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

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  1. NeurIPS 2025Tiled Flash Linear Attention: More Efficient Linear RNN and xLSTM Kernels
  2. NeurIPS 2025Time Travel is Cheating: Going Live with DeepFund for Real-Time Fund Investment Benchmarking
  3. NeurIPS 2025TimeXL: Explainable Multi-modal Time Series Prediction with LLM-in-the-Loop
  4. NeurIPS 2025ToolRL: Reward is All Tool Learning Needs
  5. NeurIPS 2025Towards Doctor-Like Reasoning: Medical RAG Fusing Knowledge with Patient Analogy through Textual Gradients
  6. NeurIPS 2025Towards Principled Unsupervised Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
  7. NeurIPS 2025TrajAgent: An LLM-Agent Framework for Trajectory Modeling via Large-and-Small Model Collaboration
  8. NeurIPS 2025Transcending Cost-Quality Tradeoff in Agent Serving via Session-Awareness
  9. NeurIPS 2025Transformer Copilot: Learning from The Mistake Log in LLM Fine-tuning
  10. NeurIPS 2025TRAP: Targeted Redirecting of Agentic Preferences
  11. NeurIPS 2025Tri-MARF: A Tri-Modal Multi-Agent Responsive Framework for Comprehensive 3D Object Annotation
  12. NeurIPS 2025TwinMarket: A Scalable Behavioral and Social Simulation for Financial Markets
  13. NeurIPS 2025UI-Genie: A Self-Improving Approach for Iteratively Boosting MLLM-based Mobile GUI Agents
  14. NeurIPS 2025UniMotion: A Unified Motion Framework for Simulation, Prediction and Planning
  15. NeurIPS 2025URB - Urban Routing Benchmark for RL-equipped Connected Autonomous Vehicles
  16. NeurIPS 2025UrbanIng-V2X: A Large-Scale Multi-Vehicle, Multi-Infrastructure Dataset Across Multiple Intersections for Cooperative Perception
  17. NeurIPS 2025Utility Engineering: Analyzing and Controlling Emergent Value Systems in AIs
  18. NeurIPS 2025VAGEN: Reinforcing World Model Reasoning for Multi-Turn VLM Agents
  19. NeurIPS 2025VideoCAD: A Dataset and Model for Learning Long‑Horizon 3D CAD UI Interactions from Video
  20. NeurIPS 2025VIKI‑R: Coordinating Embodied Multi-Agent Cooperation via Reinforcement Learning
  21. NeurIPS 2025VLMLight: Safety-Critical Traffic Signal Control via Vision-Language Meta-Control and Dual-Branch Reasoning Architecture
  22. NeurIPS 2025VolleyBots: A Testbed for Multi-Drone Volleyball Game Combining Motion Control and Strategic Play
  23. NeurIPS 2025WALL-E: World Alignment by NeuroSymbolic Learning improves World Model-based LLM Agents
  24. NeurIPS 2025WASP: Benchmarking Web Agent Security Against Prompt Injection Attacks
  25. NeurIPS 2025Web-Shepherd: Advancing PRMs for Reinforcing Web Agents
  26. NeurIPS 2025WebDancer: Towards Autonomous Information Seeking Agency
  27. NeurIPS 2025WebGen-Bench: Evaluating LLMs on Generating Interactive and Functional Websites from Scratch
  28. NeurIPS 2025What is Your Data Worth to GPT? LLM-Scale Data Valuation with Influence Functions
  29. NeurIPS 2025Who You Are Matters: Bridging Interests and Social Roles via LLM-Enhanced Logic Recommendation
  30. NeurIPS 2025Why Do Multi-Agent LLM Systems Fail?
  31. NeurIPS 2025Wide-Horizon Thinking and Simulation-Based Evaluation for Real-World LLM Planning with Multifaceted Constraints
  32. NeurIPS 2025Win Fast or Lose Slow: Balancing Speed and Accuracy in Latency-Sensitive Decisions of LLMs
  33. NeurIPS 2025Wonder Wins Ways: Curiosity-Driven Exploration through Multi-Agent Contextual Calibration
  34. NeurIPS 2025Yggdrasil: Bridging Dynamic Speculation and Static Runtime for Latency-Optimal Tree-Based LLM Decoding

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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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