AI Agents papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• AI Agents went from 170 papers in 2023 to 1,983 in 2026, roughly 12x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most AI Agents work: 1,317 papers from 2023 to 2026, 40% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with LLM Benchmarks: papers tagged with both rose from 1 in 2023 to 116 in 2026.
• Among the 4 topics under Trending Systems, it ranks #2 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, World Models, is up 11x versus 12x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026$\boldsymbol{f}$-OPD: Stabilizing Long-Horizon On-Policy Distillation with Freshness-Aware Control
• ICML 2026$\tau$-Knowledge: Evaluating Conversational Agents over Unstructured Knowledge
• ICLR 2026A Benchmark for Deep Information Synthesis
• CVPR 20263D-VCD Hallucination Mitigation in 3D-LLM Embodied Agents through Visual Contrastive
• NeurIPS 20254KAgent: Agentic Any Image to 4K Super-Resolution
• ICML 2025A Unified Approach to Routing and Cascading for LLMs
• ICLR 2025A Generalist Hanabi Agent
• CVPR 2025Collaborative Tree Search for Enhancing Embodied Multi-Agent Collaboration
• NeurIPS 2024AdaSociety: An Adaptive Environment with Social Structures for Multi-Agent Decision-Making
• ICML 2024A Human-Inspired Reading Agent with Gist Memory of Very Long Contexts
• ICLR 2024A Real-World WebAgent with Planning, Long Context Understanding, and Program Synthesis
• CVPR 2024Density-Adaptive Model Based on Motif Matrix for Multi-Agent Trajectory Prediction
• NeurIPS 2023AdaPlanner: Adaptive Planning from Feedback with Language Models
• ICML 2023A Game-Theoretic Framework for Managing Risk in Multi-Agent Systems
• ICLR 2023Achieving Near-Optimal Individual Regret & Low Communications in Multi-Agent Bandits
• CVPR 2023Behavioral Analysis of Vision-and-Language Navigation Agents
• NeurIPS 20262-Step Agent: How a Bayesian Decision Maker Learns from AI-Decision Support
• ICML 2026$\tau$-Voice: Benchmarking Full-Duplex Voice Agents on Real-World Domains
• ICLR 2026A Framework for Studying AI Agent Behavior: Evidence from Consumer Choice Experiments
• CVPR 2026A Multi-Agent Perception-Action Alliance for Efficient Long Video Reasoning

