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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1. CVPR 2026Air-Know Arbiter-Calibrated Knowledge-Internalizing Robust Network for Composed Image Retrieval
2. CVPR 2026ALLNet Multi-task Dense Prediction for Degraded Images
3. CVPR 2026Beyond Caption-Based Queries in Video Moment Retrieval
4. CVPR 2026Beyond Global Similarity Multi-Conditional Retrieval for Fine-Grained Cross-Modal Understanding
5. CVPR 2026Beyond Semantic Search Towards Referential Anchoring in Composed Image Retrieval
6. CVPR 2026Beyond Tie Points Satellite Image Block Adjustment based on Dense
7. CVPR 2026BluRef Unsupervised Image Deblurring with Dense-Matching References
8. CVPR 2026Camouflage-aware Image-Text Retrieval via Expert Collaboration
9. CVPR 2026CARLoS Retrieval via Concise Assessment Representation of LoRAs at Scale
10. CVPR 2026CLIP Is Shortsighted Paying Attention Beyond the First Sentence
11. CVPR 2026Compositional Transformation Reasoning for Composed Video Retrieval
12. CVPR 2026Defending Unauthorized Model Merging via Dual-Stage Weight Protection
13. CVPR 2026Dense Metric Depth Completion from Sparse Direct Time-of-Flight Sensors
14. CVPR 2026DLWM Dual Latent World Models enable Holistic Gaussian-centric Pre-training in
15. CVPR 2026Duala Dual-Level Alignment of Subjects and Stimuli for Cross-Subject fMRI
16. CVPR 2026Efficient and High-Fidelity Omni Modality Retrieval
17. CVPR 2026Event6D Event-based Novel Object 6D Pose Tracking
18. CVPR 2026FE2E From Editor to Dense Geometry Estimator
19. CVPR 2026Fixed Anchors Are Not Enough Dynamic Retrieval and Persistent Homology
20. CVPR 2026Follow the Saliency Supervised Saliency for Retrieval-augmented Dense Video Captioning
21. CVPR 2026From Spots to Pixels Dense Spatial Gene Expression Prediction from
22. CVPR 2026Intra-class Distribution-guided Generative Hashing with Neighbor Refinement for Cross-modal Retrieval
23. CVPR 2026Language-driven Fine-grained Retrieval
24. CVPR 2026LiDeRe A Lightweight Readout for Fast and Data-Efficient Dense Prediction
25. CVPR 2026LoD-Loc v3 Generalized Aerial Localization in Dense Cities using Instance
26. CVPR 2026Love Me Love My Label Rethinking the Role of Labels
27. CVPR 2026MotionCrafter Dense Geometry and Motion Reconstruction with a 4D VAE
28. CVPR 2026PatchAlign3D Local Feature Alignment for Dense 3D Shape Understanding
29. CVPR 2026POGA Paraphrased and Oppositional Graph Alignment for Fine-Grained Cross-Modal Retrieval
30. CVPR 2026Push-and-Step From RL-Based Balance Recovery to Physical Simulation of Dense
31. CVPR 2026RAG-TP A General Framework for Vehicle Trajectory Prediction via Retrieval-Augmented
32. CVPR 2026ReCALL Recalibrating Capability Degradation for MLLM-based Composed Image Retrieval
33. CVPR 2026Reconstructing CLIP for Open-Vocabulary Dense Perception
34. CVPR 2026Registration-Free Learnable Multi-View Capture of Faces in Dense Semantic Correspondence
35. CVPR 2026ReMatch Boosting Representation through Matching for Multimodal Retrieval
36. CVPR 2026Representing 3D Faces with Learnable B-Spline Volumes
37. CVPR 2026Rethinking Diffusion Model-Based Video Super-Resolution Leveraging Dense Guidance from Aligned
38. CVPR 2026RI-Mamba Rotation-Invariant Mamba for Robust Text-to-Shape Retrieval
39. CVPR 2026SAIL Similarity-Aware Guidance and Inter-Caption Augmentation-based Learning for Weakly-Supervised Dense
40. CVPR 2026SAR2Net Learning Spatially Anchored Representations for Retrieval-Guided Cross-Stain Alignment
41. CVPR 2026SATTC Structure-Aware Label-Free Test-Time Calibration for Cross-Subject EEG-to-Image Retrieval
42. CVPR 2026Scaling Dense Event-Stream Pretraining from Visual Foundation Models
43. CVPR 2026Shoe Style-Invariant and Ground-Aware Learning for Dense Foot Contact Estimation
44. CVPR 2026Tackling Alignment Ambiguity in Person Retrieval through Conversational Attribute Mining
45. CVPR 2026TextFM Robust Semi-dense Feature Matching with Language Guidance
46. CVPR 2026TIGER A Unified Framework for Time Images and Geo-location Retrieval
47. CVPR 2026Unblur-SLAM Dense Neural SLAM for Blurry Inputs
48. CVPR 2026Unified Multimodal Models as Auto-Encoders
49. CVPR 2026UPLiFT Efficient Pixel-Dense Feature Upsampling with Local Attenders
50. CVPR 2026VisualOverload Probing Visual Understanding of VLMs in Really Dense Scenes

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.