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

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All AI Agents papers

3,266 papers, page 16 of 66

  1. ICML 2026Contextualized Privacy Defense for LLM Agents
  2. ICML 2026Continual GUI Agents
  3. ICML 2026Controlled LLM Training on Spectral Sphere
  4. ICML 2026Conversation for Non-verifiable Learning: Self-Evolving Large Language Models through Meta-Evaluation
  5. ICML 2026ConvexBench: Can LLMs Recognize Convex Functions?
  6. ICML 2026CoopEval: Benchmarking Cooperation-Sustaining Mechanisms and LLM Agents in Social Dilemmas
  7. ICML 2026CooT: Learning to Coordinate In-Context with Coordination Transformers
  8. ICML 2026CoPE: A Framework for Optimizing Coordination between Planning and Execution in LLM-based Agents
  9. ICML 2026Copyright-Bench: Agentic Evaluation of Copyright Law Compliance
  10. ICML 2026CORRECT: COndensed eRror RECognition via knowledge Transfer in multi-agent systems
  11. ICML 2026CUARewardBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Reward Models for Computer-Using Agents
  12. ICML 2026CVE-Factory: Scaling Expert-Level Agentic Tasks for Code Security Vulnerability
  13. ICML 2026CyberGym-E2E: Scalable Real-World Benchmark for AI Agents' End-to-End Cybersecurity Capabilities
  14. ICML 2026CyberJurors: A Multi-Agent Simulation Task for E-Commerce Disputes Verdict
  15. ICML 2026Cycle-of-Science: Reliable Reasoning through Counterfactual Verification for Agent Decision Making
  16. ICML 2026D-FUSEr: Diverse Failure, Unified Success via Error-Distribution Shaping in LLM Reasoning
  17. ICML 2026d3LLM: Ultra-Fast Diffusion LLM using Pseudo-Trajectory Distillation
  18. ICML 2026Darwinian Memory: A Training-Free Self-Regulating Memory System for GUI Agent Evolution
  19. ICML 2026Data Difficulty and the Generalization–Extrapolation Tradeoff in LLM Fine-Tuning
  20. ICML 2026daVinci-Dev: Agent-native Mid-training for Software Engineering
  21. ICML 2026De-Linearizing Agent Traces: Bayesian Inference of Latent Partial Orders for Efficient Execution
  22. ICML 2026Debate with Images: Detecting Deceptive Behaviors in Multimodal Large Language Models
  23. ICML 2026Debate2Create: Robot Co-design via Multi-Agent LLM Debate
  24. ICML 2026Decentralized and Disentangled Task–Role Representation Learning for Generalizable Offline Multi-Agent Meta Reinforcement Learning
  25. ICML 2026DECOR: Learning to Decompose and Collaborate in Deep Search via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
  26. ICML 2026Deep Incentive Design with Differentiable Equilibrium Blocks
  27. ICML 2026Deep Reinforcement Learning Finds Bayes-Nash Equilibrium in Competitive Newsvendor Problems
  28. ICML 2026DeepAnalyze: Agentic Large Language Models for Autonomous Data Science
  29. ICML 2026DeepHA: Scaling Action Chains Elicits Deep Hierarchical Agents
  30. ICML 2026DeepImageSearch: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Context-Aware Image Retrieval in Visual Histories
  31. ICML 2026DEER: A Benchmark for Evaluating Deep Research Agents on Expert Report Generation
  32. ICML 2026Deliberate Evolution: Agentic Reasoning for Sample-Efficient Symbolic Regression with LLMs
  33. ICML 2026DeltaEvolve: Accelerating Scientific Discovery through Momentum-Driven Evolution
  34. ICML 2026Desirable Effort Fairness and Optimality Trade-offs in Strategic Learning
  35. ICML 2026Detecting Perspective Shifts in Multi-Agent Systems
  36. ICML 2026Deterministic Component Mining for Multi-Framework UI2Code Generation
  37. ICML 2026Deterministic Inference across Tensor Parallel Sizes That Eliminates Training-Inference Mismatch
  38. ICML 2026Differentiable Conformal Training for LLM Reasoning Factuality
  39. ICML 2026Diffusing to Coordinate: Efficient Online Multi-Agent Diffusion Policies
  40. ICML 2026Discovering Ordinary Differential Equations with LLM-Based Qualitative and Quantitative Evaluation
  41. ICML 2026Distributionally Robust Markov Games with Average Reward
  42. ICML 2026DIVE: Scaling Diversity in Agentic Task Synthesis for Generalizable Tool Use
  43. ICML 2026Diversity Over Frequency: Rethinking Tool Use in Visual Chain-of-Thought Agents
  44. ICML 2026DLM: Unified Decision Language Model for Offline Multi-Agent Sequential Decision Making
  45. ICML 2026DOCKSMITH: Scaling Reliable Coding Environments via an Agentic Docker Builder
  46. ICML 2026DocOS: Towards Proactive Document-Guided Actions in GUI Agents
  47. ICML 2026Does Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Improve Generalization of LLM Agents? An Empirical Study
  48. ICML 2026Don't Drop Dropout: Optimizing Layer Sparsity for Efficient LLM Training and Inference
  49. ICML 2026DR Tulu: Reinforcement Learning with Evolving Rubrics for Deep Research
  50. ICML 2026Dr. Kernel: Reinforcement Learning Done Right for Triton Kernel Generations

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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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