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

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851. NeurIPS 2025GRAPE: Optimize Data Mixture for Group Robust Multi-target Adaptive Pretraining
852. NeurIPS 2025GraphMaster: Automated Graph Synthesis via LLM Agents in Data-Limited Environments
853. NeurIPS 2025Graphs Help Graphs: Multi-Agent Graph Socialized Learning
854. NeurIPS 2025Ground-Compose-Reinforce: Grounding Language in Agentic Behaviours using Limited Data
855. NeurIPS 2025Group-in-Group Policy Optimization for LLM Agent Training
856. NeurIPS 2025GSO: Challenging Software Optimization Tasks for Evaluating SWE-Agents
857. NeurIPS 2025GUARDIAN: Safeguarding LLM Multi-Agent Collaborations with Temporal Graph Modeling
858. NeurIPS 2025GUI Exploration Lab: Enhancing Screen Navigation in Agents via Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning
859. NeurIPS 2025GUI-Actor: Coordinate-Free Visual Grounding for GUI Agents
860. NeurIPS 2025GUI-Reflection: Empowering Multimodal GUI Models with Self-Reflection Behavior
861. NeurIPS 2025HeavyWater and SimplexWater: Distortion-free LLM Watermarks for Low-Entropy Distributions
862. NeurIPS 2025Heterogeneous Graph Transformers for Simultaneous Mobile Multi-Robot Task Allocation and Scheduling under Temporal Constraints
863. NeurIPS 2025Heterogeneous Swarms: Jointly Optimizing Model Roles and Weights for Multi-LLM Systems
864. NeurIPS 2025Hi3DEval: Advancing 3D Generation Evaluation with Hierarchical Validity
865. NeurIPS 2025High-order Interactions Modeling for Interpretable Multi-Agent Q-Learning
866. NeurIPS 2025HMARL-CBF – Hierarchical Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Control Barrier Functions for Safety-Critical Autonomous Systems
867. NeurIPS 2025How to Train Your LLM Web Agent: A Statistical Diagnosis
868. NeurIPS 2025Human Texts Are Outliers: Detecting LLM-generated Texts via Out-of-distribution Detection
869. NeurIPS 2025HyperMARL: Adaptive Hypernetworks for Multi-Agent RL
870. NeurIPS 2025HYPRL: Reinforcement Learning of Control Policies for Hyperproperties
871. NeurIPS 2025Impartial Selection with Predictions
872. NeurIPS 2025Improving Retrieval-Augmented Generation through Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
873. NeurIPS 2025In-Context Fully Decentralized Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
874. NeurIPS 2025In-context Learning of Linear Dynamical Systems with Transformers: Approximation Bounds and Depth-separation
875. NeurIPS 2025Incentive-Aware Dynamic Resource Allocation under Long-Term Cost Constraints
876. NeurIPS 2025Individual Regret in Cooperative Stochastic Multi-Armed Bandits
877. NeurIPS 2025InfantAgent-Next: A Multimodal Generalist Agent for Automated Computer Interaction
878. NeurIPS 2025Information Retrieval Induced Safety Degradation in AI Agents
879. NeurIPS 2025InstructFlow: Adaptive Symbolic Constraint-Guided Code Generation for Long-Horizon Planning
880. NeurIPS 2025InterMT: Multi-Turn Interleaved Preference Alignment with Human Feedback
881. NeurIPS 2025IR3D-Bench: Evaluating Vision-Language Model Scene Understanding as Agentic Inverse Rendering
882. NeurIPS 2025Iterative Self-Incentivization Empowers Large Language Models as Agentic Searchers
883. NeurIPS 2025Iterative Tool Usage Exploration for Multimodal Agents via Step-wise Preference Tuning
884. NeurIPS 2025JarvisArt: Liberating Human Artistic Creativity via an Intelligent Photo Retouching Agent
885. NeurIPS 2025KARMA: Leveraging Multi-Agent LLMs for Automated Knowledge Graph Enrichment
886. NeurIPS 2025Keeping an Eye on LLM Unlearning: The Hidden Risk and Remedy
887. NeurIPS 2025Kinaema: a recurrent sequence model for memory and pose in motion
888. NeurIPS 2025Knowledge Starts with Practice: Knowledge-Aware Exercise Generative Recommendation with Adaptive Multi-Agent Cooperation
889. NeurIPS 2025KVCOMM: Online Cross-context KV-cache Communication for Efficient LLM-based Multi-agent Systems
890. NeurIPS 2025KVFlow: Efficient Prefix Caching for Accelerating LLM-Based Multi-Agent Workflows
891. NeurIPS 2025LabUtopia: High-Fidelity Simulation and Hierarchical Benchmark for Scientific Embodied Agents
892. NeurIPS 2025Language Modeling by Language Models
893. NeurIPS 2025Language Models can Self-Improve at State-Value Estimation for Better Search
894. NeurIPS 2025Language Ranker: A Lightweight Ranking framework for LLM Decoding
895. NeurIPS 2025Large Language Models Miss the Multi-agent Mark
896. NeurIPS 2025LARGO: Latent Adversarial Reflection through Gradient Optimization for Jailbreaking LLMs
897. NeurIPS 2025LayerCraft: Enhancing Text-to-Image Generation with CoT Reasoning and Layered Object Integration
898. NeurIPS 2025LC-Opt: Benchmarking Reinforcement Learning and Agentic AI for End-to-End Liquid Cooling Optimization in Data Centers
899. NeurIPS 2025Learning “Partner-Aware” Collaborators in Multi-Party Collaboration
900. NeurIPS 2025Learning and Planning Multi-Agent Tasks via an MoE-based World Model

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.