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. ICML 2026``Someone Hid It!'': Query-Agnostic Black-Box Attacks on LLM-Based Retrieval
2. ICML 2026$\tau$-Knowledge: Evaluating Conversational Agents over Unstructured Knowledge
3. ICML 2026$G^2$-Reader: Dual Evolving Graphs for Multimodal Document QA
4. ICML 2026Active Tabular Augmentation via Policy-Guided Diffusion Inpainting
5. ICML 2026Agentic Model Predictive Questioning Control in Visual Design
6. ICML 2026AOEB: Benchmarking Agent-Oriented Multimodal Embeddings
7. ICML 2026Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search for Modern AI: A Projection-Augmented Graph Approach
8. ICML 2026AugServe: Adaptive Request Scheduling for Augmented Large Language Model Inference Serving
9. ICML 2026Autoregressive, Yet Revisable: In Decoding Revision for Secure Code Generation
10. ICML 2026AutoRPA: Efficient GUI Automation through LLM-Driven Code Synthesis from Interactions
11. ICML 2026Barriers to Counterfactual Credit Attribution for Autoregressive Models
12. ICML 2026BEAT: Tokenizing and Generating Symbolic Music by Uniform Temporal Steps
13. ICML 2026Benchmarking Agent Memory in Interdependent Multi-Session Agentic Tasks
14. ICML 2026BESPOKE: Benchmark for Search-Augmented Large Language Model Personalization via Diagnostic Feedback
15. ICML 2026Beyond Explicit Edges: Robust Reasoning over Noisy and Sparse Knowledge Graphs
16. ICML 2026Beyond Model Base Retrieval: Weaving Knowledge to Master Fine-grained Neural Network Design
17. ICML 2026Beyond Single-View Indexing: Structure-Aware Multi-View Retrieval for Knowledge-Based VQA
18. ICML 2026BlitzRank: Principled Zero-shot Ranking Agents with Tournament Graphs
19. ICML 2026Can Recommender Systems Teach Themselves? A Recursive Self-Improving Framework with Fidelity Control
20. ICML 2026CausalRAG2: Hierarchical Causal Knowledge Graph Design for RAG
21. ICML 2026CiteGuard: Conformal False-Discovery Control for Faithful Retrieval-Augmented Generation
22. ICML 2026CMI-RewardBench: Evaluating Music Reward Models with Compositional Multimodal Instruction
23. ICML 2026Coverage, Not Averages: Semantic Stratification for Trustworthy Retrieval Evaluation
24. ICML 2026Credit-assigned Policy Gradient for Early Stage Retrieval in Two-stage Ranking
25. ICML 2026Data Augmentation of Contrastive Learning is Estimating Positive-incentive Noise
26. ICML 2026Deep Discriminative Structure Proxy Hashing for Cross-modal Retrieval
27. ICML 2026DRIVE: Distributional and Retrieval-Augmented Bidding with Value Evaluation
28. ICML 2026Dustin: Draft-Augmented Sparse Verification for Efficient Long-Context Generation with Speculative Decoding
29. ICML 2026Dynamic Stratified Contrastive Learning with Upstream Augmentation for MILP Branching
30. ICML 2026Embodied Task Planning via Graph-Informed Action Generation with Large Language Models
31. ICML 2026EntRAG: Entity-Centric Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering
32. ICML 2026EvoCF: Multi-Agent Collaboration via Agentic Memory-Driven Evolutionary Counterfactual Planning
33. ICML 2026ExpWeaver: LLM Agents Learn from Experience via Latent RAG
34. ICML 2026Eyes-on-Me: Scalable RAG Poisoning through Transferable Attention-Steering Attractors
35. ICML 2026Fix Before Search: Benchmarking Agentic Visual Query Pre-processing in Multimodal Retrieval-augmented Generation
36. ICML 2026Foundation VAE for CT Reconstruction, Augmentation, and Generation
37. ICML 2026FreeRet: MLLMs as Training-Free Retrievers
38. ICML 2026From Conflict to Consensus: Boosting Medical Reasoning via Multi-Round Agentic RAG
39. ICML 2026From Extraction to Deduction: Resolving Functional Misalignment in RAG via a Collaborative Critic-Reasoner Framework
40. ICML 2026From Retrieval to Translation: Translating Query into Graph-level Clues for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
41. ICML 2026From Volume to Value: Preference-Aligned Memory Construction for On-Device RAG
42. ICML 2026GAM-RAG: Gain-Adaptive Memory for Evolving Retrieval in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
43. ICML 2026Geometric Entropy and Retrieval Phase Transitions in Continuous Thermal Dense Associative Memory
44. ICML 2026Global Merger-Arbitrage Forecasting with Language Models
45. ICML 2026GRAPE: Let GRPO Supervise Query Rewriting by Ranking for Retrieval
46. ICML 2026Graph-Link: Bridging the Semantic-Structural Gap in Text-to-SQL via Constrained Subgraph Induction
47. ICML 2026Graph-R1: Towards Agentic GraphRAG Framework via End-to-end Reinforcement Learning
48. ICML 2026Great Minds Think Alike: Contextual Tacit Communication for Decentralized LLM-Agent Cooperation
49. ICML 2026Guidance: Sentence-Level Citation Enforcement via Prefix-Tail Guidance during LLM Decoding
50. ICML 2026Hermes: An Evidence-Driven Agentic Framework for Trustworthy and Explainable AI-Generated Video Detection

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.