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.

Key findings

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

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

All AI Agents papers

947 papers, page 15 of 19

  1. ICML 2025From Passive to Active Reasoning: Can Large Language Models Ask the Right Questions under Incomplete Information?
  2. ICML 2025G-Designer: Architecting Multi-agent Communication Topologies via Graph Neural Networks
  3. ICML 2025General agents need world models
  4. ICML 2025GIVE: Structured Reasoning of Large Language Models with Knowledge Graph Inspired Veracity Extrapolation
  5. ICML 2025GradPS: Resolving Futile Neurons in Parameter Sharing Network for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
  6. ICML 2025Graph Diffusion for Robust Multi-Agent Coordination
  7. ICML 2025Graph World Model
  8. ICML 2025Gravity-Bench-v1: A Benchmark on Gravitational Physics Discovery for Agents
  9. ICML 2025GuardAgent: Safeguard LLM Agents via Knowledge-Enabled Reasoning
  10. ICML 2025Guided Search Strategies in Non-Serializable Environments with Applications to Software Engineering Agents
  11. ICML 2025Hidden No More: Attacking and Defending Private Third-Party LLM Inference
  12. ICML 2025Hybrid Quantum-Classical Multi-Agent Pathfinding
  13. ICML 2025HYGMA: Hypergraph Coordination Networks with Dynamic Grouping for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
  14. ICML 2025Improving Model Alignment Through Collective Intelligence of Open-Source Models
  15. ICML 2025Improving Parallel Program Performance with LLM Optimizers via Agent-System Interfaces
  16. ICML 2025Incentivize without Bonus: Provably Efficient Model-based Online Multi-agent RL for Markov Games
  17. ICML 2025Investigating Non-Transitivity in LLM-as-a-Judge
  18. ICML 2025ITBench: Evaluating AI Agents across Diverse Real-World IT Automation Tasks
  19. ICML 2025KABB: Knowledge-Aware Bayesian Bandits for Dynamic Expert Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems
  20. ICML 2025KBQA-o1: Agentic Knowledge Base Question Answering with Monte Carlo Tree Search
  21. ICML 2025Large Language Model-driven Large Neighborhood Search for Large-Scale MILP Problems
  22. ICML 2025LARM: Large Auto-Regressive Model for Long-Horizon Embodied Intelligence
  23. ICML 2025Learning Cascade Ranking as One Network
  24. ICML 2025Learning Mean Field Control on Sparse Graphs
  25. ICML 2025Learning Progress Driven Multi-Agent Curriculum
  26. ICML 2025Learning Strategic Language Agents in the Werewolf Game with Iterative Latent Space Policy Optimization
  27. ICML 2025Learning to Incentivize in Repeated Principal-Agent Problems with Adversarial Agent Arrivals
  28. ICML 2025Learning to Stop: Deep Learning for Mean Field Optimal Stopping
  29. ICML 2025Let LLM Tell What to Prune and How Much to Prune
  30. ICML 2025Linear Contextual Bandits With Interference
  31. ICML 2025LLM-Assisted Semantically Diverse Teammate Generation for Efficient Multi-agent Coordination
  32. ICML 2025M³HF: Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning from Multi-phase Human Feedback of Mixed Quality
  33. ICML 2025MAGELLAN: Metacognitive predictions of learning progress guide autotelic LLM agents in large goal spaces
  34. ICML 2025MAS-GPT: Training LLMs to Build LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems
  35. ICML 2025MCU: An Evaluation Framework for Open-Ended Game Agents
  36. ICML 2025MedRAX: Medical Reasoning Agent for Chest X-ray
  37. ICML 2025MELON: Provable Defense Against Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks in AI Agents
  38. ICML 2025MetaAgent: Automatically Constructing Multi-Agent Systems Based on Finite State Machines
  39. ICML 2025Model Swarms: Collaborative Search to Adapt LLM Experts via Swarm Intelligence
  40. ICML 2025MONA: Myopic Optimization with Non-myopic Approval Can Mitigate Multi-step Reward Hacking
  41. ICML 2025Multi-agent Architecture Search via Agentic Supernet
  42. ICML 2025MVA: Linear Attention with High-order Query-Keys Integration and Multi-level Vocabulary Decomposition
  43. ICML 2025Near Optimal Best Arm Identification for Clustered Bandits
  44. ICML 2025Nemotron-CORTEXA: Enhancing LLM Agents for Software Engineering Tasks via Improved Localization and Solution Diversity
  45. ICML 2025O-MAPL: Offline Multi-agent Preference Learning
  46. ICML 2025Of Mice and Machines: A Comparison of Learning Between Real World Mice and RL Agents
  47. ICML 2025Offline Opponent Modeling with Truncated Q-driven Instant Policy Refinement
  48. ICML 2025On the Resilience of LLM-Based Multi-Agent Collaboration with Faulty Agents
  49. ICML 2025OrcaLoca: An LLM Agent Framework for Software Issue Localization
  50. ICML 2025PAC Learning with Improvements

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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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