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 19 of 66

901. ICML 2026Implicit Intelligence - Evaluating Agents on What Users Don’t Say
902. ICML 2026Inference-time Alignment with Rewards in Besov Spaces: Provable Advantages of Feature Learning and Multi-Step Policy Updates
903. ICML 2026InfoPO: Information-Driven Policy Optimization for User-Centric Agents
904. ICML 2026InnoEval: On Research Idea Evaluation as a Knowledge-Grounded, Multi-Perspective Reasoning Problem
905. ICML 2026IntentRL: Training Proactive User-intent Agents for Open-ended Deep Research via Reinforcement Learning
906. ICML 2026InteractComp: Evaluating Search Agents With Ambiguous Queries
907. ICML 2026Interaction-Breaking Adversarial Learning Framework for Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
908. ICML 2026Investigating Component Contributions in Multi-Agent ML Systems
909. ICML 2026Is Vibe Coding Safe? Benchmarking Vulnerability of Agent-Generated Code in Real-World Tasks
910. ICML 2026It's a TRAP! Task-Redirecting Agent Persuasion Benchmark for Web Agents
911. ICML 2026JADE: Bridging the Strategic-Operational Gap in Dynamic Agentic RAG
912. ICML 2026JADE: Expert-Grounded Dynamic Evaluation for Open-Ended Professional Tasks
913. ICML 2026Jailbreak Foundry: From Papers to Runnable Attacks for Reproducible Benchmarking
914. ICML 2026Judgment Operators: A Composition-Invariant Substrate for Multi-Agent Action Spaces
915. ICML 2026Just Ask: Curious Code Agents Reveal System Prompts in Frontier LLMs
916. ICML 2026Just-In-Time Reinforcement Learning: Continual Learning in LLM Agents Without Gradient Updates
917. ICML 2026KBQA-R1: Reinforcing Large Language Models for Knowledge Base Question Answering
918. ICML 2026KernelBand: Steering LLM-based Kernel Optimization via Hardware-Aware Multi-Armed Bandits
919. ICML 2026KernelCraft: Benchmarking for Agentic Close-to-Metal Kernel Generation on Emerging Hardware
920. ICML 2026LakeQA: An Exploratory QA Benchmark over a Million-Scale Data Lake
921. ICML 2026Language Model Networks: Supervision-Efficient Learning through Dense Communication
922. ICML 2026Language-based Trial and Error Falls Behind in the Era of Experience
923. ICML 2026Large Language Model Agents Are Not Always Faithful Self-Evolvers
924. ICML 2026Large-Scale Terminal Agentic Trajectory Generation from Dockerized Environments
925. ICML 2026Latent Collaboration in Multi-Agent Systems
926. ICML 2026Learning Decentralized LLM Collaboration with Multi-Agent Actor Critic
927. ICML 2026Learning Disentangled Multi-Agent World Model for Decentralized Control
928. ICML 2026Learning Efficient Guardrails for Compliance
929. ICML 2026Learning GUI Grounding with Spatial Reasoning from Visual Feedback
930. ICML 2026Learning Human-Robot Collaboration via Heterogeneous-Agent Lyapunov Policy Optimization
931. ICML 2026Learning Multi-Agent Coordination via Sheaf-ADMM
932. ICML 2026Learning Query-Aware Budget-Tier Routing for Runtime Agent Memory
933. ICML 2026Learning Randomized Reductions
934. ICML 2026Learning Robust Multi-Agent Policies via Selective Adversarial Fault Induction
935. ICML 2026Learning Task-Sufficient World Models by Synergizing Agentic Exploration and Structured Modeling
936. ICML 2026Learning to Explore: Scaling Agentic Reasoning via Exploration-Aware Policy Optimization
937. ICML 2026Learning to Share: Selective Memory for Efficient Parallel Agentic Systems
938. ICML 2026Learning When to Act or Refuse: Guarding Agentic Reasoning Models for Safe Multi-Step Tool Use
939. ICML 2026LEGO: An LLM-Enabled Hierarchical Optimizer for Tensor Computation Graphs with Structure-Aware Search and Compositional Synthesis
940. ICML 2026Lifting Traces to Logic: Programmatic Skill Induction with Neuro-Symbolic Learning for Long-Horizon Agentic Tasks
941. ICML 2026LightWM: Training-Free Hierarchical Working Memory for Small Language Model Agents
942. ICML 2026LitReview Arena: Evaluating Literature Review Agents with Battle-style Peer Review Platform
943. ICML 2026LiveFigure: Generating Editable Scientific Illustration with VLM Agents
944. ICML 2026LiveNewsBench: Evaluating Web Search Agents with Freshly Curated News
945. ICML 2026LLawCo: Learning Laws of Cooperation for Modeling Embodied Multi-Agent Behavior
946. ICML 2026LLM-based Embeddings: Attention Values Encode Sentence Semantics Better Than Hidden States
947. ICML 2026LLM-Guided Communication for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
948. ICML 2026LLM-MatLogic: Executable Exchange Contracts for Knowledge-Graph Query Answering with Scoped Negation
949. ICML 2026LLM4Cov: Execution-Aware Agentic Learning for High-coverage Testbench Generation
950. ICML 2026LOCA-bench: Benchmarking Language Agents Under Controllable and Extreme Context Growth

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.