Long Context papers, 2023–2026
Long-window modeling
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 838 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 18 | 18 | 15 | 15 | 66 |
| 2024 | 52 | 43 | 60 | 21 | 176 |
| 2025 | 98 | 87 | 53 | 17 | 255 |
| 2026 | 130 | 82 | 98 | 31 | 341 |
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
176 papers, page 1 of 4
- CVPR 2024Amodal Completion via Progressive Mixed Context Diffusion
- CVPR 2024CLiC: Concept Learning in Context
- CVPR 2024Construct to Associate: Cooperative Context Learning for Domain Adaptive Point Cloud Segmentation
- CVPR 2024ContextSeg: Sketch Semantic Segmentation by Querying the Context with Attention
- CVPR 2024FlowTrack: Revisiting Optical Flow for Long-Range Dense Tracking
- CVPR 2024GigaTraj: Predicting Long-term Trajectories of Hundreds of Pedestrians in Gigapixel Complex Scenes
- CVPR 2024Grounded Question-Answering in Long Egocentric Videos
- CVPR 2024In-Context Matting
- CVPR 2024LEAP-VO: Long-term Effective Any Point Tracking for Visual Odometry
- CVPR 2024Link-Context Learning for Multimodal LLMs
- CVPR 2024LoCoNet: Long-Short Context Network for Active Speaker Detection
- CVPR 2024Long-Tail Class Incremental Learning via Independent Sub-prototype Construction
- CVPR 2024Long-Tailed Anomaly Detection with Learnable Class Names
- CVPR 2024LTGC: Long-tail Recognition via Leveraging LLMs-driven Generated Content
- CVPR 2024MM-Narrator: Narrating Long-form Videos with Multimodal In-Context Learning
- CVPR 2024Revisiting Adversarial Training Under Long-Tailed Distributions
- CVPR 2024Robust Emotion Recognition in Context Debiasing
- CVPR 2024Skeleton-in-Context: Unified Skeleton Sequence Modeling with In-Context Learning
- CVPR 2024Towards More Unified In-context Visual Understanding
- CVPR 2024Video ReCap: Recursive Captioning of Hour-Long Videos
- CVPR 2024Visual In-Context Prompting
- ICLR 2024A Benchmark for Learning to Translate a New Language from One Grammar Book
- ICLR 2024AMAGO: Scalable In-Context Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Agents
- ICLR 2024AntGPT: Can Large Language Models Help Long-term Action Anticipation from Videos?
- ICLR 2024BooookScore: A systematic exploration of book-length summarization in the era of LLMs
- ICLR 2024CausalLM is not optimal for in-context learning
- ICLR 2024CLEX: Continuous Length Extrapolation for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024Compressed Context Memory for Online Language Model Interaction
- ICLR 2024Context is Environment
- ICLR 2024Context-Aware Meta-Learning
- ICLR 2024Equivariant Matrix Function Neural Networks
- ICLR 2024FedLoGe: Joint Local and Generic Federated Learning under Long-tailed Data
- ICLR 2024FlashFFTConv: Efficient Convolutions for Long Sequences with Tensor Cores
- ICLR 2024Function Vectors in Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024Functional Interpolation for Relative Positions improves Long Context Transformers
- ICLR 2024Hierarchical Context Merging: Better Long Context Understanding for Pre-trained LLMs
- ICLR 2024How do Language Models Bind Entities in Context?
- ICLR 2024HyperAttention: Long-context Attention in Near-Linear Time
- ICLR 2024IceFormer: Accelerated Inference with Long-Sequence Transformers on CPUs
- ICLR 2024IDEAL: Influence-Driven Selective Annotations Empower In-Context Learners in Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024In-context Autoencoder for Context Compression in a Large Language Model
- ICLR 2024In-Context Learning Learns Label Relationships but Is Not Conventional Learning
- ICLR 2024In-Context Learning through the Bayesian Prism
- ICLR 2024In-Context Pretraining: Language Modeling Beyond Document Boundaries
- ICLR 2024Is attention required for ICL? Exploring the Relationship Between Model Architecture and In-Context Learning Ability
- ICLR 2024Kill Two Birds with One Stone: Rethinking Data Augmentation for Deep Long-tailed Learning
- ICLR 2024Language Modeling Is Compression
- ICLR 2024Long-tailed Diffusion Models with Oriented Calibration
- ICLR 2024LongLoRA: Efficient Fine-tuning of Long-Context Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024Looped Transformers are Better at Learning Learning Algorithms
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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.