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 15 of 24

701. ICLR 2025SmartRAG: Jointly Learn RAG-Related Tasks From the Environment Feedback
702. ICLR 2025Speculative RAG: Enhancing Retrieval Augmented Generation through Drafting
703. ICLR 2025STRAP: Robot Sub-Trajectory Retrieval for Augmented Policy Learning
704. ICLR 2025StructRAG: Boosting Knowledge Intensive Reasoning of LLMs via Inference-time Hybrid Information Structurization
705. ICLR 2025Sufficient Context: A New Lens on Retrieval Augmented Generation Systems
706. ICLR 2025SV-RAG: LoRA-Contextualizing Adaptation of MLLMs for Long Document Understanding
707. ICLR 2025Synthetic continued pretraining
708. ICLR 2025TabM: Advancing tabular deep learning with parameter-efficient ensembling
709. ICLR 2025Temporal Heterogeneous Graph Generation with Privacy, Utility, and Efficiency
710. ICLR 2025Test-time Adaptation for Cross-modal Retrieval with Query Shift
711. ICLR 2025Think-on-Graph 2.0: Deep and Faithful Large Language Model Reasoning with Knowledge-guided Retrieval Augmented Generation
712. ICLR 2025To Trust or Not to Trust? Enhancing Large Language Models' Situated Faithfulness to External Contexts
713. ICLR 2025ToolDial: Multi-turn Dialogue Generation Method for Tool-Augmented Language Models
714. ICLR 2025Training Large Language Models for Retrieval-Augmented Question Answering through Backtracking Correction
715. ICLR 2025Vec2Face: Scaling Face Dataset Generation with Loosely Constrained Vectors
716. ICLR 2025VisRAG: Vision-based Retrieval-augmented Generation on Multi-modality Documents
717. ICLR 2025Visual Haystacks: A Vision-Centric Needle-In-A-Haystack Benchmark
718. ICLR 2025VLAS: Vision-Language-Action Model with Speech Instructions for Customized Robot Manipulation
719. ICLR 2025Ward: Provable RAG Dataset Inference via LLM Watermarks
720. ICLR 2025WardropNet: Traffic Flow Predictions via Equilibrium-Augmented Learning
721. ICLR 2025YOLO-RD: Introducing Relevant and Compact Explicit Knowledge to YOLO by Retriever-Dictionary
722. ICLR 2025Youku Dense Caption: A Large-scale Chinese Video Dense Caption Dataset and Benchmarks
723. ICML 2025Algorithms and Hardness for Active Learning on Graphs
724. ICML 2025Approximate Forest Completion and Learning-Augmented Algorithms for Metric Minimum Spanning Trees
725. ICML 2025Are LLMs Prescient? A Continuous Evaluation using Daily News as the Oracle
726. ICML 2025Attention-Level Speculation
727. ICML 2025AutoML-Agent: A Multi-Agent LLM Framework for Full-Pipeline AutoML
728. ICML 2025C-3PO: Compact Plug-and-Play Proxy Optimization to Achieve Human-like Retrieval-Augmented Generation
729. ICML 2025CodeSteer: Symbolic-Augmented Language Models via Code/Text Guidance
730. ICML 2025Contradiction Retrieval via Contrastive Learning with Sparsity
731. ICML 2025Divide and Conquer: Exploring Language-centric Tree Reasoning for Video Question-Answering
732. ICML 2025DocKS-RAG: Optimizing Document-Level Relation Extraction through LLM-Enhanced Hybrid Prompt Tuning
733. ICML 2025Efficient Length-Generalizable Attention via Causal Retrieval for Long-Context Language Modeling
734. ICML 2025EgoPrivacy: What Your First-Person Camera Says About You?
735. ICML 2025EPIC: Efficient Position-Independent Caching for Serving Large Language Models
736. ICML 2025Equivariant Neural Tangent Kernels
737. ICML 2025Explaining the role of Intrinsic Dimensionality in Adversarial Training
738. ICML 2025From Complex to Atomic: Enhancing Augmented Generation via Knowledge-Aware Dual Rewriting and Reasoning
739. ICML 2025From RAG to Memory: Non-Parametric Continual Learning for Large Language Models
740. ICML 2025Graph World Model
741. ICML 2025Hierarchical Planning for Complex Tasks with Knowledge Graph-RAG and Symbolic Verification
742. ICML 2025In-Context Denoising with One-Layer Transformers: Connections between Attention and Associative Memory Retrieval
743. ICML 2025L3A: Label-Augmented Analytic Adaptation for Multi-Label Class Incremental Learning
744. ICML 2025LaMAGIC2: Advanced Circuit Formulations for Language Model-Based Analog Topology Generation
745. ICML 2025LaRA: Benchmarking Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Long-Context LLMs – No Silver Bullet for LC or RAG Routing
746. ICML 2025LAuReL: Learned Augmented Residual Layer
747. ICML 2025Learning multivariate Gaussians with imperfect advice
748. ICML 2025Learning-Augmented Algorithms for MTS with Bandit Access to Multiple Predictors
749. ICML 2025Learning-Augmented Hierarchical Clustering
750. ICML 2025Lego Sketch: A Scalable Memory-augmented Neural Network for Sketching Data Streams

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.