material Retrieval Integration across Domains
186. CVPR 2025Narrating the Video: Boosting Text-Video Retrieval via Comprehensive Utilization of Frame-Level Captions
187. CVPR 2025NeighborRetr: Balancing Hub Centrality in Cross-Modal Retrieval
188. CVPR 2025ODHSR: Online Dense 3D Reconstruction of Humans and Scenes from Monocular Videos
189. CVPR 2025PerLA: Perceptive 3D Language Assistant
190. CVPR 2025PromptHash:Affinity-Prompted Collaborative Cross-Modal Learning for Adaptive Hashing Retrieval
191. CVPR 2025RAP: Retrieval-Augmented Personalization for Multimodal Large Language Models
192. CVPR 2025Video-ColBERT: Contextualized Late Interaction for Text-to-Video Retrieval
193. ICLR 2025Beyond Content Relevance: Evaluating Instruction Following in Retrieval Models
194. ICLR 2025Contextual Document Embeddings
195. ICLR 2025CR2PQ: Continuous Relative Rotary Positional Query for Dense Visual Representation Learning
196. ICLR 2025Grounding by Trying: LLMs with Reinforcement Learning-Enhanced Retrieval
197. ICLR 2025Making Transformer Decoders Better Differentiable Indexers
198. ICLR 2025Memory Efficient Transformer Adapter for Dense Predictions
199. ICLR 2025MLLM as Retriever: Interactively Learning Multimodal Retrieval for Embodied Agents
200. ICLR 2025NUDGE: Lightweight Non-Parametric Fine-Tuning of Embeddings for Retrieval

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.