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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651. NeurIPS 2025Multi-agent Markov Entanglement
652. NeurIPS 2025Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Communication-Constrained Priors
653. NeurIPS 2025Multi-scale Temporal Prediction via Incremental Generation and Multi-agent Collaboration
654. NeurIPS 2025MURKA: Multi-Reward Reinforcement Learning with Knowledge Alignment for Optimization Tasks
655. NeurIPS 2025NeSyPr: Neurosymbolic Proceduralization For Efficient Embodied Reasoning
656. NeurIPS 2025On Feasible Rewards in Multi-Agent Inverse Reinforcement Learning
657. NeurIPS 2025Open CaptchaWorld: A Comprehensive Web-based Platform for Testing and Benchmarking Multimodal LLM Agents
658. NeurIPS 2025Open-World Drone Active Tracking with Goal-Centered Rewards
659. NeurIPS 2025OpenCUA: Open Foundations for Computer-Use Agents
660. NeurIPS 2025OPHR: Mastering Volatility Trading with Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning
661. NeurIPS 2025Opinion Maximization in Social Networks by Modifying Internal Opinions
662. NeurIPS 2025OrbitZoo: Real Orbital Systems Challenges for Reinforcement Learning
663. NeurIPS 2025Oryx: a Scalable Sequence Model for Many-Agent Coordination in Offline MARL
664. NeurIPS 2025OS-Harm: A Benchmark for Measuring Safety of Computer Use Agents
665. NeurIPS 2025OWL: Optimized Workforce Learning for General Multi-Agent Assistance in Real-World Task Automation
666. NeurIPS 2025OWMM-Agent: Open World Mobile Manipulation With Multi-modal Agentic Data Synthesis
667. NeurIPS 2025PANDA: Towards Generalist Video Anomaly Detection via Agentic AI Engineer
668. NeurIPS 2025Paper2Poster: Towards Multimodal Poster Automation from Scientific Papers
669. NeurIPS 2025PARCO: Parallel AutoRegressive Models for Multi-Agent Combinatorial Optimization
670. NeurIPS 2025Partner Modelling Emerges in Recurrent Agents (But Only When It Matters)
671. NeurIPS 2025PatientSim: A Persona-Driven Simulator for Realistic Doctor-Patient Interactions
672. NeurIPS 2025Planning with Quantized Opponent Models
673. NeurIPS 2025Planning without Search: Refining Frontier LLMs with Offline Goal-Conditioned RL
674. NeurIPS 2025Plasticity as the Mirror of Empowerment
675. NeurIPS 2025Polar Sparsity: High Throughput Batched LLM Inferencing with Scalable Contextual Sparsity
676. NeurIPS 2025PolarQuant: Leveraging Polar Transformation for Key Cache Quantization and Decoding Acceleration
677. NeurIPS 2025Policy Gradient Methods Converge Globally in Imperfect-Information Extensive-Form Games
678. NeurIPS 2025Pragmatic Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception via Generative Communication Mechanism
679. NeurIPS 2025Privacy Reasoning in Ambiguous Contexts
680. NeurIPS 2025Probably Approximately Precision and Recall Learning
681. NeurIPS 2025Process vs. Outcome Reward: Which is Better for Agentic RAG Reinforcement Learning
682. NeurIPS 2025QuadEnhancer: Leveraging Quadratic Transformations to Enhance Deep Neural Networks
683. NeurIPS 2025R&D-Agent-Quant: A Multi-Agent Framework for Data-Centric Factors and Model Joint Optimization
684. NeurIPS 2025RADAR: Benchmarking Language Models on Imperfect Tabular Data
685. NeurIPS 2025Rainbow Delay Compensation: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Framework for Mitigating Observation Delays
686. NeurIPS 2025ReAgent-V: A Reward-Driven Multi-Agent Framework for Video Understanding
687. NeurIPS 2025REAL: Benchmarking Autonomous Agents on Deterministic Simulations of Real Websites
688. NeurIPS 2025ReCAP: Recursive Context-Aware Reasoning and Planning for Large Language Model Agents
689. NeurIPS 2025Regret Lower Bounds for Decentralized Multi-Agent Stochastic Shortest Path Problems
690. NeurIPS 2025Reinventing Multi-Agent Collaboration through Gaussian-Image Synergy in Diffusion Policies
691. NeurIPS 2025ReMA: Learning to Meta-Think for LLMs with Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
692. NeurIPS 2025Reparameterized LLM Training via Orthogonal Equivalence Transformation
693. NeurIPS 2025RepoMaster: Autonomous Exploration and Understanding of GitHub Repositories for Complex Task Solving
694. NeurIPS 2025Representation Consistency for Accurate and Coherent LLM Answer Aggregation
695. NeurIPS 2025Retro-R1: LLM-based Agentic Retrosynthesis
696. NeurIPS 2025RF-Agent: Automated Reward Function Design via Language Agent Tree Search
697. NeurIPS 2025RiOSWorld: Benchmarking the Risk of Multimodal Computer-Use Agents
698. NeurIPS 2025RobotSmith: Generative Robotic Tool Design for Acquisition of Complex Manipulation Skills
699. NeurIPS 2025Robust and Diverse Multi-Agent Learning via Rational Policy Gradient
700. NeurIPS 2025Role-aware Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Coordinated Emergency Traffic Control

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.