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

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1. CVPR 2025AirRoom: Objects Matter in Room Reidentification
2. CVPR 2025AKiRa: Augmentation Kit on Rays for Optical Video Generation
3. CVPR 2025ArtFormer: Controllable Generation of Diverse 3D Articulated Objects
4. CVPR 2025ArtiScene: Language-Driven Artistic 3D Scene Generation Through Image Intermediary
5. CVPR 2025Augmented Deep Contexts for Spatially Embedded Video Coding
6. CVPR 2025BizGen: Advancing Article-level Visual Text Rendering for Infographics Generation
7. CVPR 2025Boosting Adversarial Transferability through Augmentation in Hypothesis Space
8. CVPR 2025Bridging Modalities: Improving Universal Multimodal Retrieval by Multimodal Large Language Models
9. CVPR 2025CCIN: Compositional Conflict Identification and Neutralization for Composed Image Retrieval
10. CVPR 2025Chat-based Person Retrieval via Dialogue-Refined Cross-Modal Alignment
11. CVPR 2025ChatHuman: Chatting about 3D Humans with Tools
12. CVPR 2025CLIP is Almost All You Need: Towards Parameter-Efficient Scene Text Retrieval without OCR
13. CVPR 2025COBRA: COmBinatorial Retrieval Augmentation for Few-Shot Adaptation
14. CVPR 2025Conformal Prediction and MLLM aided Uncertainty Quantification in Scene Graph Generation
15. CVPR 2025ConText-CIR: Learning from Concepts in Text for Composed Image Retrieval
16. CVPR 2025DART: Disease-aware Image-Text Alignment and Self-correcting Re-alignment for Trustworthy Radiology Report Generation
17. CVPR 2025Docopilot: Improving Multimodal Models for Document-Level Understanding
18. CVPR 2025Document Haystacks: Vision-Language Reasoning Over Piles of 1000+ Documents
19. CVPR 2025DreamCache: Finetuning-Free Lightweight Personalized Image Generation via Feature Caching
20. CVPR 2025Eval3D: Interpretable and Fine-grained Evaluation for 3D Generation
21. CVPR 2025Few-Shot Recognition via Stage-Wise Retrieval-Augmented Finetuning
22. CVPR 2025FinePhys: Fine-grained Human Action Generation by Explicitly Incorporating Physical Laws for Effective Skeletal Guidance
23. CVPR 2025From Words to Structured Visuals: A Benchmark and Framework for Text-to-Diagram Generation and Editing
24. CVPR 2025Fuzzy Multimodal Learning for Trusted Cross-modal Retrieval
25. CVPR 2025GarmentPile: Point-Level Visual Affordance Guided Retrieval and Adaptation for Cluttered Garments Manipulation
26. CVPR 2025HumanDreamer: Generating Controllable Human-Motion Videos via Decoupled Generation
27. CVPR 2025Imagine and Seek: Improving Composed Image Retrieval with an Imagined Proxy
28. CVPR 2025LaTexBlend: Scaling Multi-concept Customized Generation with Latent Textual Blending
29. CVPR 2025Learning Compatible Multi-Prize Subnetworks for Asymmetric Retrieval
30. CVPR 2025Learning with Noisy Triplet Correspondence for Composed Image Retrieval
31. CVPR 2025LotusFilter: Fast Diverse Nearest Neighbor Search via a Learned Cutoff Table
32. CVPR 2025MAD: Memory-Augmented Detection of 3D Objects
33. CVPR 2025MAR-3D: Progressive Masked Auto-regressor for High-Resolution 3D Generation
34. CVPR 2025MaRI: Material Retrieval Integration across Domains
35. CVPR 2025MG-MotionLLM: A Unified Framework for Motion Comprehension and Generation across Multiple Granularities
36. CVPR 2025NeighborRetr: Balancing Hub Centrality in Cross-Modal Retrieval
37. CVPR 2025OmniDocBench: Benchmarking Diverse PDF Document Parsing with Comprehensive Annotations
38. CVPR 2025PromptHash:Affinity-Prompted Collaborative Cross-Modal Learning for Adaptive Hashing Retrieval
39. CVPR 2025RANGE: Retrieval Augmented Neural Fields for Multi-Resolution Geo-Embeddings
40. CVPR 2025RAP: Retrieval-Augmented Personalization for Multimodal Large Language Models
41. CVPR 2025Recurrence-Enhanced Vision-and-Language Transformers for Robust Multimodal Document Retrieval
42. CVPR 2025Retrieving Semantics from the Deep: an RAG Solution for Gesture Synthesis
43. CVPR 2025SALOVA: Segment-Augmented Long Video Assistant for Targeted Retrieval and Routing in Long-Form Video Analysis
44. CVPR 2025Scaling Mesh Generation via Compressive Tokenization
45. CVPR 2025Scene Map-based Prompt Tuning for Navigation Instruction Generation
46. CVPR 2025Search and Detect: Training-Free Long Tail Object Detection via Web-Image Retrieval
47. CVPR 2025Seeing What Matters: Empowering CLIP with Patch Generation-to-Selection
48. CVPR 2025SemGeoMo: Dynamic Contextual Human Motion Generation with Semantic and Geometric Guidance
49. CVPR 2025SerialGen: Personalized Image Generation by First Standardization Then Personalization
50. CVPR 2025SKDream: Controllable Multi-view and 3D Generation with Arbitrary Skeletons

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.