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. ICLR 2026A Dense Subset Index for Collective Query Coverage
2. ICLR 2026AdaCache: Adaptive Caching and Context Augmentation for Efficient LLM Serving
3. ICLR 2026AMemGym: Interactive Memory Benchmarking for Assistants in Long-Horizon Conversations
4. ICLR 2026Any-step Generation via N-th Order Recursive Consistent Velocity Field Estimation
5. ICLR 2026Aria: an Agent for Retrieval and Iterative Auto-Formalization via Dependency Graph
6. ICLR 2026AssetFormer: Modular 3D Assets Generation with Autoregressive Transformer
7. ICLR 2026AssoMem: Scalable Memory QA with Multi-Signal Associative Retrieval
8. ICLR 2026ATLAS: Alibaba Dataset and Benchmark for Learning-Augmented Scheduling
9. ICLR 2026AtlasKV: Augmenting LLMs with Billion-Scale Knowledge Graphs in 20GB VRAM
10. ICLR 2026Attributing Response to Context: A Jensen–Shannon Divergence Driven Mechanistic Study of Context Attribution in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11. ICLR 2026Automated Formalization via Conceptual Retrieval-Augmented LLMs
12. ICLR 2026Better Learning-Augmented Spanning Tree Algorithms via Metric Forest Completion
13. ICLR 2026Beyond a Million Tokens: Benchmarking and Enhancing Long-Term Memory in LLMs
14. ICLR 2026Beyond RAG vs. Long-Context: Learning Distraction-Aware Retrieval for Efficient Knowledge Grounding
15. ICLR 2026BrowseNet: Knowledge Graph-Based Associative Memory for Contextual Information Retrieval
16. ICLR 2026CFT-RAG: An Entity Tree Based Retrieval Augmented Generation Algorithm With Cuckoo Filter
17. ICLR 2026ChronoPlay: A Framework for Modeling Dual Dynamics and Authenticity in Game RAG Benchmarks
18. ICLR 2026Cite Pretrain: Retrieval-Free Knowledge Attribution for Large Language Models
19. ICLR 2026CLAUSE: Agentic Neuro-Symbolic Knowledge Graph Reasoning via Dynamic Learnable Context Engineering
20. ICLR 2026CodeGenGuard: A Robust Watermark for Code Generation Models
21. ICLR 2026Completing Missing Annotation: Multi-Agent Debate for Accurate and Scalable Relevant Assessment for IR Benchmarks
22. ICLR 2026Copy-Paste to Mitigate Large Language Model Hallucinations
23. ICLR 2026Counterfactual Reasoning for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
24. ICLR 2026Deep Global-sense Hard-negative Discriminative Generation Hashing for Cross-modal Retrieval
25. ICLR 2026DeepRAG: Thinking to Retrieve Step by Step for Large Language Models
26. ICLR 2026Demystifying and Enhancing the Efficiency of Large Language Model Based Search Agents
27. ICLR 2026Demystifying Deep Search: A Holistic Evaluation with Hint-free Multi-Hop Questions and Factorised Metrics
28. ICLR 2026Difference-Aware Retrieval Polices for Imitation Learning
29. ICLR 2026Distill-SynthKG: Distilling Knowledge Graph Synthesis Workflow for Improved Coverage and Efficiency
30. ICLR 2026DRIFT: Decompose, Retrieve, Illustrate, then Formalize Theorems
31. ICLR 2026Eigen-1: Scientific Reasoning through Adaptive Multi-Agent Refinement and Monitor-based RAG
32. ICLR 2026Embedding-Based Context-Aware Reranker
33. ICLR 2026Enhancing Multivariate Time Series Forecasting with Global Temporal Retrieval
34. ICLR 2026Error Notebook-Guided, Training-Free Part Retrieval in 3D CAD Assemblies via Vision-Language Models
35. ICLR 2026Evaluating Memory in LLM Agents via Incremental Multi-Turn Interactions
36. ICLR 2026Fast Proteome-Scale Protein Interaction Retrieval via Residue-Level Factorization
37. ICLR 2026FHE-Coder: Secure Agentic Code Generation for Fully Homomorphic Encryption
38. ICLR 2026FilMaster: Bridging Cinematic Principles and Generative AI for Automated Film Generation
39. ICLR 2026Fine-Grained Privacy Extraction from Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems by Exploiting Knowledge Asymmetry
40. ICLR 2026From Large to Small: Transferring CUDA Optimization Expertise via Reasoning Graph
41. ICLR 2026From Single to Multi-Granularity: Toward Long-Term Memory Association and Selection of Conversational Agents
42. ICLR 2026FrugalRAG: Less is More in RL Finetuning for Multi-hop Question Answering
43. ICLR 2026Frustratingly Simple Retrieval Improves Challenging, Reasoning-Intensive Benchmarks
44. ICLR 2026FutureFill: Fast Generation from Convolutional Sequence Models
45. ICLR 2026G-reasoner: Foundation Models for Unified Reasoning over Graph-structured Knowledge
46. ICLR 2026GPS: Directed Acyclic Graph guided Proactive Information Seeking in Large Language Models
47. ICLR 2026Graph-based Nearest Neighbors with Dynamic Updates via Random Walks
48. ICLR 2026GRO-RAG: Gradient-aware Re-rank Optimization for Multi-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation
49. ICLR 2026Guided Query Refinement: Multimodal Hybrid Retrieval with Test-Time Optimization
50. ICLR 2026Hierarchical Encoding Tree with Modality Mixup for Cross-modal Hashing

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.