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
640 papers, page 13 of 13
- ICML 2026Unsafer in Many Turns: Benchmarking and Defending Multi-Turn Safety Risks in Tool-Using Agents
- ICML 2026Unsupervised Partner Design Enables Robust Ad-hoc Teamwork
- ICML 2026V-ABS: Action-Observer Driven Beam Search for Dynamic Visual Reasoning
- ICML 2026Value Aggregation with Uncertainty in Online Decentralized MARL
- ICML 2026VenusBench-Mobile: A Challenging and User-Centric Benchmark for Mobile GUI Agents with Capability Diagnostics
- ICML 2026Verbalized Bayesian Persuasion
- ICML 2026VeRO: A Harness for Agents to Optimize Agents
- ICML 2026Video-o3: Native Interleaved Clue Seeking for Long Video Multi-Hop Reasoning
- ICML 2026Video2GUI: Synthesizing Large-Scale Interaction Trajectories for Generalized GUI Agent Pretraining
- ICML 2026VideoSEAL: Mitigating Evidence Misalignment in Agentic Long Video Understanding by Decoupling Answer Authority
- ICML 2026VideoTemp-o3: Harmonizing Temporal Grounding and Video Understanding in Agentic Thinking-with-Videos
- ICML 2026Vision2Web: A Hierarchical Benchmark for Visual Website Development with Agent Verification
- ICML 2026Visual Persuasion: What Influences Decisions of Vision-Language Models?
- ICML 2026Vulnerable Agent Identification in Large-Scale Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2026WarmServe: Enabling One-for-Many GPU Prewarming for Multi-LLM Serving
- ICML 2026Watermarking LLM Agent Trajectories
- ICML 2026Weasel: Out-of-Domain Generalization for Web Agents via Importance-Diversity Data Selection
- ICML 2026Weaving in the Clouds: Achieving Synergistic Collaboration among LLM Agents via Federated Learning
- ICML 2026What Do Agents Learn from Trajectory-SFT: Semantics or Interfaces?
- ICML 2026What Preferences Can—and Cannot—Predict in Multi-Agent Online Learning
- ICML 2026What You Think is What You See: Driving Exploration in VLM Agents via Visual-Linguistic Curiosity
- ICML 2026When Actions Go Off-Task: Detecting and Correcting Misaligned Actions in Computer-Use Agents
- ICML 2026When Agents Go Rogue: Activation-Based Detection of Malicious Behaviors in Multi-Agent Systems
- ICML 2026When AI Agents Compete for Jobs: Strategic Capabilities and Economic Dynamics of AI Labour Markets
- ICML 2026When Benign Inputs Lead to Severe Harms: Eliciting Unsafe Unintended Behaviors of Computer-Use Agents
- ICML 2026When Embedding-Based Defenses Fail: Rethinking Safety in LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems
- ICML 2026When LLMs Develop Languages: Symbolic Communication for Efficient Multi-Agent Reasoning
- ICML 2026When Planning Fails Despite Correct Execution: On Epistemic Calibration for LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems
- ICML 2026When Replanning Becomes the Bottleneck: Budgeted Replanning for Embodied Agents
- ICML 2026Whom to Query for What: Adaptive Group Elicitation via Multi-Turn LLM Interactions
- ICML 2026Why Agentic Theorem Prover Works: A Statistical Provability Theory of Mathematical Reasoning Models
- ICML 2026Why Specialist Models Still Matter: A Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Paradigm for Medical Artificial Intelligence
- ICML 2026WinDeskGround: A Benchmark for Robust GUI Grounding in Complex Multi-Window Desktop Environments
- ICML 2026Words Towards Explainability: Caption Label-Free Learning via Dual Loop Agentic Time Series Captioning
- ICML 2026World Models in Pieces: Structural Certification of General Agents
- ICML 2026WorldTravel: A Realistic Multimodal Travel-Planning Benchmark with Tightly Coupled Constraints
- ICML 2026X-MoGe: A Cross-Modal Adaptation Framework with Mixture-of-Experts and Geometry Guidance for Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception
- ICML 2026XSkill: Continual Learning from Experience and Skills in Multimodal Agents
- ICML 2026Zero-source LLM Hallucination Detection with Human-like Criteria Probing
- ICML 2026Zooming without Zooming: Region-to-Image Distillation for Fine-Grained Multimodal Perception
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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.