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

784 papers, page 2 of 16

  1. ICLR 2025AgentOccam: A Simple Yet Strong Baseline for LLM-Based Web Agents
  2. ICLR 2025AgentRefine: Enhancing Agent Generalization through Refinement Tuning
  3. ICLR 2025Agents' Room: Narrative Generation through Multi-step Collaboration
  4. ICLR 2025AgentSquare: Automatic LLM Agent Search in Modular Design Space
  5. ICLR 2025AgentStudio: A Toolkit for Building General Virtual Agents
  6. ICLR 2025AgentTrek: Agent Trajectory Synthesis via Guiding Replay with Web Tutorials
  7. ICLR 2025Aligned LLMs Are Not Aligned Browser Agents
  8. ICLR 2025Aligning Generative Denoising with Discriminative Objectives Unleashes Diffusion for Visual Perception
  9. ICLR 2025An Intelligent Agentic System for Complex Image Restoration Problems
  10. ICLR 2025AndroidWorld: A Dynamic Benchmarking Environment for Autonomous Agents
  11. ICLR 2025Anyprefer: An Agentic Framework for Preference Data Synthesis
  12. ICLR 2025Audio Large Language Models Can Be Descriptive Speech Quality Evaluators
  13. ICLR 2025AutoDAN-Turbo: A Lifelong Agent for Strategy Self-Exploration to Jailbreak LLMs
  14. ICLR 2025Automated Design of Agentic Systems
  15. ICLR 2025BadRobot: Jailbreaking Embodied LLM Agents in the Physical World
  16. ICLR 2025Balancing Act: Diversity and Consistency in Large Language Model Ensembles
  17. ICLR 2025BALROG: Benchmarking Agentic LLM and VLM Reasoning On Games
  18. ICLR 2025Benchmarking Agentic Workflow Generation
  19. ICLR 2025Better than Your Teacher: LLM Agents that learn from Privileged AI Feedback
  20. ICLR 2025BioDiscoveryAgent: An AI Agent for Designing Genetic Perturbation Experiments
  21. ICLR 2025Breaking Mental Set to Improve Reasoning through Diverse Multi-Agent Debate
  22. ICLR 2025Can LLMs Generate Novel Research Ideas? A Large-Scale Human Study with 100+ NLP Researchers
  23. ICLR 2025Can Textual Gradient Work in Federated Learning?
  24. ICLR 2025Can Watermarks be Used to Detect LLM IP Infringement For Free?
  25. ICLR 2025Can We Trust Embodied Agents? Exploring Backdoor Attacks against Embodied LLM-Based Decision-Making Systems
  26. ICLR 2025CaPo: Cooperative Plan Optimization for Efficient Embodied Multi-Agent Cooperation
  27. ICLR 2025CHASE-SQL: Multi-Path Reasoning and Preference Optimized Candidate Selection in Text-to-SQL
  28. ICLR 2025ChemAgent: Self-updating Memories in Large Language Models Improves Chemical Reasoning
  29. ICLR 2025CofCA: A STEP-WISE Counterfactual Multi-hop QA benchmark
  30. ICLR 2025Collab: Controlled Decoding using Mixture of Agents for LLM Alignment
  31. ICLR 2025ComaDICE: Offline Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Stationary Distribution Shift Regularization
  32. ICLR 2025Combatting Dimensional Collapse in LLM Pre-Training Data via Submodular File Selection
  33. ICLR 2025COMBO: Compositional World Models for Embodied Multi-Agent Cooperation
  34. ICLR 2025Competing Large Language Models in Multi-Agent Gaming Environments
  35. ICLR 2025Cut the Crap: An Economical Communication Pipeline for LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems
  36. ICLR 2025Cybench: A Framework for Evaluating Cybersecurity Capabilities and Risks of Language Models
  37. ICLR 2025DataEnvGym: Data Generation Agents in Teacher Environments with Student Feedback
  38. ICLR 2025DeFT: Decoding with Flash Tree-attention for Efficient Tree-structured LLM Inference
  39. ICLR 2025DelTA: An Online Document-Level Translation Agent Based on Multi-Level Memory
  40. ICLR 2025Digi-Q: Learning VLM Q-Value Functions for Training Device-Control Agents
  41. ICLR 2025Direct Post-Training Preference Alignment for Multi-Agent Motion Generation Model Using Implicit Feedback from Pre-training Demonstrations
  42. ICLR 2025Discrete GCBF Proximal Policy Optimization for Multi-agent Safe Optimal Control
  43. ICLR 2025Discriminator-Guided Embodied Planning for LLM Agent
  44. ICLR 2025Dissecting Adversarial Robustness of Multimodal LM Agents
  45. ICLR 2025DistRL: An Asynchronous Distributed Reinforcement Learning Framework for On-Device Control Agent
  46. ICLR 2025Diversity Empowers Intelligence: Integrating Expertise of Software Engineering Agents
  47. ICLR 2025Do as We Do, Not as You Think: the Conformity of Large Language Models
  48. ICLR 2025Do LLM Agents Have Regret? A Case Study in Online Learning and Games
  49. ICLR 2025Do LLMs ``know'' internally when they follow instructions?
  50. ICLR 2025DoF: A Diffusion Factorization Framework for Offline Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

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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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