Passage Retrieval papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Passage Retrieval went from 6 papers in 2023 to 13 in 2026, roughly 2.2x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Passage Retrieval work: 10 papers from 2023 to 2026, 32% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Retrieval-Augmented Generation: papers tagged with both rose from 2 in 2023 to 11 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Information Retrieval, it ranks #5 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Cross-Encoder Reranking, is up 3.0x versus 2.2x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026Closing the Indexing-Decoding Gap in Multimodal Generative Retrieval via Prefix Retention Optimization
• ICML 2026Spectral Gradient Descent Mitigates Anisotropy-Driven Misalignment: A Case Study in Phase Retrieval
• ICLR 2026MergePRAG: Orthogonal Merging of Passage-experts for Multi-hop Parametric RAG
• CVPR 2026Language-driven Fine-grained Retrieval
• NeurIPS 2025Contextual Tokenization for Graph Inverted Indices
• ICML 2025Contradiction Retrieval via Contrastive Learning with Sparsity
• ICLR 2025RankSHAP: Shapley Value Based Feature Attributions for Learning to Rank
• CVPR 2025MaRI: Material Retrieval Integration across Domains
• ICML 2024Bottleneck-Minimal Indexing for Generative Document Retrieval
• ICLR 2024Neural Architecture Retrieval
• CVPR 2024Attribute-Guided Pedestrian Retrieval: Bridging Person Re-ID with Internal Attribute Variability
• NeurIPS 2023DESSERT: An Efficient Algorithm for Vector Set Search with Vector Set Queries
• ICML 2023IncDSI: Incrementally Updatable Document Retrieval
• ICLR 2023LexMAE: Lexicon-Bottlenecked Pretraining for Large-Scale Retrieval
• NeurIPS 2026VecDBLens: A Modular Framework for Diagnosing Vector Databases Retrieval Pipelines
• ICML 2026Beyond Global Alignment: Fine-Grained Motion-Language Retrieval via Pyramidal Shapley-Taylor Learning
• ICLR 2026Embedding-Based Context-Aware Reranker
• CVPR 2025LamRA: Large Multimodal Model as Your Advanced Retrieval Assistant
• ICML 2024Exponential Spectral Pursuit: An Effective Initialization Method for Sparse Phase Retrieval
• CVPR 2024EarthLoc: Astronaut Photography Localization by Indexing Earth from Space

All Passage Retrieval papers

31 papers, page 1 of 1

1. CVPR 2026Language-driven Fine-grained Retrieval
2. ICLR 2026Embedding-Based Context-Aware Reranker
3. ICLR 2026MergePRAG: Orthogonal Merging of Passage-experts for Multi-hop Parametric RAG
4. ICML 2026Beyond Global Alignment: Fine-Grained Motion-Language Retrieval via Pyramidal Shapley-Taylor Learning
5. ICML 2026Spectral Gradient Descent Mitigates Anisotropy-Driven Misalignment: A Case Study in Phase Retrieval
6. ICML 2026Token-Free Hierarchical Indexing for RAG beyond LLM-based Summarization
7. NeurIPS 2026Closing the Indexing-Decoding Gap in Multimodal Generative Retrieval via Prefix Retention Optimization
8. NeurIPS 2026Half-Truths Break Similarity-Based Retrieval
9. NeurIPS 2026Is Dimensionality a Barrier for Retrieval Models?
10. NeurIPS 2026Logit-Contribution Scoring Identifies Non-Literal Retrieval Heads
11. NeurIPS 2026MLAIRE: Multilingual Language-Aware Information Retrieval Evaluation Protocol
12. NeurIPS 2026Retrieval-Centric Deep Learning in Growing Nonparametric Neural Networks
13. NeurIPS 2026VecDBLens: A Modular Framework for Diagnosing Vector Databases Retrieval Pipelines
14. CVPR 2025LamRA: Large Multimodal Model as Your Advanced Retrieval Assistant
15. CVPR 2025MaRI: Material Retrieval Integration across Domains
16. ICLR 2025RankSHAP: Shapley Value Based Feature Attributions for Learning to Rank
17. ICML 2025Contradiction Retrieval via Contrastive Learning with Sparsity
18. NeurIPS 2025Contextual Tokenization for Graph Inverted Indices
19. CVPR 2024Attribute-Guided Pedestrian Retrieval: Bridging Person Re-ID with Internal Attribute Variability
20. CVPR 2024EarthLoc: Astronaut Photography Localization by Indexing Earth from Space
21. ICLR 2024Neural Architecture Retrieval
22. ICML 2024Bottleneck-Minimal Indexing for Generative Document Retrieval
23. ICML 2024DiffFPR: Diffusion Prior for Oversampled Fourier Phase Retrieval
24. ICML 2024Exponential Spectral Pursuit: An Effective Initialization Method for Sparse Phase Retrieval
25. ICML 2024Retrieval Across Any Domains via Large-scale Pre-trained Model
26. ICLR 2023LexMAE: Lexicon-Bottlenecked Pretraining for Large-Scale Retrieval
27. ICLR 2023QAID: Question Answering Inspired Few-shot Intent Detection
28. ICML 2023IncDSI: Incrementally Updatable Document Retrieval
29. ICML 2023ReDi: Efficient Learning-Free Diffusion Inference via Trajectory Retrieval
30. NeurIPS 2023DESSERT: An Efficient Algorithm for Vector Set Search with Vector Set Queries
31. NeurIPS 2023SOAR: Improved Indexing for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search

FAQ

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

31 in total: 6 in 2023, 7 in 2024, 5 in 2025, 13 in 2026.

How many Passage Retrieval papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 7 Passage Retrieval papers, versus 1 the year before.

How many Passage Retrieval papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 2 Passage Retrieval papers, versus 1 the year before.

How many Passage Retrieval papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 3 Passage Retrieval papers, versus 1 the year before.

How many Passage Retrieval papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 1 Passage Retrieval papers, versus 2 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Passage Retrieval papers?

NeurIPS, with 10 papers from 2023 to 2026.