External Memory papers, 2023–2026

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.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• 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

26 papers, page 1 of 1

1. NeurIPS 2026A Hebbian Recurrent Neural Network Explains the Hierarchical Geometry of Sequence Memory
2. NeurIPS 2026Approximate Memory Suffices for Universal Approximation with State Space Models
3. NeurIPS 2026AUTOMEM: Automated Learning of Memory as a Cognitive Skill
4. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Exemplar Selection: Value-Aware Memory Allocation in Replay-Based Continual Learning
5. NeurIPS 2026BLANP: Memory-Efficient Backpropagation-Free Local Training via Antithetic Node Perturbation
6. NeurIPS 2026Deployment-Memory LLM Test-Time Training Should Require Behavioral Evidence Beyond Perplexity
7. NeurIPS 2026Driving on Memory
8. NeurIPS 2026Dynamic Optimistic Constrained OCO with Memory via Delay Equivalence
9. NeurIPS 2026Efficient Memory Crystallization for Graph Learning under Non-Stationary Distribution Shifts
10. NeurIPS 2026Forgetting is Not Always Bad: A Neuro-Inspired Memory Repair Mechanism for Poisoned LLM Agents
11. NeurIPS 2026Going Down Memory Lane: Scaling Tokens for Video Stream Understanding with Dynamic KV-Cache Memory
12. NeurIPS 2026HeMeR: Heterogeneous Memory Reconciliation for Embodied Agents via Structured KV Reuse
13. NeurIPS 2026LinearARD: Linear-Memory Attention Distillation for RoPE Restoration
14. NeurIPS 2026MemContract: Contract-Sensitive Evaluation for Mutable Agent Memory
15. NeurIPS 2026MemDLM: Memory-Enhanced DLM Training
16. NeurIPS 2026Memory Grafting: Scaling Language Model Pre-training via Offline Conditional Memory
17. NeurIPS 2026MemPoison: Uncovering Persistent Memory Threats and Structural Blind Spots in LLM Agents
18. NeurIPS 2026Not All Gap Correction Helps: A Geometric View of External Information in LLM Inference
19. NeurIPS 2026PREPING: Building Agent Memory without Tasks
20. NeurIPS 2026Sharp Capacity Scaling of Spectral Optimizers in Learning Associative Memory
21. NeurIPS 2026Spectral Quantum Memory for Implicit Neural Representations
22. NeurIPS 2026Speeding up Log-Sum-Exp: Kernel Fusion at the Memory Wall, Integer Arithmetic at the Compute Wall
23. NeurIPS 2026StateLedger: Path-Addressed External Memory for Persistent Multi-Agent Systems
24. NeurIPS 2026The Compliance Trap: Diagnosing How AI Agents Consume Conflicting Memory
25. NeurIPS 2026TrajWiki: Source-Grounded Memory Trajectories for Long-Horizon Dialogue Agents
26. NeurIPS 2026V-LUMEN: Visual Lookup Memory for Embedding Scaling in Vision-Language Models

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.