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
183 papers, page 1 of 4
- CVPR 2024An Asymmetric Augmented Self-Supervised Learning Method for Unsupervised Fine-Grained Image Hashing
- CVPR 2024Attribute-Guided Pedestrian Retrieval: Bridging Person Re-ID with Internal Attribute Variability
- CVPR 2024AttriHuman-3D: Editable 3D Human Avatar Generation with Attribute Decomposition and Indexing
- CVPR 2024Causal-CoG: A Causal-Effect Look at Context Generation for Boosting Multi-modal Language Models
- CVPR 2024Characteristics Matching Based Hash Codes Generation for Efficient Fine-grained Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2024Composed Video Retrieval via Enriched Context and Discriminative Embeddings
- CVPR 2024Contextual Augmented Global Contrast for Multimodal Intent Recognition
- CVPR 2024ControlRoom3D: Room Generation using Semantic Proxy Rooms
- CVPR 2024CPR: Retrieval Augmented Generation for Copyright Protection
- CVPR 2024D3still: Decoupled Differential Distillation for Asymmetric Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2024DemoCaricature: Democratising Caricature Generation with a Rough Sketch
- CVPR 2024DSGG: Dense Relation Transformer for an End-to-end Scene Graph Generation
- CVPR 2024Dual Pose-invariant Embeddings: Learning Category and Object-specific Discriminative Representations for Recognition and Retrieval
- CVPR 2024Evaluating Transferability in Retrieval Tasks: An Approach Using MMD and Kernel Methods
- CVPR 2024EVCap: Retrieval-Augmented Image Captioning with External Visual-Name Memory for Open-World Comprehension
- CVPR 2024Exact Fusion via Feature Distribution Matching for Few-shot Image Generation
- CVPR 2024FaceChain-SuDe: Building Derived Class to Inherit Category Attributes for One-shot Subject-Driven Generation
- CVPR 2024FairRAG: Fair Human Generation via Fair Retrieval Augmentation
- CVPR 2024Fine-grained Prototypical Voting with Heterogeneous Mixup for Semi-supervised 2D-3D Cross-modal Retrieval
- CVPR 2024Gaussian Shell Maps for Efficient 3D Human Generation
- CVPR 2024Hallucination Augmented Contrastive Learning for Multimodal Large Language Model
- CVPR 2024How to Handle Sketch-Abstraction in Sketch-Based Image Retrieval?
- CVPR 2024Infinigen Indoors: Photorealistic Indoor Scenes using Procedural Generation
- CVPR 2024Instruct-Imagen: Image Generation with Multi-modal Instruction
- CVPR 2024KP-RED: Exploiting Semantic Keypoints for Joint 3D Shape Retrieval and Deformation
- CVPR 2024LAKE-RED: Camouflaged Images Generation by Latent Background Knowledge Retrieval-Augmented Diffusion
- CVPR 2024Language-only Training of Zero-shot Composed Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2024Learning to Rematch Mismatched Pairs for Robust Cross-Modal Retrieval
- CVPR 2024LeGO: Leveraging a Surface Deformation Network for Animatable Stylized Face Generation with One Example
- CVPR 2024Leveraging Predicate and Triplet Learning for Scene Graph Generation
- CVPR 2024OmniMotionGPT: Animal Motion Generation with Limited Data
- CVPR 2024POPDG: Popular 3D Dance Generation with PopDanceSet
- CVPR 2024ProS: Prompting-to-simulate Generalized knowledge for Universal Cross-Domain Retrieval
- CVPR 2024Retrieval-Augmented Egocentric Video Captioning
- CVPR 2024Retrieval-Augmented Embodied Agents
- CVPR 2024Retrieval-Augmented Layout Transformer for Content-Aware Layout Generation
- CVPR 2024Retrieval-Augmented Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
- CVPR 2024ShapeMatcher: Self-Supervised Joint Shape Canonicalization Segmentation Retrieval and Deformation
- CVPR 2024SSR-Encoder: Encoding Selective Subject Representation for Subject-Driven Generation
- CVPR 2024Style Aligned Image Generation via Shared Attention
- CVPR 2024StyleCineGAN: Landscape Cinemagraph Generation using a Pre-trained StyleGAN
- CVPR 2024Task-Driven Exploration: Decoupling and Inter-Task Feedback for Joint Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection
- CVPR 2024The Neglected Tails in Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2024Towards a Simultaneous and Granular Identity-Expression Control in Personalized Face Generation
- CVPR 2024Towards Automated Movie Trailer Generation
- CVPR 2024Tri-Modal Motion Retrieval by Learning a Joint Embedding Space
- CVPR 2024UFineBench: Towards Text-based Person Retrieval with Ultra-fine Granularity
- CVPR 2024Visual-Augmented Dynamic Semantic Prototype for Generative Zero-Shot Learning
- CVPR 2024You'll Never Walk Alone: A Sketch and Text Duet for Fine-Grained Image Retrieval
- ICLR 2024A Branching Decoder for Set Generation
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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.