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

391 papers, page 7 of 8

301. NeurIPS 2025STRAP: Spatio-Temporal Pattern Retrieval for Out-of-Distribution Generalization
302. NeurIPS 2025SymRTLO: Enhancing RTL Code Optimization with LLMs and Neuron-Inspired Symbolic Reasoning
303. NeurIPS 2025TEMPO: Temporal Multi-scale Autoregressive Generation of Protein Conformational Ensembles
304. NeurIPS 2025The Atlas of In-Context Learning: How Attention Heads Shape In-Context Retrieval Augmentation
305. NeurIPS 2025Towards A Generalist Code Embedding Model Based On Massive Data Synthesis
306. NeurIPS 2025Towards Better & Faster Autoregressive Image Generation: From the Perspective of Entropy
307. NeurIPS 2025Towards Doctor-Like Reasoning: Medical RAG Fusing Knowledge with Patient Analogy through Textual Gradients
308. NeurIPS 2025Towards General Continuous Memory for Vision-Language Models
309. NeurIPS 2025Towards Robust Uncertainty Calibration for Composed Image Retrieval
310. NeurIPS 2025TRACE: Grounding Time Series in Context for Multimodal Embedding and Retrieval
311. NeurIPS 2025Track, Inpaint, Resplat: Subject-driven 3D and 4D Generation with Progressive Texture Infilling
312. NeurIPS 2025TS-RAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation based Time Series Foundation Models are Stronger Zero-Shot Forecaster
313. NeurIPS 2025Understanding Parametric and Contextual Knowledge Reconciliation within Large Language Models
314. NeurIPS 2025Understanding protein function with a multimodal retrieval-augmented foundation model
315. NeurIPS 2025Unified all-atom molecule generation with neural fields
316. NeurIPS 2025Vgent: Graph-based Retrieval-Reasoning-Augmented Generation For Long Video Understanding
317. NeurIPS 2025Video-RAG: Visually-aligned Retrieval-Augmented Long Video Comprehension
318. NeurIPS 2025VimoRAG: Video-based Retrieval-augmented 3D Motion Generation for Motion Language Models
319. NeurIPS 2025VRAG-RL: Empower Vision-Perception-Based RAG for Visually Rich Information Understanding via Iterative Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning
320. NeurIPS 2025WebThinker: Empowering Large Reasoning Models with Deep Research Capability
321. NeurIPS 2025When One Moment Isn't Enough: Multi-Moment Retrieval with Cross-Moment Interactions
322. NeurIPS 2025Worse than Zero-shot? A Fact-Checking Dataset for Evaluating the Robustness of RAG Against Misleading Retrievals
323. NeurIPS 2024$\texttt{ConflictBank}$: A Benchmark for Evaluating the Influence of Knowledge Conflicts in LLMs
324. NeurIPS 2024A Textbook Remedy for Domain Shifts: Knowledge Priors for Medical Image Analysis
325. NeurIPS 2024Ad Auctions for LLMs via Retrieval Augmented Generation
326. NeurIPS 2024AgentPoison: Red-teaming LLM Agents via Poisoning Memory or Knowledge Bases
327. NeurIPS 2024Approaching Human-Level Forecasting with Language Models
328. NeurIPS 2024BABILong: Testing the Limits of LLMs with Long Context Reasoning-in-a-Haystack
329. NeurIPS 2024Beyond Prompts: Dynamic Conversational Benchmarking of Large Language Models
330. NeurIPS 2024Boosting the Potential of Large Language Models with an Intelligent Information Assistant
331. NeurIPS 2024CARE: a Benchmark Suite for the Classification and Retrieval of Enzymes
332. NeurIPS 2024Chain of Agents: Large Language Models Collaborating on Long-Context Tasks
333. NeurIPS 2024ChatQA: Surpassing GPT-4 on Conversational QA and RAG
334. NeurIPS 2024ClashEval: Quantifying the tug-of-war between an LLM’s internal prior and external evidence
335. NeurIPS 2024CRAG - Comprehensive RAG Benchmark
336. NeurIPS 2024Einsum Benchmark: Enabling the Development of Next-Generation Tensor Execution Engines
337. NeurIPS 2024Enhancing Protein Mutation Effect Prediction through a Retrieval-Augmented Framework
338. NeurIPS 2024Exploratory Retrieval-Augmented Planning For Continual Embodied Instruction Following
339. NeurIPS 2024FinBen: A Holistic Financial Benchmark for Large Language Models
340. NeurIPS 2024Fine-grained Analysis of In-context Linear Estimation: Data, Architecture, and Beyond
341. NeurIPS 2024G-Retriever: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Textual Graph Understanding and Question Answering
342. NeurIPS 2024G3: An Effective and Adaptive Framework for Worldwide Geolocalization Using Large Multi-Modality Models
343. NeurIPS 2024HippoRAG: Neurobiologically Inspired Long-Term Memory for Large Language Models
344. NeurIPS 2024KnowGPT: Knowledge Graph based Prompting for Large Language Models
345. NeurIPS 2024Large Language Models as Urban Residents: An LLM Agent Framework for Personal Mobility Generation
346. NeurIPS 2024LLM-Check: Investigating Detection of Hallucinations in Large Language Models
347. NeurIPS 2024LoRANN: Low-Rank Matrix Factorization for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
348. NeurIPS 2024Molecule Generation with Fragment Retrieval Augmentation
349. NeurIPS 2024Perception of Knowledge Boundary for Large Language Models through Semi-open-ended Question Answering
350. NeurIPS 2024Policy Learning from Tutorial Books via Understanding, Rehearsing and Introspecting

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.