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

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601. NeurIPS 2025LILO: Learning to Reason at the Frontier of Learnability
602. NeurIPS 2025LLM Generated Persona is a Promise with a Catch
603. NeurIPS 2025LLM Meeting Decision Trees on Tabular Data
604. NeurIPS 2025LLM Query Scheduling with Prefix Reuse and Latency Constraints
605. NeurIPS 2025LLM Strategic Reasoning: Agentic Study through Behavioral Game Theory
606. NeurIPS 2025LLM Unlearning via Neural Activation Redirection
607. NeurIPS 2025LLM-DAMVC: A Large Language Model Assisted Dynamic Agent for Multi-View Clustering
608. NeurIPS 2025LLM-PySC2: Starcraft II learning environment for Large Language Models
609. NeurIPS 2025Look Before You Leap: A GUI-Critic-R1 Model for Pre-Operative Error Diagnosis in GUI Automation
610. NeurIPS 2025LOPT: Learning Optimal Pigovian Tax in Sequential Social Dilemmas
611. NeurIPS 2025macOSWorld: A Multilingual Interactive Benchmark for GUI Agents
612. NeurIPS 2025MACS: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Optimization of Crystal Structures
613. NeurIPS 2025MAGNET: A Multi-agent Framework for Finding Audio-Visual Needles by Reasoning over Multi-Video Haystacks
614. NeurIPS 2025MaintainCoder: Maintainable Code Generation Under Dynamic Requirements
615. NeurIPS 2025MALinZero: Efficient Low-Dimensional Search for Mastering Complex Multi-Agent Planning
616. NeurIPS 2025Many LLMs Are More Utilitarian Than One
617. NeurIPS 2025Many Minds, One Goal: Time Series Forecasting via Sub-task Specialization and Inter-agent Cooperation
618. NeurIPS 2025MASTER: Enhancing Large Language Model via Multi-Agent Simulated Teaching
619. NeurIPS 2025MAT-Agent: Adaptive Multi-Agent Training Optimization
620. NeurIPS 2025Mean-Field Sampling for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
621. NeurIPS 2025Measuring Scientific Capabilities of Language Models with a Systems Biology Dry Lab
622. NeurIPS 2025Mechanism Design via the Interim Relaxation
623. NeurIPS 2025MedAgentBoard: Benchmarking Multi-Agent Collaboration with Conventional Methods for Diverse Medical Tasks
624. NeurIPS 2025MedChain: Bridging the Gap Between LLM Agents and Clinical Practice with Interactive Sequence
625. NeurIPS 2025Memory Injection Attacks on LLM Agents via Query-Only Interaction
626. NeurIPS 2025MemSim: A Bayesian Simulator for Evaluating Memory of LLM-based Personal Assistants
627. NeurIPS 2025MetaMind: Modeling Human Social Thoughts with Metacognitive Multi-Agent Systems
628. NeurIPS 2025metaTextGrad: Automatically optimizing language model optimizers
629. NeurIPS 2025Mind2Web 2: Evaluating Agentic Search with Agent-as-a-Judge
630. NeurIPS 2025MindForge: Empowering Embodied Agents with Theory of Mind for Lifelong Cultural Learning
631. NeurIPS 2025MineAnyBuild: Benchmarking Spatial Planning for Open-world AI Agents
632. NeurIPS 2025MIP against Agent: Malicious Image Patches Hijacking Multimodal OS Agents
633. NeurIPS 2025MisoDICE: Multi-Agent Imitation from Mixed-Quality Demonstrations
634. NeurIPS 2025MLE-Dojo: Interactive Environments for Empowering LLM Agents in Machine Learning Engineering
635. NeurIPS 2025MLE-STAR: Machine Learning Engineering Agent via Search and Targeted Refinement
636. NeurIPS 2025MLR-Bench: Evaluating AI Agents on Open-Ended Machine Learning Research
637. NeurIPS 2025MLRC-Bench: Can Language Agents Solve Machine Learning Research Challenges?
638. NeurIPS 2025MLZero: A Multi-Agent System for End-to-end Machine Learning Automation
639. NeurIPS 2025MM-Agent: LLM as Agents for Real-world Mathematical Modeling Problem
640. NeurIPS 2025MobileUse: A Hierarchical Reflection-Driven GUI Agent for Autonomous Mobile Operation
641. NeurIPS 2025MoodAngels: A Retrieval-augmented Multi-agent Framework for Psychiatry Diagnosis
642. NeurIPS 2025MOSDT: Self-Distillation-Based Decision Transformer for Multi-Agent Offline Safe Reinforcement Learning
643. NeurIPS 2025MPCache: MPC-Friendly KV Cache Eviction for Efficient Private LLM Inference
644. NeurIPS 2025MR. Video: MapReduce as an Effective Principle for Long Video Understanding
645. NeurIPS 2025MTBBench: A Multimodal Sequential Clinical Decision-Making Benchmark in Oncology
646. NeurIPS 2025Multi-Agent Collaboration via Evolving Orchestration
647. NeurIPS 2025Multi-Agent Debate for LLM Judges with Adaptive Stability Detection
648. NeurIPS 2025Multi-Agent Imitation by Learning and Sampling from Factorized Soft Q-Function
649. NeurIPS 2025Multi-agent KTO: Enhancing Strategic Interactions of Large Language Model in Language Game
650. NeurIPS 2025Multi-Agent Learning under Uncertainty: Recurrence vs. Concentration

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.