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

204 papers, page 2 of 5

51. ICLR 2025Direct Post-Training Preference Alignment for Multi-Agent Motion Generation Model Using Implicit Feedback from Pre-training Demonstrations
52. ICLR 2025Discrete GCBF Proximal Policy Optimization for Multi-agent Safe Optimal Control
53. ICLR 2025Discriminator-Guided Embodied Planning for LLM Agent
54. ICLR 2025Dissecting Adversarial Robustness of Multimodal LM Agents
55. ICLR 2025DistRL: An Asynchronous Distributed Reinforcement Learning Framework for On-Device Control Agent
56. ICLR 2025Diversity Empowers Intelligence: Integrating Expertise of Software Engineering Agents
57. ICLR 2025Do as We Do, Not as You Think: the Conformity of Large Language Models
58. ICLR 2025Do LLM Agents Have Regret? A Case Study in Online Learning and Games
59. ICLR 2025Do LLMs ``know'' internally when they follow instructions?
60. ICLR 2025DoF: A Diffusion Factorization Framework for Offline Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
61. ICLR 2025DRESSing Up LLM: Efficient Stylized Question-Answering via Style Subspace Editing
62. ICLR 2025DS-LLM: Leveraging Dynamical Systems to Enhance Both Training and Inference of Large Language Models
63. ICLR 2025DSBench: How Far Are Data Science Agents from Becoming Data Science Experts?
64. ICLR 2025DUET: Decentralized Bilevel Optimization without Lower-Level Strong Convexity
65. ICLR 2025EFFICIENT JAILBREAK ATTACK SEQUENCES ON LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS VIA MULTI-ARMED BANDIT-BASED CONTEXT SWITCHING
66. ICLR 2025Efficient Multi-agent Offline Coordination via Diffusion-based Trajectory Stitching
67. ICLR 2025Efficiently Parameterized Neural Metriplectic Systems
68. ICLR 2025EIA: ENVIRONMENTAL INJECTION ATTACK ON GENERALIST WEB AGENTS FOR PRIVACY LEAKAGE
69. ICLR 2025EMOS: Embodiment-aware Heterogeneous Multi-robot Operating System with LLM Agents
70. ICLR 2025Empowering LLM Agents with Zero-Shot Optimal Decision-Making through Q-learning
71. ICLR 2025Empowering Users in Digital Privacy Management through Interactive LLM-Based Agents
72. ICLR 2025Encryption-Friendly LLM Architecture
73. ICLR 2025Enhancing Language Model Agents using Diversity of Thoughts
74. ICLR 2025eQMARL: Entangled Quantum Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Distributed Cooperation over Quantum Channels
75. ICLR 2025ExACT: Teaching AI Agents to Explore with Reflective-MCTS and Exploratory Learning
76. ICLR 2025Expected Return Symmetries
77. ICLR 2025Exploiting Structure in Offline Multi-Agent RL: The Benefits of Low Interaction Rank
78. ICLR 2025Exploring Prosocial Irrationality for LLM Agents: A Social Cognition View
79. ICLR 2025Exponential Topology-enabled Scalable Communication in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
80. ICLR 2025Facilitating Multi-turn Function Calling for LLMs via Compositional Instruction Tuning
81. ICLR 2025FlickerFusion: Intra-trajectory Domain Generalizing Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
82. ICLR 2025Flow: Modularized Agentic Workflow Automation
83. ICLR 2025Fourier Head: Helping Large Language Models Learn Complex Probability Distributions
84. ICLR 2025From an LLM Swarm to a PDDL-empowered Hive: Planning Self-executed Instructions in a Multi-modal Jungle
85. ICLR 2025From Commands to Prompts: LLM-based Semantic File System for AIOS
86. ICLR 2025Generalized Principal-Agent Problem with a Learning Agent
87. ICLR 2025Generating Freeform Endoskeletal Robots
88. ICLR 2025GPUDrive: Data-driven, multi-agent driving simulation at 1 million FPS
89. ICLR 2025Graph Neural Networks Gone Hogwild
90. ICLR 2025GraphRouter: A Graph-based Router for LLM Selections
91. ICLR 2025GROOT-2: Weakly Supervised Multimodal Instruction Following Agents
92. ICLR 2025Human Simulacra: Benchmarking the Personification of Large Language Models
93. ICLR 2025Hypothetical Minds: Scaffolding Theory of Mind for Multi-Agent Tasks with Large Language Models
94. ICLR 2025ImProver: Agent-Based Automated Proof Optimization
95. ICLR 2025Improving Data Efficiency via Curating LLM-Driven Rating Systems
96. ICLR 2025INS: Interaction-aware Synthesis to Enhance Offline Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
97. ICLR 2025InsightBench: Evaluating Business Analytics Agents Through Multi-Step Insight Generation
98. ICLR 2025Intelligent Go-Explore: Standing on the Shoulders of Giant Foundation Models
99. ICLR 2025Interactive Speculative Planning: Enhance Agent Efficiency through Co-design of System and User Interface
100. ICLR 2025Internet of Agents: Weaving a Web of Heterogeneous Agents for Collaborative Intelligence

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.