Long Context papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Long Context went from 66 papers in 2023 to 341 in 2026, roughly 5.2x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Long Context work: 298 papers from 2023 to 2026, 36% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with AI Agents: papers tagged with both rose from 0 in 2023 to 45 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Long Context and Memory, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Retrieval Memory, is up 6.6x versus 5.2x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026Accelerating Long-Context LLM Prefill via Layer-wise Progressive Token Pruning in Local Deployment
• ICML 2026AdaSplash-2: Faster Differentiable Sparse Attention
• ICLR 2026An evolutionary perspective on modes of learning in Transformers
• CVPR 2026AR2-4FV Anchored Referring and Re-identification for Long-Term Grounding in Fixed-View
• NeurIPS 2025A Controllable Examination for Long-Context Language Models
• ICML 2025CateKV: On Sequential Consistency for Long-Context LLM Inference Acceleration
• ICLR 2025$\text{D}_{2}\text{O}$: Dynamic Discriminative Operations for Efficient Long-Context Inference of Large Language Models
• CVPR 2025BIMBA: Selective-Scan Compression for Long-Range Video Question Answering
• NeurIPS 2024[Re] CUDA: Curriculum of Data Augmentation for Long‐tailed Recognition
• ICML 2024Benchmarking and Building Long-Context Retrieval Models with LoCo and M2-BERT
• ICLR 2024CLEX: Continuous Length Extrapolation for Large Language Models
• CVPR 2024GigaTraj: Predicting Long-term Trajectories of Hundreds of Pedestrians in Gigapixel Complex Scenes
• NeurIPS 2023A Single 2D Pose with Context is Worth Hundreds for 3D Human Pose Estimation
• ICML 2023CAB: Comprehensive Attention Benchmarking on Long Sequence Modeling
• ICLR 2023$k$NN Prompting: Beyond-Context Learning with Calibration-Free Nearest Neighbor Inference
• CVPR 2023AutoAD: Movie Description in Context
• NeurIPS 2026AdaCal: Adaptive Calibration for Robust Sparse Attention in Long-Context LLMs
• ICML 2026Artificial Hippocampus Networks for Efficient Long-Context Modeling
• ICLR 2026AutoSP: Unlocking Long-Context LLM Training Via Compiler-Based Sequence Parallelism
• CVPR 2026AstraNav-Memory Contexts Compression for Long Memory

All Long Context papers

60 papers, page 2 of 2

51. ICML 2024SimPro: A Simple Probabilistic Framework Towards Realistic Long-Tailed Semi-Supervised Learning
52. ICML 2024SIN: Selective and Interpretable Normalization for Long-Term Time Series Forecasting
53. ICML 2024SparseTSF: Modeling Long-term Time Series Forecasting with *1k* Parameters
54. ICML 2024Training-Free Long-Context Scaling of Large Language Models
55. ICML 2024Transformers Implement Functional Gradient Descent to Learn Non-Linear Functions In Context
56. ICML 2024Transformers Learn Nonlinear Features In Context: Nonconvex Mean-field Dynamics on the Attention Landscape
57. ICML 2024Viewing Transformers Through the Lens of Long Convolutions Layers
58. ICML 2024What is the Long-Run Distribution of Stochastic Gradient Descent? A Large Deviations Analysis
59. ICML 2024Why Larger Language Models Do In-context Learning Differently?
60. ICML 2024xT: Nested Tokenization for Larger Context in Large Images

FAQ

How many Long Context papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

838 in total: 66 in 2023, 176 in 2024, 255 in 2025, 341 in 2026.

How many Long Context papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 130 Long Context papers, versus 98 the year before.

How many Long Context papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 82 Long Context papers, versus 87 the year before.

How many Long Context papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 98 Long Context papers, versus 53 the year before.

How many Long Context papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 31 Long Context papers, versus 17 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Long Context papers?

NeurIPS, with 298 papers from 2023 to 2026.