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
- 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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 76 | 40 | 41 | 13 | 170 |
| 2024 | 150 | 73 | 88 | 18 | 329 |
| 2025 | 362 | 204 | 178 | 40 | 784 |
| 2026 | 729 | 500 | 640 | 114 | 1,983 |
Representative papers
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- 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
3,266 papers, page 16 of 66
- ICML 2026Contextualized Privacy Defense for LLM Agents
- ICML 2026Continual GUI Agents
- ICML 2026Controlled LLM Training on Spectral Sphere
- ICML 2026Conversation for Non-verifiable Learning: Self-Evolving Large Language Models through Meta-Evaluation
- ICML 2026ConvexBench: Can LLMs Recognize Convex Functions?
- ICML 2026CoopEval: Benchmarking Cooperation-Sustaining Mechanisms and LLM Agents in Social Dilemmas
- ICML 2026CooT: Learning to Coordinate In-Context with Coordination Transformers
- ICML 2026CoPE: A Framework for Optimizing Coordination between Planning and Execution in LLM-based Agents
- ICML 2026Copyright-Bench: Agentic Evaluation of Copyright Law Compliance
- ICML 2026CORRECT: COndensed eRror RECognition via knowledge Transfer in multi-agent systems
- ICML 2026CUARewardBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Reward Models for Computer-Using Agents
- ICML 2026CVE-Factory: Scaling Expert-Level Agentic Tasks for Code Security Vulnerability
- ICML 2026CyberGym-E2E: Scalable Real-World Benchmark for AI Agents' End-to-End Cybersecurity Capabilities
- ICML 2026CyberJurors: A Multi-Agent Simulation Task for E-Commerce Disputes Verdict
- ICML 2026Cycle-of-Science: Reliable Reasoning through Counterfactual Verification for Agent Decision Making
- ICML 2026D-FUSEr: Diverse Failure, Unified Success via Error-Distribution Shaping in LLM Reasoning
- ICML 2026d3LLM: Ultra-Fast Diffusion LLM using Pseudo-Trajectory Distillation
- ICML 2026Darwinian Memory: A Training-Free Self-Regulating Memory System for GUI Agent Evolution
- ICML 2026Data Difficulty and the Generalization–Extrapolation Tradeoff in LLM Fine-Tuning
- ICML 2026daVinci-Dev: Agent-native Mid-training for Software Engineering
- ICML 2026De-Linearizing Agent Traces: Bayesian Inference of Latent Partial Orders for Efficient Execution
- ICML 2026Debate with Images: Detecting Deceptive Behaviors in Multimodal Large Language Models
- ICML 2026Debate2Create: Robot Co-design via Multi-Agent LLM Debate
- ICML 2026Decentralized and Disentangled Task–Role Representation Learning for Generalizable Offline Multi-Agent Meta Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2026DECOR: Learning to Decompose and Collaborate in Deep Search via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- ICML 2026Deep Incentive Design with Differentiable Equilibrium Blocks
- ICML 2026Deep Reinforcement Learning Finds Bayes-Nash Equilibrium in Competitive Newsvendor Problems
- ICML 2026DeepAnalyze: Agentic Large Language Models for Autonomous Data Science
- ICML 2026DeepHA: Scaling Action Chains Elicits Deep Hierarchical Agents
- ICML 2026DeepImageSearch: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Context-Aware Image Retrieval in Visual Histories
- ICML 2026DEER: A Benchmark for Evaluating Deep Research Agents on Expert Report Generation
- ICML 2026Deliberate Evolution: Agentic Reasoning for Sample-Efficient Symbolic Regression with LLMs
- ICML 2026DeltaEvolve: Accelerating Scientific Discovery through Momentum-Driven Evolution
- ICML 2026Desirable Effort Fairness and Optimality Trade-offs in Strategic Learning
- ICML 2026Detecting Perspective Shifts in Multi-Agent Systems
- ICML 2026Deterministic Component Mining for Multi-Framework UI2Code Generation
- ICML 2026Deterministic Inference across Tensor Parallel Sizes That Eliminates Training-Inference Mismatch
- ICML 2026Differentiable Conformal Training for LLM Reasoning Factuality
- ICML 2026Diffusing to Coordinate: Efficient Online Multi-Agent Diffusion Policies
- ICML 2026Discovering Ordinary Differential Equations with LLM-Based Qualitative and Quantitative Evaluation
- ICML 2026Distributionally Robust Markov Games with Average Reward
- ICML 2026DIVE: Scaling Diversity in Agentic Task Synthesis for Generalizable Tool Use
- ICML 2026Diversity Over Frequency: Rethinking Tool Use in Visual Chain-of-Thought Agents
- ICML 2026DLM: Unified Decision Language Model for Offline Multi-Agent Sequential Decision Making
- ICML 2026DOCKSMITH: Scaling Reliable Coding Environments via an Agentic Docker Builder
- ICML 2026DocOS: Towards Proactive Document-Guided Actions in GUI Agents
- ICML 2026Does Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Improve Generalization of LLM Agents? An Empirical Study
- ICML 2026Don't Drop Dropout: Optimizing Layer Sparsity for Efficient LLM Training and Inference
- ICML 2026DR Tulu: Reinforcement Learning with Evolving Rubrics for Deep Research
- 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.