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 8 of 9

351. CVPR 2023Detecting Backdoors in Pre-Trained Encoders
352. CVPR 2023DKM: Dense Kernelized Feature Matching for Geometry Estimation
353. CVPR 2023DPF: Learning Dense Prediction Fields With Weak Supervision
354. CVPR 2023DSFNet: Dual Space Fusion Network for Occlusion-Robust 3D Dense Face Alignment
355. CVPR 2023Dual Alignment Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Video-Text Retrieval
356. CVPR 2023End-to-End 3D Dense Captioning With Vote2Cap-DETR
357. CVPR 2023ESLAM: Efficient Dense SLAM System Based on Hybrid Representation of Signed Distance Fields
358. CVPR 2023Event-Guided Person Re-Identification via Sparse-Dense Complementary Learning
359. CVPR 2023Fast Monocular Scene Reconstruction With Global-Sparse Local-Dense Grids
360. CVPR 2023Hierarchical Dense Correlation Distillation for Few-Shot Segmentation
361. CVPR 2023Hierarchical Video-Moment Retrieval and Step-Captioning
362. CVPR 2023Improving Cross-Modal Retrieval With Set of Diverse Embeddings
363. CVPR 2023Learning Multi-Modal Class-Specific Tokens for Weakly Supervised Dense Object Localization
364. CVPR 2023Learning To Detect Mirrors From Videos via Dual Correspondences
365. CVPR 2023One-to-Few Label Assignment for End-to-End Dense Detection
366. CVPR 2023Open-Set Fine-Grained Retrieval via Prompting Vision-Language Evaluator
367. CVPR 2023Pix2map: Cross-Modal Retrieval for Inferring Street Maps From Images
368. CVPR 2023Probabilistic Prompt Learning for Dense Prediction
369. CVPR 2023R2Former: Unified Retrieval and Reranking Transformer for Place Recognition
370. CVPR 2023Revisiting Self-Similarity: Structural Embedding for Image Retrieval
371. CVPR 2023RONO: Robust Discriminative Learning With Noisy Labels for 2D-3D Cross-Modal Retrieval
372. CVPR 2023SmallCap: Lightweight Image Captioning Prompted With Retrieval Augmentation
373. CVPR 2023Unsupervised 3D Shape Reconstruction by Part Retrieval and Assembly
374. CVPR 2023ViLEM: Visual-Language Error Modeling for Image-Text Retrieval
375. CVPR 2023Zero-Shot Dual-Lens Super-Resolution
376. ICLR 2023Accurate Image Restoration with Attention Retractable Transformer
377. ICLR 2023Automating Nearest Neighbor Search Configuration with Constrained Optimization
378. ICLR 2023DENSE RGB SLAM WITH NEURAL IMPLICIT MAPS
379. ICLR 2023Modeling Sequential Sentence Relation to Improve Cross-lingual Dense Retrieval
380. ICLR 2023Patch-Level Contrasting without Patch Correspondence for Accurate and Dense Contrastive Representation Learning
381. ICLR 2023Promptagator: Few-shot Dense Retrieval From 8 Examples
382. ICLR 2023Sparse Upcycling: Training Mixture-of-Experts from Dense Checkpoints
383. ICLR 2023Sparsity-Constrained Optimal Transport
384. ICLR 2023Treeformer: Dense Gradient Trees for Efficient Attention Computation
385. ICLR 2023Unicom: Universal and Compact Representation Learning for Image Retrieval
386. ICLR 2023Universal Few-shot Learning of Dense Prediction Tasks with Visual Token Matching
387. ICLR 2023Universal Vision-Language Dense Retrieval: Learning A Unified Representation Space for Multi-Modal Retrieval
388. ICML 2023Everyone's Preference Changes Differently: A Weighted Multi-Interest Model For Retrieval
389. ICML 2023IncDSI: Incrementally Updatable Document Retrieval
390. ICML 2023Learning Dense Correspondences between Photos and Sketches
391. ICML 2023Pre-computed memory or on-the-fly encoding? A hybrid approach to retrieval augmentation makes the most of your compute
392. ICML 2023Pruning via Sparsity-indexed ODE: a Continuous Sparsity Viewpoint
393. ICML 2023ReDi: Efficient Learning-Free Diffusion Inference via Trajectory Retrieval
394. ICML 2023Robust Weak Supervision with Variational Auto-Encoders
395. ICML 2023Tighter Bounds on the Expressivity of Transformer Encoders
396. NeurIPS 2023AiluRus: A Scalable ViT Framework for Dense Prediction
397. NeurIPS 2023Bypassing spike sorting: Density-based decoding using spike localization from dense multielectrode probes
398. NeurIPS 2023Dense-Exponential Random Features: Sharp Positive Estimators of the Gaussian Kernel
399. NeurIPS 2023Model-enhanced Vector Index
400. NeurIPS 2023SOAR: Improved Indexing for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search

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.