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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251. ICML 2024Trustworthy Alignment of Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models via Reinforcement Learning
252. ICML 2024Understanding Retrieval-Augmented Task Adaptation for Vision-Language Models
253. ICML 2024Uniform Memory Retrieval with Larger Capacity for Modern Hopfield Models
254. NeurIPS 2024A Gradient Accumulation Method for Dense Retriever under Memory Constraint
255. NeurIPS 2024BABILong: Testing the Limits of LLMs with Long Context Reasoning-in-a-Haystack
256. NeurIPS 2024Beyond Prompts: Dynamic Conversational Benchmarking of Large Language Models
257. NeurIPS 2024Do LLMs dream of elephants (when told not to)? Latent concept association and associative memory in transformers
258. NeurIPS 2024Exploratory Retrieval-Augmented Planning For Continual Embodied Instruction Following
259. NeurIPS 2024HippoRAG: Neurobiologically Inspired Long-Term Memory for Large Language Models
260. NeurIPS 2024Online Adaptation of Language Models with a Memory of Amortized Contexts
261. NeurIPS 2024Pipeline Parallelism with Controllable Memory
262. NeurIPS 2024Provably Optimal Memory Capacity for Modern Hopfield Models: Transformer-Compatible Dense Associative Memories as Spherical Codes
263. NeurIPS 2024RAGChecker: A Fine-grained Framework for Diagnosing Retrieval-Augmented Generation
264. NeurIPS 2024RAGraph: A General Retrieval-Augmented Graph Learning Framework
265. NeurIPS 2024Self-Retrieval: End-to-End Information Retrieval with One Large Language Model
266. NeurIPS 2024UDA: A Benchmark Suite for Retrieval Augmented Generation in Real-World Document Analysis
267. NeurIPS 2024WISE: Rethinking the Knowledge Memory for Lifelong Model Editing of Large Language Models
268. CVPR 2023Learning Customized Visual Models With Retrieval-Augmented Knowledge
269. CVPR 2023Memory-Friendly Scalable Super-Resolution via Rewinding Lottery Ticket Hypothesis
270. CVPR 2023NaQ: Leveraging Narrations As Queries To Supervise Episodic Memory
271. CVPR 2023RA-CLIP: Retrieval Augmented Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training
272. CVPR 2023REVEAL: Retrieval-Augmented Visual-Language Pre-Training With Multi-Source Multimodal Knowledge Memory
273. ICLR 2023A Model or 603 Exemplars: Towards Memory-Efficient Class-Incremental Learning
274. ICLR 2023Associative Memory Augmented Asynchronous Spatiotemporal Representation Learning for Event-based Perception
275. ICLR 2023Mass-Editing Memory in a Transformer
276. ICLR 2023Neural Networks and the Chomsky Hierarchy
277. ICLR 2023Recitation-Augmented Language Models
278. ICLR 2023Replay Memory as An Empirical MDP: Combining Conservative Estimation with Experience Replay
279. ICLR 2023Short-Term Memory Convolutions
280. ICML 2023Memory-Based Meta-Learning on Non-Stationary Distributions
281. ICML 2023Pre-computed memory or on-the-fly encoding? A hybrid approach to retrieval augmentation makes the most of your compute
282. ICML 2023Retrieval-Augmented Multimodal Language Modeling
283. NeurIPS 2023Augmented Memory Replay-based Continual Learning Approaches for Network Intrusion Detection
284. NeurIPS 2023Hypothesis Selection with Memory Constraints
285. NeurIPS 2023Label-Retrieval-Augmented Diffusion Models for Learning from Noisy Labels
286. NeurIPS 2023Lift Yourself Up: Retrieval-augmented Text Generation with Self-Memory
287. NeurIPS 2023Memory Efficient Optimizers with 4-bit States
288. NeurIPS 2023Retrieval-Augmented Multiple Instance Learning
289. NeurIPS 2023Sequential Memory with Temporal Predictive Coding
290. NeurIPS 2023Transformer as a hippocampal memory consolidation model based on NMDAR-inspired nonlinearity

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.