Retrieval Memory papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Retrieval Memory went from 23 papers in 2023 to 151 in 2026, roughly 6.6x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Retrieval Memory work: 120 papers from 2023 to 2026, 41% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with AI Agents: papers tagged with both rose from 0 in 2023 to 25 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Long Context and Memory, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Long Context, is up 5.2x versus 6.6x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026ADMIT: Support-Gated Memory-Write Admission for Document QA Agents
• ICML 2026Attention with Routed-Memory for Learnable Sparse Control
• ICLR 2026AssoMem: Scalable Memory QA with Multi-Signal Associative Retrieval
• CVPR 2026DREAM Document Recognition with Explicit Adaptive Memory
• NeurIPS 2025EfficientNav: Towards On-Device Object-Goal Navigation with Navigation Map Caching and Retrieval
• ICML 2025In-Context Denoising with One-Layer Transformers: Connections between Attention and Associative Memory Retrieval
• ICLR 2025BitStack: Any-Size Compression of Large Language Models in Variable Memory Environments
• CVPR 2025MAD: Memory-Augmented Detection of 3D Objects
• NeurIPS 2024A Gradient Accumulation Method for Dense Retriever under Memory Constraint
• ICML 2024Think Before You Act: Decision Transformers with Working Memory
• ICLR 2024STanHop: Sparse Tandem Hopfield Model for Memory-Enhanced Time Series Prediction
• CVPR 2024Do You Remember? Dense Video Captioning with Cross-Modal Memory Retrieval
• NeurIPS 2023Augmented Memory Replay-based Continual Learning Approaches for Network Intrusion Detection
• ICML 2023Memory-Based Meta-Learning on Non-Stationary Distributions
• ICLR 2023Associative Memory Augmented Asynchronous Spatiotemporal Representation Learning for Event-based Perception
• CVPR 2023Memory-Friendly Scalable Super-Resolution via Rewinding Lottery Ticket Hypothesis
• NeurIPS 2026Automated Reformulation of Robust Optimization via Memory-Augmented Large Language Models
• ICML 2026Dense associative memory for Gaussian distributions
• ICLR 2026FreeKV: Boosting KV Cache Retrieval for Efficient LLM Inference
• CVPR 2026Interactive Tracking A Human-in-the-Loop Paradigm with Memory-Augmented Adaptation

