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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301. ICML 2024Compute Better Spent: Replacing Dense Layers with Structured Matrices
302. ICML 2024Dense Reward for Free in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
303. ICML 2024DiffFPR: Diffusion Prior for Oversampled Fourier Phase Retrieval
304. ICML 2024Dual Operating Modes of In-Context Learning
305. ICML 2024DUPLEX: Dual GAT for Complex Embedding of Directed Graphs
306. ICML 2024Exploring the Benefit of Activation Sparsity in Pre-training
307. ICML 2024Exponential Spectral Pursuit: An Effective Initialization Method for Sparse Phase Retrieval
308. ICML 2024Faster Streaming and Scalable Algorithms for Finding Directed Dense Subgraphs in Large Graphs
309. ICML 2024InstructRetro: Instruction Tuning post Retrieval-Augmented Pretraining
310. ICML 2024Parsimonious Learning-Augmented Approximations for Dense Instances of $\mathcal{NP}$-hard Problems
311. ICML 2024Repoformer: Selective Retrieval for Repository-Level Code Completion
312. ICML 2024Retrieval Across Any Domains via Large-scale Pre-trained Model
313. ICML 2024Semantically-correlated memories in a dense associative model
314. ICML 2024Sign Gradient Descent-based Neuronal Dynamics: ANN-to-SNN Conversion Beyond ReLU Network
315. ICML 2024SqueezeLLM: Dense-and-Sparse Quantization
316. ICML 2024Surface-VQMAE: Vector-quantized Masked Auto-encoders on Molecular Surfaces
317. ICML 2024Uniform Memory Retrieval with Larger Capacity for Modern Hopfield Models
318. ICML 2024USTAD: Unified Single-model Training Achieving Diverse Scores for Information Retrieval
319. NeurIPS 2024A Gradient Accumulation Method for Dense Retriever under Memory Constraint
320. NeurIPS 2024Adaptive Important Region Selection with Reinforced Hierarchical Search for Dense Object Detection
321. NeurIPS 2024An End-To-End Graph Attention Network Hashing for Cross-Modal Retrieval
322. NeurIPS 2024Assembly Fuzzy Representation on Hypergraph for Open-Set 3D Object Retrieval
323. NeurIPS 2024CARE: a Benchmark Suite for the Classification and Retrieval of Enzymes
324. NeurIPS 2024ChatQA: Surpassing GPT-4 on Conversational QA and RAG
325. NeurIPS 2024Counter-Current Learning: A Biologically Plausible Dual Network Approach for Deep Learning
326. NeurIPS 2024Dense Associative Memory Through the Lens of Random Features
327. NeurIPS 2024Dense Connector for MLLMs
328. NeurIPS 2024Dual Critic Reinforcement Learning under Partial Observability
329. NeurIPS 2024Exploiting Activation Sparsity with Dense to Dynamic-k Mixture-of-Experts Conversion
330. NeurIPS 2024Generative Retrieval Meets Multi-Graded Relevance
331. NeurIPS 2024Language Models as Hierarchy Encoders
332. NeurIPS 2024MatFormer: Nested Transformer for Elastic Inference
333. NeurIPS 2024Multi-Group Proportional Representation in Retrieval
334. NeurIPS 2024MUVERA: Multi-Vector Retrieval via Fixed Dimensional Encoding
335. NeurIPS 2024On Affine Homotopy between Language Encoders
336. NeurIPS 2024Provably Optimal Memory Capacity for Modern Hopfield Models: Transformer-Compatible Dense Associative Memories as Spherical Codes
337. NeurIPS 2024Retrieval & Fine-Tuning for In-Context Tabular Models
338. NeurIPS 2024SCRREAM : SCan, Register, REnder And Map: A Framework for Annotating Accurate and Dense 3D Indoor Scenes with a Benchmark
339. NeurIPS 2024Semi-Open 3D Object Retrieval via Hierarchical Equilibrium on Hypergraph
340. NeurIPS 2024Skinned Motion Retargeting with Dense Geometric Interaction Perception
341. NeurIPS 2024STaRK: Benchmarking LLM Retrieval on Textual and Relational Knowledge Bases
342. CVPR 20231% VS 100%: Parameter-Efficient Low Rank Adapter for Dense Predictions
343. CVPR 2023Ambiguity-Resistant Semi-Supervised Learning for Dense Object Detection
344. CVPR 2023Are Binary Annotations Sufficient? Video Moment Retrieval via Hierarchical Uncertainty-Based Active Learning
345. CVPR 2023CrOC: Cross-View Online Clustering for Dense Visual Representation Learning
346. CVPR 2023Data-Free Sketch-Based Image Retrieval
347. CVPR 2023DC2: Dual-Camera Defocus Control by Learning To Refocus
348. CVPR 2023DejaVu: Conditional Regenerative Learning To Enhance Dense Prediction
349. CVPR 2023Dense Distinct Query for End-to-End Object Detection
350. CVPR 2023Dense Network Expansion for Class Incremental Learning

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.