Dense Retrieval papers, 2023–2026
Dual encoders and ANN
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 401 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | 12 | 8 | 34 | 60 |
| 2024 | 23 | 14 | 22 | 33 | 92 |
| 2025 | 35 | 12 | 10 | 30 | 87 |
| 2026 | 51 | 26 | 35 | 50 | 162 |
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
162 papers, page 4 of 4
- NeurIPS 2026Retrieval-Centric Deep Learning in Growing Nonparametric Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2026Sinkhorn Based Associative Memory Retrieval Using Spherical Hellinger Kantorovich Dynamics
- NeurIPS 2026TIGER-FG: Text-Guided Implicit Fine-Grained Grounding for E-commerce Retrieval
- NeurIPS 2026Track4D: Representing Dense 3D Tracking for Video Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2026TrackCraft3R: Repurposing Video Diffusion Transformers for Dense 3D Tracking
- NeurIPS 2026TRIM: A Theory of Retrieval with Incremental Memory -- Defect, Benefit, and Critical Horizon
- NeurIPS 2026VecDBLens: A Modular Framework for Diagnosing Vector Databases Retrieval Pipelines
- NeurIPS 2026VidVec: Unlocking Video MLLM Embeddings for Video-Text Retrieval
- NeurIPS 2026When Does Graph Retrieval Become Answer-Supporting Evidence? A Diagnostic Audit of GraphRAG
- NeurIPS 2026When to Trust Memory: Retrieval-Guided Probabilistic Spatiotemporal Forecasting under Distribution Shift
- NeurIPS 2026Where Root Cause Analysis Fails: A Retrieval-Reranking Decomposition
- NeurIPS 2026Your Embedding Model Is SMARTer Than You Think
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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.