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
37 papers, page 1 of 1
- CVPR 2023Are Binary Annotations Sufficient? Video Moment Retrieval via Hierarchical Uncertainty-Based Active Learning
- CVPR 2023Asymmetric Feature Fusion for Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2023Boundary-Aware Backward-Compatible Representation via Adversarial Learning in Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2023Catch Missing Details: Image Reconstruction With Frequency Augmented Variational Autoencoder
- CVPR 2023CiCo: Domain-Aware Sign Language Retrieval via Cross-Lingual Contrastive Learning
- CVPR 2023CLIPPING: Distilling CLIP-Based Models With a Student Base for Video-Language Retrieval
- CVPR 2023Data-Free Sketch-Based Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2023Disentangling Writer and Character Styles for Handwriting Generation
- CVPR 2023Fast Contextual Scene Graph Generation With Unbiased Context Augmentation
- CVPR 2023Feature Representation Learning With Adaptive Displacement Generation and Transformer Fusion for Micro-Expression Recognition
- CVPR 2023HAAV: Hierarchical Aggregation of Augmented Views for Image Captioning
- CVPR 2023Hierarchical Video-Moment Retrieval and Step-Captioning
- CVPR 2023High-Fidelity 3D Face Generation From Natural Language Descriptions
- CVPR 2023Improving Cross-Modal Retrieval With Set of Diverse Embeddings
- CVPR 2023Improving the Transferability of Adversarial Samples by Path-Augmented Method
- CVPR 2023Interactive and Explainable Region-Guided Radiology Report Generation
- CVPR 2023LANA: A Language-Capable Navigator for Instruction Following and Generation
- CVPR 2023LayoutFormer++: Conditional Graphic Layout Generation via Constraint Serialization and Decoding Space Restriction
- CVPR 2023Learning Customized Visual Models With Retrieval-Augmented Knowledge
- CVPR 2023MaskSketch: Unpaired Structure-Guided Masked Image Generation
- CVPR 2023Multilateral Semantic Relations Modeling for Image Text Retrieval
- CVPR 2023Neural Transformation Fields for Arbitrary-Styled Font Generation
- CVPR 2023NoisyTwins: Class-Consistent and Diverse Image Generation Through StyleGANs
- CVPR 2023Picture That Sketch: Photorealistic Image Generation From Abstract Sketches
- CVPR 2023Pix2map: Cross-Modal Retrieval for Inferring Street Maps From Images
- CVPR 2023Private Image Generation With Dual-Purpose Auxiliary Classifier
- CVPR 2023R2Former: Unified Retrieval and Reranking Transformer for Place Recognition
- CVPR 2023RA-CLIP: Retrieval Augmented Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training
- CVPR 2023Rawgment: Noise-Accounted RAW Augmentation Enables Recognition in a Wide Variety of Environments
- CVPR 2023REVEAL: Retrieval-Augmented Visual-Language Pre-Training With Multi-Source Multimodal Knowledge Memory
- CVPR 2023RONO: Robust Discriminative Learning With Noisy Labels for 2D-3D Cross-Modal Retrieval
- CVPR 2023SmallCap: Lightweight Image Captioning Prompted With Retrieval Augmentation
- CVPR 2023Topology-Guided Multi-Class Cell Context Generation for Digital Pathology
- CVPR 2023Towards Accurate Image Coding: Improved Autoregressive Image Generation With Dynamic Vector Quantization
- CVPR 2023Universal Instance Perception As Object Discovery and Retrieval
- CVPR 2023Unsupervised 3D Shape Reconstruction by Part Retrieval and Assembly
- CVPR 2023Zero-Shot Everything Sketch-Based Image Retrieval, and in Explainable Style
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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.