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

102 papers, page 1 of 3

1. CVPR 2023Are Binary Annotations Sufficient? Video Moment Retrieval via Hierarchical Uncertainty-Based Active Learning
2. CVPR 2023Asymmetric Feature Fusion for Image Retrieval
3. CVPR 2023Boundary-Aware Backward-Compatible Representation via Adversarial Learning in Image Retrieval
4. CVPR 2023Catch Missing Details: Image Reconstruction With Frequency Augmented Variational Autoencoder
5. CVPR 2023CiCo: Domain-Aware Sign Language Retrieval via Cross-Lingual Contrastive Learning
6. CVPR 2023CLIPPING: Distilling CLIP-Based Models With a Student Base for Video-Language Retrieval
7. CVPR 2023Data-Free Sketch-Based Image Retrieval
8. CVPR 2023Disentangling Writer and Character Styles for Handwriting Generation
9. CVPR 2023Fast Contextual Scene Graph Generation With Unbiased Context Augmentation
10. CVPR 2023Feature Representation Learning With Adaptive Displacement Generation and Transformer Fusion for Micro-Expression Recognition
11. CVPR 2023HAAV: Hierarchical Aggregation of Augmented Views for Image Captioning
12. CVPR 2023Hierarchical Video-Moment Retrieval and Step-Captioning
13. CVPR 2023High-Fidelity 3D Face Generation From Natural Language Descriptions
14. CVPR 2023Improving Cross-Modal Retrieval With Set of Diverse Embeddings
15. CVPR 2023Improving the Transferability of Adversarial Samples by Path-Augmented Method
16. CVPR 2023Interactive and Explainable Region-Guided Radiology Report Generation
17. CVPR 2023LANA: A Language-Capable Navigator for Instruction Following and Generation
18. CVPR 2023LayoutFormer++: Conditional Graphic Layout Generation via Constraint Serialization and Decoding Space Restriction
19. CVPR 2023Learning Customized Visual Models With Retrieval-Augmented Knowledge
20. CVPR 2023MaskSketch: Unpaired Structure-Guided Masked Image Generation
21. CVPR 2023Multilateral Semantic Relations Modeling for Image Text Retrieval
22. CVPR 2023Neural Transformation Fields for Arbitrary-Styled Font Generation
23. CVPR 2023NoisyTwins: Class-Consistent and Diverse Image Generation Through StyleGANs
24. CVPR 2023Picture That Sketch: Photorealistic Image Generation From Abstract Sketches
25. CVPR 2023Pix2map: Cross-Modal Retrieval for Inferring Street Maps From Images
26. CVPR 2023Private Image Generation With Dual-Purpose Auxiliary Classifier
27. CVPR 2023R2Former: Unified Retrieval and Reranking Transformer for Place Recognition
28. CVPR 2023RA-CLIP: Retrieval Augmented Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training
29. CVPR 2023Rawgment: Noise-Accounted RAW Augmentation Enables Recognition in a Wide Variety of Environments
30. CVPR 2023REVEAL: Retrieval-Augmented Visual-Language Pre-Training With Multi-Source Multimodal Knowledge Memory
31. CVPR 2023RONO: Robust Discriminative Learning With Noisy Labels for 2D-3D Cross-Modal Retrieval
32. CVPR 2023SmallCap: Lightweight Image Captioning Prompted With Retrieval Augmentation
33. CVPR 2023Topology-Guided Multi-Class Cell Context Generation for Digital Pathology
34. CVPR 2023Towards Accurate Image Coding: Improved Autoregressive Image Generation With Dynamic Vector Quantization
35. CVPR 2023Universal Instance Perception As Object Discovery and Retrieval
36. CVPR 2023Unsupervised 3D Shape Reconstruction by Part Retrieval and Assembly
37. CVPR 2023Zero-Shot Everything Sketch-Based Image Retrieval, and in Explainable Style
38. ICLR 2023ArCL: Enhancing Contrastive Learning with Augmentation-Robust Representations
39. ICLR 2023Associative Memory Augmented Asynchronous Spatiotemporal Representation Learning for Event-based Perception
40. ICLR 2023Augmentation with Projection: Towards an Effective and Efficient Data Augmentation Paradigm for Distillation
41. ICLR 2023Backpropagation through Combinatorial Algorithms: Identity with Projection Works
42. ICLR 2023CodeT: Code Generation with Generated Tests
43. ICLR 2023Decompositional Generation Process for Instance-Dependent Partial Label Learning
44. ICLR 2023DocPrompting: Generating Code by Retrieving the Docs
45. ICLR 2023Evidential Uncertainty and Diversity Guided Active Learning for Scene Graph Generation
46. ICLR 2023FastFill: Efficient Compatible Model Update
47. ICLR 2023FunkNN: Neural Interpolation for Functional Generation
48. ICLR 2023HypeR: Multitask Hyper-Prompted Training Enables Large-Scale Retrieval Generalization
49. ICLR 2023ILA-DA: Improving Transferability of Intermediate Level Attack with Data Augmentation
50. ICLR 2023Improved Learning-augmented Algorithms for k-means and k-medians Clustering

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.