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

1,983 papers, page 2 of 40

51. CVPR 2026MangoBench A Benchmark for Multi-Agent Goal-Conditioned Offline Reinforcement Learning
52. CVPR 2026MeanFuser Fast One-Step Multi-Modal Trajectory Generation and Adaptive Reconstruction via
53. CVPR 2026MMBench-GUI A Unified Hierarchical Evaluation Framework for Multi-Platform GUI Agents
54. CVPR 2026MoReGen Multi-Agent Motion-Reasoning Engine for Code-based Text-to-Video Synthesis
55. CVPR 2026NERFIFY A Multi-Agent Framework for Turning NeRF Papers into Code
56. CVPR 2026NitroGen An Open Foundation Model for Generalist Gaming Agents
57. CVPR 2026OctoT2I A Self-Evolving Agentic Text-to-Image Router
58. CVPR 2026Omni2Sound Towards Unified Video-Text-to-Audio Generation
59. CVPR 2026Open-Ended Instruction Realization with LLM-Enabled Multi-Planner Scheduling in Autonomous Vehicles
60. CVPR 2026OralGPT-Plus Learning to Use Visual Tools via Reinforcement Learning for
61. CVPR 2026Paper2Figure A Multi-Agent Collaborative System for Figure Generation Towards Academic
62. CVPR 2026Pixel2Phys Distilling Governing Laws from Visual Dynamics
63. CVPR 2026ProSoftArena Benchmarking Hierarchical Capabilities of Multi-modal Agents in Professional Software
64. CVPR 2026PTC-Depth Pose-Refined Monocular Depth Estimation with Temporal Consistency
65. CVPR 2026PureProof Diffusion-Resistant Black-box Targeted Attack on Large Vision-Language Models
66. CVPR 2026RAAS LLM Agentic System Architecture Search with GRPO
67. CVPR 2026ReFAct Empowering Multimodal Web Agents with Visual and Context Focusing
68. CVPR 2026RefAV Towards Planning-Centric Scenario Mining
69. CVPR 2026Refer-Agent A Collaborative Multi-Agent System with Reasoning and Reflection for
70. CVPR 2026Resolving Evidence Sparsity Agentic Context Engineering for Long-Document Understanding
71. CVPR 2026RLFTSim Realistic and Controllable Multi-Agent Traffic Simulation via Reinforcement Learning
72. CVPR 2026SAGE Scalable Agentic 3D Scene Generation for Embodied AI
73. CVPR 2026Scaling Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Tool-Integrated Reasoning in VLMs
74. CVPR 2026SciEducator Scientific Video Understanding and Educating via Deming-Cycle Multi-Agent System
75. CVPR 2026See Think Act Teaching Multimodal Agents to Effectively Interact with
76. CVPR 2026SenseSearch Empowering Vision-Language Models with High-Resolution Agentic Search-Reasoning via Reinforcement
77. CVPR 2026SHARP Short-Window Streaming for Accurate and Robust Prediction in Motion
78. CVPR 2026Simple Agents Outperform Experts in Biomedical Imaging Workflow Optimization
79. CVPR 2026SO-Bench A Structural Output Evaluation of Multimodal LLM
80. CVPR 2026Socratic-Geo Synthetic Data Generation and Cross-Modal Geometric Reasoning via Multi-Agent
81. CVPR 2026SpaceTools Tool-Augmented Spatial Reasoning via Double Interactive RL
82. CVPR 2026SpatialScore Towards Comprehensive Evaluation for Spatial Intelligence
83. CVPR 2026SpatialTree How Spatial Intelligence Branches Out in MLLMs
84. CVPR 2026SVAgent Storyline-guided Long Video Understanding via Cross-Modal Multi-Agent Collaboration
85. CVPR 2026SVBench Evaluation of Video Generation Models on Social Reasoning
86. CVPR 2026Symphony A Cognitively-Inspired Multi-Agent System for Long-Video Understanding
87. CVPR 2026SyncMos Scalable Motion Synchronisation for Multi-Agent Scene Interaction
88. CVPR 2026Tackling Model Bias via Game-theoretic Multi-agent Collaboration Framework for Hateful
89. CVPR 2026TaskForce Cooperative Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Multi-task Optimization
90. CVPR 2026Thermally Activated Dual-Modal Adversarial Clothing against AI Surveillance Systems
91. CVPR 2026Think Before You Drive World Model-Inspired Multimodal Grounding
92. CVPR 2026Think Then Verify A Hypothesis-Verification Multi-Agent Framework for Long Video
93. CVPR 2026Thinking With Videos Multimodal Tool-Augmented Reinforcement Learning for Long Video
94. CVPR 2026TopoMA Topology-Guided Multi-Agent Dense RGB 3D Reconstruction via Distributed Inference
95. CVPR 2026Training High-Level Schedulers with Execution-Feedback Reinforcement Learning for Long-Horizon GUI
96. CVPR 2026Training One Model to Master Cross-Level Agentic Actions via Reinforcement
97. CVPR 2026UniM A Unified Any-to-Any Interleaved Multimodal Benchmark
98. CVPR 2026UniVBench Towards Unified Evaluation for Video Foundation Models
99. CVPR 2026Universal Guideline-Driven Image Clustering via a Hybrid LLM Agent
100. CVPR 2026Unsupervised Multi-agent and Single-agent Perception from Cooperative Views

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.