Recurrent Memory papers, 2023–2026
State-space memory
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 416 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 9 | 17 | 7 | 12 | 45 |
| 2024 | 43 | 10 | 20 | 9 | 82 |
| 2025 | 61 | 20 | 16 | 20 | 117 |
| 2026 | 73 | 35 | 43 | 21 | 172 |
Representative papers
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- 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
20 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICML 2024Achieving Lossless Gradient Sparsification via Mapping to Alternative Space in Federated Learning
- ICML 2024Dynamic Metric Embedding into lp Space
- ICML 2024Hidden Traveling Waves bind Working Memory Variables in Recurrent Neural Networks
- ICML 2024Hieros: Hierarchical Imagination on Structured State Space Sequence World Models
- ICML 2024How to Explore with Belief: State Entropy Maximization in POMDPs
- ICML 2024Learning Latent Space Hierarchical EBM Diffusion Models
- ICML 2024Learning the Target Network in Function Space
- ICML 2024Learning Useful Representations of Recurrent Neural Network Weight Matrices
- ICML 2024Memory Efficient Neural Processes via Constant Memory Attention Block
- ICML 2024Memory-Space Visual Prompting for Efficient Vision-Language Fine-Tuning
- ICML 2024PAC-Bayesian Error Bound, via Rényi Divergence, for a Class of Linear Time-Invariant State-Space Models
- ICML 2024Recurrent Distance Filtering for Graph Representation Learning
- ICML 2024Recurrent Early Exits for Federated Learning with Heterogeneous Clients
- ICML 2024Repeat After Me: Transformers are Better than State Space Models at Copying
- ICML 2024Simple linear attention language models balance the recall-throughput tradeoff
- ICML 2024Sobolev Space Regularised Pre Density Models
- ICML 2024StableSSM: Alleviating the Curse of Memory in State-space Models through Stable Reparameterization
- ICML 2024State-Free Inference of State-Space Models: The *Transfer Function* Approach
- ICML 2024The Illusion of State in State-Space Models
- ICML 2024Think Before You Act: Decision Transformers with Working Memory
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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.