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

256 papers, page 3 of 6

101. CVPR 2026Towards Human-Like Robot Handwriting via Contour-Aware Generation
102. CVPR 2026TrajRAG Retrieving Geometric-Semantic Experience for Zero-Shot Object Navigation
103. CVPR 2026Unified Vector Floorplan Generation via Markup Representation
104. CVPR 2026UniPart Part-Level 3D Generation with Unified 3D Geom-Seg Latents
105. CVPR 2026UniRain Unified Image Deraining with RAG-based Dataset Distillation and Multi-objective
106. CVPR 2026VecGlypher Unified Vector Glyph Generation with Language Models
107. CVPR 2026Visual Personalization Turing Test
108. CVPR 2026WeDetect Fast Open-Vocabulary Object Detection as Retrieval
109. CVPR 2025AirRoom: Objects Matter in Room Reidentification
110. CVPR 2025AKiRa: Augmentation Kit on Rays for Optical Video Generation
111. CVPR 2025ArtFormer: Controllable Generation of Diverse 3D Articulated Objects
112. CVPR 2025ArtiScene: Language-Driven Artistic 3D Scene Generation Through Image Intermediary
113. CVPR 2025Augmented Deep Contexts for Spatially Embedded Video Coding
114. CVPR 2025BizGen: Advancing Article-level Visual Text Rendering for Infographics Generation
115. CVPR 2025Boosting Adversarial Transferability through Augmentation in Hypothesis Space
116. CVPR 2025Bridging Modalities: Improving Universal Multimodal Retrieval by Multimodal Large Language Models
117. CVPR 2025CCIN: Compositional Conflict Identification and Neutralization for Composed Image Retrieval
118. CVPR 2025Chat-based Person Retrieval via Dialogue-Refined Cross-Modal Alignment
119. CVPR 2025ChatHuman: Chatting about 3D Humans with Tools
120. CVPR 2025CLIP is Almost All You Need: Towards Parameter-Efficient Scene Text Retrieval without OCR
121. CVPR 2025COBRA: COmBinatorial Retrieval Augmentation for Few-Shot Adaptation
122. CVPR 2025Conformal Prediction and MLLM aided Uncertainty Quantification in Scene Graph Generation
123. CVPR 2025ConText-CIR: Learning from Concepts in Text for Composed Image Retrieval
124. CVPR 2025DART: Disease-aware Image-Text Alignment and Self-correcting Re-alignment for Trustworthy Radiology Report Generation
125. CVPR 2025Docopilot: Improving Multimodal Models for Document-Level Understanding
126. CVPR 2025Document Haystacks: Vision-Language Reasoning Over Piles of 1000+ Documents
127. CVPR 2025DreamCache: Finetuning-Free Lightweight Personalized Image Generation via Feature Caching
128. CVPR 2025Eval3D: Interpretable and Fine-grained Evaluation for 3D Generation
129. CVPR 2025Few-Shot Recognition via Stage-Wise Retrieval-Augmented Finetuning
130. CVPR 2025FinePhys: Fine-grained Human Action Generation by Explicitly Incorporating Physical Laws for Effective Skeletal Guidance
131. CVPR 2025From Words to Structured Visuals: A Benchmark and Framework for Text-to-Diagram Generation and Editing
132. CVPR 2025Fuzzy Multimodal Learning for Trusted Cross-modal Retrieval
133. CVPR 2025GarmentPile: Point-Level Visual Affordance Guided Retrieval and Adaptation for Cluttered Garments Manipulation
134. CVPR 2025HumanDreamer: Generating Controllable Human-Motion Videos via Decoupled Generation
135. CVPR 2025Imagine and Seek: Improving Composed Image Retrieval with an Imagined Proxy
136. CVPR 2025LaTexBlend: Scaling Multi-concept Customized Generation with Latent Textual Blending
137. CVPR 2025Learning Compatible Multi-Prize Subnetworks for Asymmetric Retrieval
138. CVPR 2025Learning with Noisy Triplet Correspondence for Composed Image Retrieval
139. CVPR 2025LotusFilter: Fast Diverse Nearest Neighbor Search via a Learned Cutoff Table
140. CVPR 2025MAD: Memory-Augmented Detection of 3D Objects
141. CVPR 2025MAR-3D: Progressive Masked Auto-regressor for High-Resolution 3D Generation
142. CVPR 2025MaRI: Material Retrieval Integration across Domains
143. CVPR 2025MG-MotionLLM: A Unified Framework for Motion Comprehension and Generation across Multiple Granularities
144. CVPR 2025NeighborRetr: Balancing Hub Centrality in Cross-Modal Retrieval
145. CVPR 2025OmniDocBench: Benchmarking Diverse PDF Document Parsing with Comprehensive Annotations
146. CVPR 2025PromptHash:Affinity-Prompted Collaborative Cross-Modal Learning for Adaptive Hashing Retrieval
147. CVPR 2025RANGE: Retrieval Augmented Neural Fields for Multi-Resolution Geo-Embeddings
148. CVPR 2025RAP: Retrieval-Augmented Personalization for Multimodal Large Language Models
149. CVPR 2025Recurrence-Enhanced Vision-and-Language Transformers for Robust Multimodal Document Retrieval
150. CVPR 2025Retrieving Semantics from the Deep: an RAG Solution for Gesture Synthesis

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.