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

784 papers, page 11 of 16

  1. NeurIPS 2025Curriculum Design for Trajectory-Constrained Agent: Compressing Chain-of-Thought Tokens in LLMs
  2. NeurIPS 2025DanmakuTPPBench: A Multi-modal Benchmark for Temporal Point Process Modeling and Understanding
  3. NeurIPS 2025Datasets, Documents, and Repetitions: The Practicalities of Unequal Data Quality
  4. NeurIPS 2025Debate or Vote: Which Yields Better Decisions in Multi-Agent Large Language Models?
  5. NeurIPS 2025Deep Video Discovery: Agentic Search with Tool Use for Long-form Video Understanding
  6. NeurIPS 2025DeepDiver: Adaptive Web-Search Intensity Scaling via Reinforcement Learning
  7. NeurIPS 2025Delta Attention: Fast and Accurate Sparse Attention Inference by Delta Correction
  8. NeurIPS 2025DISC: Dynamic Decomposition Improves LLM Inference Scaling
  9. NeurIPS 2025Distilling LLM Agent into Small Models with Retrieval and Code Tools
  10. NeurIPS 2025Distilling LLM Prior to Flow Model for Generalizable Agent’s Imagination in Object Goal Navigation
  11. NeurIPS 2025Distributed Multi-Agent Bandits Over Erdős-Rényi Random Networks
  12. NeurIPS 2025Do Language Models Use Their Depth Efficiently?
  13. NeurIPS 2025Don't be lazy: CompleteP enables compute-efficient deep transformers
  14. NeurIPS 2025DRIFT: Dynamic Rule-Based Defense with Injection Isolation for Securing LLM Agents
  15. NeurIPS 2025DyFlow: Dynamic Workflow Framework for Agentic Reasoning
  16. NeurIPS 2025Dynamic Risk Assessments for Offensive Cybersecurity Agents
  17. NeurIPS 2025EconGym: A Scalable AI Testbed with Diverse Economic Tasks
  18. NeurIPS 2025Effective Policy Learning for Multi-Agent Online Coordination Beyond Submodular Objectives
  19. NeurIPS 2025Eliciting Reasoning in Language Models with Cognitive Tools
  20. NeurIPS 2025Embodied Web Agents: Bridging Physical-Digital Realms for Integrated Agent Intelligence
  21. NeurIPS 2025Embracing Trustworthy Brain-Agent Collaboration as Paradigm Extension for Intelligent Assistive Technologies
  22. NeurIPS 2025Emergent Risk Awareness in Rational Agents under Resource Constraints
  23. NeurIPS 2025Empirical Study on Robustness and Resilience in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
  24. NeurIPS 2025EnCompass: Enhancing Agent Programming with Search Over Program Execution Paths
  25. NeurIPS 2025Enhancing GUI Agent with Uncertainty-Aware Self-Trained Evaluator
  26. NeurIPS 2025Enhancing Personalized Multi-Turn Dialogue with Curiosity Reward
  27. NeurIPS 2025ESCA: Contextualizing Embodied Agents via Scene-Graph Generation
  28. NeurIPS 2025Establishing Best Practices in Building Rigorous Agentic Benchmarks
  29. NeurIPS 2025EVAAA: A Virtual Environment Platform for Essential Variables in Autonomous and Adaptive Agents
  30. NeurIPS 2025Evaluating Generalization Capabilities of LLM-Based Agents in Mixed-Motive Scenarios Using Concordia
  31. NeurIPS 2025Evaluating LLMs in Open-Source Games
  32. NeurIPS 2025Eyes Wide Open: Ego Proactive Video-LLM for Streaming Video
  33. NeurIPS 2025FACE: A General Framework for Mapping Collaborative Filtering Embeddings into LLM Tokens
  34. NeurIPS 2025Factorio Learning Environment
  35. NeurIPS 2025Fair Cooperation in Mixed-Motive Games via Conflict-Aware Gradient Adjustment
  36. NeurIPS 2025From Euler to AI: Unifying Formulas for Mathematical Constants
  37. NeurIPS 2025From Replication to Redesign: Exploring Pairwise Comparisons for LLM-Based Peer Review
  38. NeurIPS 2025From Self-Check to Consensus: Bayesian Strategic Decoding in Large Language Models
  39. NeurIPS 2025G-Memory: Tracing Hierarchical Memory for Multi-Agent Systems
  40. NeurIPS 2025GAM-Agent: Game-Theoretic and Uncertainty-Aware Collaboration for Complex Visual Reasoning
  41. NeurIPS 2025Generalizing Experience for Language Agents with Hierarchical MetaFlows
  42. NeurIPS 2025Generative Caching for Structurally Similar Prompts and Responses
  43. NeurIPS 2025Gradient Multi-Normalization for Efficient LLM Training
  44. NeurIPS 2025GRAPE: Optimize Data Mixture for Group Robust Multi-target Adaptive Pretraining
  45. NeurIPS 2025GraphMaster: Automated Graph Synthesis via LLM Agents in Data-Limited Environments
  46. NeurIPS 2025Graphs Help Graphs: Multi-Agent Graph Socialized Learning
  47. NeurIPS 2025Ground-Compose-Reinforce: Grounding Language in Agentic Behaviours using Limited Data
  48. NeurIPS 2025Group-in-Group Policy Optimization for LLM Agent Training
  49. NeurIPS 2025GSO: Challenging Software Optimization Tasks for Evaluating SWE-Agents
  50. NeurIPS 2025GUARDIAN: Safeguarding LLM Multi-Agent Collaborations with Temporal Graph Modeling

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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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