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
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- 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
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- ICLR 2025RA-TTA: Retrieval-Augmented Test-Time Adaptation for Vision-Language Models
- ICLR 2025RAG-DDR: Optimizing Retrieval-Augmented Generation Using Differentiable Data Rewards
- ICLR 2025RAG-SR: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Neural Symbolic Regression
- ICLR 2025RAPID: Retrieval Augmented Training of Differentially Private Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025Reasoning-Enhanced Healthcare Predictions with Knowledge Graph Community Retrieval
- ICLR 2025ReDeEP: Detecting Hallucination in Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Mechanistic Interpretability
- ICLR 2025REGENT: A Retrieval-Augmented Generalist Agent That Can Act In-Context in New Environments
- ICLR 2025ReNovo: Retrieval-Based \emph{De Novo} Mass Spectrometry Peptide Sequencing
- ICLR 2025Rethinking and Improving Autoformalization: Towards a Faithful Metric and a Dependency Retrieval-based Approach
- ICLR 2025Retrieval Augmented Diffusion Model for Structure-informed Antibody Design and Optimization
- ICLR 2025RNNs are not Transformers (Yet): The Key Bottleneck on In-Context Retrieval
- ICLR 2025RuAG: Learned-rule-augmented Generation for Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025SeCom: On Memory Construction and Retrieval for Personalized Conversational Agents
- ICLR 2025Semi-Parametric Retrieval via Binary Bag-of-Tokens Index
- ICLR 2025SePer: Measure Retrieval Utility Through The Lens Of Semantic Perplexity Reduction
- ICLR 2025Simple is Effective: The Roles of Graphs and Large Language Models in Knowledge-Graph-Based Retrieval-Augmented Generation
- ICLR 2025Single Teacher, Multiple Perspectives: Teacher Knowledge Augmentation for Enhanced Knowledge Distillation
- ICLR 2025SiReRAG: Indexing Similar and Related Information for Multihop Reasoning
- ICLR 2025SmartRAG: Jointly Learn RAG-Related Tasks From the Environment Feedback
- ICLR 2025Speculative RAG: Enhancing Retrieval Augmented Generation through Drafting
- ICLR 2025STRAP: Robot Sub-Trajectory Retrieval for Augmented Policy Learning
- ICLR 2025StructRAG: Boosting Knowledge Intensive Reasoning of LLMs via Inference-time Hybrid Information Structurization
- ICLR 2025Sufficient Context: A New Lens on Retrieval Augmented Generation Systems
- ICLR 2025SV-RAG: LoRA-Contextualizing Adaptation of MLLMs for Long Document Understanding
- ICLR 2025Synthetic continued pretraining
- ICLR 2025TabM: Advancing tabular deep learning with parameter-efficient ensembling
- ICLR 2025Temporal Heterogeneous Graph Generation with Privacy, Utility, and Efficiency
- ICLR 2025Test-time Adaptation for Cross-modal Retrieval with Query Shift
- ICLR 2025Think-on-Graph 2.0: Deep and Faithful Large Language Model Reasoning with Knowledge-guided Retrieval Augmented Generation
- ICLR 2025To Trust or Not to Trust? Enhancing Large Language Models' Situated Faithfulness to External Contexts
- ICLR 2025ToolDial: Multi-turn Dialogue Generation Method for Tool-Augmented Language Models
- ICLR 2025Training Large Language Models for Retrieval-Augmented Question Answering through Backtracking Correction
- ICLR 2025Vec2Face: Scaling Face Dataset Generation with Loosely Constrained Vectors
- ICLR 2025VisRAG: Vision-based Retrieval-augmented Generation on Multi-modality Documents
- ICLR 2025Visual Haystacks: A Vision-Centric Needle-In-A-Haystack Benchmark
- ICLR 2025VLAS: Vision-Language-Action Model with Speech Instructions for Customized Robot Manipulation
- ICLR 2025Ward: Provable RAG Dataset Inference via LLM Watermarks
- ICLR 2025WardropNet: Traffic Flow Predictions via Equilibrium-Augmented Learning
- ICLR 2025YOLO-RD: Introducing Relevant and Compact Explicit Knowledge to YOLO by Retriever-Dictionary
- ICLR 2025Youku Dense Caption: A Large-scale Chinese Video Dense Caption Dataset and Benchmarks
- ICLR 2024A Branching Decoder for Set Generation
- ICLR 2024Adaptive Chameleon or Stubborn Sloth: Revealing the Behavior of Large Language Models in Knowledge Conflicts
- ICLR 2024Adaptive Retrieval and Scalable Indexing for k-NN Search with Cross-Encoders
- ICLR 2024AUGCAL: Improving Sim2Real Adaptation by Uncertainty Calibration on Augmented Synthetic Images
- ICLR 2024AutoCast++: Enhancing World Event Prediction with Zero-shot Ranking-based Context Retrieval
- ICLR 2024BTR: Binary Token Representations for Efficient Retrieval Augmented Language Models
- ICLR 2024CAMBranch: Contrastive Learning with Augmented MILPs for Branching
- ICLR 2024Composed Image Retrieval with Text Feedback via Multi-grained Uncertainty Regularization
- ICLR 2024Conversational Drug Editing Using Retrieval and Domain Feedback
- ICLR 2024Enhancing Contrastive Learning for Ordinal Regression via Ordinal Content Preserved Data Augmentation
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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.