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
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- ICML 2024A Statistical Framework for Data-dependent Retrieval-Augmented Models
- ICML 2024Accelerating Iterative Retrieval-augmented Language Model Serving with Speculation
- ICML 2024ACM-MILP: Adaptive Constraint Modification via Grouping and Selection for Hardness-Preserving MILP Instance Generation
- ICML 2024Adaptive Stabilization Based on Machine Learning for Column Generation
- ICML 2024Aligned Objective for Soft-Pseudo-Label Generation in Supervised Learning
- ICML 2024Automated Evaluation of Retrieval-Augmented Language Models with Task-Specific Exam Generation
- ICML 2024Behavior Generation with Latent Actions
- ICML 2024Benchmarking and Building Long-Context Retrieval Models with LoCo and M2-BERT
- ICML 2024BetterV: Controlled Verilog Generation with Discriminative Guidance
- ICML 2024Bottleneck-Minimal Indexing for Generative Document Retrieval
- ICML 2024C-RAG: Certified Generation Risks for Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
- ICML 2024Chain of Code: Reasoning with a Language Model-Augmented Code Emulator
- ICML 2024Cluster-Aware Similarity Diffusion for Instance Retrieval
- ICML 2024Coarse-to-Fine Highlighting: Reducing Knowledge Hallucination in Large Language Models
- ICML 2024Collaborative Learning with Different Labeling Functions
- ICML 2024Collapse-Aware Triplet Decoupling for Adversarially Robust Image Retrieval
- ICML 2024Curated LLM: Synergy of LLMs and Data Curation for tabular augmentation in low-data regimes
- ICML 2024DAG-Based Column Generation for Adversarial Team Games
- ICML 2024DFA-RAG: Conversational Semantic Router for Large Language Model with Definite Finite Automaton
- ICML 2024Diffusion-based Missing-view Generation With the Application on Incomplete Multi-view Clustering
- ICML 2024Disentangled 3D Scene Generation with Layout Learning
- ICML 2024Enhancing Cross-Modal Fine-Tuning with Gradually Intermediate Modality Generation
- ICML 2024Exponential Spectral Pursuit: An Effective Initialization Method for Sparse Phase Retrieval
- ICML 2024Extreme Compression of Large Language Models via Additive Quantization
- ICML 2024Fast Text-to-3D-Aware Face Generation and Manipulation via Direct Cross-modal Mapping and Geometric Regularization
- ICML 2024InferCept: Efficient Intercept Support for Augmented Large Language Model Inference
- ICML 2024Instruction Tuning for Secure Code Generation
- ICML 2024InstructRetro: Instruction Tuning post Retrieval-Augmented Pretraining
- ICML 2024Interaction-based Retrieval-augmented Diffusion Models for Protein-specific 3D Molecule Generation
- ICML 2024Interpreting Equivariant Representations
- ICML 2024Knowledge Transfer from Vision Foundation Models for Efficient Training of Small Task-specific Models
- ICML 2024KV-Runahead: Scalable Causal LLM Inference by Parallel Key-Value Cache Generation
- ICML 2024Language Generation with Strictly Proper Scoring Rules
- ICML 2024Learning from Memory: Non-Parametric Memory Augmented Self-Supervised Learning of Visual Features
- ICML 2024Non-clairvoyant Scheduling with Partial Predictions
- ICML 2024Parsimonious Learning-Augmented Approximations for Dense Instances of $\mathcal{NP}$-hard Problems
- ICML 2024PinNet: Pinpoint Instructive Information for Retrieval Augmented Code-to-Text Generation
- ICML 2024Proteus: Exploring Protein Structure Generation for Enhanced Designability and Efficiency
- ICML 2024Repoformer: Selective Retrieval for Repository-Level Code Completion
- ICML 2024Retrieval-Augmented Score Distillation for Text-to-3D Generation
- ICML 2024RoboMP$^2$: A Robotic Multimodal Perception-Planning Framework with Multimodal Large Language Models
- ICML 2024Robust Learning-Augmented Dictionaries
- ICML 2024Self-Infilling Code Generation
- ICML 2024Superposition Prompting: Improving and Accelerating Retrieval-Augmented Generation
- ICML 2024Switchable Decision: Dynamic Neural Generation Networks
- ICML 2024Trustworthy Alignment of Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models via Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2024Understanding Retrieval-Augmented Task Adaptation for Vision-Language Models
- ICML 2024Uniform Memory Retrieval with Larger Capacity for Modern Hopfield Models
- ICML 2024USTAD: Unified Single-model Training Achieving Diverse Scores for Information Retrieval
- ICML 2024When Linear Attention Meets Autoregressive Decoding: Towards More Effective and Efficient Linearized Large Language Models
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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.