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

947 papers, page 12 of 19

551. ICML 2026SWE-MiniSandbox: Container-Free Reinforcement Learning for Building Software Engineering Agents
552. ICML 2026Systematic Failures in Collective Reasoning under Distributed Information in Multi-Agent LLMs
553. ICML 2026T$^2$PO: Uncertainty-Guided Exploration Control for Stable Multi-Turn Agentic Reinforcement Learning
554. ICML 2026TABX: A High-Throughput Sandbox Battle Simulator for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
555. ICML 2026TadA-Bench: A Million-Variant Benchmark for Future-Round Discovery Toward Agentic Protein Engineering
556. ICML 2026Talk, Judge, Cooperate: Gossip-Driven Indirect Reciprocity in Self-Interested LLM Agents
557. ICML 2026Taming I2V models for Image HOI Editing: A Cognitive Benchmark and Agentic Self-Correcting Framework
558. ICML 2026Task-Awareness Improves LLM Generations and Uncertainty
559. ICML 2026TeamTR: Trust-Region Fine-Tuning for Multi-Agent LLM Coordination
560. ICML 2026TestExplora: Benchmarking LLMs for Proactive Bug Discovery via Repository-Level Test Generation
561. ICML 2026Text Before Vision: Staged Knowledge Injection Matters for Agentic RLVR in Ultra-High-Resolution Remote Sensing Understanding
562. ICML 2026TextResNet: Decoupling and Routing Optimization Signals in Compound AI Systems via Deep Residual Tuning
563. ICML 2026TFRBench: A Reasoning Benchmark for Evaluating Forecasting Systems
564. ICML 2026The Bridge-Garden Dilemma in LLM Distillation: Why Mixing Hard and Soft Labels Works
565. ICML 2026The Decrypto Benchmark for Multi-Agent Reasoning and Theory of Mind
566. ICML 2026The Deterministic Horizon: When Extended Reasoning Fails and Tool Delegation Becomes Necessary
567. ICML 2026The First Drop of Ink: Nonlinear Impact of Misleading Information in Long-Context Reasoning
568. ICML 2026The Oversight Game: Learning to Cooperatively Balance an AI Agent's Safety and Autonomy
569. ICML 2026The Perceptual Bandwidth Bottleneck in Vision-Language Models: Active Visual Reasoning via Sequential Experimental Design
570. ICML 2026The Truth Stays in the Family: Enhancing Contextual Truthfulness via Inherited Heads in Model Lineages
571. ICML 2026The Value of Variance: Mitigating Debate Collapse in Multi-Agent Systems via Uncertainty-Driven Policy Optimization
572. ICML 2026Think Fast and Slow: Step-Level Cognitive Depth Adaptation for LLM Agents
573. ICML 2026Think Twice Before You Act: Protecting LLM Agents Against Tool Description Poisoning via Isolated Planning
574. ICML 2026Threat2Traffic: Multi-Agent Environment Synthesis for Malware Traffic Generation from Threat Intelligence
575. ICML 2026Threshold-Based Exclusive Batching for LLM Inference
576. ICML 2026ThunderAgent: A Fast, Simple, and Program-Aware Agentic Inference System
577. ICML 2026TileSparse: Arithmetic-Intensity-Aware Sparse Attention for Compute-Bound LLM Decoding
578. ICML 2026TodoEvolve: Learning to Architect Agent Planning Systems
579. ICML 2026Token-Level LLM Collaboration via FusionRoute
580. ICML 2026TOM-SWE: User Mental Modeling For Software Engineering Agents
581. ICML 2026ToMAP: Training Opponent-Aware LLM Persuaders with Theory of Mind
582. ICML 2026ToolOrchestra: Elevating Intelligence via Efficient Model and Tool Orchestration
583. ICML 2026Toward Culturally Aligned LLMs through Ontology-Guided Multi-Agent Reasoning
584. ICML 2026Toward Training Superintelligent Software Agents through Self-Play SWE-RL
585. ICML 2026Towards a Science of AI Agent Reliability
586. ICML 2026Towards Cold-Start Drafting and Continual Refining: A Value-Driven Memory Approach with Application to NPU Kernel Synthesis
587. ICML 2026Towards Complete Multi-Agent Coordination Policy Learning via Denoising Maximum Entropy Optimization
588. ICML 2026Towards Feedback-to-Plan Decisions for Self-Evolving LLM Agents in CUDA Kernel Generation
589. ICML 2026Towards Professional-Grade Financial Agents: Benchmarking, Tooling, and Structured Reasoning
590. ICML 2026TRACER: Trajectory Risk Aggregation for Critical Episodes in Agentic Reasoning
591. ICML 2026Training Language Model Agents to Find Vulnerabilities with CTF-Dojo
592. ICML 2026Training LLM Agents to Empower Humans
593. ICML 2026TreeCUA: Efficiently Scaling GUI Automation with Tree-Structured Verifiable Evolution
594. ICML 2026Trifuse: Enhancing Attention-Based GUI Grounding via Multimodal Fusion
595. ICML 2026TRIP-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Interactive Agents in Real-World Scenarios
596. ICML 2026TritonGym: A Benchmark for Agentic LLM Workflows in Triton GPU Code Generation
597. ICML 2026Tvcache: A Tool-Value Cache for Post-Training LLM Agents
598. ICML 2026UltraHorizon: Benchmarking LLM-Agent Capabilities in Ultra Long-Horizon Scenarios
599. ICML 2026UMEM: Unified Memory Extraction and Management Framework for Generalizable Memory
600. ICML 2026Uncertainty-Aware Clarification in LLM Agents with Information Gain

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.