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 14 of 19

651. ICML 2025Agent Workflow Memory
652. ICML 2025Agent-as-a-Judge: Evaluate Agents with Agents
653. ICML 2025Agent-Centric Actor-Critic for Asynchronous Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
654. ICML 2025Aguvis: Unified Pure Vision Agents for Autonomous GUI Interaction
655. ICML 2025AI for Global Climate Cooperation: Modeling Global Climate Negotiations, Agreements, and Long-Term Cooperation in RICE-N
656. ICML 2025Aligning LLMs by Predicting Preferences from User Writing Samples
657. ICML 2025Are Large Language Models Ready for Multi-Turn Tabular Data Analysis?
658. ICML 2025AssistanceZero: Scalably Solving Assistance Games
659. ICML 2025AutoAdvExBench: Benchmarking Autonomous Exploitation of Adversarial Example Defenses
660. ICML 2025Automated Benchmark Generation for Repository-Level Coding Tasks
661. ICML 2025Automated Hypothesis Validation with Agentic Sequential Falsifications
662. ICML 2025Automated Red Teaming with GOAT: the Generative Offensive Agent Tester
663. ICML 2025AutoML-Agent: A Multi-Agent LLM Framework for Full-Pipeline AutoML
664. ICML 2025Behavioral Exploration: Learning to Explore via In-Context Adaptation
665. ICML 2025Benchmarking Abstract and Reasoning Abilities Through A Theoretical Perspective
666. ICML 2025Boosting Virtual Agent Learning and Reasoning: A Step-Wise, Multi-Dimensional, and Generalist Reward Model with Benchmark
667. ICML 2025Breaking the Curse of Multiagency in Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
668. ICML 2025BRIDGE: Bootstrapping Text to Control Time-Series Generation via Multi-Agent Iterative Optimization and Diffusion Modeling
669. ICML 2025C-3PO: Compact Plug-and-Play Proxy Optimization to Achieve Human-like Retrieval-Augmented Generation
670. ICML 2025Can Compressed LLMs Truly Act? An Empirical Evaluation of Agentic Capabilities in LLM Compression
671. ICML 2025Closed-Loop Long-Horizon Robotic Planning via Equilibrium Sequence Modeling
672. ICML 2025Code-Generated Graph Representations Using Multiple LLM Agents for Material Properties Prediction
673. ICML 2025CogMath: Assessing LLMs' Authentic Mathematical Ability from a Human Cognitive Perspective
674. ICML 2025Communicating Activations Between Language Model Agents
675. ICML 2025Concurrent Reinforcement Learning with Aggregated States via Randomized Least Squares Value Iteration
676. ICML 2025Continuously Updating Digital Twins using Large Language Models
677. ICML 2025Convex Markov Games: A New Frontier for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
678. ICML 2025Counterfactual Effect Decomposition in Multi-Agent Sequential Decision Making
679. ICML 2025Cowpox: Towards the Immunity of VLM-based Multi-Agent Systems
680. ICML 2025Cradle: Empowering Foundation Agents towards General Computer Control
681. ICML 2025Craftium: Bridging Flexibility and Efficiency for Rich 3D Single- and Multi-Agent Environments
682. ICML 2025Cross-environment Cooperation Enables Zero-shot Multi-agent Coordination
683. ICML 2025CVE-Bench: A Benchmark for AI Agents’ Ability to Exploit Real-World Web Application Vulnerabilities
684. ICML 2025Decision Theoretic Foundations for Conformal Prediction: Optimal Uncertainty Quantification for Risk-Averse Agents
685. ICML 2025Demystifying Cost-Efficiency in LLM Serving over Heterogeneous GPUs
686. ICML 2025DipLLM: Fine-Tuning LLM for Strategic Decision-making in Diplomacy
687. ICML 2025Distributionally Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Chute Mapping
688. ICML 2025Divide and Conquer: Grounding LLMs as Efficient Decision-Making Agents via Offline Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
689. ICML 2025Efficient Robotic Policy Learning via Latent Space Backward Planning
690. ICML 2025EmbodiedBench: Comprehensive Benchmarking Multi-modal Large Language Models for Vision-Driven Embodied Agents
691. ICML 2025Enhancing Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with State Modelling and Adversarial Exploration
692. ICML 2025Enhancing Diversity In Parallel Agents: A Maximum State Entropy Exploration Story
693. ICML 2025EnIGMA: Interactive Tools Substantially Assist LM Agents in Finding Security Vulnerabilities
694. ICML 2025FACTER: Fairness-Aware Conformal Thresholding and Prompt Engineering for Enabling Fair LLM-Based Recommender Systems
695. ICML 2025Fast Large Language Model Collaborative Decoding via Speculation
696. ICML 2025Finite-Sample Convergence Bounds for Trust Region Policy Optimization in Mean Field Games
697. ICML 2025Finite-Time Global Optimality Convergence in Deep Neural Actor-Critic Methods for Decentralized Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
698. ICML 2025Fleet of Agents: Coordinated Problem Solving with Large Language Models
699. ICML 2025Flow-of-Options: Diversified and Improved LLM Reasoning by Thinking Through Options
700. ICML 2025From Debate to Equilibrium: Belief‑Driven Multi‑Agent LLM Reasoning via Bayesian Nash Equilibrium

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.