Retrieval-Augmented Generation papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Retrieval-Augmented Generation went from 102 papers in 2023 to 549 in 2026, roughly 5.4x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Retrieval-Augmented Generation work: 391 papers from 2023 to 2026, 33% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with AI Agents: papers tagged with both rose from 0 in 2023 to 75 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Natural Language, it ranks #2 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Code Generation, is up 4.1x versus 5.4x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026A Theory of Time-Sensitive Language Generation: Sparse Hallucination Beats Mode Collapse
• ICML 2026``Someone Hid It!'': Query-Agnostic Black-Box Attacks on LLM-Based Retrieval
• ICLR 2026AdaCache: Adaptive Caching and Context Augmentation for Efficient LLM Serving
• CVPR 2026ADSeeker A Knowledge-Grounded Reasoning Framework for Industry Anomaly Detection and
• NeurIPS 2025AceSearcher: Bootstrapping Reasoning and Search for LLMs via Reinforced Self-Play
• ICML 2025Are LLMs Prescient? A Continuous Evaluation using Daily News as the Oracle
• ICLR 2025A Theory for Token-Level Harmonization in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
• CVPR 2025AirRoom: Objects Matter in Room Reidentification
• NeurIPS 2024$\texttt{ConflictBank}$: A Benchmark for Evaluating the Influence of Knowledge Conflicts in LLMs
• ICML 2024A Statistical Framework for Data-dependent Retrieval-Augmented Models
• ICLR 2024BTR: Binary Token Representations for Efficient Retrieval Augmented Language Models
• CVPR 2024Evaluating Transferability in Retrieval Tasks: An Approach Using MMD and Kernel Methods
• NeurIPS 2023A Riemannian Exponential Augmented Lagrangian Method for Computing the Projection Robust Wasserstein Distance
• ICML 2023Everyone's Preference Changes Differently: A Weighted Multi-Interest Model For Retrieval
• ICLR 2023Decompositional Generation Process for Instance-Dependent Partial Label Learning
• CVPR 2023Are Binary Annotations Sufficient? Video Moment Retrieval via Hierarchical Uncertainty-Based Active Learning
• NeurIPS 2026Accelerating Neural Network Training with Augmented Koopman Dynamics
• ICML 2026$\tau$-Knowledge: Evaluating Conversational Agents over Unstructured Knowledge
• ICLR 2026Aria: an Agent for Retrieval and Iterative Auto-Formalization via Dependency Graph
• CVPR 2026Animator-Centric Skeleton Generation on Objects with Fine-Grained Details

