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
549 papers, page 1 of 11
- CVPR 2026ACPV-Net All-Class Polygonal Vectorization for Seamless Vector Map Generation from
- CVPR 2026Adapting In-context Generation for Enhanced Composed Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2026ADSeeker A Knowledge-Grounded Reasoning Framework for Industry Anomaly Detection and
- CVPR 2026Animator-Centric Skeleton Generation on Objects with Fine-Grained Details
- CVPR 2026ARMFlow AutoRegressive MeanFlow for Online 3D Human Reaction Generation
- CVPR 2026Attribution as Retrieval Model-Agnostic AI-Generated Image Attribution
- CVPR 2026AutoRegressive Generation with B-rep Holistic Token Sequence Representation
- CVPR 2026Beyond Caption-Based Queries in Video Moment Retrieval
- CVPR 2026Beyond Objects Contextual Synthetic Data Generation for Fine-Grained Classification
- CVPR 2026Beyond Semantic Search Towards Referential Anchoring in Composed Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2026Bidirectional Query-Driven Generation of Parametric CAD Sketch
- CVPR 2026Bridging Privacy and Provenance Traceable Virtual Identity Generation
- CVPR 2026CAD-Refiner A Unified Framework for CAD Generation and Iterative Editing
- CVPR 2026CaliTex Geometry-Calibrated Attention for View-Coherent 3D Texture Generation
- CVPR 2026Camouflage-aware Image-Text Retrieval via Expert Collaboration
- CVPR 2026CARLoS Retrieval via Concise Assessment Representation of LoRAs at Scale
- CVPR 2026CodeMMR Bridging Natural Language Code and Image for Unified Retrieval
- CVPR 2026CogniVerse Revolutionizing Multi-Modal Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Cognitive Reflection and Geometric
- CVPR 2026ConeSep Cone-based Robust Noise-Unlearning Compositional Network for Composed Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2026Cross-modal Fuzzy Alignment Network for Text-Aerial Person Retrieval and A
- CVPR 2026Decision Boundary-aware Generation for Long-tailed Learning
- CVPR 2026DiT-Distill Open-Set Fine-Grained Retrieval via Generative Curriculum Knowledge
- CVPR 2026DiT360 High-Fidelity Panoramic Image Generation via Hybrid Training
- CVPR 2026DocSeeker Structured Visual Reasoning with Evidence Grounding for Long Document
- CVPR 2026DSFlash Comprehensive Panoptic Scene Graph Generation in Realtime
- CVPR 2026Efficient and High-Fidelity Omni Modality Retrieval
- CVPR 2026EvoGraph-R1 Self-Evolving Multimodal Knowledge Hypergraphs for Agentic Retrieval
- CVPR 2026Fixed Anchors Are Not Enough Dynamic Retrieval and Persistent Homology
- CVPR 2026Follow the Saliency Supervised Saliency for Retrieval-augmented Dense Video Captioning
- CVPR 2026Forging a Dynamic Memory Retrieval-Guided Continual Learning for Generalist Medical
- CVPR 2026FrankenMotion Part-level Human Motion Generation and Composition
- CVPR 2026Gated KalmaNet A Fading Memory Layer through Test-time Ridge Regression
- CVPR 2026GenMask Adapting DiT for Segmentation via Direct Mask Generation
- CVPR 2026Graph-to-Frame RAG Visual-Space Knowledge Fusion for Training-Free and Auditable Video
- CVPR 2026Graph2Eval Automatic Multimodal Task Generation for Agents via Knowledge Graphs
- CVPR 2026HG-Lane High-Fidelity Generation of Lane Scenes under Adverse Weather and
- CVPR 2026Hierarchical Long Video Understanding with Audiovisual Entity Cohesion and Agentic
- CVPR 2026HOG-Layout Hierarchical 3D Scene Generation Optimization and Editing via Vision-Language
- CVPR 2026ID-Sim An Identity-Focused Similarity Metric
- CVPR 2026ImageRAGTurbo Towards One-step Text-to-Image Generation with Retrieval-Augmented Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2026Intra-class Distribution-guided Generative Hashing with Neighbor Refinement for Cross-modal Retrieval
- CVPR 2026KnowVal A Knowledge-Augmented and Value-Guided Autonomous Driving System
- CVPR 2026LATTICE Democratize High-Fidelity 3D Generation at Scale
- CVPR 2026LumiX Structured and Coherent Text-to-Intrinsic Generation
- CVPR 2026M3DocDep Multi-modal Multi-page Multi-document Dependency Chunking with Large Vision-Language Models
- CVPR 2026M3KG-RAG Multi-hop Multimodal Knowledge Graph-enhanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation
- CVPR 2026M4-RAG A Massive-Scale Multilingual Multi-Cultural Multimodal RAG
- CVPR 2026Match-and-Fuse Consistent Generation from Unstructured Image Sets
- CVPR 2026MeshMosaic Scaling Artist Mesh Generation via Local-to-Global Assembly
- CVPR 2026MeshRipple Structured Autoregressive Generation of Artist-Meshes
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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.