AI Agents papers, 2023–2026

Tool-using, multi-step autonomous LLM and VLM agent systems

Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 3,266 papers are tagged with this topic.

Key findings

Papers per year

Papers per venue

Counts by year and venue

AI Agents papers by year and venue
YearNeurIPSICLRICMLCVPRTotal
202376404113170
2024150738818329
202536220417840784
20267295006401141,983

Representative papers

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All AI Agents papers

3,266 papers, page 10 of 66

  1. ICLR 2026Pursuing Minimal Sufficiency in Spatial Reasoning
  2. ICLR 2026Pushing Test-Time Scaling Limits of Deep Search with Asymmetric Verification
  3. ICLR 2026QLCoder: A Query Synthesizer For Static Analysis of Security Vulnerabilities
  4. ICLR 2026Quadratic Direct Forecast for Training Multi-Step Time-Series Forecast Models
  5. ICLR 2026R-WoM: Retrieval-augmented World Model For Computer-use Agents
  6. ICLR 2026Randomization Boosts KV Caching, Learning Balances Query Load: A Joint Perspective
  7. ICLR 2026RATE-DISTORTION OPTIMIZED COMMUNICATION FOR COLLABORATIVE PERCEPTION
  8. ICLR 2026Rating Quality of Diverse Time Series Data by Meta-learning from LLM Judgment
  9. ICLR 2026Real-Time Reasoning Agents in Evolving Environments
  10. ICLR 2026ReasoningBank: Scaling Agent Self-Evolving with Reasoning Memory
  11. ICLR 2026ReCAPA: Hierarchical Predictive Correction to Mitigate Cascading Failures
  12. ICLR 2026RECODE: A Benchmark for Research Code DEvelopment with Interactive Human Feedback
  13. ICLR 2026RedCodeAgent: Automatic Red-teaming Agent against Diverse Code Agents
  14. ICLR 2026RedSage: A Cybersecurity Generalist LLM
  15. ICLR 2026RedTeamCUA: Realistic Adversarial Testing of Computer-Use Agents in Hybrid Web-OS Environments
  16. ICLR 2026Reducing Belief Deviation in Reinforcement Learning for Active Reasoning
  17. ICLR 2026REI-Bench: Can Embodied Agents Understand Vague Human Instructions in Task Planning?
  18. ICLR 2026ReIn: Conversational Error Recovery with Reasoning Inception
  19. ICLR 2026Reinforcement Learning for Machine Learning Engineering Agents
  20. ICLR 2026Reliable Weak-to-Strong Monitoring of LLM Agents
  21. ICLR 2026REMem: Reasoning with Episodic Memory in Language Agent
  22. ICLR 2026Repurposing Synthetic Data for Fine-grained Search Agent Supervision
  23. ICLR 2026ResearchRubrics: A Benchmark of Prompts and Rubrics For Deep Research Agents
  24. ICLR 2026Resp-Agent: An Agent-Based System for Multimodal Respiratory Sound Generation and Disease Diagnosis
  25. ICLR 2026Retaining Suboptimal Actions to Follow Shifting Optima in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
  26. ICLR 2026Rethinking Residual Errors in Compensation-based LLM Quantization
  27. ICLR 2026ReTool: Reinforcement Learning for Strategic Tool Use in LLMs
  28. ICLR 2026Retro*: Optimizing LLMs for Reasoning-Intensive Document Retrieval
  29. ICLR 2026ReVeal: Self-Evolving Code Agents via Reliable Self-Verification
  30. ICLR 2026Revisiting Parameter Server in LLM Post-Training
  31. ICLR 2026ReWatch-R1: Boosting Complex Video Reasoning in Large Vision-Language Models through Agentic Data Synthesis
  32. ICLR 2026RIG: Synergizing Reasoning and Imagination in End-to-End Generalist Policy
  33. ICLR 2026Risk-Sensitive Agent Compositions
  34. ICLR 2026RLVER: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Emotion Rewards for Empathetic Agents
  35. ICLR 2026RLVMR: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Meta-Reasoning Rewards for Robust Long-Horizon Agents
  36. ICLR 2026Robust LLM Unlearning via Post Judgment and Multi-round Thinking
  37. ICLR 2026ROGA: Scaling Generalist Agents for Office Productivity Tasks via Tool Generation
  38. ICLR 2026RPG: A Repository Planning Graph for Unified and Scalable Codebase Generation
  39. ICLR 2026Safe Continuous-time Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Epigraph Form
  40. ICLR 2026Sample-Efficient Distributionally Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Online Interaction
  41. ICLR 2026Scalable Oversight via Partitioned Human Supervision
  42. ICLR 2026ScaleCUA: Scaling Open-Source Computer Use Agents with Cross-Platform Data
  43. ICLR 2026Scaling Agent Learning via Experience Synthesis
  44. ICLR 2026Scaling Agents via Continual Pre-training
  45. ICLR 2026Scaling Generalist Data-Analytic Agents
  46. ICLR 2026Scaling Synthetic Task Generation for Agents via Exploration
  47. ICLR 2026Scenethesis: A Language and Vision Agentic Framework for 3D Scene Generation
  48. ICLR 2026ScienceBoard: Evaluating Multimodal Autonomous Agents in Realistic Scientific Workflows
  49. ICLR 2026SciNav: A Principled Agent Framework for Scientific Coding Tasks
  50. ICLR 2026SCUBA: Salesforce Computer Use Benchmark

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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.

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