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 4 of 24

151. ICLR 2026Frustratingly Simple Retrieval Improves Challenging, Reasoning-Intensive Benchmarks
152. ICLR 2026FutureFill: Fast Generation from Convolutional Sequence Models
153. ICLR 2026G-reasoner: Foundation Models for Unified Reasoning over Graph-structured Knowledge
154. ICLR 2026GPS: Directed Acyclic Graph guided Proactive Information Seeking in Large Language Models
155. ICLR 2026Graph-based Nearest Neighbors with Dynamic Updates via Random Walks
156. ICLR 2026GRO-RAG: Gradient-aware Re-rank Optimization for Multi-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation
157. ICLR 2026Guided Query Refinement: Multimodal Hybrid Retrieval with Test-Time Optimization
158. ICLR 2026Hierarchical Encoding Tree with Modality Mixup for Cross-modal Hashing
159. ICLR 2026HiPRAG: Hierarchical Process Rewards for Efficient Agentic Retrieval Augmented Generation
160. ICLR 2026Hybrid Deep Searcher: Scalable Parallel and Sequential Search Reasoning
161. ICLR 2026ImageRAG: Dynamic Image Retrieval for Reference-Guided Image Generation
162. ICLR 2026Improving Attributed Long-form Question Answering with Intent Awareness
163. ICLR 2026Improving Semantic Proximity in English-Centric Information Retrieval through Cross-Lingual Alignment
164. ICLR 2026Incentive-Aligned LLM Summaries
165. ICLR 2026Interact-RAG: Reason and Interact with the Corpus, Beyond Black-Box Retrieval
166. ICLR 2026LightMem: Lightweight and Efficient Memory-Augmented Generation
167. ICLR 2026LightRetriever: A LLM-based Text Retrieval Architecture with Extremely Faster Query Inference
168. ICLR 2026LinearRAG: Linear Graph Retrieval Augmented Generation on Large-scale Corpora
169. ICLR 2026Log-Augmented Generation: Scaling Test-Time Reasoning with Reusable Computation
170. ICLR 2026LookaheadKV: Fast and Accurate KV Cache Eviction by Glimpsing into the Future without Generation
171. ICLR 2026LUMINA: Detecting Hallucinations in RAG System with Context–Knowledge Signals
172. ICLR 2026MathNet: A Global Multimodal Benchmark for Mathematical Reasoning and Retrieval
173. ICLR 2026MC-Search: Evaluating and Enhancing Multimodal Agentic Search with Structured Long Reasoning Chains
174. ICLR 2026MedAgent-Pro: Towards Evidence-based Multi-modal Medical Diagnosis via Reasoning Agentic Workflow
175. ICLR 2026MergePRAG: Orthogonal Merging of Passage-experts for Multi-hop Parametric RAG
176. ICLR 2026Micro-Macro Retrieval: Reducing Long-Form Hallucination in Large Language Models
177. ICLR 2026MILCO: Learned Sparse Retrieval Across Languages via a Multilingual Connector
178. ICLR 2026Mixture of Contexts for Long Video Generation
179. ICLR 2026MLP Memory: A Retriever-Pretrained Memory for Large Language Models
180. ICLR 2026Multiple Streams of Knowledge Retrieval: Enriching and Recalling in Transformers
181. ICLR 2026Not Search, But Scan: Benchmarking MLLMs on Scan-Oriented Academic Paper Reasoning
182. ICLR 2026On the Theoretical Limitations of Embedding-Based Retrieval
183. ICLR 2026On the Wings of Imagination: Conflicting Script-based Multi-role Framework for Humor Caption Generation
184. ICLR 2026OSCAR: Online Soft Compression for RAG
185. ICLR 2026Parameters vs. Context: Fine-Grained Control of Knowledge Reliance in Language Models
186. ICLR 2026PAT3D: Physics-Augmented Text-to-3D Scene Generation
187. ICLR 2026PerFit: Exploring Personalization Shifts in Representation Space of LLMs
188. ICLR 2026Phantom-Data: Towards a General Subject-Consistent Video Generation Dataset
189. ICLR 2026Pisces: Cryptography-based Private Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Dual-Path Retrieval
190. ICLR 2026PolyGraph Discrepancy: a classifier-based metric for graph generation
191. ICLR 2026PRISM: Enhancing PRotein Inverse Folding through Fine- Grained Retrieval on Structure-Sequence Multimodal Representations
192. ICLR 2026ProofBridge: Auto-Formalization of Natural Language Proofs in Lean via Joint Embeddings
193. ICLR 2026ProPerSim: Developing Proactive and Personalized AI Assistants through User-Assistant Simulation
194. ICLR 2026ProReGen: Progressive Residual Generation under Attribute Correlations
195. ICLR 2026Q-RAG: Long Context Multi‑Step Retrieval via Value‑Based Embedder Training
196. ICLR 2026Query-Aware Flow Diffusion for Graph-Based RAG with Retrieval Guarantees
197. ICLR 2026Query-Level Uncertainty in Large Language Models
198. ICLR 2026R-WoM: Retrieval-augmented World Model For Computer-use Agents
199. ICLR 2026R4: Nested Reasoning-Retrieval for Reward Modeling in Role-Playing Agents
200. ICLR 2026RAEE: A Robust Retrieval-Augmented Early Exit Framework for Efficient Inference

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.