Various aspects described herein relate to techniques for beam discovery and beamforming in wireless communications (e.g., 5th Generation (5G) New Radio (NR)). In an aspect, a method related to signaling for channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs) in wireless communications is provided. The method includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a CSI-RS beam of a set of CSI-RS beams, and the CSI-RS beam includes a change indication message. The method further includes determining, by the UE, whether the set of CSI-RS beams have changed based on a value of the change indication message.