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

76 papers, page 2 of 2

51. NeurIPS 2023Optimal testing using combined test statistics across independent studies
52. NeurIPS 2023Pgx: Hardware-Accelerated Parallel Game Simulators for Reinforcement Learning
53. NeurIPS 2023Policy Space Diversity for Non-Transitive Games
54. NeurIPS 2023Provably Fast Convergence of Independent Natural Policy Gradient for Markov Potential Games
55. NeurIPS 2023Quantizable Transformers: Removing Outliers by Helping Attention Heads Do Nothing
56. NeurIPS 2023Quantus: An Explainable AI Toolkit for Responsible Evaluation of Neural Network Explanations and Beyond
57. NeurIPS 2023Responsible AI (RAI) Games and Ensembles
58. NeurIPS 2023RiskQ: Risk-sensitive Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Value Factorization
59. NeurIPS 2023Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Adversarial Regularization: Theoretical Foundation and Stable Algorithms
60. NeurIPS 2023ScenarioNet: Open-Source Platform for Large-Scale Traffic Scenario Simulation and Modeling
61. NeurIPS 2023Seeing is not always believing: Benchmarking Human and Model Perception of AI-Generated Images
62. NeurIPS 2023Selectively Sharing Experiences Improves Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
63. NeurIPS 2023Similarity-based cooperative equilibrium
64. NeurIPS 2023Social Motion Prediction with Cognitive Hierarchies
65. NeurIPS 2023Statistical and Computational Trade-off in Multi-Agent Multi-Armed Bandits
66. NeurIPS 2023Stochastic Multi-armed Bandits: Optimal Trade-off among Optimality, Consistency, and Tail Risk
67. NeurIPS 2023Strategic Behavior in Two-sided Matching Markets with Prediction-enhanced Preference-formation
68. NeurIPS 2023Strategic Distribution Shift of Interacting Agents via Coupled Gradient Flows
69. NeurIPS 2023Supply-Side Equilibria in Recommender Systems
70. NeurIPS 2023SustainGym: Reinforcement Learning Environments for Sustainable Energy Systems
71. NeurIPS 2023The Best of Both Worlds in Network Population Games: Reaching Consensus and Convergence to Equilibrium
72. NeurIPS 2023The Utility of “Even if” Semifactual Explanation to Optimise Positive Outcomes
73. NeurIPS 2023The Waymo Open Sim Agents Challenge
74. NeurIPS 2023Theoretical and Practical Perspectives on what Influence Functions Do
75. NeurIPS 2023ToolQA: A Dataset for LLM Question Answering with External Tools
76. NeurIPS 2023Where Did I Come From? Origin Attribution of AI-Generated Images

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.