Retrieval Memory papers, 2023–2026
Retrieval-augmented memory
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 290 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 23 |
| 2024 | 14 | 7 | 15 | 8 | 44 |
| 2025 | 34 | 19 | 14 | 5 | 72 |
| 2026 | 64 | 31 | 38 | 18 | 151 |
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
290 papers, page 4 of 6
- NeurIPS 2026When to Trust Memory: Retrieval-Guided Probabilistic Spatiotemporal Forecasting under Distribution Shift
- CVPR 2025Breaking the Memory Barrier of Contrastive Loss via Tile-Based Strategy
- CVPR 2025MAD: Memory-Augmented Detection of 3D Objects
- CVPR 2025RANGE: Retrieval Augmented Neural Fields for Multi-Resolution Geo-Embeddings
- CVPR 2025RAP: Retrieval-Augmented Personalization for Multimodal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2025SALOVA: Segment-Augmented Long Video Assistant for Targeted Retrieval and Routing in Long-Form Video Analysis
- ICLR 2025Accelerating Inference of Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Sparse Context Selection
- ICLR 2025An Evolved Universal Transformer Memory
- ICLR 2025BitStack: Any-Size Compression of Large Language Models in Variable Memory Environments
- ICLR 2025DRoC: Elevating Large Language Models for Complex Vehicle Routing via Decomposed Retrieval of Constraints
- ICLR 2025ESE: Espresso Sentence Embeddings
- ICLR 2025Human-inspired Episodic Memory for Infinite Context LLMs
- ICLR 2025InstructRAG: Instructing Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Self-Synthesized Rationales
- ICLR 2025LongMemEval: Benchmarking Chat Assistants on Long-Term Interactive Memory
- ICLR 2025MrSteve: Instruction-Following Agents in Minecraft with What-Where-When Memory
- ICLR 2025RA-TTA: Retrieval-Augmented Test-Time Adaptation for Vision-Language Models
- ICLR 2025RAG-DDR: Optimizing Retrieval-Augmented Generation Using Differentiable Data Rewards
- ICLR 2025RAG-SR: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Neural Symbolic Regression
- ICLR 2025RAPID: Retrieval Augmented Training of Differentially Private Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025RazorAttention: Efficient KV Cache Compression Through Retrieval Heads
- ICLR 2025SeCom: On Memory Construction and Retrieval for Personalized Conversational Agents
- ICLR 2025Speculative RAG: Enhancing Retrieval Augmented Generation through Drafting
- ICLR 2025Stable Hadamard Memory: Revitalizing Memory-Augmented Agents for Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2025STRAP: Robot Sub-Trajectory Retrieval for Augmented Policy Learning
- ICLR 2025Sufficient Context: A New Lens on Retrieval Augmented Generation Systems
- ICML 2025From RAG to Memory: Non-Parametric Continual Learning for Large Language Models
- ICML 2025In-Context Denoising with One-Layer Transformers: Connections between Attention and Associative Memory Retrieval
- ICML 2025In-Context Learning as Conditioned Associative Memory Retrieval
- ICML 2025LAuReL: Learned Augmented Residual Layer
- ICML 2025Lego Sketch: A Scalable Memory-augmented Neural Network for Sketching Data Streams
- ICML 2025M+: Extending MemoryLLM with Scalable Long-Term Memory
- ICML 2025MOGIC: Metadata-infused Oracle Guidance for Improved Extreme Classification
- ICML 2025Nonparametric Modern Hopfield Models
- ICML 2025PoisonedEye: Knowledge Poisoning Attack on Retrieval-Augmented Generation based Large Vision-Language Models
- ICML 2025POQD: Performance-Oriented Query Decomposer for Multi-vector retrieval
- ICML 2025Position: Retrieval-augmented systems can be dangerous medical communicators
- ICML 2025RAPID: Long-Context Inference with Retrieval-Augmented Speculative Decoding
- ICML 2025Retrieval Augmented Time Series Forecasting
- ICML 2025Towards flexible perception with visual memory
- NeurIPS 2025A-Mem: Agentic Memory for LLM Agents
- NeurIPS 2025Blending Complementary Memory Systems in Hybrid Quadratic-Linear Transformers
- NeurIPS 2025Chain-of-Retrieval Augmented Generation
- NeurIPS 2025Cross City Traffic Flow Generation via Retrieval Augmented Diffusion Model
- NeurIPS 2025Dense Associative Memory with Epanechnikov Energy
- NeurIPS 2025DynamicRAG: Leveraging Outputs of Large Language Model as Feedback for Dynamic Reranking in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
- NeurIPS 2025EAReranker: Efficient Embedding Adequacy Assessment for Retrieval Augmented Generation
- NeurIPS 2025EfficientNav: Towards On-Device Object-Goal Navigation with Navigation Map Caching and Retrieval
- NeurIPS 2025GFM-RAG: Graph Foundation Model for Retrieval Augmented Generation
- NeurIPS 2025Graph-KV: Breaking Sequence via Injecting Structural Biases into Large Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025HyperGraphRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Hypergraph-Structured Knowledge Representation
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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.