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. ICML 2026``Someone Hid It!'': Query-Agnostic Black-Box Attacks on LLM-Based Retrieval
2. ICML 2026$\mathbb{R}^{2k}$ is Theoretically Large Enough for Embedding-based Top-$k$ Retrieval
3. ICML 2026AgentSelect: Benchmark for Narrative Query-to-Agent Recommendation
4. ICML 2026Beyond Global Alignment: Fine-Grained Motion-Language Retrieval via Pyramidal Shapley-Taylor Learning
5. ICML 2026Beyond Hamming: Query-Aware Decoding of Binary Cosine Sketches
6. ICML 2026Coverage, Not Averages: Semantic Stratification for Trustworthy Retrieval Evaluation
7. ICML 2026Deep Discriminative Structure Proxy Hashing for Cross-modal Retrieval
8. ICML 2026Dense associative memory for Gaussian distributions
9. ICML 2026DenseMLLM: Standard Multimodal LLMs for Dense Prediction
10. ICML 2026Dual Quaternion SE(3) Synchronization with Recovery Guarantees
11. ICML 2026Efficient, Property-Aligned Fan-Out Retrieval via RL-Compiled Diffusion
12. ICML 2026ElicitR: Unlocking Latent Reasoning in Dense Retrievers via Generative Regularization
13. ICML 2026Full-Batch Gradient Descent Outperforms One-Pass SGD: Sample Complexity Separation in Single-Index Learning
14. ICML 2026Geometric Entropy and Retrieval Phase Transitions in Continuous Thermal Dense Associative Memory
15. ICML 2026GRAPE: Let GRPO Supervise Query Rewriting by Ranking for Retrieval
16. ICML 2026Hierarchical Retrieval at Scale: Bridging Interpretability and Efficiency
17. ICML 2026HOBIT: Hardness Optimized Batch Sampling for InfoNCE Training
18. ICML 2026HypRAG: Hyperbolic Dense Retrieval for Retrieval Augmented Generation
19. ICML 2026Improving Topic Modeling by Distilling Soft Labels from Language Models
20. ICML 2026Language Model Networks: Supervision-Efficient Learning through Dense Communication
21. ICML 2026Learning with Admissibility: Robust Fuzzy Hashing for Cross-Modal Retrieval with Noisy Labels
22. ICML 2026mmBERT: A Modern Multilingual Encoder with Annealed Language Learning
23. ICML 2026Neural Thickets: Diverse Task Experts Are Dense Around Pretrained Weights
24. ICML 2026No More K-means: Single-Stage Sparse Coding for Efficient Multi-Vector Retrieval
25. ICML 2026PCA of Probability Measures: Sparse and Dense Sampling Regimes
26. ICML 2026RAT+: Train Dense, Infer Sparse - Recurrence Augmented Attention for Dilated Inference
27. ICML 2026Robust Self-reflective Hashing for Cross-modal Retrieval with Noisy Label
28. ICML 2026Similarity Is Not Logic: Factored Inference for Dual-Encoder Vision-Language Models
29. ICML 2026SOLAR: Self-supervised Joint Learning for Symmetric Multimodal Retrieval
30. ICML 2026Spectral Gradient Descent Mitigates Anisotropy-Driven Misalignment: A Case Study in Phase Retrieval
31. ICML 2026Temporal Preference Optimization for Unsupervised Retrieval
32. ICML 2026The Crowded Embedding Space: A Mean-Field Mechanism for Emergent Marginalization in Retrieval-Augmented Agents
33. ICML 2026TimeRewarder: Learning Dense Reward from Passive Videos via Frame-wise Temporal Distance
34. ICML 2026Unifying Adversarial Robustness and Training Across Text Scoring Models
35. ICML 2026With Argus Eyes: Assessing Retrieval Gaps via Uncertainty Scoring to Detect and Remedy Retrieval Blind Spots
36. ICML 2025Contradiction Retrieval via Contrastive Learning with Sparsity
37. ICML 2025Distributed Nonparametric Estimation: from Sparse to Dense Samples per Terminal
38. ICML 2025In-Context Denoising with One-Layer Transformers: Connections between Attention and Associative Memory Retrieval
39. ICML 2025In-Context Learning as Conditioned Associative Memory Retrieval
40. ICML 2025Learnware Specification via Dual Alignment
41. ICML 2025Locality Preserving Markovian Transition for Instance Retrieval
42. ICML 2025MUDDFormer: Breaking Residual Bottlenecks in Transformers via Multiway Dynamic Dense Connections
43. ICML 2025Nonparametric Modern Hopfield Models
44. ICML 2025POQD: Performance-Oriented Query Decomposer for Multi-vector retrieval
45. ICML 2025SHE: Streaming-media Hashing Retrieval
46. ICML 2024A Fresh Take on Stale Embeddings: Improving Dense Retriever Training with Corrector Networks
47. ICML 2024A Statistical Framework for Data-dependent Retrieval-Augmented Models
48. ICML 2024Accelerating Iterative Retrieval-augmented Language Model Serving with Speculation
49. ICML 2024Benchmarking and Building Long-Context Retrieval Models with LoCo and M2-BERT
50. ICML 2024Compute Better Spent: Replacing Dense Layers with Structured Matrices

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.