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
817 papers, page 11 of 17
- ICLR 2025A Generalist Hanabi Agent
- ICLR 2025A Policy-Gradient Approach to Solving Imperfect-Information Games with Best-Iterate Convergence
- ICLR 2025ACC-Collab: An Actor-Critic Approach to Multi-Agent LLM Collaboration
- ICLR 2025Active Task Disambiguation with LLMs
- ICLR 2025Advantage Alignment Algorithms
- ICLR 2025AFlow: Automating Agentic Workflow Generation
- ICLR 2025Agent S: An Open Agentic Framework that Uses Computers Like a Human
- ICLR 2025Agent Security Bench (ASB): Formalizing and Benchmarking Attacks and Defenses in LLM-based Agents
- ICLR 2025Agent-Oriented Planning in Multi-Agent Systems
- ICLR 2025AgentHarm: A Benchmark for Measuring Harmfulness of LLM Agents
- ICLR 2025AgentOccam: A Simple Yet Strong Baseline for LLM-Based Web Agents
- ICLR 2025AgentRefine: Enhancing Agent Generalization through Refinement Tuning
- ICLR 2025Agents' Room: Narrative Generation through Multi-step Collaboration
- ICLR 2025AgentSquare: Automatic LLM Agent Search in Modular Design Space
- ICLR 2025AgentStudio: A Toolkit for Building General Virtual Agents
- ICLR 2025AgentTrek: Agent Trajectory Synthesis via Guiding Replay with Web Tutorials
- ICLR 2025Aligned LLMs Are Not Aligned Browser Agents
- ICLR 2025Aligning Generative Denoising with Discriminative Objectives Unleashes Diffusion for Visual Perception
- ICLR 2025An Intelligent Agentic System for Complex Image Restoration Problems
- ICLR 2025AndroidWorld: A Dynamic Benchmarking Environment for Autonomous Agents
- ICLR 2025Anyprefer: An Agentic Framework for Preference Data Synthesis
- ICLR 2025Audio Large Language Models Can Be Descriptive Speech Quality Evaluators
- ICLR 2025AutoDAN-Turbo: A Lifelong Agent for Strategy Self-Exploration to Jailbreak LLMs
- ICLR 2025Automated Design of Agentic Systems
- ICLR 2025BadRobot: Jailbreaking Embodied LLM Agents in the Physical World
- ICLR 2025Balancing Act: Diversity and Consistency in Large Language Model Ensembles
- ICLR 2025BALROG: Benchmarking Agentic LLM and VLM Reasoning On Games
- ICLR 2025Benchmarking Agentic Workflow Generation
- ICLR 2025Better than Your Teacher: LLM Agents that learn from Privileged AI Feedback
- ICLR 2025BioDiscoveryAgent: An AI Agent for Designing Genetic Perturbation Experiments
- ICLR 2025Breaking Mental Set to Improve Reasoning through Diverse Multi-Agent Debate
- ICLR 2025Can LLMs Generate Novel Research Ideas? A Large-Scale Human Study with 100+ NLP Researchers
- ICLR 2025Can Textual Gradient Work in Federated Learning?
- ICLR 2025Can Watermarks be Used to Detect LLM IP Infringement For Free?
- ICLR 2025Can We Trust Embodied Agents? Exploring Backdoor Attacks against Embodied LLM-Based Decision-Making Systems
- ICLR 2025CaPo: Cooperative Plan Optimization for Efficient Embodied Multi-Agent Cooperation
- ICLR 2025CHASE-SQL: Multi-Path Reasoning and Preference Optimized Candidate Selection in Text-to-SQL
- ICLR 2025ChemAgent: Self-updating Memories in Large Language Models Improves Chemical Reasoning
- ICLR 2025CofCA: A STEP-WISE Counterfactual Multi-hop QA benchmark
- ICLR 2025Collab: Controlled Decoding using Mixture of Agents for LLM Alignment
- ICLR 2025ComaDICE: Offline Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Stationary Distribution Shift Regularization
- ICLR 2025Combatting Dimensional Collapse in LLM Pre-Training Data via Submodular File Selection
- ICLR 2025COMBO: Compositional World Models for Embodied Multi-Agent Cooperation
- ICLR 2025Competing Large Language Models in Multi-Agent Gaming Environments
- ICLR 2025Cut the Crap: An Economical Communication Pipeline for LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems
- ICLR 2025Cybench: A Framework for Evaluating Cybersecurity Capabilities and Risks of Language Models
- ICLR 2025DataEnvGym: Data Generation Agents in Teacher Environments with Student Feedback
- ICLR 2025DeFT: Decoding with Flash Tree-attention for Efficient Tree-structured LLM Inference
- ICLR 2025DelTA: An Online Document-Level Translation Agent Based on Multi-Level Memory
- ICLR 2025Digi-Q: Learning VLM Q-Value Functions for Training Device-Control Agents
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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.