All Retrieval-Augmented Generation papers

1,200 papers, page 1 of 24

1. CVPR 2026ACPV-Net All-Class Polygonal Vectorization for Seamless Vector Map Generation from
2. CVPR 2026Adapting In-context Generation for Enhanced Composed Image Retrieval
3. CVPR 2026ADSeeker A Knowledge-Grounded Reasoning Framework for Industry Anomaly Detection and
4. CVPR 2026Animator-Centric Skeleton Generation on Objects with Fine-Grained Details
5. CVPR 2026ARMFlow AutoRegressive MeanFlow for Online 3D Human Reaction Generation
6. CVPR 2026Attribution as Retrieval Model-Agnostic AI-Generated Image Attribution
7. CVPR 2026AutoRegressive Generation with B-rep Holistic Token Sequence Representation
8. CVPR 2026Beyond Caption-Based Queries in Video Moment Retrieval
9. CVPR 2026Beyond Objects Contextual Synthetic Data Generation for Fine-Grained Classification
10. CVPR 2026Beyond Semantic Search Towards Referential Anchoring in Composed Image Retrieval
11. CVPR 2026Bidirectional Query-Driven Generation of Parametric CAD Sketch
12. CVPR 2026Bridging Privacy and Provenance Traceable Virtual Identity Generation
13. CVPR 2026CAD-Refiner A Unified Framework for CAD Generation and Iterative Editing
14. CVPR 2026CaliTex Geometry-Calibrated Attention for View-Coherent 3D Texture Generation
15. CVPR 2026Camouflage-aware Image-Text Retrieval via Expert Collaboration
16. CVPR 2026CARLoS Retrieval via Concise Assessment Representation of LoRAs at Scale
17. CVPR 2026CodeMMR Bridging Natural Language Code and Image for Unified Retrieval
18. CVPR 2026CogniVerse Revolutionizing Multi-Modal Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Cognitive Reflection and Geometric
19. CVPR 2026ConeSep Cone-based Robust Noise-Unlearning Compositional Network for Composed Image Retrieval
20. CVPR 2026Cross-modal Fuzzy Alignment Network for Text-Aerial Person Retrieval and A
21. CVPR 2026Decision Boundary-aware Generation for Long-tailed Learning
22. CVPR 2026DiT-Distill Open-Set Fine-Grained Retrieval via Generative Curriculum Knowledge
23. CVPR 2026DiT360 High-Fidelity Panoramic Image Generation via Hybrid Training
24. CVPR 2026DocSeeker Structured Visual Reasoning with Evidence Grounding for Long Document
25. CVPR 2026DSFlash Comprehensive Panoptic Scene Graph Generation in Realtime
26. CVPR 2026Efficient and High-Fidelity Omni Modality Retrieval
27. CVPR 2026EvoGraph-R1 Self-Evolving Multimodal Knowledge Hypergraphs for Agentic Retrieval
28. CVPR 2026Fixed Anchors Are Not Enough Dynamic Retrieval and Persistent Homology
29. CVPR 2026Follow the Saliency Supervised Saliency for Retrieval-augmented Dense Video Captioning
30. CVPR 2026Forging a Dynamic Memory Retrieval-Guided Continual Learning for Generalist Medical
31. CVPR 2026FrankenMotion Part-level Human Motion Generation and Composition
32. CVPR 2026Gated KalmaNet A Fading Memory Layer through Test-time Ridge Regression
33. CVPR 2026GenMask Adapting DiT for Segmentation via Direct Mask Generation
34. CVPR 2026Graph-to-Frame RAG Visual-Space Knowledge Fusion for Training-Free and Auditable Video
35. CVPR 2026Graph2Eval Automatic Multimodal Task Generation for Agents via Knowledge Graphs
36. CVPR 2026HG-Lane High-Fidelity Generation of Lane Scenes under Adverse Weather and
37. CVPR 2026Hierarchical Long Video Understanding with Audiovisual Entity Cohesion and Agentic
38. CVPR 2026HOG-Layout Hierarchical 3D Scene Generation Optimization and Editing via Vision-Language
39. CVPR 2026ID-Sim An Identity-Focused Similarity Metric
40. CVPR 2026ImageRAGTurbo Towards One-step Text-to-Image Generation with Retrieval-Augmented Diffusion Models
41. CVPR 2026Intra-class Distribution-guided Generative Hashing with Neighbor Refinement for Cross-modal Retrieval
42. CVPR 2026KnowVal A Knowledge-Augmented and Value-Guided Autonomous Driving System
43. CVPR 2026LATTICE Democratize High-Fidelity 3D Generation at Scale
44. CVPR 2026LumiX Structured and Coherent Text-to-Intrinsic Generation
45. CVPR 2026M3DocDep Multi-modal Multi-page Multi-document Dependency Chunking with Large Vision-Language Models
46. CVPR 2026M3KG-RAG Multi-hop Multimodal Knowledge Graph-enhanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation
47. CVPR 2026M4-RAG A Massive-Scale Multilingual Multi-Cultural Multimodal RAG
48. CVPR 2026Match-and-Fuse Consistent Generation from Unstructured Image Sets
49. CVPR 2026MeshMosaic Scaling Artist Mesh Generation via Local-to-Global Assembly
50. CVPR 2026MeshRipple Structured Autoregressive Generation of Artist-Meshes

FAQ

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

1,200 in total: 102 in 2023, 183 in 2024, 366 in 2025, 549 in 2026.

How many Retrieval-Augmented Generation papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 186 Retrieval-Augmented Generation papers, versus 136 the year before.

How many Retrieval-Augmented Generation papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 129 Retrieval-Augmented Generation papers, versus 111 the year before.

How many Retrieval-Augmented Generation papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 126 Retrieval-Augmented Generation papers, versus 57 the year before.

How many Retrieval-Augmented Generation papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 108 Retrieval-Augmented Generation papers, versus 62 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Retrieval-Augmented Generation papers?

NeurIPS, with 391 papers from 2023 to 2026.