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
- 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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 76 | 40 | 41 | 13 | 170 |
| 2024 | 150 | 73 | 88 | 18 | 329 |
| 2025 | 362 | 204 | 178 | 40 | 784 |
| 2026 | 729 | 500 | 640 | 114 | 1,983 |
Representative papers
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- 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
1,983 papers, page 10 of 40
- ICLR 2026Pursuing Minimal Sufficiency in Spatial Reasoning
- ICLR 2026Pushing Test-Time Scaling Limits of Deep Search with Asymmetric Verification
- ICLR 2026QLCoder: A Query Synthesizer For Static Analysis of Security Vulnerabilities
- ICLR 2026Quadratic Direct Forecast for Training Multi-Step Time-Series Forecast Models
- ICLR 2026R-WoM: Retrieval-augmented World Model For Computer-use Agents
- ICLR 2026Randomization Boosts KV Caching, Learning Balances Query Load: A Joint Perspective
- ICLR 2026RATE-DISTORTION OPTIMIZED COMMUNICATION FOR COLLABORATIVE PERCEPTION
- ICLR 2026Rating Quality of Diverse Time Series Data by Meta-learning from LLM Judgment
- ICLR 2026Real-Time Reasoning Agents in Evolving Environments
- ICLR 2026ReasoningBank: Scaling Agent Self-Evolving with Reasoning Memory
- ICLR 2026ReCAPA: Hierarchical Predictive Correction to Mitigate Cascading Failures
- ICLR 2026RECODE: A Benchmark for Research Code DEvelopment with Interactive Human Feedback
- ICLR 2026RedCodeAgent: Automatic Red-teaming Agent against Diverse Code Agents
- ICLR 2026RedSage: A Cybersecurity Generalist LLM
- ICLR 2026RedTeamCUA: Realistic Adversarial Testing of Computer-Use Agents in Hybrid Web-OS Environments
- ICLR 2026Reducing Belief Deviation in Reinforcement Learning for Active Reasoning
- ICLR 2026REI-Bench: Can Embodied Agents Understand Vague Human Instructions in Task Planning?
- ICLR 2026ReIn: Conversational Error Recovery with Reasoning Inception
- ICLR 2026Reinforcement Learning for Machine Learning Engineering Agents
- ICLR 2026Reliable Weak-to-Strong Monitoring of LLM Agents
- ICLR 2026REMem: Reasoning with Episodic Memory in Language Agent
- ICLR 2026Repurposing Synthetic Data for Fine-grained Search Agent Supervision
- ICLR 2026ResearchRubrics: A Benchmark of Prompts and Rubrics For Deep Research Agents
- ICLR 2026Resp-Agent: An Agent-Based System for Multimodal Respiratory Sound Generation and Disease Diagnosis
- ICLR 2026Retaining Suboptimal Actions to Follow Shifting Optima in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2026Rethinking Residual Errors in Compensation-based LLM Quantization
- ICLR 2026ReTool: Reinforcement Learning for Strategic Tool Use in LLMs
- ICLR 2026Retro*: Optimizing LLMs for Reasoning-Intensive Document Retrieval
- ICLR 2026ReVeal: Self-Evolving Code Agents via Reliable Self-Verification
- ICLR 2026Revisiting Parameter Server in LLM Post-Training
- ICLR 2026ReWatch-R1: Boosting Complex Video Reasoning in Large Vision-Language Models through Agentic Data Synthesis
- ICLR 2026RIG: Synergizing Reasoning and Imagination in End-to-End Generalist Policy
- ICLR 2026Risk-Sensitive Agent Compositions
- ICLR 2026RLVER: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Emotion Rewards for Empathetic Agents
- ICLR 2026RLVMR: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Meta-Reasoning Rewards for Robust Long-Horizon Agents
- ICLR 2026Robust LLM Unlearning via Post Judgment and Multi-round Thinking
- ICLR 2026ROGA: Scaling Generalist Agents for Office Productivity Tasks via Tool Generation
- ICLR 2026RPG: A Repository Planning Graph for Unified and Scalable Codebase Generation
- ICLR 2026Safe Continuous-time Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Epigraph Form
- ICLR 2026Sample-Efficient Distributionally Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Online Interaction
- ICLR 2026Scalable Oversight via Partitioned Human Supervision
- ICLR 2026ScaleCUA: Scaling Open-Source Computer Use Agents with Cross-Platform Data
- ICLR 2026Scaling Agent Learning via Experience Synthesis
- ICLR 2026Scaling Agents via Continual Pre-training
- ICLR 2026Scaling Generalist Data-Analytic Agents
- ICLR 2026Scaling Synthetic Task Generation for Agents via Exploration
- ICLR 2026Scenethesis: A Language and Vision Agentic Framework for 3D Scene Generation
- ICLR 2026ScienceBoard: Evaluating Multimodal Autonomous Agents in Realistic Scientific Workflows
- ICLR 2026SciNav: A Principled Agent Framework for Scientific Coding Tasks
- 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.