1concept,regex,total_works,first_month_with_5,detection_month,peak_growth_month,lead_months2large language models,\b(large language models?|LLMs?)\b,131989,2018-12,2020-12,2023-10,343diffusion models,\b(diffusion models?|denoising diffusion|latent diffusion|score-based generative)\b,21019,2018-01,2023-01,2023-10,94neural radiance fields,\b(neural radiance fields?|NeRFs?)\b,3282,2020-10,2021-04,2021-06,25llm agents,\b(LLM[- ]based agents?|language (model|agent)s? agents?|LLM agents?|agentic (AI|systems?|workflows?)|tool-using (agents?|LLMs?))\b,6814,2021-05,2023-10,2024-04,66retrieval-augmented generation,\b(retrieval[- ]augmented generation|\bRAG\b),12896,2018-10,2023-10,2024-10,127state-space sequence models,\b(state[- ]space models?|Mamba|S4\b|selective state space|structured state space)\b,8043,2018-01,2024-07,2025-01,68vision-language models,\b(vision[- ]language models?|VLMs?|multimodal large language models?|MLLMs?)\b,18667,2019-04,2022-06,2023-03,99mechanistic interpretability,\b(mechanistic interpretability|sparse autoencoders? (for|in) (interpretab|LLM|language)|circuits? in (language|transformer)),629,2022-09,2024-10,2023-04,-1810speculative decoding,\b(speculative (decoding|sampling)|draft models?)\b,679,2018-07,2024-04,2024-09,511mixture of experts,\b(mixture[- ]of[- ]experts|\bMoE\b|sparsely[- ]gated)\b,4282,2018-02,2024-06,2024-11,512reasoning models,\b(chain[- ]of[- ]thought|test[- ]time (compute|scaling)|reasoning models?|large reasoning models?|o1-like|R1-like)\b,6206,2018-03,2023-06,2025-11,2913ai code generation,\b(code generation|code LLMs?|program synthesis with (LLMs?|language models)|AI (pair|coding) (programmer|assistants?)|Copilot)\b,8777,2018-01,2023-11,2024-09,1014