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 4 of 6

151. CVPR 2025SALOVA: Segment-Augmented Long Video Assistant for Targeted Retrieval and Routing in Long-Form Video Analysis
152. CVPR 2025Scaling Mesh Generation via Compressive Tokenization
153. CVPR 2025Scene Map-based Prompt Tuning for Navigation Instruction Generation
154. CVPR 2025Search and Detect: Training-Free Long Tail Object Detection via Web-Image Retrieval
155. CVPR 2025Seeing What Matters: Empowering CLIP with Patch Generation-to-Selection
156. CVPR 2025SemGeoMo: Dynamic Contextual Human Motion Generation with Semantic and Geometric Guidance
157. CVPR 2025SerialGen: Personalized Image Generation by First Standardization Then Personalization
158. CVPR 2025SKDream: Controllable Multi-view and 3D Generation with Arbitrary Skeletons
159. CVPR 2025StoryGPT-V: Large Language Models as Consistent Story Visualizers
160. CVPR 2025Structured 3D Latents for Scalable and Versatile 3D Generation
161. CVPR 2025Synergizing Motion and Appearance: Multi-Scale Compensatory Codebooks for Talking Head Video Generation
162. CVPR 2025TFCustom: Customized Image Generation with Time-Aware Frequency Feature Guidance
163. CVPR 2025The Devil is in the Prompts: Retrieval-Augmented Prompt Optimization for Text-to-Video Generation
164. CVPR 2025Towards Unbiased and Robust Spatio-Temporal Scene Graph Generation and Anticipation
165. CVPR 2025Universal Scene Graph Generation
166. CVPR 2025VDocRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation over Visually-Rich Documents
167. CVPR 2025VLog: Video-Language Models by Generative Retrieval of Narration Vocabulary
168. CVPR 2025Wavelet and Prototype Augmented Query-based Transformer for Pixel-level Surface Defect Detection
169. CVPR 2025WISNet: Pseudo Label Generation on Unbalanced and Patch Annotated Waste Images
170. CVPR 2025WonderWorld: Interactive 3D Scene Generation from a Single Image
171. CVPR 2024An Asymmetric Augmented Self-Supervised Learning Method for Unsupervised Fine-Grained Image Hashing
172. CVPR 2024Attribute-Guided Pedestrian Retrieval: Bridging Person Re-ID with Internal Attribute Variability
173. CVPR 2024AttriHuman-3D: Editable 3D Human Avatar Generation with Attribute Decomposition and Indexing
174. CVPR 2024Causal-CoG: A Causal-Effect Look at Context Generation for Boosting Multi-modal Language Models
175. CVPR 2024Characteristics Matching Based Hash Codes Generation for Efficient Fine-grained Image Retrieval
176. CVPR 2024Composed Video Retrieval via Enriched Context and Discriminative Embeddings
177. CVPR 2024Contextual Augmented Global Contrast for Multimodal Intent Recognition
178. CVPR 2024ControlRoom3D: Room Generation using Semantic Proxy Rooms
179. CVPR 2024CPR: Retrieval Augmented Generation for Copyright Protection
180. CVPR 2024D3still: Decoupled Differential Distillation for Asymmetric Image Retrieval
181. CVPR 2024DemoCaricature: Democratising Caricature Generation with a Rough Sketch
182. CVPR 2024DSGG: Dense Relation Transformer for an End-to-end Scene Graph Generation
183. CVPR 2024Dual Pose-invariant Embeddings: Learning Category and Object-specific Discriminative Representations for Recognition and Retrieval
184. CVPR 2024Evaluating Transferability in Retrieval Tasks: An Approach Using MMD and Kernel Methods
185. CVPR 2024EVCap: Retrieval-Augmented Image Captioning with External Visual-Name Memory for Open-World Comprehension
186. CVPR 2024Exact Fusion via Feature Distribution Matching for Few-shot Image Generation
187. CVPR 2024FaceChain-SuDe: Building Derived Class to Inherit Category Attributes for One-shot Subject-Driven Generation
188. CVPR 2024FairRAG: Fair Human Generation via Fair Retrieval Augmentation
189. CVPR 2024Fine-grained Prototypical Voting with Heterogeneous Mixup for Semi-supervised 2D-3D Cross-modal Retrieval
190. CVPR 2024Gaussian Shell Maps for Efficient 3D Human Generation
191. CVPR 2024Hallucination Augmented Contrastive Learning for Multimodal Large Language Model
192. CVPR 2024How to Handle Sketch-Abstraction in Sketch-Based Image Retrieval?
193. CVPR 2024Infinigen Indoors: Photorealistic Indoor Scenes using Procedural Generation
194. CVPR 2024Instruct-Imagen: Image Generation with Multi-modal Instruction
195. CVPR 2024KP-RED: Exploiting Semantic Keypoints for Joint 3D Shape Retrieval and Deformation
196. CVPR 2024LAKE-RED: Camouflaged Images Generation by Latent Background Knowledge Retrieval-Augmented Diffusion
197. CVPR 2024Language-only Training of Zero-shot Composed Image Retrieval
198. CVPR 2024Learning to Rematch Mismatched Pairs for Robust Cross-Modal Retrieval
199. CVPR 2024LeGO: Leveraging a Surface Deformation Network for Animatable Stylized Face Generation with One Example
200. CVPR 2024Leveraging Predicate and Triplet Learning for Scene Graph Generation

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.