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

3,266 papers, page 20 of 66

951. ICML 2026Local Policies for Graph-Structured Markov Decision Processes
952. ICML 2026LRAgent: Efficient KV Cache Sharing for Multi-LoRA LLM Agents
953. ICML 2026MADE: Benchmark Environments for Closed-Loop Materials Discovery
954. ICML 2026MAFE: Enabling Equitable Algorithm Design in Multi-Agent Multi-Stage Decision-Making Systems
955. ICML 2026MAGIC: A Co-Evolving Attacker–Defender Adversarial Game for Robust LLM Safety
956. ICML 2026MALICE: Memory-aware Loop Invariants Generation on Symbolic Execution Traces
957. ICML 2026MaMa: A Game-Theoretic Approach for Designing Safe Agentic Systems
958. ICML 2026MarketSim: Simulating Stock Markets with Large-Scale Generative Agents
959. ICML 2026MARS-SQL: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Framework For Text-To-SQL
960. ICML 2026MARS: Modular Agent with Reflective Search for Automated AI Research
961. ICML 2026MAS-Architect: Declarative Multi-Agent System Design via Separation of Concerns
962. ICML 2026MAS-Orchestra: Understanding and Improving Multi-Agent Reasoning Through Holistic Orchestration and Controlled Benchmarks
963. ICML 2026MAS-ProVe: Understanding the Process Verification of Multi-Agent Systems
964. ICML 2026MASPO: Joint Prompt Optimization for LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems
965. ICML 2026MASPOB: Bandit-Based Prompt Optimization for Multi-Agent Systems with Graph Neural Networks
966. ICML 2026MatchFixAgent: Language-Agnostic Autonomous Repository-Level Code Translation Validation and Repair
967. ICML 2026MCP-Persona: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Real-World Personal Applications via Environment Simulation
968. ICML 2026MEAL: A Benchmark for Continual Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
969. ICML 2026Measuring Agents in Production
970. ICML 2026MedCoG: Maximizing LLM Inference Density in Medical Reasoning via Meta-Cognitive Regulation
971. ICML 2026MedScope: Incentivizing "Think with Videos" for Clinical Reasoning via Coarse-to-Fine Tool Calling
972. ICML 2026Mem-T: Densifying Rewards for Long-Horizon Memory Agents
973. ICML 2026MemEvolve: Meta-Evolution of Agent Memory Systems
974. ICML 2026MemIncept: Steering LLM Agents via Cooperative Stealthy Memory Injections
975. ICML 2026MEMO: Memory-Augmented Model Context Optimization for Robust Multi-Turn Multi-Agent LLM Games
976. ICML 2026MemOCR: Layout-Aware Visual Memory for Efficient Long-Horizon Reasoning
977. ICML 2026Memory is Reconstructed, Not Retrieved: Graph Memory for LLM Agents
978. ICML 2026MemoryBench: A Benchmark for Memory and Continual Learning in LLM Systems
979. ICML 2026MEnvAgent: Scalable Polyglot Environment Construction for Verifiable Software Engineering
980. ICML 2026Meta Context Engineering via Agentic Skill Evolution
981. ICML 2026Milestone-Guided Policy Learning for Long-Horizon Language Agents
982. ICML 2026MindFlow: Mind Supernet Powered Thinking Flows for Research Idea Innovation
983. ICML 2026MiniAppBench: Evaluating the Shift from Text to Interactive HTML Responses in LLM-Powered Assistants
984. ICML 2026MINIM: Privacy-Aware Minimal View for Agents via Trusted Local Sanitization
985. ICML 2026Mitigating Conversational Inertia in Multi-Turn Agents
986. ICML 2026ML-Agent: Reinforcing LLM Agents for Autonomous Machine Learning Engineering
987. ICML 2026MM-DeepResearch: A Simple and Effective Multimodal Agentic Search Baseline
988. ICML 2026MMBench-Live: A Continuously Evolving Benchmark for Multimodal Models
989. ICML 2026MOC: Multi-Order Communication in LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems
990. ICML 2026MonoScale: Scaling Multi-Agent System with Monotonic Improvement
991. ICML 2026More Capable, Less Cooperative? When LLMs Fail at Zero-Cost Collaboration
992. ICML 2026Mosaic: Runtime-Efficient Multi-Agent Embodied Planning
993. ICML 2026Motion Planning in Compressed Representation Spaces
994. ICML 2026MulFCoder: Framework-conditioned Multi-agent for MLLM-based Multi-framework Front-end Code Generation
995. ICML 2026Multi-agent imitation learning with function approximation: linear Markov games and beyond
996. ICML 2026Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Submodular Reward
997. ICML 2026Multi-Agent Teams Hold Experts Back
998. ICML 2026Multimodal Meta-Verifier with Explicit Structured Recalibration
999. ICML 2026Native Parallel Reasoner: Reasoning in Parallelism via Self-Distilled Reinforcement Learning
1000. ICML 2026NaviAgent: Graph‑Driven Bilevel Planning for Scalable Tool Orchestration

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.