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

640 papers, page 10 of 13

451. ICML 2026Probabilistic Modeling of Latent Agentic Substructures in Deep Neural Networks
452. ICML 2026Probing the Knowledge Boundary: An Interactive Agentic Framework for Deep Knowledge Extraction
453. ICML 2026Procedural Generation Of Algorithm Discovery Tasks in Machine Learning
454. ICML 2026Profiling the Irrational Agent: Cognitive Modeling of LLM Behaviors in Sequential Jailbreaks
455. ICML 2026PromptPilot: Game-Theoretic Multi-Agent Prompt Optimization for Segment Anything
456. ICML 2026Protein Design with Agent Rosetta: A Case Study for Specialized Scientific Agents
457. ICML 2026ProtocolBench: Which LLM MultiAgent Protocol to Choose?
458. ICML 2026Provably Convergent Actor-Critic for MARL through Risk-aversion
459. ICML 2026PSBench: Editing Image via GUI Agents in Photoshop
460. ICML 2026Pushing Forward Pareto Frontiers of Proactive Agents with Behavioral Agentic Optimization
461. ICML 2026PyVision-RL: Forging Open Agentic Vision Models via RL
462. ICML 2026QiMeng-ChipV-RTL: Exploiting Information Locality for IP-level Verilog Generation
463. ICML 2026QiMeng-LibBench: Benchmarking LLM Agents for Library-Scale Cross-Architecture Migration
464. ICML 2026Quantifying Frontier LLM Capabilities for Container Sandbox Escape
465. ICML 2026Quartet II: Accurate LLM Pre-Training in NVFP4 by Improved Unbiased Gradient Estimation
466. ICML 2026RADAR: Redundancy-Aware Diffusion for Multi-Agent Communication Structure Generation
467. ICML 2026RAGEN-2: Reasoning Collapse in Agentic RL
468. ICML 2026RE-TRAC: REcursive TRAjectory Compression for Deep Search Agents
469. ICML 2026RealtimeTool: Parallel Decoding for Real-Time LLM Function Calling
470. ICML 2026Recognize Your Orchestrator: An Entropy Dynamics Perspective for LLM Multi-Agent Systems
471. ICML 2026Recovering Policy-Induced Errors: Benchmarking and Trajectory Synthesis for Robust GUI Agents
472. ICML 2026Recursive Models for Long-Horizon Reasoning
473. ICML 2026RedDebate: Safer Responses Through Multi-Agent Red Teaming Debates
474. ICML 2026RefineEvo: Planning-Guided Heuristic Evolution with Bidirectional Experience
475. ICML 2026Reinforcement Learning for Tool-Calling Agents in Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
476. ICML 2026Reinforcement Learning with Discrete Diffusion Policies for Combinatorial Action Spaces
477. ICML 2026ReJump: A Tree-Jump Representation for Analyzing and Improving LLM Reasoning
478. ICML 2026RelayCaching: Accelerating LLM Collaboration via Decoding KV Cache Reuse
479. ICML 2026Representational Similarity and Model Behavior in Multi-Agent Interaction
480. ICML 2026ReSeek: A Self-Correcting Framework for Search Agents with Instructive Rewards
481. ICML 2026Rethinking LLM Ensembling from the Perspective of Mixture Models
482. ICML 2026RetrOrchestrator: A Multi-Step Retrosynthesis Agent Dynamically Orchestrating Single-Step Transition Models
483. ICML 2026Reward Hacking Benchmark: Measuring Exploits in LLM Agents with Tool Use
484. ICML 2026RGMem: Renormalization Group–inspired Memory Evolution for Language Agents
485. ICML 2026RLAnything: Forge Environment, Policy, and Reward Model in Completely Dynamic RL System
486. ICML 2026Role-Level Inductive Bias for Cross-Task Generalization in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
487. ICML 2026RSAgent: Learning to Reason and Act via Multi-Turn Tool Invocations for Text-Guided Segmentation
488. ICML 2026RSF-GLLM: Bridging the Semantic Gap in Multi-Hop Knowledge Graph QA via Recurrent Soft-Flow and Decoupled LLM Generation
489. ICML 2026Rule2DRC: Benchmarking LLM Agents for DRC Script Synthesis with Execution-Guided Test Generation
490. ICML 2026Safe and Scalable Web Agent Learning via Recreated Websites
491. ICML 2026SafeHarbor: Defining Precise Decision Boundaries via Hierarchical Memory-Augmented Guardrail for LLM Agent Safety
492. ICML 2026SafeSearch: Automated Red-Teaming of LLM-Based Search Agents
493. ICML 2026Safety Alignment of LMs via Non-cooperative Games
494. ICML 2026Safety Game: Inference-Time Alignment of Black-Box LLMs via Constrained Optimization
495. ICML 2026SAGE-NAS: Synergizing LLM-Based Semantic Agent with Graph-Based Evaluator for Neural Architecture Search
496. ICML 2026SAGE: A Dataflow-Native Framework for Modular, Controllable, and Transparent LLM-Augmented Reasoning
497. ICML 2026Salus: Strategic Diagnostic Testing for Complex Diagnosis via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
498. ICML 2026SARL: Structure-Aligned Reinforcement Learning for Bridging the Perception-Action Gap in Airspace
499. ICML 2026Scalable Traffic Signal Control with Shared Policy Framework
500. ICML 2026ScaleEnv: Scaling Environment Synthesis from Scratch for Generalist Interactive Tool-Use Agent Training

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.