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

817 papers, page 16 of 17

751. ICLR 2024Rethinking Adversarial Policies: A Generalized Attack Formulation and Provable Defense in RL
752. ICLR 2024Retroformer: Retrospective Large Language Agents with Policy Gradient Optimization
753. ICLR 2024REValueD: Regularised Ensemble Value-Decomposition for Factorisable Markov Decision Processes
754. ICLR 2024Reward Design for Justifiable Sequential Decision-Making
755. ICLR 2024Sample-Efficient Multi-Agent RL: An Optimization Perspective
756. ICLR 2024Select to Perfect: Imitating desired behavior from large multi-agent data
757. ICLR 2024SKILL-MIX: a Flexible and Expandable Family of Evaluations for AI Models
758. ICLR 2024SmartPlay : A Benchmark for LLMs as Intelligent Agents
759. ICLR 2024SocioDojo: Building Lifelong Analytical Agents with Real-world Text and Time Series
760. ICLR 2024Solving Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Cooperative Tasks with Greedy Sequential Execution
761. ICLR 2024SOTOPIA: Interactive Evaluation for Social Intelligence in Language Agents
762. ICLR 2024Steve-Eye: Equipping LLM-based Embodied Agents with Visual Perception in Open Worlds
763. ICLR 2024Synapse: Trajectory-as-Exemplar Prompting with Memory for Computer Control
764. ICLR 2024The LLM Surgeon
765. ICLR 2024Think-on-Graph: Deep and Responsible Reasoning of Large Language Model on Knowledge Graph
766. ICLR 2024THOUGHT PROPAGATION: AN ANALOGICAL APPROACH TO COMPLEX REASONING WITH LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS
767. ICLR 2024ToolChain*: Efficient Action Space Navigation in Large Language Models with A* Search
768. ICLR 2024ToolLLM: Facilitating Large Language Models to Master 16000+ Real-world APIs
769. ICLR 2024ToRA: A Tool-Integrated Reasoning Agent for Mathematical Problem Solving
770. ICLR 2024Towards Robust Multi-Modal Reasoning via Model Selection
771. ICLR 2024Trajeglish: Traffic Modeling as Next-Token Prediction
772. ICLR 2024Tree-Planner: Efficient Close-loop Task Planning with Large Language Models
773. ICLR 2024Tuning LayerNorm in Attention: Towards Efficient Multi-Modal LLM Finetuning
774. ICLR 2024Two-stage LLM Fine-tuning with Less Specialization and More Generalization
775. ICLR 2024Variance Reduced Halpern Iteration for Finite-Sum Monotone Inclusions
776. ICLR 2024WebArena: A Realistic Web Environment for Building Autonomous Agents
777. ICLR 2024Whittle Index with Multiple Actions and State Constraint for Inventory Management
778. ICLR 2023$O(T^{-1})$ Convergence of Optimistic-Follow-the-Regularized-Leader in Two-Player Zero-Sum Markov Games
779. ICLR 2023Achieving Near-Optimal Individual Regret & Low Communications in Multi-Agent Bandits
780. ICLR 2023Adversarial Diversity in Hanabi
781. ICLR 2023Asynchronous Gradient Play in Zero-Sum Multi-agent Games
782. ICLR 2023Broken Neural Scaling Laws
783. ICLR 2023Can We Find Nash Equilibria at a Linear Rate in Markov Games?
784. ICLR 2023Certifiably Robust Policy Learning against Adversarial Multi-Agent Communication
785. ICLR 2023Cheap Talk Discovery and Utilization in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
786. ICLR 2023Collaborative Pure Exploration in Kernel Bandit
787. ICLR 2023Competitive Physics Informed Networks
788. ICLR 2023Discovering Generalizable Multi-agent Coordination Skills from Multi-task Offline Data
789. ICLR 2023Does Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning Exist?
790. ICLR 2023Efficiently Computing Nash Equilibria in Adversarial Team Markov Games
791. ICLR 2023Faster Last-iterate Convergence of Policy Optimization in Zero-Sum Markov Games
792. ICLR 2023Generating Diverse Cooperative Agents by Learning Incompatible Policies
793. ICLR 2023GoBigger: A Scalable Platform for Cooperative-Competitive Multi-Agent Interactive Simulation
794. ICLR 2023Implicit regularization in Heavy-ball momentum accelerated stochastic gradient descent
795. ICLR 2023Learning Rationalizable Equilibria in Multiplayer Games
796. ICLR 2023Learning to Extrapolate: A Transductive Approach
797. ICLR 2023Learning Zero-Shot Cooperation with Humans, Assuming Humans Are Biased
798. ICLR 2023MACTA: A Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Approach for Cache Timing Attacks and Detection
799. ICLR 2023MAESTRO: Open-Ended Environment Design for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
800. ICLR 2023Mastering the Game of No-Press Diplomacy via Human-Regularized Reinforcement Learning and Planning

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.