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

3,266 papers, page 17 of 66

801. ICML 2026DRIFT-BENCH: Diagnosing CoopeRative Breakdowns in LLM Agents under Input Faults via Multi-Turn Interaction
802. ICML 2026DRPBench: Evaluating LLMs in Concurrent Code Comprehension via Fine-Grained Data Race Prediction
803. ICML 2026Dual Latent Memory for Visual Multi-agent System
804. ICML 2026DuetServe: Harmonizing Prefill and Decode for LLM Serving via Adaptive GPU Multiplexing
805. ICML 2026DV-World: Benchmarking Data Visualization Agents in Real-World Scenarios
806. ICML 2026Dynamic Optimizations of LLM Ensembles with Two-Stage Reinforcement Learning Agents
807. ICML 2026DynaSchedBench: Calibrated Dynamic Scheduling Benchmarks and Observability Paradox in LLM-based Scheduling Agents
808. ICML 2026E-mem: Multi-Agent Based Episodic Context Reconstruction for LLM Agent Memory
809. ICML 2026E-VAds: An E-commerce Short Videos Understanding Benchmark for MLLMs
810. ICML 2026EAPO: Enhancing Policy Optimization with On-Demand Expert Assistance
811. ICML 2026Editable Proof Sketch for Automated Theorem Proving
812. ICML 2026EduMirror: Modeling Educational Social Dynamics with Value-driven Multi-agent Simulation
813. ICML 2026EffGen: Enabling Small Language Models as Capable Autonomous Agents
814. ICML 2026Efficient Multi-Agent Reasoning via Confidence-Guided Adaptive Debate
815. ICML 2026Efficient Multi-round LLM Inference over Disaggregated Serving
816. ICML 2026EGG: An Expert-Guided Agent Framework for Kernel Generation
817. ICML 2026EMBGuard: Constructing Hazard-Aware Guardrails for Safe Planning in Embodied Agents
818. ICML 2026Embodied Task Planning via Graph-Informed Action Generation with Large Language Models
819. ICML 2026Emergence of Biased Consensus in Multi-Agent LLM Debates
820. ICML 2026Emergent Alignment via Competition
821. ICML 2026EngiAgent: Fully Connected Coordination of LLM Agents for Solving Open-ended Engineering Problems with Feasible Solutions
822. ICML 2026EnterpriseOps-Gym: Environments and Evaluations for Stateful Agentic Planning and Tool Use in Enterprise Settings
823. ICML 2026Envy-Free Allocation of Indivisible Goods via Noisy Queries
824. ICML 2026Epistemic Gain, Aleatoric Cost: Uncertainty Decomposition in Multi-Agent Debate for Math Reasoning
825. ICML 2026Escaping Mode Collapse in LLM Generation via Geometric Regulation
826. ICML 2026Escaping Whack-a-Mole: Optimizing Documentation as Repo-Specific Playbooks for Coding Agents
827. ICML 2026Estimating the Empowerment of Language Model Agents
828. ICML 2026Evaluating Contextual Illegality: AI Compliance in Corporate Law Scenarios
829. ICML 2026EVMbench: Evaluating AI Agents on Smart Contract Security
830. ICML 2026EvoC2F: Compiling Tool Orchestration for Efficient and Evolvable LLM Agents
831. ICML 2026EvoCF: Multi-Agent Collaboration via Agentic Memory-Driven Evolutionary Counterfactual Planning
832. ICML 2026EvoClaw: Evaluating AI Agents on Continuous Software Evolution
833. ICML 2026Evolving Interpretable Constitutions for Multi-Agent Coordination
834. ICML 2026Evolving Quantitative Reasoning through Self-Play in Digital Twin Markets
835. ICML 2026EVOLVING ROLLOUTS: Harnessing Historical Experience for Web Agent Evolution in Reinforcement Learning
836. ICML 2026EvoMAS: Evolutionary Generation of Multi-Agent Systems
837. ICML 2026EvoMAS: Heuristics in the Loop—Evolving Smarter Agentic Workflows
838. ICML 2026ExCyTIn-Bench: Evaluating LLM agents on Cyber Threat Investigation
839. ICML 2026Executable Agentic Memory for GUI Agent
840. ICML 2026Experience-Evolving Multi-Turn Tool-Use Agent with Hybrid Episodic–Procedural Memory
841. ICML 2026Exploration Hacking: Can LLMs Learn to Resist RL Training?
842. ICML 2026FactGuard: Agentic Video Misinformation Detection via Reinforcement Learning
843. ICML 2026Factored Value Functions for Graph-Based Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
844. ICML 2026Failure is Feedback: History-Aware Backtracking for Agentic Traversal in Multimodal Graphs
845. ICML 2026Failure-Driven Workflow Refinement
846. ICML 2026FakeWorld 1.0: An Omni-modal Benchmark for Fake Media and Content
847. ICML 2026FIRE-Bench: Evaluating AI Agents on the Rediscovery of Scientific Insights
848. ICML 2026Fix Before Search: Benchmarking Agentic Visual Query Pre-processing in Multimodal Retrieval-augmented Generation
849. ICML 2026FlowBot: Inducing LLM Workflows with Bilevel Optimization and Textual Gradients
850. ICML 2026FlowMAP: Flow Matching for Generalizable Agent 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.