Recurrent Memory papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Recurrent Memory went from 45 papers in 2023 to 172 in 2026, roughly 3.8x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Recurrent Memory work: 186 papers from 2023 to 2026, 45% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Multimodal LLMs: papers tagged with both rose from 0 in 2023 to 15 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Long Context and Memory, it ranks #2 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Retrieval Memory, is up 6.6x versus 3.8x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026Approximate Memory Suffices for Universal Approximation with State Space Models
• ICML 2026An Algebraic View of the Expressivity of Recurrent Language Models
• ICLR 2026Exploring State-Space Models for Data-Specific Neural Representations
• CVPR 2026Coupling Liquid Time-Constant Encoders with Modern Hopfield Memory
• NeurIPS 2025Bridging Expressivity and Scalability with Adaptive Unitary SSMs
• ICML 2025Oracle-MoE: Locality-preserving Routing in the Oracle Space for Memory-constrained Large Language Model Inference
• ICLR 2025Autocorrelation Matters: Understanding the Role of Initialization Schemes for State Space Models
• CVPR 2025Breaking the Memory Barrier of Contrastive Loss via Tile-Based Strategy
• NeurIPS 2024Attractor Memory for Long-Term Time Series Forecasting: A Chaos Perspective
• ICML 2024Hidden Traveling Waves bind Working Memory Variables in Recurrent Neural Networks
• ICLR 2024A 2-Dimensional State Space Layer for Spatial Inductive Bias
• CVPR 2024GenFlow: Generalizable Recurrent Flow for 6D Pose Refinement of Novel Objects
• NeurIPS 2023Hypothesis Selection with Memory Constraints
• ICML 2023A Picture of the Space of Typical Learnable Tasks
• ICLR 2023Associative Memory Augmented Asynchronous Spatiotemporal Representation Learning for Event-based Perception
• CVPR 2023Bilateral Memory Consolidation for Continual Learning
• NeurIPS 2026Commutator Memory: Sparse, Path-Local Reading and Steering in Language Models
• ICML 2026Do Transformers Need Three Projections? Systematic Study of QKV Variants
• ICLR 2026On the Expressiveness of State Space Models via Temporal Logics
• CVPR 2026DREAM Document Recognition with Explicit Adaptive Memory

All Recurrent Memory papers

186 papers, page 4 of 4

151. NeurIPS 2024Mitigating Partial Observability in Sequential Decision Processes via the Lambda Discrepancy
152. NeurIPS 2024Navigating Extremes: Dynamic Sparsity in Large Output Spaces
153. NeurIPS 2024Not so griddy: Internal representations of RNNs path integrating more than one agent
154. NeurIPS 2024On Feature Learning in Structured State Space Models
155. NeurIPS 2024Parallelizing Linear Transformers with the Delta Rule over Sequence Length
156. NeurIPS 2024PointMamba: A Simple State Space Model for Point Cloud Analysis
157. NeurIPS 2024Predictive Attractor Models
158. NeurIPS 2024Provable Benefits of Complex Parameterizations for Structured State Space Models
159. NeurIPS 2024Recurrent neural networks: vanishing and exploding gradients are not the end of the story
160. NeurIPS 2024Recurrent Reinforcement Learning with Memoroids
161. NeurIPS 2024Rethinking Memory and Communication Costs for Efficient Data Parallel Training of Large Language Models
162. NeurIPS 2024Samba: Severity-aware Recurrent Modeling for Cross-domain Medical Image Grading
163. NeurIPS 2024Second-order forward-mode optimization of recurrent neural networks for neuroscience
164. NeurIPS 2024Separations in the Representational Capabilities of Transformers and Recurrent Architectures
165. NeurIPS 2024START: A Generalized State Space Model with Saliency-Driven Token-Aware Transformation
166. NeurIPS 2024State Space Models on Temporal Graphs: A First-Principles Study
167. NeurIPS 2024Structured flexibility in recurrent neural networks via neuromodulation
168. NeurIPS 2024The Expressive Capacity of State Space Models: A Formal Language Perspective
169. NeurIPS 2024Theoretical Foundations of Deep Selective State-Space Models
170. NeurIPS 2024Thinking Forward: Memory-Efficient Federated Finetuning of Language Models
171. NeurIPS 2024Time Makes Space: Emergence of Place Fields in Networks Encoding Temporally Continuous Sensory Experiences
172. NeurIPS 2024Trading Place for Space: Increasing Location Resolution Reduces Contextual Capacity in Hippocampal Codes
173. NeurIPS 2024Transformers Can Do Arithmetic with the Right Embeddings
174. NeurIPS 2024Unconditional stability of a recurrent neural circuit implementing divisive normalization
175. NeurIPS 2024Understanding the Differences in Foundation Models: Attention, State Space Models, and Recurrent Neural Networks
176. NeurIPS 2024VeLoRA: Memory Efficient Training using Rank-1 Sub-Token Projections
177. NeurIPS 2024xLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory
178. NeurIPS 2023Deep Equilibrium Based Neural Operators for Steady-State PDEs
179. NeurIPS 2023Hypothesis Selection with Memory Constraints
180. NeurIPS 2023Long Sequence Hopfield Memory
181. NeurIPS 2023MEMTO: Memory-guided Transformer for Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection
182. NeurIPS 2023On the Role of Noise in the Sample Complexity of Learning Recurrent Neural Networks: Exponential Gaps for Long Sequences
183. NeurIPS 2023Recurrent Hypernetworks are Surprisingly Strong in Meta-RL
184. NeurIPS 2023Recurrent Temporal Revision Graph Networks
185. NeurIPS 2023State-space models with layer-wise nonlinearity are universal approximators with exponential decaying memory
186. NeurIPS 2023Transformer as a hippocampal memory consolidation model based on NMDAR-inspired nonlinearity

FAQ

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

416 in total: 45 in 2023, 82 in 2024, 117 in 2025, 172 in 2026.

How many Recurrent Memory papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 73 Recurrent Memory papers, versus 61 the year before.

How many Recurrent Memory papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 35 Recurrent Memory papers, versus 20 the year before.

How many Recurrent Memory papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 43 Recurrent Memory papers, versus 16 the year before.

How many Recurrent Memory papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 21 Recurrent Memory papers, versus 20 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Recurrent Memory papers?

NeurIPS, with 186 papers from 2023 to 2026.