External Memory papers, 2023–2026
Memory modules
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 130 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- External Memory went from 21 papers in 2023 to 56 in 2026, roughly 2.7x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most External Memory work: 46 papers from 2023 to 2026, 35% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with AI Agents: papers tagged with both rose from 0 in 2023 to 9 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Long Context and Memory, it ranks #5 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Retrieval Memory, is up 6.6x versus 2.7x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 21 |
| 2024 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 25 |
| 2025 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 28 |
| 2026 | 26 | 13 | 13 | 4 | 56 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 2026Efficient Memory Crystallization for Graph Learning under Non-Stationary Distribution Shifts
- ICML 2026A Queueing-Theoretic Framework for Stability Analysis of LLM Inference with KV Cache Memory Constraints
- ICLR 2026Pre-training Limited Memory Language Models with Internal and External Knowledge
- CVPR 2026Spatial-SAM Spatially Consistent 3D Electron Microscopy Segmentation with SDF Memory
- NeurIPS 2025Future Link Prediction Without Memory or Aggregation
- ICML 2025Agent Workflow Memory
- ICLR 2025BitStack: Any-Size Compression of Large Language Models in Variable Memory Environments
- CVPR 2025Breaking the Memory Barrier of Contrastive Loss via Tile-Based Strategy
- NeurIPS 2024Pipeline Parallelism with Controllable Memory
- ICML 2024Graph External Attention Enhanced Transformer
- ICLR 2024The Cost of Scaling Down Large Language Models: Reducing Model Size Affects Memory before In-context Learning
- CVPR 2024RTracker: Recoverable Tracking via PN Tree Structured Memory
- NeurIPS 2023Transformer as a hippocampal memory consolidation model based on NMDAR-inspired nonlinearity
- ICML 2023Memory-Based Meta-Learning on Non-Stationary Distributions
- ICLR 2023Mass-Editing Memory in a Transformer
- CVPR 2023Bilateral Memory Consolidation for Continual Learning
- NeurIPS 2026Memory Grafting: Scaling Language Model Pre-training via Offline Conditional Memory
- ICML 2026Generalized Linear Bandits with Memory
- ICLR 2026QKV Projections Require a Fraction of Their Memory
- CVPR 2026Captain Safari A World Engine with Pose-Aligned 3D Memory
All External Memory papers
8 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICLR 2023A Model or 603 Exemplars: Towards Memory-Efficient Class-Incremental Learning
- ICLR 2023GAMR: A Guided Attention Model for (visual) Reasoning
- ICLR 2023Mass-Editing Memory in a Transformer
- ICLR 2023Memory Gym: Partially Observable Challenges to Memory-Based Agents
- ICLR 2023POPGym: Benchmarking Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2023Replay Memory as An Empirical MDP: Combining Conservative Estimation with Experience Replay
- ICLR 2023Short-Term Memory Convolutions
- ICLR 2023Simplicial Hopfield networks
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FAQ
- How many External Memory papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 130 in total: 21 in 2023, 25 in 2024, 28 in 2025, 56 in 2026.
- How many External Memory papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 26 External Memory papers, versus 12 the year before.
- How many External Memory papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 13 External Memory papers, versus 10 the year before.
- How many External Memory papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 13 External Memory papers, versus 3 the year before.
- How many External Memory papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 4 External Memory papers, versus 3 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most External Memory papers?
- NeurIPS, with 46 papers from 2023 to 2026.