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.

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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

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  1. ICLR 2025PARTNR: A Benchmark for Planning and Reasoning in Embodied Multi-agent Tasks
  2. ICLR 2025PathGen-1.6M: 1.6 Million Pathology Image-text Pairs Generation through Multi-agent Collaboration
  3. ICLR 2025POGEMA: A Benchmark Platform for Cooperative Multi-Agent Pathfinding
  4. ICLR 2025Polyrating: A Cost-Effective and Bias-Aware Rating System for LLM Evaluation
  5. ICLR 2025Preble: Efficient Distributed Prompt Scheduling for LLM Serving
  6. ICLR 2025Proactive Agent: Shifting LLM Agents from Reactive Responses to Active Assistance
  7. ICLR 2025Rational Decision-Making Agent with Learning Internal Utility Judgment
  8. ICLR 2025Re-Aligning Language to Visual Objects with an Agentic Workflow
  9. ICLR 2025Reconstruction-Guided Policy: Enhancing Decision-Making through Agent-Wise State Consistency
  10. ICLR 2025RefactorBench: Evaluating Stateful Reasoning in Language Agents Through Code
  11. ICLR 2025Rethinking LLM Unlearning Objectives: A Gradient Perspective and Go Beyond
  12. ICLR 2025Reward Learning from Multiple Feedback Types
  13. ICLR 2025Robotouille: An Asynchronous Planning Benchmark for LLM Agents
  14. ICLR 2025Robust Gymnasium: A Unified Modular Benchmark for Robust Reinforcement Learning
  15. ICLR 2025ROUTE: Robust Multitask Tuning and Collaboration for Text-to-SQL
  16. ICLR 2025Scaling Autonomous Agents via Automatic Reward Modeling And Planning
  17. ICLR 2025Scaling Large Language Model-based Multi-Agent Collaboration
  18. ICLR 2025ScienceAgentBench: Toward Rigorous Assessment of Language Agents for Data-Driven Scientific Discovery
  19. ICLR 2025SeCom: On Memory Construction and Retrieval for Personalized Conversational Agents
  20. ICLR 2025Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Collaboration Networks for Software Development
  21. ICLR 2025ShortcutsBench: A Large-Scale Real-world Benchmark for API-based Agents
  22. ICLR 2025Simulating Human-like Daily Activities with Desire-driven Autonomy
  23. ICLR 2025Single-agent Poisoning Attacks Suffice to Ruin Multi-Agent Learning
  24. ICLR 2025SPA-BENCH: A COMPREHENSIVE BENCHMARK FOR SMARTPHONE AGENT EVALUATION
  25. ICLR 2025Spider 2.0: Evaluating Language Models on Real-World Enterprise Text-to-SQL Workflows
  26. ICLR 2025Sports-Traj: A Unified Trajectory Generation Model for Multi-Agent Movement in Sports
  27. ICLR 2025SqueezeAttention: 2D Management of KV-Cache in LLM Inference via Layer-wise Optimal Budget
  28. ICLR 2025STAMP: Scalable Task- And Model-agnostic Collaborative Perception
  29. ICLR 2025Steering Large Language Models between Code Execution and Textual Reasoning
  30. ICLR 2025Stochastic Semi-Gradient Descent for Learning Mean Field Games with Population-Aware Function Approximation
  31. ICLR 2025Strategist: Self-improvement of LLM Decision Making via Bi-Level Tree Search
  32. ICLR 2025SWE-Search: Enhancing Software Agents with Monte Carlo Tree Search and Iterative Refinement
  33. ICLR 2025Systems with Switching Causal Relations: A Meta-Causal Perspective
  34. ICLR 2025TidalDecode: Fast and Accurate LLM Decoding with Position Persistent Sparse Attention
  35. ICLR 2025Tool-Planner: Task Planning with Clusters across Multiple Tools
  36. ICLR 2025ToolACE: Winning the Points of LLM Function Calling
  37. ICLR 2025ToolDial: Multi-turn Dialogue Generation Method for Tool-Augmented Language Models
  38. ICLR 2025ToolGen: Unified Tool Retrieval and Calling via Generation
  39. ICLR 2025TorchTitan: One-stop PyTorch native solution for production ready LLM pretraining
  40. ICLR 2025Toward Efficient Multi-Agent Exploration With Trajectory Entropy Maximization
  41. ICLR 2025Towards Effective Evaluations and Comparisons for LLM Unlearning Methods
  42. ICLR 2025Tractable Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning through Behavioral Economics
  43. ICLR 2025Trajectory-Class-Aware Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
  44. ICLR 2025Trajectory-LLM: A Language-based Data Generator for Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Driving
  45. ICLR 2025Triples as the Key: Structuring Makes Decomposition and Verification Easier in LLM-based TableQA
  46. ICLR 2025Video Action Differencing
  47. ICLR 2025VideoWebArena: Evaluating Long Context Multimodal Agents with Video Understanding Web Tasks
  48. ICLR 2025Visual Agents as Fast and Slow Thinkers
  49. ICLR 2025VisualAgentBench: Towards Large Multimodal Models as Visual Foundation Agents
  50. ICLR 2025Web Agents with World Models: Learning and Leveraging Environment Dynamics in Web Navigation

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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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