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 2 of 17

51. ICLR 2026Beyond Magic Words: Sharpness-Aware Prompt Evolving for Robust Large Language Models with TARE
52. ICLR 2026Beyond Prompt-Induced Lies: Investigating LLM Deception on Benign Prompts
53. ICLR 2026Beyond URLs: Metadata Diversity and Position for Efficient LLM Pretraining
54. ICLR 2026BiasBusters: Uncovering and Mitigating Tool Selection Bias in Large Language Models
55. ICLR 2026BIRD-INTERACT: Re-imagining Text-to-SQL Evaluation via Lens of Dynamic Interactions
56. ICLR 2026Breaking Agent Backbones: Evaluating the Security of Backbone LLMs in AI Agents
57. ICLR 2026Breaking and Fixing Defenses Against Control Flow Hijacking in Multi-Agent Systems
58. ICLR 2026BRIDGE: Bi-level Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Group Structure in Coalition Formation Games
59. ICLR 2026Building a Foundational Guardrail for General Agentic Systems via Synthetic Data
60. ICLR 2026Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between Large Language Models
61. ICLR 2026Can Language Models Discover Scaling Laws?
62. ICLR 2026Cancer-Myth: Evaluating Large Language Models on Patient Questions with False Presuppositions
63. ICLR 2026CARD: Towards Conditional Design of Multi-agent Topological Structures
64. ICLR 2026CARE: Towards Clinical Accountability in Multi-Modal Medical Reasoning with an Evidence-Grounded Agentic Framework
65. ICLR 2026Catalog-Native LLM: Speaking Item-ID dialect with Less Entanglement for Recommendation
66. ICLR 2026CellAgent: LLM-Driven Multi-Agent Framework for Natural Language-Based Single-Cell Analysis
67. ICLR 2026CellDuality: Unlocking Biological Reasoning in LLMs with Self-Supervised RLVR
68. ICLR 2026ChatInject: Abusing Chat Templates for Prompt Injection in LLM Agents
69. ICLR 2026ChinaTravel: An Open-Ended Travel Planning Benchmark with Compositional Constraint Validation for Language Agents
70. ICLR 2026CLAUSE: Agentic Neuro-Symbolic Knowledge Graph Reasoning via Dynamic Learnable Context Engineering
71. ICLR 2026CoAct-1: Computer-using Multi-agent System with Coding Actions
72. ICLR 2026CoDA: Agentic Systems for Collaborative Data Visualization
73. ICLR 2026Collaborative Gym: A Framework for Enabling and Evaluating Human-Agent Collaboration
74. ICLR 2026CoLLMLight: Cooperative Large Language Model Agents for Network-Wide Traffic Signal Control
75. ICLR 2026CoMAS: Co-Evolving Multi-Agent Systems via Interaction Rewards
76. ICLR 2026CoMind: Towards Community-Driven Agents for Machine Learning Engineering
77. ICLR 2026Comparing AI Agents to Cybersecurity Professionals in Real-World Penetration Testing
78. ICLR 2026Completing Missing Annotation: Multi-Agent Debate for Accurate and Scalable Relevant Assessment for IR Benchmarks
79. ICLR 2026Computer Agent Arena: Toward Human-Centric Evaluation and Analysis of Computer-Use Agents
80. ICLR 2026ComputerRL: Scaling End-to-End Online Reinforcement Learning for Computer Use Agents
81. ICLR 2026CoNavBench: Collaborative Long-Horizon Vision-Language Navigation Benchmark
82. ICLR 2026Context Learning for Multi-Agent Discussion
83. ICLR 2026ContextNav: Towards Agentic Multimodal In-Context Learning
84. ICLR 2026Continual Low-Rank Adapters for LLM-based Generative Recommender Systems
85. ICLR 2026Continuous-Time Value Iteration for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
86. ICLR 2026Control Tax: The Price of Keeping AI in Check
87. ICLR 2026Correlated Policy Optimization in Multi-Agent Subteams
88. ICLR 2026CP-Agent: Context‑Aware Multimodal Reasoning for Cellular Morphological Profiling under Chemical Perturbations
89. ICLR 2026Credit-Budgeted ICPC-Style Coding: When LLM Agents Must Pay for Every Decision
90. ICLR 2026CubeBench: Diagnosing Interactive, Long-Horizon Physical Intelligence under Partial Observations
91. ICLR 2026Cyber-Zero: Training Cybersecurity Agents without Runtime
92. ICLR 2026CyberGym: Evaluating AI Agents' Real-World Cybersecurity Capabilities at Scale
93. ICLR 2026DAComp: Benchmarking Data Agents across the Full Data Intelligence Lifecycle
94. ICLR 2026DAMR: Efficient and Adaptive Context-Aware Knowledge Graph Question Answering with LLM-Guided MCTS
95. ICLR 2026DARE-bench: Evaluating Modeling and Instruction Fidelity of LLMs in Data Science
96. ICLR 2026Darwin Gödel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents
97. ICLR 2026DASH: Deterministic Attention Scheduling for High-throughput Reproducible LLM Training
98. ICLR 2026DAVE: A VLM Vision Encoder for Document Understanding and Web Agents
99. ICLR 2026DecompGAIL: Learning Realistic Traffic Behaviors with Decomposed Multi-Agent Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning
100. ICLR 2026DeepEyesV2: Toward Agentic Multimodal 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.