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

1,983 papers, page 14 of 40

651. ICML 2026Agentic Model Predictive Questioning Control in Visual Design
652. ICML 2026Agentic Monte Carlo: Simulating Reinforcement Learning for Black-Box Agents
653. ICML 2026Agentic Proposing: Enhancing Large language Model Reasoning via Compositional Skill Synthesis
654. ICML 2026AgentLAB: Benchmarking LLM Agents against Long-Horizon Attacks
655. ICML 2026AgentNoiseBench: Benchmarking Robustness of Tool-Using LLM Agents Under Noisy Condition
656. ICML 2026AgentSelect: Benchmark for Narrative Query-to-Agent Recommendation
657. ICML 2026AgentSteerTTS: A Multi-Agent Closed-Loop Framework for Composite-Instruction Text-to-Speech
658. ICML 2026AgentSuite: Toward More Reliable Agent Evaluation with a Component-Based Benchmark Auditing Pipeline
659. ICML 2026AgentTailor: A Semantic-Aware LLM-Based Multi-Agent System with Actor-Critic Structure
660. ICML 2026AgentVocab: Structure-Aware Vocabulary Adaptation for Efficient LLM Agents
661. ICML 2026AgentWebBench: Benchmarking Multi-Agent Coordination in Agentic Web
662. ICML 2026AgentXRay: White-Boxing Agentic Systems via Workflow Reconstruction
663. ICML 2026Agora: Toward Autonomous Bug Detection in Production-Level Consensus Protocols with LLM Agents
664. ICML 2026AIR: Improving Agent Safety through Incident Response
665. ICML 2026ALSO: Adversarial Online Strategy Optimization for Social Agents
666. ICML 2026AMA-Bench: Evaluating Long-Horizon Memory for Agentic Applications
667. ICML 2026An Interactive Paradigm for Deep Research
668. ICML 2026AnalogVerifier: A Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Analog Circuit Verification
669. ICML 2026ANCHOR: Automated Alignment Auditing for CLI Agents on Real-World Harm
670. ICML 2026Anytime Detection of Strategic Deviations in Multi-Agent Systems
671. ICML 2026AOEB: Benchmarking Agent-Oriented Multimodal Embeddings
672. ICML 2026AOrchestra: Automating Sub-Agent Creation for Agentic Orchestration
673. ICML 2026AppWorld-UL: Benchmarking Diverse Agent-User Interactions for Tool-Use
674. ICML 2026Architecture Matters for Multi-Agent Security
675. ICML 2026Are Your Agents Upward Deceivers?
676. ICML 2026ArenaRL: Scaling RL for Open-Ended Agents via Tournament-based Relative Ranking
677. ICML 2026ARLArena: A Unified Framework for Stable Agentic Reinforcement Learning
678. ICML 2026Ask Less, See More: Communication-Conditioned Token Pruning for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Cooperative Autonomous Driving with Multimodal Large Language Models
679. ICML 2026AtelierEval: Agentic Evaluation of Humans & LLMs as Text-to-Image Prompters
680. ICML 2026AtomWorld: A Benchmark for Evaluating Spatial Reasoning in Large Language Models on Material Structures
681. ICML 2026Autobidding Auctions with LLM-Powered Creatives
682. ICML 2026AutoControl Arena: Synthesizing Executable Test Environments for Frontier AI Risk Evaluation
683. ICML 2026AutoMat: Physics-Guided Agentic Reasoning for Solving Ill-Posed Inverse Microscopy Problems
684. ICML 2026Automata-Conditioned Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
685. ICML 2026Automatic Construction of Clinical Scoring Systems with LLM Agents
686. ICML 2026AutoMS: Multi-Agent Evolutionary Search for Cross-Physics Inverse Microstructure Design
687. ICML 2026AutoRAS: Learning Robust Agentic Systems with Primitive Representations
688. ICML 2026AutoRPA: Efficient GUI Automation through LLM-Driven Code Synthesis from Interactions
689. ICML 2026AutoSizer: Automatic Sizing of Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuits via Large Language Model (LLM) Agents
690. ICML 2026AutoTool: Dynamic Tool Selection and Integration for Agentic Reasoning
691. ICML 2026AutoWebWorld: Synthesizing Infinite Verifiable Web Environments via Finite State Machines
692. ICML 2026B-Spar: Bayesian Sparse-Reward Modeling for RL-based Image Editing
693. ICML 2026Backjump-on-Graph: Empowering Large Language Models with Reinforced Retrospective Exploration for Agentic Knowledge Graph Reasoning
694. ICML 2026Bad Seeing or Bad Thinking? Rewarding Perception for Multimodal Reasoning
695. ICML 2026Balancing Learning Rates Across Layers: Exact Two-Step Dynamics and Optimal Scaling in Linear Neural Networks
696. ICML 2026BARRED: Synthetic Training of Custom Policy Guardrails via Asymmetric Debate
697. ICML 2026Benchmarking Agent Memory in Interdependent Multi-Session Agentic Tasks
698. ICML 2026Benchmarking LLM-Assisted Blue Teaming via Standardized Threat Hunting
699. ICML 2026Benchmarking the Limits of In-Context Reinforcement Learning for Ad-Hoc Teamwork
700. ICML 2026Beyond Correctness: Distance-Based Social Dynamics of Multi-Agent Debate

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.