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

126 papers, page 3 of 3

101. ICML 2026Scam2Prompt: A Scalable Framework for Auditing Malicious Scam Endpoints in Production LLMs
102. ICML 2026SE-GA: Memory-Augmented Self-Evolution for GUI Agents
103. ICML 2026Search-R2: Enhancing Search-Integrated Reasoning via Actor-Refiner Collaboration
104. ICML 2026Self-Augmenting Retrieval for Diffusion Language Models
105. ICML 2026Shuffle the Context: RoPE-Perturbed Self-Distillation for Long-Context Adaptation
106. ICML 2026Small Agent Group is the Future of Digital Health
107. ICML 2026Spectral Gradient Descent Mitigates Anisotropy-Driven Misalignment: A Case Study in Phase Retrieval
108. ICML 2026Stream RAG: Instant and Accurate Spoken Dialogue Systems with Streaming Tool Usage
109. ICML 2026Text Has Curvature
110. ICML 2026Textual Stochastic Gradient Descent: Discrete Optimization of External Memory for Reasoning Language Agents
111. ICML 2026TG-RAG: A Retrieval-Augmented Framework for Reasoning Guidance in Specialized Domains
112. ICML 2026The Crowded Embedding Space: A Mean-Field Mechanism for Emergent Marginalization in Retrieval-Augmented Agents
113. ICML 2026The First Drop of Ink: Nonlinear Impact of Misleading Information in Long-Context Reasoning
114. ICML 2026Through the Stealth Lens: Attention-Aware Defenses Against Poisoning in RAG
115. ICML 2026TimeMRA: LLM-Empowered Time Series Forecasting via Multi-Scale Retrieval-Augmented Representations
116. ICML 2026Token-Free Hierarchical Indexing for RAG beyond LLM-based Summarization
117. ICML 2026Towards Optimal Robustness in Learning-Augmented Paging
118. ICML 2026Towards Whole-corpus Reconstruction of Heterogeneous RAG Knowledge Bases
119. ICML 2026Train for Truth, Keep the Skills: Binary Retrieval-Augmented Reward Mitigates Hallucinations
120. ICML 2026Understand and Accelerate Memory Processing Pipeline for Large Language Model Inference
121. ICML 2026Unveiling the Role of Data Uncertainty in Tabular Deep Learning
122. ICML 2026Very Efficient Listwise Multimodal Reranking for Long Documents
123. ICML 2026VideoTrace-R1: Long Video-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Reinforcement Learning
124. ICML 2026When RAG Hurts: Diagnosing and Mitigating Attention Distraction in Retrieval-Augmented LVLMs
125. ICML 2026When Search Goes Wrong: Red-Teaming Web-Augmented Large Language Models
126. ICML 2026With Argus Eyes: Assessing Retrieval Gaps via Uncertainty Scoring to Detect and Remedy Retrieval Blind Spots

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.