AI Agents papers, 2023–2026

Tool-using, multi-step autonomous LLM and VLM agent systems

Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 3,266 papers are tagged with this topic.

Key findings

Papers per year

Papers per venue

Counts by year and venue

AI Agents papers by year and venue
YearNeurIPSICLRICMLCVPRTotal
202376404113170
2024150738818329
202536220417840784
20267295006401141,983

Representative papers

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All AI Agents papers

640 papers, page 2 of 13

  1. ICML 2026ALSO: Adversarial Online Strategy Optimization for Social Agents
  2. ICML 2026AMA-Bench: Evaluating Long-Horizon Memory for Agentic Applications
  3. ICML 2026An Interactive Paradigm for Deep Research
  4. ICML 2026AnalogVerifier: A Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Analog Circuit Verification
  5. ICML 2026ANCHOR: Automated Alignment Auditing for CLI Agents on Real-World Harm
  6. ICML 2026Anytime Detection of Strategic Deviations in Multi-Agent Systems
  7. ICML 2026AOEB: Benchmarking Agent-Oriented Multimodal Embeddings
  8. ICML 2026AOrchestra: Automating Sub-Agent Creation for Agentic Orchestration
  9. ICML 2026AppWorld-UL: Benchmarking Diverse Agent-User Interactions for Tool-Use
  10. ICML 2026Architecture Matters for Multi-Agent Security
  11. ICML 2026Are Your Agents Upward Deceivers?
  12. ICML 2026ArenaRL: Scaling RL for Open-Ended Agents via Tournament-based Relative Ranking
  13. ICML 2026ARLArena: A Unified Framework for Stable Agentic Reinforcement Learning
  14. ICML 2026Ask Less, See More: Communication-Conditioned Token Pruning for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Cooperative Autonomous Driving with Multimodal Large Language Models
  15. ICML 2026AtelierEval: Agentic Evaluation of Humans & LLMs as Text-to-Image Prompters
  16. ICML 2026AtomWorld: A Benchmark for Evaluating Spatial Reasoning in Large Language Models on Material Structures
  17. ICML 2026Autobidding Auctions with LLM-Powered Creatives
  18. ICML 2026AutoControl Arena: Synthesizing Executable Test Environments for Frontier AI Risk Evaluation
  19. ICML 2026AutoMat: Physics-Guided Agentic Reasoning for Solving Ill-Posed Inverse Microscopy Problems
  20. ICML 2026Automata-Conditioned Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
  21. ICML 2026Automatic Construction of Clinical Scoring Systems with LLM Agents
  22. ICML 2026AutoMS: Multi-Agent Evolutionary Search for Cross-Physics Inverse Microstructure Design
  23. ICML 2026AutoRAS: Learning Robust Agentic Systems with Primitive Representations
  24. ICML 2026AutoRPA: Efficient GUI Automation through LLM-Driven Code Synthesis from Interactions
  25. ICML 2026AutoSizer: Automatic Sizing of Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuits via Large Language Model (LLM) Agents
  26. ICML 2026AutoTool: Dynamic Tool Selection and Integration for Agentic Reasoning
  27. ICML 2026AutoWebWorld: Synthesizing Infinite Verifiable Web Environments via Finite State Machines
  28. ICML 2026B-Spar: Bayesian Sparse-Reward Modeling for RL-based Image Editing
  29. ICML 2026Backjump-on-Graph: Empowering Large Language Models with Reinforced Retrospective Exploration for Agentic Knowledge Graph Reasoning
  30. ICML 2026Bad Seeing or Bad Thinking? Rewarding Perception for Multimodal Reasoning
  31. ICML 2026Balancing Learning Rates Across Layers: Exact Two-Step Dynamics and Optimal Scaling in Linear Neural Networks
  32. ICML 2026BARRED: Synthetic Training of Custom Policy Guardrails via Asymmetric Debate
  33. ICML 2026Benchmarking Agent Memory in Interdependent Multi-Session Agentic Tasks
  34. ICML 2026Benchmarking LLM-Assisted Blue Teaming via Standardized Threat Hunting
  35. ICML 2026Benchmarking the Limits of In-Context Reinforcement Learning for Ad-Hoc Teamwork
  36. ICML 2026Beyond Correctness: Distance-Based Social Dynamics of Multi-Agent Debate
  37. ICML 2026Beyond Gemini-3-Pro: Revisiting LLM Routing and Aggregation at Scale
  38. ICML 2026Beyond Majority Voting: LLM Aggregation by Leveraging Higher-Order Information
  39. ICML 2026Beyond Static Endpoints: Tool Programs as an Interface for Flexible Agentic Web Services
  40. ICML 2026Beyond Text-to-SQL: Can LLMs Really Debug Enterprise ETL SQL?
  41. ICML 2026Beyond the Final Answer: Evaluating the Reasoning Trajectories of Tool-Augmented Agents
  42. ICML 2026Beyond Trajectory-Level Attribution: Graph-Based Credit Assignment for Agentic Reinforcement Learning
  43. ICML 2026BioAgent Bench: An AI Agent Evaluation Suite for Bioinformatics
  44. ICML 2026BIOARC: Discovering Optimal Neural Architectures for Biological Foundation Models
  45. ICML 2026Bootstrapped Exploration with Causal Reasoning: A Training Paradigm for Adaptive Forecasting Agent
  46. ICML 2026Bridging Functional Correctness and Runtime Efficiency Gaps in LLM-Based Code Translation
  47. ICML 2026Bridging the Grounding Gap in VideoQA via Typed Memory for Language-based Belief-State Reasoning
  48. ICML 2026BrokenMath: A Benchmark for Sycophancy in Theorem Proving with LLMs
  49. ICML 2026Budget-Efficient Attacks and Robustness Training for Cooperative MARL
  50. ICML 2026BuildArena: A Physics-Aligned Interactive Benchmark of LLMs for Engineering Construction

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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.

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