All AI Agents papers

3,266 papers, page 1 of 66

1. CVPR 20263D Space as a Scratchpad for Editable Text-to-Image Generation
2. CVPR 20263D-VCD Hallucination Mitigation in 3D-LLM Embodied Agents through Visual Contrastive
3. CVPR 20263DrawAgent Teaching LLM to Draw in 3D with Early Contrastive
4. CVPR 2026A Multi-Agent Perception-Action Alliance for Efficient Long Video Reasoning
5. CVPR 2026AdapAction Adaptive Target Action Backdoor Attack against GUI Agents
6. CVPR 2026Agent4FaceForgery Multi-Agent LLM Framework for Realistic Face Forgery Detection
7. CVPR 2026AgentDet A Shared-Blackboard Multi-Agent Framework for Zero-Few-Shot Object Detection
8. CVPR 2026Agentic Retoucher for Text-To-Image Generation
9. CVPR 2026Agentic Video Summarization via Self-Reflecting Multimodal Understanding
10. CVPR 2026AGENTSAFE Benchmarking the Safety of Embodied Agents on Hazardous Instructions
11. CVPR 2026ARM-Thinker Reinforcing Multimodal Generative Reward Models with Agentic Tool Use
12. CVPR 2026Asking like Socrates Socrates helps VLMs understand remote sensing images
13. CVPR 2026Beyond Rule-Based Agents Active Markov Games for Realistic Multi-Agent Interaction
14. CVPR 2026Beyond Sequential Tools A Unified VLM Agent System for Photographic
15. CVPR 2026CaptionQA Is Your Caption as Useful as the Image Itself
16. CVPR 2026CATNet Collaborative Alignment and Transformation Network for Cooperative Perception
17. CVPR 2026CodeV Code with Images for Faithful Visual Reasoning via Tool-Aware
18. CVPR 2026Dont Show Pixels Show Cues Unlocking Visual Tool Reasoning in
19. CVPR 2026DRAMA Next-Gen Dynamic Orchestration for Resilient Multi-Agent Ecosystems in Flux
20. CVPR 2026DualMirage Hunting Stealthy Multimodal LLM Agents via CAPTCHAs with Contour
21. CVPR 2026EchoFoley Event-Centric Hierarchical Control for Video Grounded Creative Sound Generation
22. CVPR 2026Ego2Web A Web Agent Benchmark Grounded in Egocentric Videos
23. CVPR 2026EmbodMocap In-the-Wild 4D Human-Scene Reconstruction for Embodied Agents
24. CVPR 2026Evo-Retriever LLM-Guided Curriculum Evolution with Viewpoint-Pathway Collaboration for Multimodal Document
25. CVPR 2026EvoGraph-R1 Self-Evolving Multimodal Knowledge Hypergraphs for Agentic Retrieval
26. CVPR 2026Experience Transfer for Multimodal LLM Agents in Minecraft Game
27. CVPR 2026FiDeSR High-Fidelity and Detail-Preserving One-Step Diffusion Super-Resolution
28. CVPR 2026FoleyDesigner Immersive Stereo Foley Generation with Precise Spatio-Temporal Alignment for
29. CVPR 2026From Where Things Are to What They Are For Benchmarking
30. CVPR 2026FusionAgent A Multimodal Agent with Dynamic Model Selection for Human
31. CVPR 2026Geometrically-Constrained Agent for Spatial Reasoning
32. CVPR 2026GeoMMBench and GeoMMAgent Toward Expert-Level Multimodal Intelligence in Geoscience and
33. CVPR 2026Graph-to-Frame RAG Visual-Space Knowledge Fusion for Training-Free and Auditable Video
34. CVPR 2026GTR-Turbo Merged Checkpoint is Secretly a Free Teacher for Agentic
35. CVPR 2026GUI-CEval A Hierarchical and Comprehensive Chinese Benchmark for Mobile GUI
36. CVPR 2026HiconAgent History Context-aware Policy Optimization for GUI Agents
37. CVPR 2026Hierarchical Attacks for Multi-Modal Multi-Agent Reasoning
38. CVPR 2026Hierarchical Long Video Understanding with Audiovisual Entity Cohesion and Agentic
39. CVPR 2026Hybrid Agents for Image Restoration
40. CVPR 2026IBISAgent Reinforcing Pixel-Level Visual Reasoning in MLLMs for Universal Biomedical
41. CVPR 2026IEBGLAn Interpretability-Enhanced Brain Graph Learning Framework with LLM-Instructed Topology and
42. CVPR 2026IMAIA Interactive Maps AI Assistant for Travel Planning and Geo-Spatial
43. CVPR 2026InfiniBench Infinite Benchmarking for Visual Spatial Reasoning with Customizable Scene
44. CVPR 2026InterAgent Physics-based Multi-agent Command Execution via Diffusion on Interaction Graphs
45. CVPR 2026LaMoGen Language to Motion Generation Through LLM-Guided Symbolic Inference
46. CVPR 2026Learning to Assist Physics-Grounded Human-Human Control via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
47. CVPR 2026LensWalk Agentic Video Understanding by Planning How You See in
48. CVPR 2026LiDAR Prompted Spatio-Temporal Multi-View Stereo for Autonomous Driving
49. CVPR 2026LongVT Incentivizing Thinking with Long Videos via Native Tool Calling
50. CVPR 2026M3KG-RAG Multi-hop Multimodal Knowledge Graph-enhanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation

FAQ

How many AI Agents papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

3,266 in total: 170 in 2023, 329 in 2024, 784 in 2025, 1,983 in 2026.

How many AI Agents papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 729 AI Agents papers, versus 362 the year before.

How many AI Agents papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 500 AI Agents papers, versus 204 the year before.

How many AI Agents papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 640 AI Agents papers, versus 178 the year before.

How many AI Agents papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 114 AI Agents papers, versus 40 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most AI Agents papers?

NeurIPS, with 1,317 papers from 2023 to 2026.