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

729 papers, page 13 of 15

601. NeurIPS 2026SREGym: A Live Benchmark for AI SRE Agents with High-Fidelity Failure Scenarios
602. NeurIPS 2026STAR-Math: Multi-Agent Mathematical Reasoning under Persistent Meta-Strategic Supervision
603. NeurIPS 2026StarCraft Motion: A Dataset for Agent Simulation in Adversarial and Partially Observable Scenarios
604. NeurIPS 2026StateLedger: Path-Addressed External Memory for Persistent Multi-Agent Systems
605. NeurIPS 2026Stealth Apart, Harm Together: Skill Cascading Attacks on Skill-Based Agent Systems
606. NeurIPS 2026Step-dLLM: Adaptive Step-aware Sparse Attention for Efficient Diffusion LLM Inference
607. NeurIPS 2026StraTA: Incentivizing Agentic Reinforcement Learning with Strategic Trajectory Abstraction
608. NeurIPS 2026Strategic Decision Focused Learning
609. NeurIPS 2026Strategist: Designing Agentic Reasoning at Scale
610. NeurIPS 2026Stress Testing Chain-of-Thought Monitoring Against Covert Misalignment
611. NeurIPS 2026Structural Entropy Optimized Communication for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
612. NeurIPS 2026Structure-Semantic Guided Closed-Loop Medical Anomaly Detection via Multi-Agent Collaboration
613. NeurIPS 2026Structured Human-Like Agentic Flow for RTL Design
614. NeurIPS 2026SudoBench: A Contextual Authorization Benchmark for LLM Agents
615. NeurIPS 2026SWE Atlas: Benchmarking Coding Agents Beyond Issue Resolution
616. NeurIPS 2026SWE-Chain: Benchmarking Coding Agents on Chained Release-Level Package Upgrades
617. NeurIPS 2026SWE-Crafter: Scaling Executable Multilingual Software Engineering Data with Meta-Skill Agents
618. NeurIPS 2026SWE-Marathon: Can AI Agents Autonomously Complete Ultra-Long-Horizon Software Work?
619. NeurIPS 2026SWE-Protégé: Learning to Selectively Collaborate With an Expert Unlocks Small Language Models as Software Engineering Agents
620. NeurIPS 2026SwitchLingua V2: Agent-Driven Code-Switching via Digital Clones
621. NeurIPS 2026Tackling the Data-Parallel Load Balancing Bottleneck in LLM Serving: Practical Online Routing at Scale
622. NeurIPS 2026TACT: Mitigating Overthinking and Overacting in Coding Agents via Activation Steering
623. NeurIPS 2026Talk Less, Work More: Communication-Efficient Decentralized Stochastic Approximation
624. NeurIPS 2026Taming the Curses of Multiagency in Robust Markov Games with Large State Space through Linear Function Approximation
625. NeurIPS 2026TANGO: RNA Topology and Geometry Co-Design
626. NeurIPS 2026Tapes Together Strong: The Co-evolution of Computation and Cooperation
627. NeurIPS 2026TargetSage: Identifying Therapeutic Target Genes with Interpretable and Robust LLM Reasoning
628. NeurIPS 2026Task Success Is Not Enough: Side-effect-Aware Evaluation of Tool-Using Language Model Agents
629. NeurIPS 2026Task-Aware KV Cache Compression for LLM Agents via Utility-Driven Step Pruning
630. NeurIPS 2026TerminalWorld: Benchmarking Agents on Real-World Terminal Tasks
631. NeurIPS 2026Test-Time Learning with an Evolving Library
632. NeurIPS 2026Test-time Multi-agent Coordination by Decomposed Value Gradient Flow
633. NeurIPS 2026TextSeal: A Localized LLM Watermark for Provenance & Distillation Protection
634. NeurIPS 2026The Compliance Trap: Diagnosing How AI Agents Consume Conflicting Memory
635. NeurIPS 2026The Constitutional Coverage Trilemma in AI Governance
636. NeurIPS 2026The Era of Agentic Organization: Learning to Organize with Language Models
637. NeurIPS 2026The Geometry of Agent Skills: Non-Commutative Composition in Representation Space
638. NeurIPS 2026The Horizon Threshold in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reward-Free Exploration
639. NeurIPS 2026The Missing Corpus: Infinite Ground Truth for File-Grounded LLM Evaluation
640. NeurIPS 2026The PokeAgent Challenge: Competitive and Long-Context Learning at Scale
641. NeurIPS 2026The Reciprocity Gradient
642. NeurIPS 2026The Reflexivity Threshold: A Phase Transition for Multi-Agent Performative Prediction
643. NeurIPS 2026The Ringelmann Effect in Multi-Agent LLM Systems: A Scaling Law for Effective Team Size
644. NeurIPS 2026The Ruler and the Judge: Benchmark-Conditional Evaluation of LLM-as-a-Judge
645. NeurIPS 2026The Scaling Laws of Skills in LLM Agent Systems
646. NeurIPS 2026The Scaling Paradox of Tool-Calling LLM Agents Under Realistic MCP Faults
647. NeurIPS 2026The Web Doesn't Sit Still: Adversarial Self-Evolving Attacks on Search Agents
648. NeurIPS 2026Theory of Mind and Persuasion Beyond Conversation: Assessing the Capacity of LLMs to Induce Belief States via Planning and Action
649. NeurIPS 2026Thinking with Imagination: Agentic Visual Spatial Reasoning with World Simulators
650. NeurIPS 2026Time to Pay Attention! Understanding High Complexity Corpus Reasoning Tasks

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.