Retrieval-Augmented Generation papers, 2023–2026
RAG and retrieval augmentation
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 1,200 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 19 | 29 | 17 | 37 | 102 |
| 2024 | 50 | 34 | 50 | 49 | 183 |
| 2025 | 136 | 111 | 57 | 62 | 366 |
| 2026 | 186 | 129 | 126 | 108 | 549 |
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 5 of 24
- ICLR 2026RAG4DMC: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Data-Level Modality Completion
- ICLR 2026RAP: 3D Rasterization Augmented End-to-End Planning
- ICLR 2026RAS: Retrieval-And-Structuring for Knowledge-Intensive LLM Generation
- ICLR 2026RAVENEA: A Benchmark for Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Visual Culture Understanding
- ICLR 2026Rescue: Retrieval Augmented Secure Code Generation
- ICLR 2026Resisting Contextual Interference in RAG via Parametric-Knowledge Reinforcement
- ICLR 2026Retrieval-of-Thought: Efficient Reasoning via Reusing Thoughts
- ICLR 2026Retro*: Optimizing LLMs for Reasoning-Intensive Document Retrieval
- ICLR 2026Reusing Pre-Training Data at Test Time is a Compute Multiplier
- ICLR 2026Safeguarding Multimodal Knowledge Copyright in the RAG-as-a-Service Environment
- ICLR 2026Sat3DGen: Comprehensive Street-Level 3D Scene Generation from Single Satellite Image
- ICLR 2026Search Self-Play: Pushing the Frontier of Agent Capability without Supervision
- ICLR 2026Seq vs Seq: An Open Suite of Paired Encoders and Decoders
- ICLR 2026ShapeGen4D: Towards High Quality 4D Shape Generation from Videos
- ICLR 2026Silent Leaks: Implicit Knowledge Extraction Attack on RAG Systems
- ICLR 2026SmartChunk Retrieval: Query-Aware Chunk Compression with Planning for Efficient Document RAG
- ICLR 2026StyliTruth : Unlocking Stylized yet Truthful LLM Generation via Disentangled Steering
- ICLR 2026SWINGARENA: Adversarial Programming Arena for Long-context GitHub Issue Solving
- ICLR 2026SynthWorlds: Controlled Parallel Worlds for Disentangling Reasoning and Knowledge in Language Models
- ICLR 2026Token-Guard: Towards Token-Level Hallucination Control via Self-Checking Decoding
- ICLR 2026TokMem: Tokenized Procedural Memory for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026ToolWeaver: Weaving Collaborative Semantics for Scalable Tool Use in Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026Topology Matters in RTL Circuit Representation Learning
- ICLR 2026Topology of Reasoning: Retrieved Cell Complex-Augmented Generation for Textual Graph Question Answering
- ICLR 2026Topology-Preserved Auto-regressive Mesh Generation in the Manner of Weaving Silk
- ICLR 2026Toward Faithful Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Sparse Autoencoders
- ICLR 2026Towards Knowledge‑and‑Data‑Driven Organic Reaction Prediction: RAG‑Enhanced and Reasoning‑Powered Hybrid System with LLMs
- ICLR 2026U-MARVEL: Unveiling Key Factors for Universal Multimodal Retrieval via Embedding Learning with MLLMs
- ICLR 2026Uncertainty as Feature Gaps: Epistemic Uncertainty Quantification of LLMs in Contextual Question-Answering
- ICLR 2026Unified Biomolecular Trajectory Generation via Pretrained Variational Bridge
- ICLR 2026Unified Multi-Modal Interactive and Reactive 3D Motion Generation via Rectified Flow
- ICLR 2026Video-As-Prompt: Unified Semantic Control for Video Generation
- ICLR 2026WebSeer: Training Deeper Search Agents through Reinforcement Learning with Self-Reflection
- ICLR 2026Welfarist Formulations for Diverse Similarity Search
- ICLR 2026When to use Graphs in RAG: A Comprehensive Analysis for Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation
- ICLR 2026Your Language Model Secretly Contains Personality Subnetworks
- ICLR 2026Youtu-GraphRAG: Vertically Unified Agents for Graph Retrieval-Augmented Complex Reasoning
- ICML 2026``Someone Hid It!'': Query-Agnostic Black-Box Attacks on LLM-Based Retrieval
- ICML 2026$\tau$-Knowledge: Evaluating Conversational Agents over Unstructured Knowledge
- ICML 2026$G^2$-Reader: Dual Evolving Graphs for Multimodal Document QA
- ICML 2026Active Tabular Augmentation via Policy-Guided Diffusion Inpainting
- ICML 2026Agentic Model Predictive Questioning Control in Visual Design
- ICML 2026AOEB: Benchmarking Agent-Oriented Multimodal Embeddings
- ICML 2026Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search for Modern AI: A Projection-Augmented Graph Approach
- ICML 2026AugServe: Adaptive Request Scheduling for Augmented Large Language Model Inference Serving
- ICML 2026Autoregressive, Yet Revisable: In Decoding Revision for Secure Code Generation
- ICML 2026AutoRPA: Efficient GUI Automation through LLM-Driven Code Synthesis from Interactions
- ICML 2026Barriers to Counterfactual Credit Attribution for Autoregressive Models
- ICML 2026BEAT: Tokenizing and Generating Symbolic Music by Uniform Temporal Steps
- ICML 2026Benchmarking Agent Memory in Interdependent Multi-Session Agentic Tasks
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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.