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

784 papers, page 15 of 16

701. NeurIPS 2025SAEMark: Steering Personalized Multilingual LLM Watermarks with Sparse Autoencoders
702. NeurIPS 2025Sample-Efficient Tabular Self-Play for Offline Robust Reinforcement Learning
703. NeurIPS 2025Scalable Neural Incentive Design with Parameterized Mean-Field Approximation
704. NeurIPS 2025Scaling Computer-Use Grounding via User Interface Decomposition and Synthesis
705. NeurIPS 2025SceneWeaver: All-in-One 3D Scene Synthesis with an Extensible and Self-Reflective Agent
706. NeurIPS 2025SE-Agent: Self-Evolution Trajectory Optimization in Multi-Step Reasoning with LLM-Based Agents
707. NeurIPS 2025SE-GUI: Enhancing Visual Grounding for GUI Agents via Self-Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning
708. NeurIPS 2025SEC-bench: Automated Benchmarking of LLM Agents on Real-World Software Security Tasks
709. NeurIPS 2025Security Challenges in AI Agent Deployment: Insights from a Large Scale Public Competition
710. NeurIPS 2025SEEA-R1: Tree-Structured Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Self-Evolving Embodied Agents
711. NeurIPS 2025Seeking and Updating with Live Visual Knowledge
712. NeurIPS 2025Self-Challenging Language Model Agents
713. NeurIPS 2025Self-Generated In-Context Examples Improve LLM Agents for Sequential Decision-Making Tasks
714. NeurIPS 2025Self-Guided Hierarchical Exploration for Generalist Foundation Model Web Agents
715. NeurIPS 2025Sequential Multi-Agent Dynamic Algorithm Configuration
716. NeurIPS 2025ShapeCraft: LLM Agents for Structured, Textured and Interactive 3D Modeling
717. NeurIPS 2025Shapley-Coop: Credit Assignment for Emergent Cooperation in Self-Interested LLM Agents
718. NeurIPS 2025Simulating Society Requires Simulating Thought
719. NeurIPS 2025Simulating Viva Voce Examinations to Evaluate Clinical Reasoning in Large Language Models
720. NeurIPS 2025SimWorld: An Open-ended Simulator for Agents in Physical and Social Worlds
721. NeurIPS 2025SiriuS: Self-improving Multi-agent Systems via Bootstrapped Reasoning
722. NeurIPS 2025SketchMind: A Multi-Agent Cognitive Framework for Assessing Student-Drawn Scientific Sketches
723. NeurIPS 2025Small Batch Size Training for Language Models: When Vanilla SGD Works, and Why Gradient Accumulation is Wasteful
724. NeurIPS 2025SoFar: Language-Grounded Orientation Bridges Spatial Reasoning and Object Manipulation
725. NeurIPS 2025SoMi-ToM: Evaluating Multi-Perspective Theory of Mind in Embodied Social Interactions
726. NeurIPS 2025SpecEM: Training-Free LLM Ensembling via Iterative Drafting, Verification, and Online Feedback
727. NeurIPS 2025SpecMAS: A Multi-Agent System for Self-Verifying System Generation via Formal Model Checking
728. NeurIPS 2025SSRB: Direct Natural Language Querying to Massive Heterogeneous Semi-Structured Data
729. NeurIPS 2025Stabilizing LTI Systems under Partial Observability: Sample Complexity and Fundamental Limits
730. NeurIPS 2025Stackelberg Learning with Outcome-based Payment
731. NeurIPS 2025STEER-ME: Assessing the Microeconomic Reasoning of Large Language Models
732. NeurIPS 2025STRATUS: A Multi-agent System for Autonomous Reliability Engineering of Modern Clouds
733. NeurIPS 2025Structural Entropy Guided Agent for Detecting and Repairing Knowledge Deficiencies in LLMs
734. NeurIPS 2025SuffixDecoding: Extreme Speculative Decoding for Emerging AI Applications
735. NeurIPS 2025SWE-bench Goes Live!
736. NeurIPS 2025SWE-rebench: An Automated Pipeline for Task Collection and Decontaminated Evaluation of Software Engineering Agents
737. NeurIPS 2025SWE-smith: Scaling Data for Software Engineering Agents
738. NeurIPS 2025SwitchLingua: The First Large-Scale Multilingual and Multi-Ethnic Code-Switching Dataset
739. NeurIPS 2025SYMPHONY: Synergistic Multi-agent Planning with Heterogeneous Language Model Assembly
740. NeurIPS 2025Synergy over Discrepancy: A Partition-Based Approach to Multi-Domain LLM Fine-Tuning
741. NeurIPS 2025Synthesizing Photorealistic and Dynamic Urban Environments for Multimodal Robot Navigation and Collaboration
742. NeurIPS 2025T1: A Tool-Oriented Conversational Dataset for Multi-Turn Agentic Planning
743. NeurIPS 2025TAI3: Testing Agent Integrity in Interpreting User Intent
744. NeurIPS 2025Temporal Logic-Based Multi-Vehicle Backdoor Attacks against Offline RL Agents in End-to-end Autonomous Driving
745. NeurIPS 2025The Automated LLM Speedrunning Benchmark: Reproducing NanoGPT Improvements
746. NeurIPS 2025The Lighthouse of Language: Enhancing LLM Agents via Critique-Guided Improvement
747. NeurIPS 2025TheAgentCompany: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Consequential Real World Tasks
748. NeurIPS 2025Think or Not? Selective Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language Models
749. NeurIPS 2025Thinking vs. Doing: Improving Agent Reasoning by Scaling Test-Time Interaction
750. NeurIPS 2025Thought Communication in Multiagent Collaboration

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.