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

784 papers, page 10 of 16

451. NeurIPS 2025Are Large Language Models Sensitive to the Motives Behind Communication?
452. NeurIPS 2025ARIA: Training Language Agents with Intention-driven Reward Aggregation
453. NeurIPS 2025Assignments for Congestion-Averse Agents: Seeking Competitive and Envy-Free Solutions
454. NeurIPS 2025Attractive Metadata Attack: Inducing LLM Agents to Invoke Malicious Tools
455. NeurIPS 2025AutoData: A Multi-Agent System for Open Web Data Collection
456. NeurIPS 2025AutoDiscovery: Open-ended Scientific Discovery via Bayesian Surprise
457. NeurIPS 2025Automated Composition of Agents: A Knapsack Approach for Agentic Component Selection
458. NeurIPS 2025Automated Model Discovery via Multi-modal & Multi-step Pipeline
459. NeurIPS 2025AutoRedTeamer: Autonomous Red Teaming with Lifelong Attack Integration
460. NeurIPS 2025AutoToM: Scaling Model-based Mental Inference via Automated Agent Modeling
461. NeurIPS 2025Bayesian Ego-graph inference for Networked Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
462. NeurIPS 2025Belief-Calibrated Multi-Agent Consensus Seeking for Complex NLP Tasks
463. NeurIPS 2025BeliefMapNav: 3D Voxel-Based Belief Map for Zero-Shot Object Navigation
464. NeurIPS 2025Benchmarking Egocentric Multimodal Goal Inference for Assistive Wearable Agents
465. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Token Probes: Hallucination Detection via Activation Tensors with ACT-ViT
466. NeurIPS 2025Bi-Level Knowledge Transfer for Multi-Task Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
467. NeurIPS 2025Bilevel ZOFO: Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning and Meta-Training
468. NeurIPS 2025BountyBench: Dollar Impact of AI Agent Attackers and Defenders on Real-World Cybersecurity Systems
469. NeurIPS 2025BrainEC-LLM: Brain Effective Connectivity Estimation by Multiscale Mixing LLM
470. NeurIPS 2025CAM: A Constructivist View of Agentic Memory for LLM-Based Reading Comprehension
471. NeurIPS 2025CAML: Collaborative Auxiliary Modality Learning for Multi-Agent Systems
472. NeurIPS 2025Can Agent Fix Agent Issues?
473. NeurIPS 2025Can Dependencies Induced by LLM-Agent Workflows Be Trusted?
474. NeurIPS 2025Cascaded Language Models for Cost-Effective Human–AI Decision-Making
475. NeurIPS 2025Causality Meets Locality: Provably Generalizable and Scalable Policy Learning for Networked Systems
476. NeurIPS 2025CausalVerse: Benchmarking Causal Representation Learning with Configurable High-Fidelity Simulations
477. NeurIPS 2025Certifying Deep Network Risks and Individual Predictions with PAC-Bayes Loss via Localized Priors
478. NeurIPS 2025ChemX: A Collection of Chemistry Datasets for Benchmarking Automated Information Extraction
479. NeurIPS 2025CLEVER: A Curated Benchmark for Formally Verified Code Generation
480. NeurIPS 2025ClinicalLab: Aligning Agents for Multi-Departmental Clinical Diagnostics in the Real World
481. NeurIPS 2025Co-PatcheR: Collaborative Software Patching with Component-specific Small Reasoning Models
482. NeurIPS 2025CoCoA: A Minimum Bayes Risk Framework Bridging Confidence and Consistency for Uncertainty Quantification in LLMs
483. NeurIPS 2025Code Graph Model (CGM): A Graph-Integrated Large Language Model for Repository-Level Software Engineering Tasks
484. NeurIPS 2025COGNAC: Cooperative Graph-based Networked Agent Challenges for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
485. NeurIPS 2025Collaborative Reasoner: Self-Improving Social Agents with Synthetic Conversations
486. NeurIPS 2025Combining Cost Constrained Runtime Monitors for AI Safety
487. NeurIPS 2025Compiler-R1: Towards Agentic Compiler Auto-tuning with Reinforcement Learning
488. NeurIPS 2025Compress to Impress: Efficient LLM Adaptation Using a Single Gradient Step on 100 Samples
489. NeurIPS 2025Conformal Information Pursuit for Interactively Guiding Large Language Models
490. NeurIPS 2025Conservative classifiers do consistently well with improving agents: characterizing statistical and online learning
491. NeurIPS 2025Constrained Feedback Learning for Non-Stationary Multi-Armed Bandits
492. NeurIPS 2025Context-Aware Hierarchical Learning: A Two-Step Paradigm towards Safer LLMs
493. NeurIPS 2025ContextAgent: Context-Aware Proactive LLM Agents with Open-world Sensory Perceptions
494. NeurIPS 2025Cooperative Bargaining Games Without Utilities: Mediated Solutions from Direction Oracles
495. NeurIPS 2025CoP: Agentic Red-teaming for Large Language Models using Composition of Principles
496. NeurIPS 2025CORE: Reducing UI Exposure in Mobile Agents via Collaboration Between Cloud and Local LLMs
497. NeurIPS 2025CPathAgent: An Agent-based Foundation Model for Interpretable High-Resolution Pathology Image Analysis Mimicking Pathologists' Diagnostic Logic
498. NeurIPS 2025CREA: A Collaborative Multi-Agent Framework for Creative Image Editing and Generation
499. NeurIPS 2025Crucible: Quantifying the Potential of Control Algorithms through LLM Agents
500. NeurIPS 2025CURE: Co-Evolving Coders and Unit Testers via Reinforcement Learning

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.