All Retrieval Memory papers

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1. CVPR 2026Affordance Field Intervention Enabling VLAs to Escape Memory Traps in
2. CVPR 2026Attention-aware Inference Optimizations for Large Vision-Language Models with Memory-efficient Decoding
3. CVPR 2026Coupling Liquid Time-Constant Encoders with Modern Hopfield Memory
4. CVPR 2026DREAM Document Recognition with Explicit Adaptive Memory
5. CVPR 2026Follow the Saliency Supervised Saliency for Retrieval-augmented Dense Video Captioning
6. CVPR 2026Forging a Dynamic Memory Retrieval-Guided Continual Learning for Generalist Medical
7. CVPR 2026Global Prior Meets Local Consistency Dual-Memory Augmented Vision-Language-Action Model for
8. CVPR 2026Interactive Tracking A Human-in-the-Loop Paradigm with Memory-Augmented Adaptation
9. CVPR 2026M4-SAM Multi-Modal Mixture-of-Experts with Memory-Augmented SAM for RGB-D Video Salient
10. CVPR 2026OASIS On-Demand Hierarchical Event Memory for Streaming Video Reasoning
11. CVPR 2026Predict Before You Explore Predictive Planning with Specialized Memory for
12. CVPR 2026RAG-TP A General Framework for Vehicle Trajectory Prediction via Retrieval-Augmented
13. CVPR 2026RAGTrack Language-aware RGBT Tracking with Retrieval-Augmented Generation
14. CVPR 2026RAID Retrieval-Augmented Anomaly Detection
15. CVPR 2026Spatial Retrieval Augmented Autonomous Driving
16. CVPR 2026ViLoMem Agentic Learner with Grow-and-Refine Multimodal Semantic Memory
17. CVPR 2026WeaveTime Streaming from Earlier Frames into Emergent Memory in VideoLLMs
18. CVPR 2026WorldMM Dynamic Multimodal Memory Agent for Long Video Reasoning
19. ICLR 2026Adaptive Hopfield Network: Rethinking Similarities in Associative Memory
20. ICLR 2026AssoMem: Scalable Memory QA with Multi-Signal Associative Retrieval
21. ICLR 2026Attributing Response to Context: A Jensen–Shannon Divergence Driven Mechanistic Study of Context Attribution in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
22. ICLR 2026Automated Formalization via Conceptual Retrieval-Augmented LLMs
23. ICLR 2026Beyond a Million Tokens: Benchmarking and Enhancing Long-Term Memory in LLMs
24. ICLR 2026Beyond RAG vs. Long-Context: Learning Distraction-Aware Retrieval for Efficient Knowledge Grounding
25. ICLR 2026BrowseNet: Knowledge Graph-Based Associative Memory for Contextual Information Retrieval
26. ICLR 2026Counterfactual Reasoning for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
27. ICLR 2026Efficient-SAM2: Accelerating SAM2 with Object-Aware Visual Encoding and Memory Retrieval
28. ICLR 2026Evoking User Memory: Personalizing LLM via Recollection-Familiarity Adaptive Retrieval
29. ICLR 2026FreeKV: Boosting KV Cache Retrieval for Efficient LLM Inference
30. ICLR 2026gLSTM: Mitigating Over-Squashing by Increasing Storage Capacity
31. ICLR 2026GRO-RAG: Gradient-aware Re-rank Optimization for Multi-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation
32. ICLR 2026Leveraging Data to Say No: Memory Augmented Plug-and-Play Selective Prediction
33. ICLR 2026LightMem: Lightweight and Efficient Memory-Augmented Generation
34. ICLR 2026LouisKV: Efficient KV Cache Retrieval for Long Input-Output Sequences
35. ICLR 2026MLP Memory: A Retriever-Pretrained Memory for Large Language Models
36. ICLR 2026MRAD: Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection with Memory-Driven Retrieval
37. ICLR 2026Parameters vs. Context: Fine-Grained Control of Knowledge Reliance in Language Models
38. ICLR 2026Pisces: Cryptography-based Private Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Dual-Path Retrieval
39. ICLR 2026RAEE: A Robust Retrieval-Augmented Early Exit Framework for Efficient Inference
40. ICLR 2026Reasoning or Retrieval? A Study of Answer Attribution on Large Reasoning Models
41. ICLR 2026Rescue: Retrieval Augmented Secure Code Generation
42. ICLR 2026Retrieval-of-Thought: Efficient Reasoning via Reusing Thoughts
43. ICLR 2026Scaling up Memory for Robotic Control via Experience Retrieval
44. ICLR 2026Short Window Attention Enables Long-Term Memorization
45. ICLR 2026SmartChunk Retrieval: Query-Aware Chunk Compression with Planning for Efficient Document RAG
46. ICLR 2026The Pensieve Paradigm: Stateful Language Models with Learned Memory Management
47. ICLR 2026TokMem: Tokenized Procedural Memory for Large Language Models
48. ICLR 2026Toward Faithful Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Sparse Autoencoders
49. ICLR 2026Transformers as Measure-Theoretic Associative Memory: A Statistical Perspective and Minimax Optimality
50. ICML 2026AMA-Bench: Evaluating Long-Horizon Memory for Agentic Applications

FAQ

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

290 in total: 23 in 2023, 44 in 2024, 72 in 2025, 151 in 2026.

How many Retrieval Memory papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 64 Retrieval Memory papers, versus 34 the year before.

How many Retrieval Memory papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 31 Retrieval Memory papers, versus 19 the year before.

How many Retrieval Memory papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 38 Retrieval Memory papers, versus 14 the year before.

How many Retrieval Memory papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 18 Retrieval Memory papers, versus 5 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Retrieval Memory papers?

NeurIPS, with 120 papers from 2023 to 2026.