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

366 papers, page 5 of 8

201. ICML 2025Lego Sketch: A Scalable Memory-augmented Neural Network for Sketching Data Streams
202. ICML 2025Locality Preserving Markovian Transition for Instance Retrieval
203. ICML 2025MOGIC: Metadata-infused Oracle Guidance for Improved Extreme Classification
204. ICML 2025Near-Optimal Consistency-Robustness Trade-Offs for Learning-Augmented Online Knapsack Problems
205. ICML 2025Neural Graph Matching Improves Retrieval Augmented Generation in Molecular Machine Learning
206. ICML 2025On the Power of Learning-Augmented Search Trees
207. ICML 2025On the Query Complexity of Verifier-Assisted Language Generation
208. ICML 2025On the Vulnerability of Applying Retrieval-Augmented Generation within Knowledge-Intensive Application Domains
209. ICML 2025Pareto-Optimality, Smoothness, and Stochasticity in Learning-Augmented One-Max-Search
210. ICML 2025PhantomWiki: On-Demand Datasets for Reasoning and Retrieval Evaluation
211. ICML 2025PoisonedEye: Knowledge Poisoning Attack on Retrieval-Augmented Generation based Large Vision-Language Models
212. ICML 2025POQD: Performance-Oriented Query Decomposer for Multi-vector retrieval
213. ICML 2025Position: Retrieval-augmented systems can be dangerous medical communicators
214. ICML 2025QuRe: Query-Relevant Retrieval through Hard Negative Sampling in Composed Image Retrieval
215. ICML 2025RAGGED: Towards Informed Design of Scalable and Stable RAG Systems
216. ICML 2025RAPID: Long-Context Inference with Retrieval-Augmented Speculative Decoding
217. ICML 2025Re-ranking Reasoning Context with Tree Search Makes Large Vision-Language Models Stronger
218. ICML 2025RealRAG: Retrieval-augmented Realistic Image Generation via Self-reflective Contrastive Learning
219. ICML 2025Retrieval Augmented Time Series Forecasting
220. ICML 2025Retrieval Augmented Zero-Shot Enzyme Generation for Specified Substrate
221. ICML 2025Retrieval-Augmented Language Model for Knowledge-aware Protein Encoding
222. ICML 2025Retrieval-Augmented Perception: High-resolution Image Perception Meets Visual RAG
223. ICML 2025SafeAuto: Knowledge-Enhanced Safe Autonomous Driving with Multimodal Foundation Models
224. ICML 2025SCENIR: Visual Semantic Clarity through Unsupervised Scene Graph Retrieval
225. ICML 2025SHE: Streaming-media Hashing Retrieval
226. ICML 2025SK-VQA: Synthetic Knowledge Generation at Scale for Training Context-Augmented Multimodal LLMs
227. ICML 2025STAR: Learning Diverse Robot Skill Abstractions through Rotation-Augmented Vector Quantization
228. ICML 2025Time-VLM: Exploring Multimodal Vision-Language Models for Augmented Time Series Forecasting
229. ICML 2025Tool Unlearning for Tool-Augmented LLMs
230. ICML 2025Understanding Synthetic Context Extension via Retrieval Heads
231. NeurIPS 2025A Learning-Augmented Approach to Online Allocation Problems
232. NeurIPS 2025A Unified Framework for Fair Graph Generation: Theoretical Guarantees and Empirical Advances
233. NeurIPS 2025AceSearcher: Bootstrapping Reasoning and Search for LLMs via Reinforced Self-Play
234. NeurIPS 2025AdaVideoRAG: Omni-Contextual Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Efficient Long Video Understanding
235. NeurIPS 2025AgentAuditor: Human-level Safety and Security Evaluation for LLM Agents
236. NeurIPS 2025AgentNet: Decentralized Evolutionary Coordination for LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems
237. NeurIPS 2025AR-RAG: Autoregressive Retrieval Augmentation for Image Generation
238. NeurIPS 2025Automatic Synthetic Data and Fine-grained Adaptive Feature Alignment for Composed Person Retrieval
239. NeurIPS 2025Benchmarking Retrieval-Augmented Multimomal Generation for Document Question Answering
240. NeurIPS 2025Bidirectional Motion Transformer for Safety-Critical Traffic Scenario Generation
241. NeurIPS 2025Bidirectional Representations Augmented Autoregressive Biological Sequence Generation: Application in De Novo Peptide Sequencing
242. NeurIPS 2025Boosting Knowledge Utilization in Multimodal Large Language Models via Adaptive Logits Fusion and Attention Reallocation
243. NeurIPS 2025C-SEO Bench: Does Conversational SEO Work?
244. NeurIPS 2025Can Knowledge-Graph-based Retrieval Augmented Generation Really Retrieve What You Need?
245. NeurIPS 2025Chain-of-Retrieval Augmented Generation
246. NeurIPS 2025Code Graph Model (CGM): A Graph-Integrated Large Language Model for Repository-Level Software Engineering Tasks
247. NeurIPS 2025Combinatorial Ski Rental Problem: Robust and Learning-Augmented Algorithms
248. NeurIPS 2025Compress & Cache: Vision token compression for efficient generation and retrieval
249. NeurIPS 2025Conflict-Aware Knowledge Editing in the Wild: Semantic-Augmented Graph Representation for Unstructured Text
250. NeurIPS 2025Cooperative Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Question Answering: Mutual Information Exchange and Ranking by Contrasting Layers

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.